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I spent a few years as a reporter on Capitol Hill for Congressional Quarterly, and I remember well the maze of corridors that coursed beneath the main floors of the Capitol that tourists see. Capitol Hill has nothing on the Navy in that regard.
If I were on the USS Kearsarge for a month, I’m not sure I’d ever figure out where I was going. That I’ll be gone after just three nights and two days…
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Consider this a shout-out to the other bloggers onboard the USS Kearsarge. Unlike me, most of them learned of this trip from official channels. They are regulars on the conference calls that the Defense Department has with milbloggers.
The bloggers are:
-- Bruce McQuain of Q&O
-- Boston Maggie
-- Chris Albon of War And Health
-- And David Axe of Danger Room and War Is Boring
I know of at…
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You can find more information about the USS Kearsarge and its history on the Navy’s Web site, but here’s a quick roundup of key facts:
-- It’s the fourth ship in naval history to bear the name Kearsarge, which is the name of a mountain in New Hampshire. The first Kearsarge dates back to the Confederate era; the third was an aircraft carrier still in duty when my father was in the Navy in the…
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When I wrote my first blog in 2004 to report on a two-week visit with Christians in Russia, few members of our church understood what I was doing. A year later, I had to explain the concept again to family and friends when I blogged from Guatemala about the adoption of our third child.
Soon after that trip, I stopped merely testing the blog waters and dove in headfirst. I launched a column and a…
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One of the things Kimberly and the kids loved about the quick Kearsarge tour was seeing my sleeping quarters. Kimberly had told me the Navy would treat us bloggers like dignitaries and put us in a stateroom, but I was convinced we would get the enlisted treatment and have to bunk in berthing rooms, where narrow bunks are stacked tightly.
For a while, it looked like I was right. The first space…
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The Glover family lives only three hours from Norfolk, so my wife and kids joined me on the drive down here today. We’re all glad we did, too, because the ensign who escorted us bloggers onto the ship also agreed to give the whole family a last-minute tour.
Our son, Anthony, is almost 9, and our two daughters, Elli and Catie, are 6 and 3. Catie is a bundle of energy, but she’s also at that age…
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A couple of months ago, an e-mail arrived in my inbox with news of an exciting opportunity for bloggers: Join the Navy on a deployment to Latin America to experience life at sea and to watch a humanitarian mission firsthand.
The invitation was targeted at military bloggers, which I am not. Worse, I know next to nothing about the military. In all of my 17-plus years of journalism, I have never…
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I mentioned earlier that the four male bloggers on the ship thankfully were moved from the berthing area to a quasi-stateroom with more breathing room and comfort. The lone female blogger on the USS Kearsarge wasn’t so lucky. She is in the female berthing area.
But she already sees the silver lining in her reality. At lunch today, our Air Force pal said that being on a mission like this to a…
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