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Welcome to an alternative dimension where military pop-rock-country bands are acceptable
They are the musical embodiment of the Steve Buschemi “How do you do, fellow kids?” meme.
By Jon Simkins
That time a Navy jet shot itself down
In this season of the practical joke, let's talk about some very bad mistakes unique to the world's military services.
By Alan Green, Military History Quarterly Magazine
This famous Navy warship sank on New Year’s Eve
"Our little vessel was lost, and we, in months gone by, had learned to love her, felt a strange pang go through us as we remembered that never more might we tread her deck, or gather in her little cabin at evening."
By Olav Thulesius, Civil War Times Magazine
Black woman who fought discrimination during trailblazing Navy career dies at 83
Raye Montague made history as the first person to design a Navy warship — the frigate Oliver Hazard Perry — with a computer program. She produced the key draft design for the guided-missile frigate in less than 19 hours.
The atomic bomb that faded into South Carolina history
Sixty years ago, on March 11, 1958, an Air Force bomber dropped a nuclear weapon on a farm in the rural Mars Bluff community outside Florence. The radioactive payload either wasn’t loaded in the warhead or didn’t detonate — the stories differ.
By Bo Petersen, The Post and Courier of Charleston (S.C.) via AP