5 Years Old!
February 16th, 2009
My web site hobby is now 5 years old today (the day I registered the domain navycs.com)!
We’ll be drinking champagne tonight! (Read the rest of the article…)
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Valentines Day With a Kick
February 13th, 2009
I really have nothing but good things to say about the members of our Navy who work in the field of culinary arts. They can whip up three squares and mid-rats for thousands each and every day without the quality suffering. Heck, the Navy school they attend is certified by American Culinary Federation (ACF) for goodness sake!
One thing our United States Navy Culinary Specialists (CS) don’t have on the menu which you can find in other armed forces like those of the United Kingdom is cocktails! I attached an article (Read the rest of the article…)
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February 2009 Navy SRB
February 11th, 2009
The latest Navy SRB message is out today! (Read the rest of the article…)
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Accession Numbers January 2009
February 10th, 2009
Recruiting continues to go well. The services are having similar success with attaining their new contract objective. Remember, accessions are people who shipped to boot camp after time in the delayed entry program (DEP).
When recruiting is tough, the branch having difficulty will lower standards – i.e. take more non-high school graduates, except people with borderline height weight issues, favorably consider more waivers, reduce ASVAB requirements, etc.
The opposite is true when (Read the rest of the article…)
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USS Enterprise Numa Numa Sailor Slain
February 6th, 2009
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family.
From the Navy Times;
By Andrew Tilghman – Staff writer
A 39-year-old Sailor and one-time producer of a popular online video known as the “Enterprise Numa Numa” was killed in his Maryland home in what police say was a murder-suicide involving his girlfriend.
His video; (Read the rest of the article…)
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Donate Blood!
February 6th, 2009
I know you can’t ride off a pint of blood on your taxes and there is no monetary gain to be realized but there are many other reasons to spend the hour or so every 50+ days donating a pint of your blood.
Give the gift of life.
No matter what your blood type may be, there is a need. Here in the Memphis area O negative blood is always at dangerously low levels. “Life Blood” and other organizations have to (Read the rest of the article…)
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Monster Data Stolen
February 4th, 2009
I received this email today that tells me, “…certain contact and account data were taken, including user IDs and passwords, email addresses, names, phone numbers, and some basic demographic data.”. Well, this isn’t good. Beyond the USAJobs.gov web site, Monster Worldwide Inc, NYSE:MWW (Monster.com ) also maintains the database for a site near and dear to our hearts, the famous, Military.com.
Thousands of our nations military has signed up for accounts (Read the rest of the article…)
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Line In the Sand
February 2nd, 2009
Today President Obama has provided direction to the Pentagon to cap the 2010 budget request for defense at $527 billion. It is an increase over last years number and is based on the Bush administrations input for 2010 back in February 2009.
Now it is time to start apportioning out priorities within the budget (Read the rest of the article…)
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