XC-9Z Puma Recon Vehicle The Puma was a boondoggle of two sets of requirements that created much confusion amongst the designers. Originally conceived as a light scout and transport, early designs and prototypes were simply larger versions of the Dragon[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for March, 2016
The comparatively small Shooting Stars of squadrons like VMR-234, the Rangers, carried most of the ground pounders who secured the landing zones for the big army transports that waddled in afterwards. And once the army was in charge they secured[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jay Lovato and all his fellows who volunteered to serve America never served in a single Navajo military unit. The Navajo Nation doesn’t have a military. The council claims it is for cultural and religious reasons. I think they just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Twentieth century had been home to many different types of networks. Television. Radio. Computer. News. Entertainment. The Twenty First century found those stratified network definitions fading away. Television and radio networks began broadcasting via the new Internet. News became[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Cowboys were part of Marine Aircraft Group 41 when The War began. Texas originally activated reserve squadrons one at a time to fill in for losses during The War. But they activated the entire air group for the Hyades[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most of you have heard of Jay Lovato. Founding member of Cowboy squadron. Descendent of an original Navajo Code Talker. Son of the president of the Navajo Nation. Hero of a hundred worlds. A giant among men. Played by that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the revolutions in the networks of the early Twenty First century was the advent of “reality programming.” It was advertised as real people doing real things in real life. In reality it was real people being prodded by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was born in time of War. I was born to be a starfighter, to spit fire and death, and to drive our mutual enemies away from our home. But I was born to seek Peace, to bring an end[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Cowboys and other Marine squadrons were first deployed to replace pure starfighter squadrons lost in the early years of The War. But the Hyades Cluster’s hundreds of planetary and sub-planetary targets required a more combined arms approach. All Marine[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Navajo Nation lives in their cultural homeland, but that does not mean that their history has been easy. They engaged in raiding against other Indians before Europeans arrived. They fought scorched earth campaigns against the Spanish. Then they fought[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…