We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:54:26 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification It's not been "All Wisconsin, all the time" while I'm here. She's *big* ain't she? My paper presentation went well, to the, oh, 10 people at the conference who didn't find one of the 13 or so other papers more compelling... I haven't been exclusively focused on the BigBoat 64, USS Wisconsin - I did visit another pair of famous Americans. A nice little museum, if the movie about General MacArthur is, well, interesting. Made by the MacArthur Foundation, it obviously glosses over some elements of the General's career - which is okay, it's a paean, after all. But the... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:05:44 -0600 Hopper nanosecond = 11.2 inches, according to the one I have, in a box somewhere. Cheers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58472 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58472 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:14:14 -0600 CAPT H, yer right. I'm wrong. It's a new-fangled thing. At least I got the other two right... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58464 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58464 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:35:31 -0600 USS Hopper. Named for Adm. Grace Hopper.... the mother of computing. A friend of mine was present at a gathering at which Adm Hopper was the keynote speaker. She passed around Nano-seconds for everyone ... a piece of wire cut to the length which light travels in a nanosecond - just under a foot!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58460 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58460 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:03:51 -0600 I think your U/I Aegis cruiser is a Burke-class desptroyer. Cheers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58457 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58457 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:13:18 -0600 The Coastie-son has spent a good amount of time at Yorktown. The USCG has a big (for the CG) school there (United States Coast Guard Training Center) where they train boatswainmates coxswains and a lot of other stuff. If you had time they might be persuaded to give a tour. Of course their boats aren't as big as the ones you have taken pics of .. but size doesn't matter does it? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58439 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58439 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:56:50 -0600 I'm entirely on your side on "histerical" films. It drives me up the wall when I see things on the History Channel, or elsewhere, that are just plain factually incorrect. Unfortunately, the current generation of film producers don't know squat about the military and seem to believe that anything that floats must be a battleship, and if it walks and has a rifle it must be US Army, unless, of course, we want it to be German, or Japanese, or whatever. And I get sick and tired of shots of aircraft that weren't even on the drawing boards yet used to illustrate specific battles. There is a wonderful story about Ian Fleming getting a letter from a gentleman after his first book was published. The writer took Fleming to task over a number of serious errors concerning weapons in his book. Fleming decided that he would rather not look like an idiot in the future and actually asked the man to proofread his future efforts to ensure accuracy. Fleming then wrote the gentleman into future books as "the Armourer." So, perhaps, you might have yet another career ahead of you. Marine6 Sends http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58438 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58438 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:54:45 -0600 http://www.monroe.army.mil/Monroe/sites/installation/museum/Casemate_Museum.aspx]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58437 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58437 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:41:26 -0600 Trinkets are a *good* thing. Except if you travel with KtLW. Two years ago, I hadda pay the equivalent of an additional seat in coach just to get her souvenirs back stateside. My souvenirs fit on a 1 gig chip. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58436 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58436 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:37:57 -0600 You can't have too many trinkets... especially the kind *you* like! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58434 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58434 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:21:50 -0600 Monitor & The Merrimac model to assemble there. A short jaunt up the road is Ft Eustis and the Transportation Corp Museum. (I say short. I'm using my A-typical Georgia Boy Country mileage variation) I liked living in Virginia many years ago. Lots of history and battlefields. Lived across for Norfolk little town called Pungo off the Bay. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58433 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58433 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:21:21 -0600 You can walk around Williamsburg and get inside some buildings if you don't want to pay admission, you might get lucky and see the fife and drum corps. I think NASA Langley has a very small museum but its been a while, or you might be able to watch them drop test an aircraft or schmooze your way into the hangar there as well. Or just watch the Raptors take off all day from the Air Force side. If you have time you can drive 1.5 hours to Richmond and see the Museum of the Confederacy before they move it to Roanoke and change the name. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58431 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58431 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:14:17 -0600 Nope. But I've been to Yorktown, Jamestown, etc, and don't have time to do Williamsburg (besides, SWWBO'd kill me if I did that by myself without her). While I wait for flight time to arrive, I may drive across the Cheaspeake. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58428 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58428 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:02:37 -0600 Unless of course, you're already back. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58427 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58427 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:59:23 -0600 As a former Virginian, I would also suggest the Yorktown battlefield as well as Jamestown, which is getting ready to celebrate its 400th anniversary. And of course, you can always join the colonial militia at Williamsburg. At least try to see the governor's mansion there. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58426 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/hanging_around.html#comment-58426 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:57:47 -0600