This Thursday, May 22nd a very unique art exhibit will open in New York City. It features art from Iraqi artists, most of whom cannot even be publicly identified for their safety. It was a Navy Lieutenant serving in Iraq that found this art and worked to bring it over to the United […]
Entries Tagged as 'Navy'
Iraqi art exhibition in New York City - Opens Thursday!
May 21st, 2008 ·
Tags: Art · Announcements · Navy
A pair of brass …
April 6th, 2008 ·
So I was reading a little bit about General Petraeus today in the New York Times. I took a quick look at his Wikipedia article and found something very interesting, his wife.
While a cadet at the US Military Academy, aka West Point, he dated the commanding officer’s daughter!!
WOW!!
For a 19/20-year old cadet to date […]
Tags: Navy · Weird Stuff
Career advice when leaving the military - a potential lifeline
March 25th, 2008 ·
I recently traded some interesting e-mails with Charlie O’Donnell, the Founder/CEO of Path101. If you haven’t heard of them now, I wouldn’t be surprised as they’re still very much in their development phase. But I think in the coming few years you certainly will have heard of and experimented with their website.
Path101 aims […]
Tags: Navy · Entrepreneurial · Business
Ahh, the good ol’ days
March 8th, 2008 ·
It turns out the Navy’s newest operational submarine (USS Virginia) is going up against my old boat in some war-gaming as they prepare for their first overseas deployment. From The Day:
Last week they were preparing for a war-gaming exercise with the USS Hartford (SSN 768), another Groton-based submarine, in which they planned to fire […]
Tags: Navy
A reminder of (submarine) times past…
February 2nd, 2008 ·
I spent three years on the USS Hartford (SSN-768). It was a fantastic experience, though I always talk about it in Dickensian terms…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
- A Tale of Two Cities
I recently saw a video that reminded me of some of my more fond memories of […]
