Borepatch

OldAFSarge is (like me) fighting blogger burnout .  He's been posting for 16 years which is quite an accomplishment.  Unlike me, he'...

May as well have a really cool boat :    Most boats are a carefully considered compromise designed to cover as many bases as possible: float...

This weekend is Memorial Day, the traditional BBQ kickoff to summer.  But on these shores, it's the day to remember the fallen from past...

Wow .  And just plain-jane iOS, too.  Out of the box.  As someone who ran across (into?) "Secure Operating Systems" more than once...

This is not surprising, but it is pretty interesting, especially the guy in Dubai where Google Maps puts him in the middle of the straight. ...

Via a link from HMS Defiant (who is on quite a roll lately), this is a very interesting analysis of the war from Open Source Intelligence s...

This is Jeremy Clarkson from 1998, four years before he rebooted the Top Gear show.  They still had F-14s on the carrier.  This is a very co...

I posted about this 15 months ago. Midwest Chick has an update : The New Zealand navy was so proud and happy to have a lesbian from Britain...

A cruise ship got stuck in the ice off Antarctica, and the Coast Guard (by chance) had an icebreaker nearby.  Well done. 

Last year a company called Magellan sent a deep sea rover 15,000 feet down to the site of the final resting place of the battleship Bismark...

I had never heard this story, but it's true.  US and German soldiers lost in the Battle Of The Bulge had Christmas dinner together rathe...

First, they canceled the Little Crappy Shops (LCS) program as not fit for purpose.  Now it's the Constellation class Frigate program tha...

  If you are of a certain age, you will remember this Pultizer Prize winning photograph of a US Air Force officer returning from the Hanoi H...

It is the Soldier, not the minister Who has given us freedom of religion. It is the Soldier, not the reporter Who has given us freedom of th...

Things looked bleak for Great Britain in 1940.  France had fallen and even with the "Miracle of Dunkirk" the British Army didn...

Via a wikiwander, I ran across this fabulously strange classical music tip o' the hat to the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.  No joke. Bohusl...

This is from a few years back but is a cool story.  Rest in Peace, Lieutenant.  

The Queen Of The World and I are back from our Son-In-Law's retirement from the US Navy. 25 years, ending as a Senior Chief.  He would h...

The NSA and the UK GCHQ have jointly declassified a pile of WWII documents and actually produced a book: Secret Messengers: Disseminating SI...

Dwight (my go-to guy for obituaries) has one worth your time: the last WWII recipient of the Victoria Cross takes off on his final flight . ...