{"id":7973,"date":"2026-01-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2025-12-29T15:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:02:46","slug":"207-goodbye-2025-hello-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/207-goodbye-2025-hello-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"#207\u2014Goodbye 2025, Hello 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another year around the sun \u2026 another year of blog posts. Where does the time go? As we used to say back in my day, \u201cIt\u2019s Not Just a Job \u2026 It\u2019s An Adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the five most popular \u201c<strong>A Veteran\u2019s Journey<\/strong>\u201d blog posts of 2025:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/184-navy-lingo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#184 \u2013 Navy Lingo<\/a> &#8211; A few choice &#8220;words&#8221; for veterans. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/westpac-75-coming-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#190 \u2013 Westpac \u201975: Coming Home<\/a> &#8211; Cruising home after a 6-month deployment. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/186-westpac-75-flight-ops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#186 \u2013 Westpac \u201975: Flight Ops<\/a> &#8211; What it&#8217;s like to be on the flight deck during flight ops. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/192-you-wont-hear-these-terms-in-other-branches-of-the-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#192 \u2013 You Won\u2019t Hear These Terms in Other Branches of Service<\/a> &#8211; Army, Marines, Air Force have nothing on us sailors. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/196-your-mission-should-you-decide-to-accept-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#196 \u2013 Your Mission, Should You Decide to Accept It<\/a> &#8211; memories&#8230; share them with your family. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To follow up, here are the five most popular blog posts <em>of all time<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/126-world-war-ii-the-bloody-moselle-river-crossing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#126 \u2013 World War II: The Bloody Moselle River Crossing<\/a> &#8211; My dad fought with the 80th Infantry Division in Europe. The September 1944 Moselle River crossing was brutal. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/158-my-favorite-navy-jets-70s-version\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#158 \u2013 My Favorite Navy Jets (\u201870s version)<\/a> &#8211; We all have our favorites, right? <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/184-navy-lingo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#184 \u2013 Navy Lingo<\/a> &#8211; A few choice &#8220;words&#8221; for veterans. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/westpac-75-coming-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#190 \u2013 Westpac \u201975: Coming Home<\/a> &#8211; Cruising home after a 6-month deployment. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/76-set-the-mail-buoy-watch-fng-tasks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#76 \u2013 Set the Mail Buoy Watch \u2026 FNG Tasks<\/a> &#8211; All military branches know what an FNG is; the Navy has a few &#8220;special&#8221; tasks for FNGs. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, like many other bloggers on this planet, some posts hit closer to home than others. <em>Heres\u2019 my favorite <\/em>five blog posts for 2025 (yes, there is some overlap).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/198-the-weight-we-carry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#198 \u2013 The Weight We Carry<\/a> &#8211; some veterans carry a mental (and physical) weight after leaving the service. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Westpac &#8217;75 Cruise Series &#8211; a series of blogs about going on an overseas cruise. \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/185-westpac-75\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#185-Westpac &#8217;75<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/186-westpac-75-flight-ops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#186-Westpac &#8217;75: Flight Ops<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/187-westpac-75-transit-to-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#187-Westpac &#8217;75: Transit to PI<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/188-westpac-75-pi-liberty-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#188-Westpac &#8217;75: PI Liberty<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/189-westpac-75-its-not-just-a-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#189-Westpac &#8217;75: It&#8217;s Not Just a Job&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/westpac-75-coming-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#190-Westpac &#8217;75: Coming Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/205-its-become-an-obsession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#205 \u2013 It\u2019s Become an Obsession \u2026<\/a> &#8211; local Vietnam War soldiers who were KIA. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/197-what-the-hell-did-i-get-myself-into\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#197 \u2013 What the Hell Did I Get Myself Into?<\/a> &#8211; signing on the dotted line was easy. Then, came the rest of the time in the Navy. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/196-your-mission-should-you-decide-to-accept-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#196 \u2013 Your Mission, Should You Decide to Accept It<\/a> &#8211; memories&#8230; share them with your family. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy New Year from all of us at <strong>A Veteran\u2019s Journey<\/strong>. See you in 2026!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until we meet again,<br>Andy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blog post image: A Navy F\/A-18E Super Hornet takes off from the flight deck of the <em>USS Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/em> (CVN-69) in the Atlantic Ocean. Photo credit: Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Cameron Pinske.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AZAIII-2022.jpg?resize=400%2C565&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Andy Adkins (2022)\" class=\"wp-image-7282\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7079565253463868;width:76px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AZAIII-2022.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AZAIII-2022.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-afeae895f267dc8a391350b700f06f3b wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000030\">Andy Adkins is a&nbsp;<strong>US Navy veteran<\/strong>&nbsp;(\u201973-77) and the author of several books (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azadkinsiii.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.azadkinsiii.com<\/a>), many of which are free downloads (PDF, eBook format).&nbsp;He is currently retired and lives in Gainesville, Florida with his wife and life-long soulmate, Becky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year around the sun \u2026 another year of blog posts. 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