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Women on Submarines? Not too sure about that.
Looks like a member of the top Naval brass is pushing for allowing women for submarine duty again.
The nation’s top military officer has called for lifting the ban on women serving aboard submarines, in a significant step toward reducing the barriers to women in combat.
Navy Seeks to Allow Women to Serve on Submarines – washingtonpost.com
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Blog Action Day: It’s Our Children’s World.
I wrote the original version of this post back in July of this year and try as I might I couldn’t come up with something that said the message I was trying to get across better than that post did. Now, with the fabled Northwest Passage open for the first time, what I was trying [...]
Posted in Environment, Life as a veteran, Times a changing
Also tagged Environment, global warming
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To The HMS Tireless
To the crew who lost their shipmates and families who lost their sons under the sea, my heart felt condolences and understanding go out to you. My thoughts are with you during this trying time.
From one who knows,
Kirk M. Blanchard, FTG1/SS, USS Silversides/SSN 679–On board: 1979-1983
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So now they say I have…
As some of you may have realized by now, I’m a veteran of the Cold War, a submariner to be exact. I was assigned to a very special boat out of Norfolk VA that had a bad habit of spending an average of 300 days out of the year at sea and in the strangest [...]
"Cold War II" Phrase Is Coined–A Sarcastic, Cynical Post
Warning—Heavy sarcasm ahead So here you go folks. What we’ve all been waiting for. The phrase; Cold War II, if not the actual turning of the tide (yet), has now been offered up to the public nice and solid. By an article in the New York Times no less.
The problem is, Cold War II could [...]
Quick note on other things…
Patrick Kennedy’s “disorientation”: Heavens to Betsy, I’m just SHOCKED!
Google and child porn: Oh grow up. Read this.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes: (OK. I’m late on this one. I’ve been busy). Aaaarrgghh!!! Enough already. He’s absolutely loony. Loving and harmless but absolutely loony.
Mission Impossible III: Can they possibly hype a movie any further? Do you want [...]
Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part II
Required reading: Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part I
Many thanks to Grandad. This absolutely horrendous, disjointed post is all his fault but he’ll probably blame it on K8.
And here we go….
I seem to be getting older these days. Not only am I getting older but it seems to be becoming a habit, a perpetual thing if [...]