Notes and commentary on things present, reflections on a career in naval aviation and serendipitous items as strike me at the moment...
Pause...
Ponder...
Remember...
Honor..
From these honored aviators, Marines and Sailors - those departed and the few left with us, we draw our heritage...our ethos.
May they and their actions this day never be forgotten. And from their stand, may we evermore draw strength.
- SJS
Posted by Steeljaw Scribe at 06:09
Labels: Battle of Midway
Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann
...and too many pathetic Power Point briefs (but that is redundant)
Read in 2007:
The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China's Search for Security in the Nuclear Age by Jeffrey Lewis (aka ArmsControlWonk)Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces by Pavel Podvig
Clash of the Carriers: The Battle of the Phillipine Sea by Barett Tillman
Facing Your Giants by Max Lucado
Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 by Evan Thomas
JP 3-01: Countering Air and Missile Threats (05 Feb 07) Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian Toll
Favorites of 2006:
Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark BowdenDEFCON-2 by Norman Polmar
Shattered Sword by Johnathan Parshall and Anthony Tully
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