Under-ice operations links
December 11th, 2009 | Blogs Carriers Foreign navies leadership Life at Sea merchant ships Royal Navy Sports The Pacific | Posted by Phil Ewing
Much as this fast-attack submarine demonstrates the Navy's ability to reach even the remotest points on the globe, so too do today's links get updates to you wherever you are // MC1 Tiffini Jones Vanderwyst / Navy
Silent runnin’, enemy SSBN huntin’, upward-looking sonar pingin’, Ice Station Zebra findin’, “Nautilus 90-North” sendin’ links, ordering you to surface the ship and for all hands to prepare to carry these headlines topside, onto the pack:
- PACOM commander Adm. Robert Willard says he thinks China will field its first aircraft carrier by 2015 — coincidentally, the same year it sinks the American carrier George Washington, according to another prediction.
- The Royal Navy has had one Type 45 destroyer, Daring, for about a year, and just got its second, Dauntless, but neither has any of their wham-o-dyne missile systems, and won’t get them for awhile.
- What does one professional civilian mariner think about a Navy captain’s Dilbert Circuit book of management recommendations for doing business? In a word, meh.
- The TV program “NCIS,” which recently included a cameo by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, isn’t edgy, or exciting, or interesting, or good, per se. So why is a program about the Navy’s crime-solving agency the most-watched in America? Here’s one explanation.
- Navy Times has probably run hundreds of images by MC1 (SW/AW) Tiffini Jones Vanderwyst, and other people are noticing, too: Her image of the fast-attack sub Annapolis in the Arctic (above) was picked as one of Time magazine’s photos of the year for 2009.
- Apparently there’s some kind of foot-ball match this weekend in Philadelphia between the teams that represent the U.S. Military Academy and the Naval Academy. If you’re interested, Scoop Deck’s siblog After Action will be covering this thing like a blanket, as well as demonstrating why reporters and/or bloggers should be read but not seen.
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The Scoop Deck – Congratulations, chief Says:
September 20th, 2010 at 9:56 am[...] the Navy photographer whose shot of the fast attack submarine Annapolis in the Arctic was a Time magazine photo of the year last year? She is now Chief Mass Communications Specialist Tiffini Jones Vanderwyst, and got a [...]