Posts Tagged ‘Navy’
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‘Zim be nimble, Zim be quick’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
Nationals
Record: 56-75 (Last in the NL East)
Last Two Weeks: 5-8
The impossible-to-miss, off-field story involves none other than his Royal Strasburg. Late last week, the team announced that a tear in Strasburg’s pitching elbow will require reconstructive surgery of the Tommy John type. The Nats enter the last month [...]
So it begins…
‘Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout’
courtesy of ‘gpjt’
The NYT reports that on August 2, Navy personnel at Patuxent Naval Air Station lost control of an unmanned drone which promptly b-lined for DC, making its way into the restricted air space over the city before operators regained control. The DoD blames the loss of control on the [...]
Monumental: John Paul Jones
Where 17th Street dead-ends in Independence Avenue, just to the south of the World War II Memorial, stands John Paul Jones, atop a Marble Platform. The monument, built in 1912 as the first in Potomac Park, stands as the memorial to our first great Naval hero. While his remains lie in the chapel [...]
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