The Stupid Shall Be Punished

Keeping the blogosphere posted on the goings on of the world of submarines since late 2004... and mocking and belittling general foolishness wherever it may be found. Idaho's first and foremost submarine blog. (If you don't like something on this blog, please E-mail me; don't call me at home.)

Thursday, January 02, 2014

Battle "E" Time!

It's that time of year where SUBLANT and SUBPAC send out their "010001Z JAN" messages with the winners of the previous year...

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Merry Christmas!

Update 1133 26 Dec: My belated Christmas present to you -- the Amazon customer reviews for "How To Avoid Huge Ships" . (Ye...

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Home For Christmas

While USS North Carolina (SSN 777) got their turn in the barrel and drew the ever popular " leave on deployment during the week before...

Saturday, December 14, 2013

"What Kind Of (Submarine Officer) Is Best?"

Lots of links to share since I last posted: 1) USS Providence (SSN 719) launched a UAV ! The media made sure to call it a "drone...

Saturday, December 07, 2013

The Day That Transformed The Submarine Force

The attack on Pearl Harbor 72 years ago today forced the U.S. Navy to change its perception of how submarines would be used in war, from...

Sunday, December 01, 2013

Boondoggle

Here's a story of a Brit Submariner who got caught doing a boondoggle -- a luxury Med cruise with his wife under the guise of "Sur...

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Do "Ultra-Heavy" Iranian Submarines Get PUCs? I Think Not.

I was intrigued by the news from Iran that they were deploying an "ultra-heavy" submarine (the old Kilo-class boat Younus ) alon...

Friday, November 15, 2013

Burials At Sea

A story about a mystery photo left at the Navy Memorial earlier this year has been making the rounds in Facebook, and it got me to think...

Saturday, November 09, 2013

Veteran's Day

2013 is one of those rare years where the Veteran's Day holiday actually falls on 11/11. The Navy sent quite a contingent to NYC to ...

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

This Sounds Like It's From The Onion...

...but it's not. From a story on the actual, verified navy.mil webpage: NORFOLK (NNS) -- In order to generate innovative ideas on how...

Saturday, October 26, 2013

News From The NSL Symposium And Other Submarine News

With the Naval Submarine League symposium going on last week, there's a lot of interesting submarine news on the web. Here's a roun...

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Humevac Video And Other News

Here's some IR video of a Coast Guard HUMEVAC from an unidentified 688i about 160nm west of San Diego: Speaking of SSNs, here'...

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Odd Surface Ships

With today being the 13th anniversary of the terrorist attack on USS Cole (DDG 67), I was looking through some material and saw this pictur...

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Tacking On Dolphins -- A "Good" Tradition?

Check out this letter to Navy Times decrying the "death" of Navy Tradition due to the influences of PC thought. Excerpts: He ...

Sunday, September 29, 2013

I'll Give 5:1 Odds This Admiral Retires Soon

Rather than the O-5s and E-8s that normally make the news for getting relieved of their duties for some moral failing we're used to seei...

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Foreign Submarine Articles

Here are some recent articles from the international press about submarines: 1) An interesting article on the Israeli submarine force. ...

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Navy Yard Attack

While we don't have all the information yet, including the full list of the victims or a motive behind the attacks, our prayers to out t...

Friday, September 13, 2013

Submarine Funding

Yesterday was Submarine Day at the House Armed Services Committee; some stories about the testimony given by RADM Breckenridge (N87) and RAD...

Saturday, September 07, 2013

USS Minnesota (SSN 783) Joins The Fleet

Welcome aboard, USS Minnesota! Here's a link to the video of the commissioning ceremony.

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Should We Attack Syria?

With an American submarine reported to be among the assets on standby for a possible attack on Syria, and the President announcing that he...

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Bubblehead: I'm Joel Kennedy -- a married, 50-something year old retired submarine officer and esophageal cancer survivor with three kids who has finally made the transition to civilian life. Politically, I'm a Radical Moderate. (If you don't like something on this blog, please E-mail me. Don't call me at home.)

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