Heads up, enlistedmen / women! The Navy is consolidating and trimming down somewhat. Get ready for the dreaded ‘C’ word - change.
Oncoming mergers
Plans to combine a slew of ratings could make your job easier — and tougher
By Mark D. Faram
Times staff writer
More than 140,000 sailors in 32 ratings could feel the effects of […]
The ageless enigma is actually rattling a saber, and doing so in a manner that goes beyond Taiwanese independence.
Peter Brookes notes that this recent flurry of protest over a history book is (obviously) government orchestrated. It does not take too much imagination to see a few disturbing things:
1) They are getting quite […]
Old_Painless from AR15.com (retired and with way too much time on his hands) has made it a hobby of performing amateur ballistic testing at his local range in SE Texas. He’s been so good as to frequently share the results on ARFCom and he’s also created a site called The Box O’ Truth.
If you […]
This is especially interesting to the Naval History buff, what with the 200th Anniversary of Trafalgar approaching this Oct. 21. Adm. Horatio Visc. Lord Nelson is perhaps the greatest figure in all of Naval history, and to find an archaeolgical site with such a tie-in is just wonderful.
Thirty Britons who died in Egypt in […]
The Austin Business Journal reports that the University of Texas’s Center for Information Assurance and Security is working with the US Navy on ways to improve the security of cybersecurity. Any chance they can get Firefox installed on NMCI computers?
crossposted at Swanky Conservative.
The Belmont Club has more analysis on recent speculation of a possible attack strategy China could use to take Taiwan. Strategy Page discussed an “Out of the blue” style attack which would catch the world and most specifically the US Navy off guard. The problems with this, in Wretchard’s eyes, are
The amount of troops […]