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FROM PAPER CHARTS TO DIGITAL SCREENS: A QM3 LOO...

If you went through Quartermaster “A” School at Naval Training Center Orlando in the 1980s, the modern Navy bridge would probably look more like the bridge of a starship than...

FROM PAPER CHARTS TO DIGITAL SCREENS: A QM3 LOO...

If you went through Quartermaster “A” School at Naval Training Center Orlando in the 1980s, the modern Navy bridge would probably look more like the bridge of a starship than...

FROM THE SCULLERY TO THE BRIDGE

If you served in the Navy during the eighties, chances are you remember mess cranking. It was a rite of passage nobody requested and everybody remembers. Like many young sailors,...

FROM THE SCULLERY TO THE BRIDGE

If you served in the Navy during the eighties, chances are you remember mess cranking. It was a rite of passage nobody requested and everybody remembers. Like many young sailors,...

THE GREAT MRE HEIST: ONE MAN AND A LEMON POPPY ...

In the long, proud history of military crime, few capers have achieved the poetic stupidity of Joseph Lavar Davis a man who looked at the U.S. Army’s Meals Ready‑to‑Eat and...

THE GREAT MRE HEIST: ONE MAN AND A LEMON POPPY ...

In the long, proud history of military crime, few capers have achieved the poetic stupidity of Joseph Lavar Davis a man who looked at the U.S. Army’s Meals Ready‑to‑Eat and...

MEPS: The Day You Stop Just Talking About It

I will never forget MEPS. Not because it was dramatic it wasn’t. It was fluorescent lights, cold tile floors, nervous conversations, and an endless stack of paperwork, examinations, and medical...

MEPS: The Day You Stop Just Talking About It

I will never forget MEPS. Not because it was dramatic it wasn’t. It was fluorescent lights, cold tile floors, nervous conversations, and an endless stack of paperwork, examinations, and medical...

Welcome to Great Mistakes: Where the Navy Build...

Welcome to RTC Great Lakes, Illinois better known to those of us who called it home as "Great Mistakes." Nestled on the shores of Lake Michigan, it's where a Recruit...

Welcome to Great Mistakes: Where the Navy Build...

Welcome to RTC Great Lakes, Illinois better known to those of us who called it home as "Great Mistakes." Nestled on the shores of Lake Michigan, it's where a Recruit...

THE AMBIENT APOCALYPSE: A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO MIL...

There isn’t a culinary experience on earth like tearing open a heavy plastic pouch of a Meals, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) in the middle of nowhere. The Pentagon spent decades and millions...

THE AMBIENT APOCALYPSE: A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO MIL...

There isn’t a culinary experience on earth like tearing open a heavy plastic pouch of a Meals, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) in the middle of nowhere. The Pentagon spent decades and millions...