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Always remember to put them up clean
If ever there was a lesson in why you should store your guns in good condition, here we see the Iowa-class battlewagon, USS New Jersey (BB-62), as she was put to pasture after her WWII service. The...
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Vale, Capt. Kaiss
Capt. Albert L. Kaiss, in effect the last dreadnought skipper in any Navy, had five afloat commands including the destroyer USS Paul F. Foster (DD-964), the cruiser USS William H. Standley (CG-32), and...
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SOCCOM dropping coin on lots of suppressed uppers
Earlier this year in Dallas I got a chance to put some rounds downrange with Sig Sauer’s new SUR300, a suppressed .300 BLK upper that uses a 6.75-inch barrel with a permanently attached Ti suppressor...
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Connie’s Escort Service hard at work, 32 years ago today
In a departure from our standard Warship Wednesday format, here we see an aerial port beam view of the Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CV-64) in her prime as crew members form the...
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Seabat over Illinois
Here we see a Sikorsky S-58JT, registry# N4247V, owned by aviation firm Midwest Truxton in Cook County, Illinois. (Photos: Deerfield PD, Illinois) The airframe, SN 58-1547, was ordered as a U.S. Navy...
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One salty bluejacket
“Union Sailor with Remington Root sidehammer revolver” contributed by Ryan M. Cooper Nautical Antiques, Yarmouth Port, Maine, 2011, to the LOC. The young bluejacket, whose name has been lost to time,...
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Harpoons and Perrys off Kauai
The recent RIMPAC 2018 exercise saw two notable sinkex operations, the first, the old LST USS Racine we have covered already. The second, the decommissioned OHP-class frigate USS McClusky (FFG 41), was...
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A well used Avenger, 74 years ago
Here we see, aboard the brand-new Essex-class fleet carrier USS Hornet (CV-12), the starboard side of TBM-1C #95 (BU# 25216), showing a rapidly-filling “scoreboard” of bombing and torpedo missions....
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Welcome, Space Force
ICYMI, get ready to sign up as Space Shuttle Door Gunners: Centered around 140 current military satellites and the hardware to support them, the U.S. Space Force is set to become 6th branch of Armed...
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Operation Cottage at 75, or the time the Canuks were really welcome in Alaska
Here we see a well-kitted Canadian corporal, probably of the 13th Brigade (consisting of the 2/Canadian Scottish, 1/Brockville Rifles, and 1/Edmonton Fusiliers), inspecting a captured Japanese Type 96...
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Teddy Rex aboard Mayflower, 115 years ago today
Pres. Roosevelt, Admiral Dewey and Sec. Navy Moody reviewing war fleet from the patrol yacht USS Mayflower (PY-1) at Oyster Bay, Aug. 17, 1903. Flat followed by red-cyan stereo anaglyph to be viewed...
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Swanky Franky’s Phlyers over Etna
Here we see a breathtaking image of a U.S. Navy McDonnell F-4N Phantom II (BuNo 150415) of Fighter Squadron VF-84 “Jolly Rogers” in flight over Sicily’s Mt. Etna, sometime in 1975. U.S. Navy National...
View ArticleTom Clancy would be pleased
Oh yeah, just in case you missed it, the scion of the Cold War G-I-UK Gap, the 2nd Fleet, is back after being shelved back in 2011. In a nutshell, the 1-minute punch-up: The 40~minute ceremony naming...
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The first sword in the Home Islands, 73 years ago today
And it was to a UDT guy! LCDR Edward Porter Clayton, USN, (center, back to camera) Commanding Officer of Underwater Demolition Team 21, receiving the first sword surrendered to an American force in the...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018: Ole Droopy
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Mystery contact mine pops up near Seattle marina
So there was a certain pucker factor this week when this bad boy showed up. The device found drifting Tuesday afternoon near the Port Brownsville Marina in Kitsap County. The Coast Guard established a...
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Yup, seems to be a MKB training mine that was left unswept after an excercise 13 years ago that caused the hubub around Seattle this week. From U.S. Navy Region Northwest: The Navy conducted additional...
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We build, we fight,
This is why Seabees hate Camp Shelby: Remember, at Shelby, you can always use your E-tool as a paddle. (U.S. Navy photo 180820-N-ZI635-258 by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class George M....
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Enjoy your Labor Day
Hopefully, you have the day off. If not, proceed accordingly, setting your own level of commitment. Description: Photo #: NH 106077 Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. U.S. Naval History and...
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Looking for a deal on a cheap AK or thousand?
A U.S. Navy destroyer operating as part of the 5th Fleet came across a stateless dhow in international waters and subsequently discovered a few guns. CENTCOM currently says the source of the AK cache...
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