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Songs of Babylon

If you hear anything at all, it’s in your head.

  • Fiction
    • The Noon to Forever (Every Day Fiction)
    • Shadows of the Night (The J.J. Outre Review)
    • Iraq Poem
    • Johnny Rocket Lives Forever on the Moon
    • Dammit, Ensign!
  • Essays
    • Resigning from the Navy
    • Seniority and Promotions to Lieutenant
    • Camp Speicher Massacre
    • The Crozier Affair
    • Tell Me I Suck
    • A Different Tack: Shipboard Mishaps and PTSD
    • The Three-Vessel Problem
    • Retrospective
    • They Fought for Their Rights
    • Retrospective (2 of… ?)
    • Navy Officer Accessions, SARBs, and the Nuke Draft
    • Retrospective 3
    • Five Reads of The Caine Mutiny
  • Flash Posts
    • FP1 – Integrity: A Sea Non-Story
    • FP2 – Still Valley
    • FP3 – The Lingering Dread of TDRL
    • FP4 – Looking Down from the Bridge
    • FP5 – When We Move On
    • FP6 – Reactions to a First Case
    • FP7 – Cowardice in Afghanistan
    • FP8 – Military Transition and Mental Health
    • FP9 – The Military’s Free Expression Problem
    • FP10 – Farewell, National Defense Service Medal
    • FP11 – Review: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023)
    • FP12 – Two Eclipses
    • FP13 – Watch Team Remus
    • FP14 – On Bertolt Brecht’s “The Interrogation of the Good”

Tag Archives: Navy

The Crozier Affair

Was he wrong?

Posted bySongs of BabylonJune 25, 2020July 13, 2023Posted inBlog Posts, Essays, NavyTags:Captain Crozier, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Crozier, Crozier Affair, Navy, Theodore Roosevelt2 Comments on The Crozier Affair

Seniority Among Ensigns and June 1st Promotions to Lieutenant

Seniority among Ensigns is like virtue among… Ensigns!

Posted bySongs of BabylonMay 26, 2020December 30, 2025Posted inBlog Posts, Essays, NavyTags:Date of Rank, Lineal number, Navy, Precedence number, Promotions, Surface Warfare Officer, SWO2 Comments on Seniority Among Ensigns and June 1st Promotions to Lieutenant

How I resigned from the Navy (or tried to, anyway), and you can too!

Nothing lasts forever. Some things don’t even last twenty years…

Posted bySongs of BabylonMay 13, 2020January 3, 2023Posted inBlog Posts, Essays, NavyTags:Navy, RAD, Resign, Resignation, Surface Warfare Officer, SWO3 Comments on How I resigned from the Navy (or tried to, anyway), and you can too!

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