Navy Veteran Presidents

                                               20 JANUARY 1961                                     NAVY VETERAN PRESIDENTS The inauguration of Donald J. Trump as our 47th President later today calls attention to the dwindling number of government legislators with prior military service and the impact this has on defense issues.  For the Read More

Baghdad Missile Attack

                                                   26 JUNE 1993                                      BAGHDAD MISSILE ATTACK The decade following Operation “Desert Storm” was marked by Iraqi frustration over continuing United Nations sanctions and Coalition policing.  Then seemingly to rub salt in Iraq’s wounds, on 14 April 1993 a specially chartered Kuwait Read More

Pilot Down!

                                              2 SEPTEMBER 1944                                                   PILOT DOWN! By September of 1944 the Allied advance across the Pacific reached the Bonin Islands, an 1800-mile-long chain that includes Iwo Jima.  At 0715 this morning, a squadron of Grumman TBF Avengers took off from USS SAN Read More