Steel Boats, Iron Men and their stories (plus a bit more)
Originally posted on Our Ancestors:
Sometimes when you look for relatives while doing your family tree, you come across obituaries… Like the one I posted yesterday on this blog. Sometimes an obituary has to get to the point. The obituary quickly mentions that Edna or Odna lost two boys in WWII, William and Robert. Both…
Originally posted on theleansubmariner:
All of us will leave a legacy when we pass to the next world. Some will be lengthy and some will be rather modest. I am at the age where I read the obituaries in the local paper. Its kind of ghoulish in a way since I am not from here…
Originally posted on theleansubmariner:
I can’t possibly imagine two places on earth that are more opposite then Diego Garcia and Perth Australia. Finishing up a quick run somewhere in the Indian Ocean and pulling up next to a destroyer tender was welcome after all the excitement, but you quickly come to realize that if there…
Recently I was following a post on one of my submarine Facebook pages. The original guy had posted about a lack of recognition. To be fair, he had a lot of supporters and frankly I can’t give him a hard time since I have seen some of this through the years myself. “Okay I have […]
Read More A little respect… 42 years later, its still not that big of a dealThis is a story published in the Port of Pittsburgh, Official Publication of the Navy League of the United States, Pittsburgh Council Jan-March 2014 Volume 18 No.1 edited by Katherine Kersten, written by Bob MacPherson (aka theleansubmariner) “The most expensive thing in the world is a cheap Army and Navy,” Congressman Carl Vinson On March […]
Read More The “Georgia Swamp Fox” that Fathered the Two Ocean Navy – Carl VinsonFor my brothers… April 11, 2014 Mister Mac
Read More #earnednevergivenFor the second time in the history of theleansubmariner, I am posting an article from a Shipmate that I have come to know via our common interests in history and events that shaped it. This article comes from Norman Rachels SWE4 (formerly of the United States Navy). Norm was one of the guys who arrived early […]
Read More AFDB-7 Los Alamos Holy Loch Scotland “IN THE BEGINNING…”Originally posted on theleansubmariner:
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. (Robert Frost) Can there be any better feeling than coming home after a journey? It’s always exciting for me to travel around the world and in the past forty two years I have been…
From the Navy Department Library: The Smoking Lamp “Sea dogs who sailed the wooden ships endured hardships that sailors today never suffer. Cramped quarters, poor unpalatable food, bad lighting and boredom were hard facts of sea life. But perhaps a more frustrating problem was getting fire to kindle a cigar or pipe tobacco after a […]
Read More The Smoking Lamp is OutI spent a lot of time growing up travelling up and down the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh PA. But it was always a special treat about once a year when we would travel up to the Point in Pittsburgh to and tie up to the wharf for a few days. Pittsburgh has one of […]
Read More Three Rivers flow on the banks of the Steel City
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