Navy Life
Being in the Navy seems like the perfect time to be single. Sailors are young, many just out of high school. They’re always traveling the world. Reaching a foreign port is one of the craziest …
I wasn't always in trouble or on drugs when I was in the Navy. But I did report to the boat with two black eyes, a busted lip, and mangled nose. My new chief took …
McP's Pub in Coronado, a popular hangout for Navy SEALs, is packed with Marines. With only two women in a bar filled with nearly 70 men, they are having what bartender Tom Latona refers to …
The Navy is asking 16,000 sailors some intimate questions as part of a detailed survey of pregnancy aboard ship. Called "Navy Survey of Parenthood and Pregnancy" and drafted by the Navy Personnel Research and Development …
Al suggested I get into the nuclear field. It required a high score for entry and entailed a lot of training— more than two years — but would translate to a marketable skill in the civilian world.
“We went over to Santa Catalina Island and trapped eight goats, fit them with radio telemetry collars. Because goats are gregarious and tend to congregate together whenever possible, the Judas goats led us to the remnant herds.”
The dawn’s light is just beginning to angle through the mist to strike the cloud-colored F-14 fighter jet parked in a row in front of hangar three. The flight line at Miramar consists of 7 …
Up to this point I have got on with officers. I've occasionally enjoyed officers. I’ve even I guess learned from officers; but no, I have not fully, openly conversed with one. Jawed with no self-edit. Shot the actual shit.
Barracks, Jack: double tiers of extremely made beds. Everything's so beyond-life antiseptic you could eat off — well I wouldn't eat off the floor, but I’d feel pretty safe having open heart surgery on it.
Randy Cunningham taxied the F-4 Phantom onto the catapult aboard the USS Constellation, and both he and Bill Driscoll, the radar intercept officer in the back seat, turned to look at the spinning fingers of …
“The patent office people call me all the time, asking about new stuff like this that might be patentable,” says Cooke, who holds four other patents for the navy and three for General Dynamics.
The sea-launched cruise missile is designed to be fired from submarine torpedo tubes or from armored box launchers on surface ships such as the soon-to-be recommissioned battleship New Jersey.
George Bacon was unshakably naive. He had spent three years of active duty as a Navy officer and still he was astonished to see what he saw when he later joined the Navy Reserve. Maybe …
The war in Vietnam really touched San Diego. It was here in San Diego that the largest number of wives became West Pac widows and POW wives, where the most war-bound ships left from and …
“Uh ... kinda crowded tonight, huh?” he pressed. “Not really. Usually more people than this.” It was already too late; he had committed himself. “Look. You wanna dance again?” “No thanks. Excuse me. I see a friend.”