Lost in 2010

A beautiful Sweet Gum Tree in the front yard, lost to a sudden fall windstorm.  One of three, so sad to think what may have been.

Lost in 2011

"Another Year and then you'll be Happy... Just one more year and then you'll be Happy.. but you're cryin,  but you're cryin now."

ATTENTION SEEKING BEHAVIOR

Say Cheese!

 tell it like it is Stewie... 

One Way or Another...

One Way or Another. Again.

A Good Year to All

Hey...

Same as it Ever Was

Navy Awards Two Contracts to Build New Combat Ships 

Published NYTimes: December 29, 2010 

The Navy on Wednesday awarded two companies contracts that could be worth a total of more than $7 billion to build 20 of its new littoral combat ships, splitting the purchase to obtain the vessels more quickly.

Navy officials said that if it exercises all of its options under the contracts, Lockheed Martin would assemble 10 of the coastal warships for $3.62 billion over six years and Austal USA, a unit of an Australian company, would build 10 for $3.52 billion.

Littoral combat ship

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

A Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is a type of relatively small surface vessels intended for operations in the littoral zone (close to shore). It is "envisioned to be a networked, agile, stealthy surface combatant capable of defeating anti-access and asymmetric threats in the littorals."^[1] Two ship classes are the first examples of the LCS in the U.S. Navy: the Freedom-class and the Independence-class. LCS designs are slightly smaller than the US Navy's guided missile frigates, and have been compared to corvettes of other navies. However, the LCS designs add the capabilities of a small assault transport with a flight deck and hangar large enough to base two SH-60 Seahawk helicopters, the capability to recover and launch small boats from a stern ramp, and enough cargo volume and payload to deliver a small assault force with armoured fighting vehicles to a roll-on/roll-off port facility. The standard armament for the LCS are Mk 110 57 mm guns, while modules containing Non-Line-of-Sight Launch Systems are available. It will also be able to launch autonomous air, surface, and underwater vehicles.^[2] Although the LCS designs offer less air defense and surface-to-surface capabilities than comparable destroyers, the LCS concept emphasizes speed, flexible mission module space and a shallow draft.

 

Well, Yes...

and on and on and on and

A Mini Back Up at Work....

The Year of Lady G

 

 

 

Smile Time.

December 25th and January 1st Holiday

Liam and Cody- Lost in the Moment.

Ready to Deploy.

The New Years Tree time has come at last.

....And a Happy New Year!

A Merry Christmas to All....