It’s been a while since I’ve come across sites that I thought other people should visit, but here are a few that I enjoy and think you might also.
Navy CyberSpace Blog - Run by a retired Navy Career Counselor Master Chief, NavyCS offers a great amount of information related to the Navy, and would definitely be a site I’d recommend to any new Sailors or potential recruits.
The Deckplates - A blog written by a friend of mine. He’s also based in the Seventh Fleet, and touches on a lot of the happenings in and around his life in the FDNF. Always a good read if you want a better perspective on what the average Sailor thinks.
Lots of Nothingness - A blog written by Lynn, a Navy spouse to a Sailor on the USS George Washington. I normally find all Navy wives annoying, but Lynn is pretty web-savvy, which is sorta hot. Her squid should be so proud.
Yokosuka Social Network - John M. Andersen, who is a regular reader (thanks John!), started a social network site for active, reserve, and retired military personnel that are or have been based in or around Yokosuka. It has about 150 members as of this writing, and a lot of them are old salts. It’s really great to see what the old Navy and the old Yokosuka were like. I may have been born in the wrong decade, but I can still live vicariously.
The Destroyermen - The official blog of the USS Russell (DDG-59). The posts are written by various ship crew members and give a real look at what life at sea, and on a guided-missile destroyer is like…minus all the envying of cruisers of course.
The Mooring Lines - The official blog of Pacific Fleet Master Chief Tom Howard. While it’s a new blog with only a few posts, which are all pretty polished, I have to give credit to Master Chief Howard for experimenting with the blog medium.
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Navy wives annoy me too except for a very select few. I typically don’t blog about Navy stuff at all and try to keep myself as far on the civilian side as possible, but with the upcoming move to Japan plus all the George Washington fiascos pissing me off left and right, it’s kind of hard not to.
Thanks for the traffic.
Posted 03 Aug 2008 at 7:23 pm ¶Thanks and “Arigatou” for the plug. Now you will be able to impress oldtimers around Yokosuka with your knowledge of ancient lore and legend. Fair winds and following seas shipmate. Liberty card/Liberty Plan? Never had one never will. Time to jump back into my time machine and return to 1973 where I belong.
Posted 03 Aug 2008 at 10:18 pm ¶So I am no longer Joe Navy, but now just your average sailor? Good to know!
Posted 04 Aug 2008 at 1:59 am ¶Hey John, can I borrow that time machine when you’re done with it? I want to go back to the 1930’s and get an original Sailor Jerry tattoo!
Posted 04 Aug 2008 at 4:55 am ¶Great idea. 1930’s. Asiatic fleet. Shanghai. Sand Pebbles. Gun boat diplomacy. I’m dialing in the date right now.
Posted 04 Aug 2008 at 10:05 am ¶Eighty-eight miles per hour and we are THERE!
Posted 04 Aug 2008 at 5:57 pm ¶Hope you have the 1.21 gigawatts needed to run that thing…
Posted 05 Aug 2008 at 2:11 am ¶Dude, my husband’s a nuke; I’ve got that shit covered. Little do you know, he’s the one that invents the Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor in 2015.
Posted 05 Aug 2008 at 1:17 pm ¶If you can somehow send Jim into the future, maybe he’ll be married then and can hate his very own Navy wife. Ha ha ha
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