All right, listen the FUCK UP! Afghanistan was not my war. I retired after 20 years, and three wars, before 9/11 happened, before we went into Afghanistan in the first place. Vietnam was not my war, I as in middle-school when we evacuated Saigon. Yet the earliest memory I have of…
Welcome back to the scuttlebutt. Pour a drink, have a seat, and let’s talk. Boy, go to sea for a week and the whole damn world vies to give me things to write about. (By the way, Alaska was great, and I may do a compare and contrast of NCL V Princess…
Welcome back to the scuttlebutt. Pour a drink, have a seat, and let’s talk. Last week, I mentioned discussing the Navy’s funding issues, and the report by General Schmidle and Adm. Montgomery, I will be doing that today, but first I must tip my hat. It’s not often that a geek will…
Welcome back to the scuttlebutt. There are other things to talk about, like the discussions of Naval Force structure between the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) and Congress, and the report by General Schmidle and Adm. Montgomery on the failures of culture and of leadership in the Navy… But I think those can wait…
Hey, welcome back to the scuttlebutt. I’m back in town and loaded down with an overabundance of targets once again… So, let’s get to it! I’ll take the low hanging fruit first: Black Widow. I’ve made no secret of the fact that I don’t know the later comics that Marvel is working…
Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt. So here we are in Florida. Took the Granddaughter to the Magic Kingdom yesterday (as I write this on Tuesday morning.) She wiped us out… The pedometer on my phone says we logged over 5 miles. By the time we got home, the wife and I were hurting units,…
Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt. Well, just to prove that even the NYT gets it right once in a while, (Or as my dad used to put it, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then.) The NYT ran an Op-ed piece (they don’t call them that anymore, they’ve got some…