Further entries on Sunday will be delayed due to my deployment on the Cutter U.S.S. Taney (USCGC Taney (WPG/WHEC-37)).
My two eldest sons and I are scheduled to sleep over on the Taney on Saturday night. Men going off to sea on a warship is nothing new, but not since the Fighting Sullivan brothers has one family decided to serve in the same ship.
The Taney is a United states Coast Guard Cutter and is the last still active warship present at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. On that day, it was berthed at Pier #6 in Honolulu Harbor and was one of the ships firing on the attacking aircraft. It was used on patrols in World War II in both the Pacific and Atlantic Theaters of Operation as well as in the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.
The crew this weekend will be composed of the brave boys of Cub Scout Troop 1127 and their Dads. After I return from the service, I will be posting again — absent post traumatic stress issues of sleeping in cramped crew quarters with sleepless 10 year old boys and snoring fathers.
On Saturday, the three Turley boys raced their vehicle in the Pine Wood Derby. Jack came in third with fine performances by his brothers. Jack’s good showing was impressive given the fact that his car snapped at midnight last night and we had to purchase a new kit and prepare a new car in one hour Saturday morning.
Travel well and enjoy, Prof.!
As a witness to Katrina, I’ll say you the Scouts are in good hands. The USCG was the only one not dropping the ball that terrible day. If you get a chance, please tell them the people of New Orleans know this and appreciate their duty and service. USCG, you guys ROCK!
Congrats to the Turley boys on their derby performance. I do hope photos of any new innovations they come up with in pine-based automotive engineering will be forthcoming.
Prof. Turley,
Have a wonderfual mariner experience with the boys. These are the kind of moments that you and they will remember years from now. As to the derby experience, just the thought of the Pinewood Derby conjurs up visions of my whittled entry careening off the track and breaking up in several pieces upon impact. As you can see, I still carry those scars today.
JT:
Hopefully you’ll have some time to stop by the aquarium while at the Inner Harbor. Metal bunks on old creaking ships are fun, but Great White’s, now that’s excitement.
Glad your vehicular misfortunes extended only to the Pine Wood Derby. For some reason when I read it I thought you said the Soap Box Derby, and concluded that if you built one of those contraptions in an hour on the morning of race day, GM’s financial problems were likely solved and you needed to change careers to auto engineering.
Well, with Scouts onboard, Somali pirates will nary sail in those troubled waters and will anchors aweigh 20,000 leagues distant.
Sounds like a great day. Enjoy yourself and enjoy being with your sons.
Wonderful news on Jack and all your sons in the Derby Jonathan. Have a fantastic experience on the Taney!
Thanks for posting about the CGC Taney, and the Coast Guard overall. I was just reading up on some history when I came across this site (specifically the CGC Taney). The Scouts should be having a good time if they’re into the whole historical thing. Again, thanks for getting the word of the Coast Guard out there.
~Ryan of An Unofficial Coast Guard Blog
Was this ship named after Dred Scott author Chief Justice Roger Taney?
Henry
This from Wikipedia:
She was named for Roger B. Taney, formerly Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the United States.
Henry:
According to wikipedia, it was named after the Chief Justice.
rcampbell:
You’re johnny-on-the-spot today! Did you take a look at that web site for the Edge I posted and read Sam Harris’ comments?
Panetta Goon Restrains Reporter
February 06, 2009
Categories: White House
Reporter restrained after Panetta hearing
Following Leon Panetta’s confirmation hearing Thursday, several reporters approached the CIA director-designate in the hallway outside room G-50 in the Dirksen Building.
There, CongressDaily reporter Chris Strohm — upon asking a question — was physically restrained by a man who accompanied Panetta at hearings both days.
Strohm, when reached by phone Friday, said he was unsure of the man’s role.
“I felt this hand grab my right arm and push me aside,” Strohm said.
Tim Starks, a reporter for Congressional Quarterly, said he witnessed Strohm approach Panetta and ask a question, just before the man began “grabbing him by the arm and moving him away.”
“I said to the guy, ‘That’s not the way you do it,’” recalled Starks.
Starks said that he’s covered the CIA for years and had never seen a reporter strong-armed that way before, adding that the agency is typically respectful of journalists.
WELL, WELL, WELL, AND SO IT STARTS.
AHOY!
~
At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the fog it came;
As if it had been a Christian soul,
We hailed it in God’s name.
It ate the food it ne’er had eat,
And round and round it flew.
The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
The helmsman steered us through!
And a good south wind sprung up behind;
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariners’ hollo!
In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
It perched for vespers nine;
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
Glimmered the white Moon-shine.’
~
(from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798)
hmmm, the number eight became an emoticon…..
ignore button – ON!
Whoa Mr. Turley, I went on an overnighhter with the U.S. Navy when an impressionable teenager back in the 1960′s, then the first thing I did after graduating from high school was enlist in the Navy. So will you and the boys be having a career in the service together, when they are of age?
Oh, and I don’t think you or anyone else around here are a tax cheat, as far as any other message that was implied, who paid attention to it?
not a tax cheat like the rest of you,
Just what in the world did that cut and paste have to do with a group of Cub Scouts going on a cruise?
Worried about our future!,
Read the post… Mr Turley is at sea
Hi
Here is hoping the young men on the coast guard cutter learn to become real men and warriors willing to love and defend their country unlike their liberal fathers most likely getting sea sick right now and turning 8 shades of purple.
Hi marta
Why is the press so silent about (Dem) Senator Stabenow’s husband’s arrest on a prostitution charge?
mespo727272
1, February 8, 2009 at 11:40 am
rcampbell:
You’re johnny-on-the-spot today! Did you take a look at that web site for the Edge I posted and read Sam Harris’ comments?
Mespo
Sorry, but I didn’t see either one. More info, please.
RC, from http://jonathanturley.org/2009/02/04/taking-back-ben-steins-money-ben-stein-pulled-as-commencement-speaker-for-the-university-of-vermont/
mespo727272 1, February 7, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Jack is the ‘swabbie’ on deck this year. How cool is that!
I trust the Turley Armada and My Three Sons Engineering won’t require a bail out.
RC, Patty C:
Thank Patty C for covering my omission of the location of the website for the discussion on reconciling religion and science. It’s an Edge question and I’ll post it here too:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/coyne09/coyne09_index.html#rc
Glad to see the kids are getting out on a real live conflict ship. Make sure you tell the kids they don’t have to listen to you. I explained how today’s kids are much smarter than their parents at a kids outing recently.
Al Gore.
Ya know, Jonanthan, I hope they didn’t start the engines and I hope you road your bicycles to the pier. The Lord and I know how bad global warming is and we sure don’t need any more carbon dioxide out there do we? Now lets make sure we keep a small footprint going forward like I and my family do.
Thank you.
Al Gore
It is amazing that we can get the Von Toll family out and about over a family overnight trip! Save your nonsense for substantive threads.
Mespo
I had to step over some slime between your last post and this one to get here (hope I don’t ruin the carpet), but thanks for the link. A very substative read. I enjoyed it.
Oh dear, we have a Glenn Beck viewer masquerading as Al Gore that obviously has too much free time on his hands.
Everybody put on your tin foil hats on, we’re going to be overrun by Nazis because of generational change…
Maybe its James Inhofe…
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.