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[/caption] I touch the day, I taste the light, I remember - W. S. Merwin When the Medal of Honor Museum opened to the public in May of 2007, a new interactive world of exhibits was placed onboard the...
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Today is Video Thursday and we'll take a look at the Navy's airship history and the aircraft that accompanied them. This first clip shows rare footage of the Vought UO-1 observation airplane hooking...
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[/caption] It's not everyday that one sees a manatee at Patriots Point, but it does happen more than you think. The last couple of summers we have seen frequent almost weekly manatee activity at...
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[/caption] Beginning on 01 August 1941 a specially modified Lockheed Electra XJO-3 had an AI-10 microwave radar installed for airborne testing. The radar was developed by Radiation Laboratory from MIT...
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This Friday, 5 August 2011, from 2 to 3:30 pm, the thirty-six member 282 nd Army Band will be playing approximately 30 musical compositions to include rock, jazz and other genres in Hangar Bay 3 of...
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[/caption] Not just your average person visits Yorktown, sometimes our local law enforcement and first responders utilize the World War II Essex carrier as a unique training facility and today was one...
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Today I was saddened to learn of the death of Colonel Charles Murray, United States Army (Retired). Here is a reposting of a story I did about him and scouting drawn from his World War II experiences...
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Here is the rest of Colonel Murray’s story… read here if you missed the first part… He knew that this bridge like the first would be mined. Lt. Murray considered using the rubber boats, but quickly...
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The first successful firing of a Tartar surface to air missile took place at the Naval Ordnance Test Station, China Lake, California on 19 August 1958 and it destroyed a target consisting of a F-6F...
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[/caption] On 22 August 1956 a P4M Mercator on night patrol flying 32 miles off the Chinese coast in international waters reported being under attack. Wreckage and the bodies of two Navy flyers were...
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On 23 August 1963, a joint Navy-Weather Bureau (today's NOAA) project called Stormfury was put into action when an A-3B Skywarrior seeded Hurricane Beulah with silver iodide crystals in an attempt to...
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After World War I, the United States Navy decided to add rigid airships to its fleet and originally pursued acquiring German Zeppelins as part of the wartime reparations. However, all Zeppelins were...
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With Hurricane Irene churning through the Bahamas and heading for the US East Coast, our Navy has put her ships to sea to ride out the storm...If you have never been at sea in heavy weather, it makes...
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Gemini 5 splashed down in the Atlantic just 90 miles off her intended target on 29 August 1965. The USS Lake Champlain was the recovery ship for the astronaut crew of Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad...
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[/caption] Lots of sights can be seen from the flight deck of Yorktown at Patriots Point...dolphins, manatees, alligators, C-17's, Blue Angels, the Hunley...but today a replica of the proprietary...
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[/caption] Here is a brand new Blue Angel video! Enjoy the view! Featured is the Skipper and Citadel graduate, Captain Greg McWherter United States Navy. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/28135997 w=400&h...
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This Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America and the beginning of the War on Terror. Since that date in 2001 over 9000 Americans have lost their lives in the terrorist...
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Yesterday a crowd of 700-800 people silently watched and listened in Hangar Bay 3 on the USS Yorktown as over 9,000 names were read aloud. The names included all those who died on 9/11/01 and members of our armed forces killed in the War on Terror since 2001.
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Yesterday some of the staff of Kindred Hospital in Charleston showed up on the flight deck of USS Yorktown to work on some corporate competition between the 76,000 employees of the Kindred Hospital system throughout the nation.
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Last night the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point was not a site for tourists, scouts, students or a corporate party, but a training site for military professionals with a serious job of being prepared to protect the American homeland.