News & Events
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Gemini 5 Splashes Down 1965
Posted: Aug 29, 2011Gemini 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 […]
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Video Thursday – Heavy Weather
Posted: Aug 25, 2011With 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 […]
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Navy's First Rigid Airship Crashes 1921
Posted: Aug 24, 2011After 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 […]
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Project Stormfury 1963
Posted: Aug 23, 2011On 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 […]
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Lost Cold War Aviators August 1956
Posted: Aug 22, 2011On 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 […]
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First Tartar Missile Kill 1958
Posted: Aug 19, 2011The 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 […]
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Part II: Colonel Charles "Chuck" Murray's Story Of His Hero
Posted: Aug 15, 2011Here 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 […]
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The Passing Of An American Hero
Posted: Aug 12, 2011Today 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 […]
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North Charleston SWAT Team Repells Off Yorktown Flightdeck
Posted: Aug 03, 2011Not 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 […]
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282nd Army Band Plays At Patriots Point This Friday!
Posted: Aug 02, 2011This Friday, 5 August 2011, from 2 to 3:30 pm, the thirty-six member 282nd Army Band will be playing approximately 30 musical compositions to include rock, jazz and other genres […]