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July 9

No More Running

Bible in a Year : Job 38–40; Acts 16:1–21

In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and you listened to my cry. Jonah 2:2 On July 18, 1983, a US Air Force captain disappeared from Albuquerque, New Mexico, without a trace. Thirty-five years later, authorities found him in California. The New York Times reports that, “depressed about his job,” he’d simply run away.

Thirty-five years on the run! Half a lifetime spent looking over his shoulder! I have to imagine that anxiety and paranoia were this man’s constant companions.

But I have to admit, I also know a bit about being “on the run.” No, I’ve never abruptly fled something in my life . . . physically. But at times I know there’s something God wants me to do, something I need to face or confess. I don’t want to do it. And so, in my own way, I run too.

The prophet Jonah is infamous for literally running from God’s assignment to preach to the city of Nineveh (see Jonah 1:1–3). But, of course, he couldn’t outrun God. You’ve probably heard what happened (vv. 4,17): A storm. A fish. A swallowing. And, in the belly of the beast, a reckoning, in which Jonah faced what he’d done and cried to God for help (2:2).

Jonah wasn’t a perfect prophet. But I take comfort in his remarkable story, because, even despite Jonah’s stubbornness, God never let go of him. The Lord still answered the man’s desperate prayer, graciously restoring His reluctant servant (v. 2)—just as He does with us.

By Adam Holz

Reflect & Pray

What, if anything, have you tried to run away from in your life? How can you grow in bringing to God the pressures that overwhelm you?

[mountainlion]

UP Para scope. Where are we?

Time for toons and coffee.

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

THANK YOU
for your service!

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

((((HUGS))))

[luvie]

Thanks for a great...er...
...undersea trip!!

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good Tuesday morning and ((HUGS)) to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country and thanks Lauren for this morning's thread.

How's everyone doing this morning?

[right way right]

Hey, my dad worked at Keyport for his whole career life.
Civil service worked on secret squirrel torpedo parts.
Never talked about it.
What was it he said, Something like....
“What you see here does not leave here.”
He could only talk about the sign, and he said that he might still have to kill me because, he had talked about the sign.

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, Everyone.

Good morning to our

Military, our Allies, and their families.

Thank you, Lauren/Ma, for preparing the
Canteen for today’s activities

Just a fly-by post to say hello.

Having hubby home is throwing me off.
We're still dealing with job hunting/unemployment/health insurance.

Some areas in Maryland has had flooding;
not sure about Virginia.
And, still, after years of being told not to,
people drive through standing/rushing water and get stranded. Tsk.

Please stay.
Grab a cup of joe or tasty tea.
Chat with the military and/or the family they left behind.

The FR Canteen is

Come on in and sit for a while.
There's always plenty of coffee, tea,
pancakes, conversation,
silliness,
and plain old BS

REMEMBER THEM ~ DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT

Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allied military and the family members of the above Honoring those who have served before.

[Vineyard]

From the info post - “NAVSEA has two warfare centers: Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC).”

NUWC has two centers - Division Newport and Division Keyport. Division Newport (Rhode Island) - is regarded by some of the Keyport personnel (and I was one -from 1986 to 2000) - as ‘The Borg’. Newport believes it is the real center for technical work, and has made efforts to remove any specialty/technical work from Keyport and move it back to Newport.

Newport has its own reputation regarding torpedo development...one that is not well known, and is not favorable to Newport. Newport does design and testing of torpedoes, and keeps the results ‘closely held’....and has hid problems with a shroud of secrecy. This has led to significant problems. During WWII - the initial submarine efforts in the Pacific against the Japanese were hampered by defective torpedoes. Torpedoes ran too deep (below setting) - and their exploders (magnetic or contact) were severely deficient. Newport typically blamed problems on ‘operator error’ - and minimized reports where submarines got close to a target, fired a spread of torpedoes -and heard on sonar the impact of a torpedo on the side of a target, yet the torpedo contact exploder failed to cause the warhead to detonate. Oops.

Moving forward past WWII - other torpedo problems occurred, and the Newport management kept avoiding responsibility by hiding results or shifting blame. In the book “Blind Man’s Bluff” by Sherry Sonntag, the discussion of the loss of the USS Scorpion included the possibility of a torpedo design deficiency being the root of the problem. The design deficiency was identified by Keyport’s (then - Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering Station - NUWES) Quality Assurance (QA) Division - but Newport ignored reports. (A copy of a memo from NUWES is in one of the Appendices to the book.)

Keyport has been downsized...and Newport tries to move work away from Keyport, but the people at Keyport have found new projects and new ‘customers’ to bring work to Keyport. Lots of very good people there, and they do lots of innovative work!