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Pearl Harbor opens new visitor center for the USS Arizona
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The old visitor center is sinking into Pearl Harbor: http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100217/NEWS01/2170351/
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**HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!!**
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Everyone have a Happy & Safe New Year. Please be responsible on that Drinking & Driving ....... Even at the dinner table.
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Merry Christmas 2011
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Happy Holidays Everyone ..... Here are a couple of videos from the John Denver Rocky Mountain special he did back in the mid 1970's. I remember watching this live on TV then and would love to find this on DVD these days .... Come on **Santa** ..... How about it? .... LOL Andy [video=http://www.youtube...
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Memories of Bootcamp
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My first memory of bootcamp was the next morning after we arrived in R&O (Receiving & Outfitting) at NTC San Diego. Someone came into the barracks about 4:30am, threw one of those old metal trash cans down the length of the barracks crashing into a couple of other trash cans and told us we had 1...
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Happy Thanksgiving
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**Happy Thanksgiving**
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64 Navy sailors to be kicked out for drug use
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SAN DIEGO (AP) - Sixty-four sailors from the San Diego-based U.S. Third Fleet will be kicked out of the Navy for drug use, mostly involving a synthetic drug that mimics marijuana, military officials said Thursday. Continued: http://news.yahoo.com/64-navy-sailors-kicked-drug-181300611.h...
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Music
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I heard not long ago the sad news that Glen Campbell was diagnosed with Alzheimers and being he knows his time is short has put out his final new recording. I have always loved his classics thanks to my dad back then. http://youtu.be/mUg5p3BncuQ http://youtu.be/mizhYEEfcXo -- Edited by Midwa...
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Muslim Terrorist Basic Training?
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Here is a story that was sent to me by e-mail ..... True or false .... You decide. Andy Cancelled flight from Atlanta to Houston AW > This is frightening. > > I, Gene Hackemack, received this email from my > good friend Tedd Petruna, a diver at the NBL facility [Neutral &g...
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TDE-1
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Here is a photo I took earlier today: http://gbe.dynip.com/Military/TDE-1/S12020A.jpg Gary -- Edited by gedstrom at 15:40, 2008-10-11
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Japan Quake
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For anyone insterested, here's a web link for the tide monitoring station at Midway - http://tidesonline.nos.noaa.gov/monitor.html I'm watching CNN from my hotel room in American Samoa. They have reported that water traveled some 60 miles inland from the ocean's edge - wow !
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USS Hornet (CVS-12)
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http://www.gedstrom.com/USS_Hornet
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U.S. Marines seize ship from pirates in the Gulf of Aden
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U.S. Marines seize ship from pirates in the Gulf of Aden http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100909/ts_nm/us_aden_pirates DUBAI (Reuters) U.S. Marines boarded and seized a commercial German vessel in the Gulf of Aden that had been attacked and boarded by pirates a day earlier, the U.S. Fifth Fleet s...
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Midway Weather Past And Present
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I know we have a link here to Midway's weather but do we have this one? This site shows her weather information past and present. http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/Midway_Island_Naval_Air_Facility/910660.htm
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Greetings from Paris
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Traveled out to the American Cemetery and Omaha Beach today. Hear are just 3 of the 100+ pictures I took. As with my first trip back in 1985, it was overcast all day long. So I didn't get any spectacular pictures. GaryE
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US navy nabs pirate suspects near Seychelles
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US navy nabs pirate suspects near Seychelles http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100401/pl_afp/uspiracyshippingseychelles WASHINGTON (AFP) A US warship operating in the Indian Ocean captured five suspected pirates Thursday after an exchange of gunfire in international waters near the Seyc...
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