Interesting

By lex, on February 12th, 2009

I sat out the ’91 scrape at F-16 school in MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL. Watched the war begin at some watering hole on CNN. Sea/shore rotations, and that. Timing.

A couple of us flew up to Jacksonville from Key West in support of a training detachment. While we were there, a council of captains held a discussion for any junior officers still left back in CONUS with six carriers and their reinforced air wings deployed. They discussed enemy orders of battle air, land and naval. Logistics challenges of getting Red Sea carriers into the fight. How the campaign was proceeding. All very educational. Most of us were green with envy. Not so much because there was a fight. But because there was a fight we weren’t a part of.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex