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Vader – The Navy’s Sea Shadow Stealth Ship
Sea Shadow test craft built (by Lockheed) as limited mobility platform to explore advanced technologies for surface ships.
Looks like Darth Vader in a really big swimming pool.
Sgt Grit Newsletter August 3, 2011
Grit,
This is for those who are jealous of Marines who are seen as c-cky.
It is only c-cky if you can't back it up.
Marines are confident!
Phil “Akabu” Coffman
Sgt '72 – '82
What Have You Done?
Sgt. Grit,
Do you know what you have done?
On any given Thursday you have taken so many hard charging Marine's off the streets. Instead of h-ll raising and kicking butt and partying.
You now can find us sitting in front of our PC's or smart phones reading your newsletter.
The World Doesn’t Care Right Now
By John Cantlie
Kabul, Afghanistan
Back in the friendly, crazy pace of Kabul after a hectic time in Helmand. It’s always weird, swapping between the two Afghanistans. In one, you jump in taxis, go to cafes, go shopping and get drunk in the various ‘underground’ bars dotted around the place. You talk and laugh with people you’ve never met before. In the other, you skulk around looking with suspicious eyes at anyone who comes near, constantly in the company of men with loaded machine guns who’ve seen too many friends hurt or killed, the heavy cloak of military objectives always felt, ever present.
SGT MAXIMUS AND COMPANY
Vandals Torch Flag Outside Veteran’s Home
Vandals Torch Flag Outside Veteran's Home
Laurie’s Stories: Nightmare Turns into a Dream…
When a horrific heartbreak occurs, you sometimes wonder if it really happened or if it was a dream. Four years ago my dream of Jared coming home from Iraq turned into a horrible nightmare that constantly rears its ugly head. As I reflect on these past four years and the experiences I have had, I am amazed at how many wonderful people we have met, bonded with, and shared our heartaches with as a result of this nightmare. During this same time period I be-gan struggling with the direction the Foundation was headed and if we were providing the right services to our military families. Last year it be-came a dream of mine to provide a camp ad-venture for the children of the fallen in Big Bear by the summer of 2012.
The Blimps of War
Darpa's supersized ISIS (or Integrated Sensor is Structure) is a technology packed 450-foot long airship that would perch 70,000 feet in the air. The unmanned vehicle is designed to float at its Heaven's eye view for up to 10 years, zipping along at up to 115 miles per hour to reach anywhere on the globe in 10 days.
Toby Keith Virginia Beach “American Warrior”-
Toby Keith invites injured Marine to Stage to sing “American Soldier” Virginia Beach -July 23,2011
Lance Cpl. Harry Lew, 21, of Santa Clara; killed in Afghanistan
Harry Lew's Chinese immigrant parents were shocked when he told them he was joining the U.S. military. The 19-year-old, their only son, had just started college; he had told them he wanted to become an animation designer.
“I tried to stop him, I told him the military is very dangerous,” said his father, Allen Lew, who runs a trade show exhibit business in the Santa Clara County community of San Martin. “He just told us he wanted to serve his country.”