Recent content by VMI 1991

Naval Officer I am coming up on 17 years as a Surface Warfare Officer in the Navy. PM me if you have any questions.

Firearms in the Navy I have always advocated expanding firearms training on all of the ships I've been on. But, small arms training is not ingrained in big Navy's "culture" If you want to join the Navy, which I highly recommend, and want small arms training: 1. Enlist as a MA (Master at Arms -...

Titan 6 - No offense taken. I wonder that myself. I do my part and set the best example possible.

Titan 6 and Thin Black Line : Thank you for your posts. The officers, men, and women I have served with through the years would be more than willing to testify to where I stand in times of trial and adversity.

...back at he Pentagon I have read with interest the posts submitted on this subject. As many people have pointed out, the military is, to a large extent, a slice of american society. Arguments can, and are, made that the military is more "conservative" than the rest of society, but after...

Quote: Thin BLack Line: Sounds like ships with the really big guns. Big flight deck, but no well deck. Electric drive vice steam. A lot of Marines. No big guns, just some smaller ones for self defence.

Back in the Pentagon USMC Retired: I am a LCDR working for a USMC two star Thin Black Line After spending hours working on projects with a potential bottom line of over 14 Billion dollars, a little web surfing and some time on THR is a welcome relief.

As I am sitting in the Pentagon... ... responding to this post, I am trying to think of everyone on my last ship (A LHD in Norfolk) who could qualify as pro-gun. (The CO of a LHD is an O6, there are 5 O5s, and 60+ O4 and below.) Myself, a USMC aviator, and the Safety Officer (USN LT) were...

I had the chance to go to the Dulles Expo Center yesterday afternoon. Compared to a lot of other gun shows I have attended, this one seemed to have many more vendors actually selling firearms. The floor area was bigger than the gun shows in the Tidewater area of Virginia and this was probably a...

I put on the uniform every day. I spend what seems like a tremendous amount of time at sea. I do my best to be a good husband and father.

I just checked in to the Pentagon today. I just detached from a Norfolk based ship aand will be working on future classes of ships. My first impression was very favorable. The people in the office I will be working in are all coming from the fleet, either as Navy or Marine officers. There are...

Many people have brought up some good points. 1. Using small boats in an open ocean environment is a dubious proposition at best. Just because a small boat can make 30 kts or more on calms seas does not mean that it can make that same speed in 3-5 ft seas. All a destroyer/cruiser/carrier/LHD...

There has been a lot of discussion of smaller, faster, and shallower draft vessels for a while. Yet, breaking with the Cold War paradigm of a big ships fighting a blue water battle is harder to break than perhaps anyone thought it would be. The counter argument is that we have to be prepared for...

I will be in the Pentagon in about six weeks assigned to an office that does a lot of work on new classes of ships. The LCS generates quite a bit of heated debate in our community (Surface Warfare). A crew of 40? Who will be left to paint? What is going to happen when the ship takes damage...

280 PLUS - Just read you email. A gopher???? We'll see. UNREP to NGFS to GQ. I believe it. We are anchored about four miles off the coast of X waiting to finish three weeks of launching and recovering helos and LCUs... I will be glad to back to the range, after I see my wife and daughter