Action Shot 04/16

Back to business. Lots to do.

A distinct V-22 Osprey flies over Miramar, a Naval Air Station with a friendly approach to all aviation lovers.

 NAS Miramar resumes full services ahead of foreseen schedule.

SCM NAS Miramar back online
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As of 20:00 hours today NAS Miramar is back online.
Hold was cut off short, there is work to be done.
All services are to resume immediately all crews report for duty.

CDR. Asra "Cougar" Kron
NASMCO

Minimum Services

Full line up. Fat Albert and the magnificent seven 1955 TF-9J Cougars at Miramar, May 24, 2016.

SCM NAS Miramar on hold
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For the next 7 days, effective immediately, NAS Miramar is at minimum capacity and all services except NFDT Blue Angels support are on hold. We will continue to hold Blue Angels practices as needed.
All NAS Miramar assigned officers from NSTC last class should report back to Fleet immediately for redeployment.

CDR. Asra "Cougar" Kron
NASMCO

Blue Angels over Agrippa

TEAM ROUTINE HERE (click link)

The malcontents

Before I write anything else, let me be clear about what this is.
I am shutting this door closed, not opening it.
There will be no comments allowed in this entry.

When people are successful there will always be those whose shortcomings will lead to lashing out and trying to smear them rather than use that success to boost their own doings and thus become better and more successful themselves.
Mediocre people tend to achieve very little after reaching a certain level, self-improvement is not their "forte", they'd rather stagnate and make sure everything around them stays at a lower level, to make their own mediocrity stand out as something more than it is.
You can identify them by the amount of time spent denigrating others in stead of making themselves better. You can also identify these malcontents by the kind and caliber of their allegations, usually poorly substantiated if at all.

It was brought to my attention that yet again this sort of action is targeting one of our senior officers and I would let this go by without bothering to post a reply were it not for the seriousness of some of the accusations, that go way beyond role play and step into Linden Labs TOS and one of its most important rules. So here it is.

All our officers, junior and senior, go through a screening process that starts with a background check and is never complete. This means that their past actions and achievements are measured against their present ones. This is even more so with Commanding Officers.

There is someone hiding under the warm blanket of anonymity trying to, once more, drag NAS Miramar and the US Navy SL names in the mud by implying we are allowing in our groups an officer unfit to serve in the United States Navy SL counterpart, a Second Life institution that mirrors the finest traditions of the real life US Navy.
Let it be known that until hard evidence is produced and a fair trial is held we shall not take action against ANY officer in NAS Miramar and shall not indulge these malcontents who are not even capable of accusing others in broad daylight and choose the insidious anonymous slander as weapon.

Accusations as serious as the ones reproduced in such manner would need to be reported with proof to Linden Labs and trust me, they would be swiftly investigated and punished if there were any grounds on which they could stand on. They can not. They are mere slanders and gossip.

We stand by our officers and will to the best of our abilities make sure they are a fine example of the service men and women they mirror in real life in one of the finest military institutions in the world, the United States Navy.

This door is now closed.
Carry on.

CDR. Asra "Cougar" Kron
NASMCO

SCM19/16 - USNSL 3rd Fleet Command

CAPT. Isaac L. Harcassle, Jr. opening the command meeting.

All stations,

US Navy SL 3rd Fleet command has now a RADM at the helm. On the USN SL command meeting held at NSTC Nautilus on 04/24/2016, the senior officers present endorsed CAPT. Isaac Harcassle as Rear Admiral (upper half) - RADM - in recognition of his achievements and outstanding work towards the improvement of the United States Navy SL group.

Admiral Harcassle accepted the endorsement, and is now RADM USN SL 3rd Fleet commanding officer. NAS Miramar congratulates Admiral Isaac Harcassle on his promotion and wishes him all the best in his command.

CDR Asra Kron
NASCO

Some mementos of the day [ click on the pictures to enlarge ]

The Blake Fleet Drill Hall on April 24, 2014.

CDR. Vickster Kuhn reporting NAFEN status.

The senior officers endorsing CAPT. Harcassle for Rear Admiral Upper Half.

The Admiral's first dance. Cougar's Sore Bottom Sailing Club.

Navy style party.

When the gods loose their heads over a cocktail waitress.

109 Block D to replace mainstay HS-4 Sea Kings

Agusta Westland 109 DM HS-4 Zero Zero, BuNo 16041

With the establishment of a ARRS capable SAR unit in NAF Avignon, HS-2, equipped with the Sikorsky H-92, NAS Miramar gets a little more wiggle room by replacing most of HS-4's Sea Kings with a more agile and light weight rotor. The choice was Agusta Westland's 109 DM - D for Dani Airplanes, the SL manufacturer, and M for Miramar, since it is a NASM custom order model for the US Navy SL.

The 109 will fly PATROUs and CSAR for local squadrons and SEAL operations, and cover VIP transport. Pilots wishing to deploy with HS-4 will need a WOC/900 evaluation completed and a 109 specific certification, after which they will be sent the DM model by the manufacturer.

The Black Knights keep Sea King 66 active for ARRS open water SAR operations, thus maintaining the most famous Sea King in the US Navy, and indeed the world, in active duty.

CDR. Asra Kron
NASMCO