No one "lands" on an aircraft carrier, the saying goes. They only "crash" in a controlled manner. On January 24, a F-35C Lightning II had an uncontrolled crash-landing on the USS Carl Vinson in the South China Sea. The event wasn't reported, but someone in the Navy leaked a 51-second video that shows the flaming jet hitting
Pravda photo of Stalin giving his Bolshoi Theatre speech on February 9, 1946 by Todd DePastino On February 9, 1946, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin delivered with much fanfare an election speech at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Yes, an election speech. The Soviet Union held elections every four years
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News from Ukraine, which is bracing for an attack of 100,000 Russian troops massed at its border, made me think of the Ukrainian veterans who attended our VBC breakfast in November 2019 as part of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program. Six Ukrainians joined our breakfast and spoke about
← BACK TO VBC BLOG Why the B-17 Flying Fortress Was Safer Than the B-24 Liberator by Todd DePastino “What a marvelous plane that was and beautiful to fly.” That’s what WWII B-17 pilot Tom Wiley said to us once at a VBC breakfast several years ago. Tom was
That was Navy vet Derek Sasone’s response to watching this clip Brig. Gen. Doug Satterfield talking on VBC Happy Hour on January 3. We got a lot of comments on the life lessons Doug shared from his 40-year Army career in which he rose from private to a one-star. Here are Derek’s
