Editor’s Note: The following pieces were written by U.S. Navy leadership from two very different backgrounds as they share their personal stories on how they were introduced to, and then became champions of, Navy’s SPEAR program. This year, SPEAR marks its 30th anniversary of providing tactically relevant threat assessments to …
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by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Eric Lockwood, Naval History and Heritage Command, Communication and Outreach Division On March 6, 1822, a 12-gun schooner named Enterprise captured four pirate vessels in the Gulf of Mexico. The event is little known, not well documented, and it was one of her …
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By Hill Goodspeed, National Naval Aviation Museum Before January 20, 1914, when the Navy’s aviation establishment arrived at a recently closed, hurricane ravaged navy yard in Pensacola, Florida, the small collection of men and assorted flying machines had lived a vagabond existence since Lieutenant Theodore G. Ellyson received orders …
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The Sextant