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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023: Old Lovely
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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More Expeditionary Medical Ships
From yesterday’s DOD Contracts, emphasis mine. Austal USA, Mobile, Alabama, is awarded an $867,666,667 fixed-priced incentive (firm-target), undefinitized contract modification to a previously awarded...
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A 6-inch Christmas Eve off Buka
80 Years Ago Today: Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Columbia (CL-56) 6″/47 Mark 16 expended powder casings from Turrets 3 & 4 lying on the main deck aft of the ship during bombardment of Buka...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023: Battlebarge Unimaktica
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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A’searching for what may be loose
Happy New Year’s Guys! 80 years ago today, drawn from the deck log of the veteran Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Denver (CL 58), while at sea headed to Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Saturday 1...
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Prosperity Guardian upates
ARABIAN GULF (Dec. 5, 2023) An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter attached to the “Dusty Dogs” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 7 escorts explosive ordnance disposal technicians to conduct helicopter...
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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday), Jan. 4, 2024: They Look Funny, But They Work
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Prosperity Guardian Counts 19 (of 61) Cyclops/Vampires
231206-N-GF955-1026 U.S. 5TH FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS (Dec. 6, 2023) Sailors assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) responds to a simulated small-craft vessel...
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Scraping paint
80 years ago today, off Pearl Harbor: the Mahan-class destroyer USS Dunlap (DD-384), seen just moments before she collided with the light carrier USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24), 7 January 1944 The source...
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Prosperity Guardian Goes on the Offensive (Well, Not Officially)
Statement via CENTCOM (emphasis mine): On Jan. 11 at 2:30 a.m. (Sanaa time), U.S. Central Command forces, in coordination with the United Kingdom, and support from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands,...
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That’s a lot of barrels…
80 years ago today: an amazing overhead photograph of USS Houston (CL-81) underway off Norfolk, Virginia, 12 January 1944, showing off the 610-foot Cleveland-class light cruiser’s armament to include...
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S1c Ward finally comes home
20-year-old Navy Seaman 1st Class James Richard Ward was aboard his first ship out of basic, the mighty battlewagon USS Oklahoma, on that fateful morning of 7 December 1941. As noted by the Navy at...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024: The Little Giant
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Paging Marine Aviators Looking to Don Angel Blue…
It’s nice to see “Fat Albert” back in action. It always steals the show every time. Also, if you haven’t been to a modern Angels show and see them toss those stripped-down Rhinos around even more than...
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Just taking my drone boat for a walk
Just walking around the Gulfport harbor on the weekend– back when it was 70 degrees just a week ago– and spied this, now increasingly familiar, scene: an Ocean Aero Triton Autonomous Underwater and...
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CSAR to Get a Dedicated Bird at Pensacola
As covered, the National Naval Aviation Museum (formerly the Naval Air and Space Museum) in Pensacola recently reopened to the public after being off-limits for years– and they just got a new (to...
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The Destroyer Escort that Fought like a Battleship
80 years ago today, a dramatic photo of the side launch of the future USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) leaving the ways at Brown Shipbuilding Company, Houston, Texas, 20 January 1944. Naval History and...
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Love Boat on a South American Cruise
40 years ago this month: January 1984. A port view of the brand-new (commissioned 16 February 1980) Spruance-class destroyer USS Thorn (DD 988) entering a port during the multinational naval Exercise...
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Vandy 1 Hanging with the Dragonlady
These are just great images, I don’t care who you are. 231127-N-VX009-1006 CHINA LAKE, Calif. (Nov. 27, 2023) An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the “Vampires” of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron...
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Accomplishments of the Impossible
80 years ago today, an absolutely beautiful profile shot of the spick-and-span new USS Reno (CL-96) outbound in the Golden Gate, while leaving San Francisco Bay, California, on 25 January 1944. Reno...
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