You never marched like this
December 21st, 2011 | Army Coast Guard Marine Corps Navy Sports Submarines | Posted by Joshua Stewart
No matter how much you loved your sub and how well you can march, or the weird ideas that fermented in your brain after weeks underway without sunlight, you never, not once, thought of doing anything like the formations the West Virginia University Marching Band pulled off.
The whole clip is good and worth a peek, but the Navy stuff starts at 2:50.
It’s tough to say what detail is the best – the submerging sub or the turning screws.
It’s not clear when the band performed, but the clip was uploaded Nov. 6, the day after the Mountaineers lost to the University of Louisville 35-38.
We’re No. 10!
November 16th, 2011 | Army Family housing Life at Home Navy | Posted by Jenn Rafael
The Naval Academy's neighborhood is the 10th most expensive college town for home-buying. // California State Controller's Office
A survey of home prices in college towns by Coldwell Banker shows that Annapolis, Md., home to the Naval Academy, is the 10th most expensive college town for home-buying.
The College Home Listing Report compared the average listing price for a three-bedroom, two-bathroom home in the towns and cities of the 120 Football Bowl Subdivision schools. The average list price for an Annapolis home was $522,420, according to the report, and was 10th behind such cities as No. 2 Palo Alto, Calif. (Stanford University, average listing $1,232,0700); No. 3 Honolulu (University of Hawaii, average $779,419) and No. 8 Seattle (University of Washington, average $570,535).
Enlisted members and officers assigned to the academy or neighboring Naval Support Activity Annapolis might experience sticker shock when moving to the pricey shore locale. But basic allowance for housing rates take real estate and rental prices into account, giving a chief with dependents $2,196 a month, while a lieutenant commander with dependents gets $2,763 a month — enough to cover payments on a $400,000 30-year mortgage, depending on interest rates.
So how did Army and Air Force do? West Point, N.Y., home to the U.S. Military Academy, clocked in at 19th, with an average listing of $293,791. Colorado Springs, Colo., near the Air Force Academy, was 45th, with an average listing of $193,968.
The homes compared were listed between August 2010 and August 2011 in 117 markets. (The company noted that Tuscaloosa, Ala., was not included because of damage caused by a tornado in April, and that Bowling Green, Ohio, and Bloomington, Ind., did not meet minimum listing requirements.)
Army secretary jabs Navy ship program
October 11th, 2011 | Army Navy Ships | Posted by Bill McMichael
Army Secretary John McHugh gave the Navy — and in particular, its ship acquisition strategy — a poke in the ribs Monday at the annual Association of the U.S. Army meeting in Washington. According to CNN reporter Lisa Sylvester, McHugh took his shot in the context of the Columbus Day holiday:
“But I’m a little confused as to why we’re kicking this great Army celebration off on Columbus Day,” McHugh said. “Frankly, I always thought of Columbus Day was kind of more of a Navy holiday. And I don’t mean it because of that 1492 ocean blue stuff, but in my mind, Christopher Columbus was the quintessential Navy man. After all, when he left, he didn’t know where he was going. When he got there, he didn’t know where he was. When he came back, he really didn’t know where he had been. But before he left, he had to have three new ships.”
The punch line elicited guffaws from the soldier-rich audience, and might add a little icing on the cake for the annual Army-Navy game Dec. 10.
If Columbus Day is more of a Navy holiday, what would be a good Army holiday, and why?”