Aviation Job outside Philly
June 28th, 2011
McGrath Systems, a staffing and recruiting services company, has announced a need for Technicians/Fabricators experienced in aviation sheet metal and structural mechanics. Prior Military experience is a plus! Sounds like a job for any Aviation Structural Mechanic due to get out and would like to live and work in the Philadelphia, PA area.
Duties include:
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Forrestal – Kennedy
June 21st, 2011
A Merchant Mariner, Elliott Kolner, had just recently finished 30 days aboard the SS Regulus, which is moored one pier over from Forrestal and ex-USS John F. Kennedy, when he snapped this picture.
The former USS Forrestal (CV-59) and USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) await their fates in the Philadelphia shipyard. (photo: Elliot Kolner)
Both the Forrestal and the Kennedy are awaiting their next set of orders – Forrestal is set to be sunk as an artificial reef – the Kennedy is on hold, as the Forrestal once was, to become a floating museum.
The Forrestal was decommissioned all the way back in (Read the rest of the article…)
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Military Austerity Suggestions
June 6th, 2011
Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Robert Gates (SECDEF) recently delivered a policy speech in which he suggested that politicians must do something to fix the military compensation system in order to make it more efficient or DoD will not be able to meet its obligations in the coming years. With a strong call to reduce the national debt, which is nearly $15 trillion, the DoD budget will most certainly be less and less in the coming years. Change is coming.
I think there are modifications we can make in the areas of pay, retirement and education, some painful, (Read the rest of the article…)
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Site Updated, Page by Page
June 4th, 2011
As new Navy or Department of Defense instructions are written or old ones are updated, I spend time updated the affected pages on Navy Cyberspace to ensure it stays current.
On May 17, 2011, Navy Recruiting Command released a new version of the Navy Recruiting Manual; today, I completed the painstaking page by page update.
Where there was a bunch of small changes, there is nothing Earth-shattering to report. (Read the rest of the article…)
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