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Shotgun Red, Boom-Boom and the Year of the Monkey

Commander Ed Bookhardt, USN Retired posted on May 10, 2013 09:55
The war in Southeast Asia continued to escalate. The United States commitment “in country” was nearing a half-million men. Saigon with its backdrop of sandbags, bunkers, spirals of barbwire laced in unending menacing patterns was overrun with milling multitudes of locals and displaced refugees.

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The Rooster

Commander Ed Bookhardt, USN Retired posted on April 20, 2013 10:51
There is a brief period in life’s journey when the planets align and all seems right with the world. A fleeting moment of self-assumed invincibility coupled with an unquenchable thirst to sample those forbidden delights previously denied...an affliction usually occurring as the male of the species approaches his majority…

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North to Placentia Bay

Commander Ed Bookhardt, USN Retired posted on April 04, 2013 19:02
It was 0730 January 2nd and my head was killing me. Scotch was not supposed to do that, but again, that is if one drinks in moderation. After my dumb Seaman-duce antics the J&B distilleries were surely on overtime!

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The Odious Ensign

Commander Ed Bookhardt, USN Retired posted on March 19, 2013 11:51
During the Cold War stalemate of the latter fifties, the Armed Services struggled with continuing congressional under-funding and personnel shortfalls. The shortages however, did not alter the Navy’s strategic two-ocean commitment.

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OLDEST MILITARY RECONNAISSANCE SQUADRON HAS NAVAL TIES

John McCandless posted on March 13, 2013 08:22
Our nation’s oldest reconnaissance squadron, the Air Force’s 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, celebrated their Centennial this month...

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YOUNG SAILORS AND MARINES NEED TO STAY FINANCIALLY FIT

John McCandless posted on March 02, 2013 09:21
Every sailor and Marine learns a lot about discipline during boot camp.  While discipline remains an important part of military life th...

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Swimming With Sharks!

Commander Ed Bookhardt, USN Retired posted on January 29, 2013 11:16
Following Morning Quarters, Mike Silliman patting the new rating badge on his left arm boosted, “I am the meanest, toughest, son-of-a-bitching Second Class in this here friggin’ Navy!”

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The Boys of Company 238

Commander Ed Bookhardt, USN Retired posted on January 07, 2013 11:05
The unobtrusive black and white photograph hanging among a menagerie of Navy memorabilia is a treasured memento. Muted evening shadows filtering through the den window, dance across the framed images giving them a lifelike aura that draws my attention...

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Hollywood and Vine

Commander Ed Bookhardt, USN Retired posted on December 15, 2012 13:15
It was early October 1948, having just graduated from the Naval Recruit Training Center at San Diego; I sat staring out the Pullman coach window at the vista of the passing California countryside. Being raised in the piney wood and palmetto flat lands of the Deep South; I was in awe of the ever changing landscape, particularly the brown craggy mountains that jutted skyward and the arid desert flora...

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The Crow

Commander Ed Bookhardt, USN Retired posted on December 01, 2012 13:13
Todd Gentry was the “baby” of the family and a mamma’s boy. He enjoyed the pampering; milking it to the max as the older siblings left the nest. The “spoiled rotten” syndrome led to indifference to studies, running with the wrong crowd and tribulations with a no-nonsense father. As he reached his mid-teens he was given an ultimatum, “Shape-up son or your butt is going to sea!”

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