[from the stabenow.com vaults, 2007] April 21 The night I had my tac epiphany I also ran into MK1 Dan Thorpe, our FOWK (Fuel Oil and Water King, still my favorite underway job title) and MK3 Barry Lawson doing one of their daily soundings. We were shifting fuel between tanks in anticipation of refueling, and…
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan Clay Jannon’s an out of work software designer in San Francisco, who after much persistence in pursuing want ads stumbles across a “Help Wanted” sign in the window of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. Now: I was pretty sure “24-hour bookstore” was a euphemism for something. It was on…
[from the stabenow.com vaults, 2/26/10, and because I just found out it was available in e] Here’s my introduction to Powers of Detection, an anthology of short stories I edited about murder in a fantasy setting. It was published by Ace in 2004, and it was a whole lot of fun. This anthology is all…
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[from the stabenow.com vaults, 2007] April 20 He started out in the Air Force as a nuclear weapons specialist. Not that much of a segue to corpsman on Munro, is it? HSC Gene “Papa Doc” Mason joined the Coast Guard in 1993. He didn’t start out wanting to be a corpsman, he was more eclectic…
[from the stabenow.com vaults, 2007] April 18 In the five and a half years since coming on line, the USCG Hitron program has interdicted over $8 billion dollars worth of illegal drugs destined for retail market in the US. There are only eight Agusta A109E helicopters in the Hitron program, and they only claim the…
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[from the stabenow.com vaults, 2007] April 17 Everyone was supposed to be back on Munro by 8am the day we left and they were. “Thank you all very much for being here on time,” the XO said at quarters on the flight deck at 8:30am, and smiled, he and the Captain both portraits of happy…
[from the stabenow.com vaults, 2007] April 19 They’re on every bulkhead in every compartment of this ship, they’re on doorways and light fixtures and valves. When we have a fire drill the affected space is identified by tac number and BM3 Tim Stamm finds it and marks it on the white lucite map of the…
[from the stabenow.com vaults, 2007] April 16 [a long time ago in a Central American port far, far away continued…] The Captain has signed the new liberty policy but has decided not to implement it, although it is understood that the crew’s behavior here will determine whether it goes into effect at the next port.…
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