PHILIPPINE SEA (Sep 23, 2018) The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) conducts a live-fire exercise of its rolling airframe missile (RAM) during exercise Valiant Shield 2018. The biennial, U.S. only, field training exercise focuses on integration of joint training among the U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. This is the seventh exercise in the Valiant Shield series that began in 2006.
WESTERN PACIFIC – It hit me hard. Leg-sweep hard. It was one of those cliché moments: a near-death encounter I’m only supposed to experience sitting on a couch watching an action movie with surround sound blaring combined with the visceral stimulus hitting my corneas.
WATERS SOUTH OF JAPAN —They say hindsight is 20/20. Someday, I will find this to be very true.
I will be alive and mostly sane. I will have learned something new and be able to help others. I will write a story and maybe you will read it.
“The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.”
While The Walt Disney Company’s CEO Bob Iger was talking about his own company when he said that, the same applies to the Navy. Now the Navy wants its deck-plate Sailors to help the service become more modern.
In chapter 12 of Fight Club, Tyler asks the narrator to type up the fight club rules and make exactly 10 copies. The narrator uses the copier at work to do this but forgets the original in the machine. His boss finds it, asks the narrator about it and proceeds to read the rules out loud – mocking him as he does. What follows is not your typical office space water cooler conversation.
SEA OF JAPAN – Sailors and civilians aboard the Navy’s forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), celebrated the United States Marine Corps’ 242nd birthday Nov. 10.
WATERS OFF THE COAST OF JAPAN – The forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), held the Boots to Business (B2B) Introduction to Entrepreneurship course Nov. 7-8.
Fourth round is performing maintenance during spot checks. So watch out for that second cigarette burn in the top, right-hand corner of the screen; your next 3MI changeover is coming in five, four, three, two, one...
WATERS OFF THE COAST OF JAPAN – The forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), will be holding the Boots to Business (B2B) Introduction to Entrepreneurship course in the INDOC Classroom from 0800-1630, Nov. 7-8.
