Captain Jim's Green Flash Sightings

USS Kingfish SS 234 - Torpedo’s Mate Second Class James A. Hooper, Jr. My dad served on Kingfish during the early part of WW 2. He enlisted, as did hundreds of thousands of young Americans, in January 1942. He volunteered for the submarine force, they only took volunteers, and finished basic submarine school and training as a Torpedo’s Mate in New London, Connecticut and was assigned to USS Kingfish SS 234 homeported in Pearl Harbor. He completed two wartime patrols before being selected for the V-12 Officer Training Program and returned to the US to go through training and commissioning in Plattsburg, New York. He was commissioned in 1943 and went to Antisubmarine Warfare Officer training in Miami, Florida, before joining his ship USS Brown, a destroyer escort stationed in Boston, Massachusetts. He finished the war operating out of Boston escorting convoys to England and hunting German U-boats. After the defeat and surrender of Nazi Germany in April 1945, the German U-boats o...

We Americans are all upset or unsettled for one reason or another. I think the daily issues being brought up with the new administration and events in the world are the reason to be concerned and anxious.  One thing that is becoming more and more of a concern to me is that I have no confidence in anything the administration is saying. They have walked back so many things in such a short time and continue to be distracted by election voting fraud and the enemy press. I ask you can you believe anything that Trump says and then is corrected or spun by his surrogates? Spicer is not ready for prime time and Kelly Anne is just an apologist and does not really answer questions. One thing I can say about her is that she is a good hugger and she hugs with great sincerity and emphasis, at least when hugging President Trump. Bottom line Trump just makes excuses and blames leaks from Intelligence and vendettas from media. The real issue is the people he has working for him and his inability ...