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Good Wednesday morning August 5, 2026 .We are overcast and cool again this
morning .. It is supposed to start clearing around 10 .and heating up again
this morning to 86 by 2 and then start dropping off from there.
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Regards,
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This day in Naval and Marine Corps History (thanks to NHHC)
Here is a link to the NHHC website: https://www.history.navy.mil/. Go here
to see the director's corner for all 100 H-Grams (99 is still in work)
August 5
1832 USS Potomac, becomes the first U.S. Navy ship to entertain royalty,
King and Queen of Sandwich Islands
1858 The last bit of cable is laid by USS Niagara and British ship Agamemnon
to complete the first trans-Atlantic cable. Niagara's boats carried the end
of the cable ashore at Brills Mouth Island, Newfoundland, and the same day
Agamemnon landed her end of the cable at England. The first message flashed
across August 16 when Queen Victoria sent a cable to President James
Buchanan.
1864 Rear Adm. David G. Farragut successfully navigates through a deadly
torpedo field Confederates lay in order to block the channel into Mobile
Bay. During the battle, Farragut gives his famous quote, Damn the Torpedoes,
Full speed ahead!
1882 The first US Navy steel warships (USS Atlanta, USS Boston, USS Chicago
and USS Dolphin), are authorized by Congress, beginning the New Navy.
Subsequently known as the A, B, C, D ships, they are built at Chester, Pa.
USS Dolphin is commissioned first in 1885, followed by USS Atlanta (1886),
USS Boston (1887), and USS Chicago (1889).
1921 The Yangtze River Patrol Force is established as a command under the
Asiatic Fleet. The force serves in the area until December 1941 when the
force is disestablished with many of the ships captured, or scuttled, and
the crews taken prisoner by the Japanese.
1944 USS Barbel (SS 316) sinks Japanese merchant passenger-cargo ship,
Miyako Maru, off Tokuno Jima while USS Cero (SS 225) attacks a Japanese
convoy off Minanao and sinks oiler, Tsurumi, in Davao Gulf. Also on this
date, PBY aircraft sinks small Japanese cargo vessel No.2, Eiko Maru, off
Taoelahat.
1990 Operation Sharp Edge begins, with the Navy and Marines evacuating U.S.
citizens and foreign nationals from Liberia during its civil war.
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This Day in World History
5 August
1391 Castilian sailors in Barcelona, Spain set fire to a Jewish ghetto,
killing 100 people and setting off four days of violence against Jews.
1762 Russia, Prussia and Austria sign a treaty agreeing on the partition of
Poland.
1763 Colonel Henry Bouquet decisively defeats the Indians at the Battle of
Bushy Run in Pennsylvania during Pontiac's rebellion.
1815 A peace treaty with Tripoli--which follows treaties with Algeria and
Tunis--brings an end to the Barbary Wars.
1858 The first transatlantic cable is completed.
1861 Congress adopts the nation's first income tax to finance the Civil War.
1864 The Union Navy captures Mobile Bay in Alabama.
1892 Harriet Tubman receives a pension from Congress for her work as a
nurse, spy and scout during the Civil War.
1914 The first electric traffic signal lights are installed in Cleveland,
Ohio.
1914 The British Expeditionary Force mobilizes for World War I.
1915 The Austro-German Army takes Warsaw, in present-day Poland, on the
Eastern Front.
1916 The British navy defeats the Ottomans at the naval battle off Port
Said, Egypt.
1921Mustafa Kemal is appointed virtual ruler of the Ottoman Empire.
1941 The German army completes taking 410,000 Russian prisoners in the Uman
and Smolensk pockets in the Soviet Union.
1951 The United Nations Command suspends armistice talks with the North
Koreans when armed troops are spotted in neutral areas.
1962 Actress Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances.
1964 President Lyndon Johnson begins bombing North Vietnam in retaliation
for the Gulf of Tonkin incident and asks Congress to go to war against North
Vietnam.
1974 President Richard Nixon admits he ordered a cover-up for political as
well as national security reasons
1981 President Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers.
1992 Four police officers are indicted on civil rights charges in the
beating of Rodney King.
1995 Croatian forces capture the city of Knin, a Serb stronghold, during
Operation Storm.
1997 The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef,
goes on trial.
2012 A gunman in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, opens fire in a Sikh temple, killing
six before committing suicide.
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Rollingthunderremembered.com .
August 5
Thanks to Dan Heller and the Bear
Links to all content can now be found right on the homepage
http://www.rollingthunderremembered.com. If you scroll down from the banner
and featured content you will find "Today in Rolling Thunder Remembered
History" which highlights events in the Vietnam war that occurred on the
date the page is visited. Below that are links to browse or search all
content. You may search by keyword(s), date, or date range.
An item of importance is the recent incorporation of Task Force Omega
(TFO) MIA summaries. There is a link on the homepage and you can also visit
directly via https://www.rollingthunderremembered.com/task-force-omega/.
There are 60 summaries posted thus far, with about 940 to go (not a typo-TFO
has over 1,000 individual case files).
Thanks to Micro
A good write up on the longest held POW
From Vietnam Air Losses site for ..August 5.
Vietnam Air Losses Access Chris Hobson and Dave Lovelady's work at:
https://www.VietnamAirLosses.com.
MOAA - Wall of Faces Now Includes Photos of All Service members Killed in
the Vietnam War
(This site was sent by a friend . The site works, find anyone you knew in
"search" feature. https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/ )
articles/wall-of-faces-now-includes-photos-of-all-servicemembers-killed-in-t
he-vietnam-war/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TMNsend&
utm_content=Y84UVhi4Z1MAMHJh1eJHNA==+MD+AFHRM+1+Ret+L+NC
By: Kipp Hanley
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This is a list of all Helicopter Pilots Who Died in the Vietnam War . Listed
by last name and has other info https://www.vhpa.org/KIA/KIAINDEX.HTM
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. Please read this one about Col. Robert L Scott thanks to Barrett and his
exceptional writing skills Be sure to open the link below .
I read all his books.. Skip
COLONEL ROBERT LEE SCOTT, Jr., did!!! The ace was flying P-40 Warhawks with
the "Flying Tigers" in 1942. On his first mission as group commander he
tangled with a Japanese fighter and took several hits. Wounded in the
cockpit he managed to get his damaged P-40 back to base. He became the
patient of the famous missionary DR. FRED PRUDENCE MANGET. Great aviation
writer BARRETT TILLMAN tells the story. "With no anesthetic, Scott endured
the pain as the medical missionary extracted the (steel) splinters (from
Scott's back). During the prolonged process, Manget's Chinese aide asked
Scott, 'Colonel, you fly plane, shoot guns, talk radio, all time flight
barbarian. You do all these things alone?' Biting down the pain, Scott
snapped back, 'Where in hell would anybody else sit? No, I don't need any
help. I'm a fighter pilot!'.
"Dr. Manget interrupted his alcohol swabbing to confront his patient, eye to
eye. 'You're wrong there, son,' he said softly. 'You are never alone up
there. Not with all the things you came through. You have the greatest
copilot in the world even if there is just room for one in that fighter
ship.' When he sat up, Scott reeled figuratively and literally. He
visualized illuminated figures dancing on a black velvet screen. They
resolved themselves into a phrase: 'God is my copilot.'."
I URGE YOU ALL TO READ the following about Robert L Scott I think you will
find it entertaining
orynet.com/col-robert-l-scott-gods-pilot.htm
orynet.com/col-robert-
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. Thanks to Mac
Subject: Contemporary Conundrum
As a man or woman, I used to think I was pretty much just a regular person,
but I was born white, into a two-parent household which now, whether I like
it or not, makes me privileged, a racist, and responsible for slavery.
I am a fiscal and moral conservative, which by today's standards, makes me a
fascist because I plan, budget, and support myself.
I went to High School, and have always held a job. But I now find out that I
am not here because I earned it, but because I was "advantaged".
I am heterosexual, which according to gay folks, now makes me a homophobe.
I am not a Muslim, which now labels me as an infidel.
I am older than 70, making me a useless parasite who doesn't understand
Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat.
I think and I reason, and I doubt much of what the 'main stream' media tells
me, which makes me a Right-wing conspiracy nut.
I am proud of my heritage and our inclusive American culture, making me a
xenophobe.
I believe in hard work, fair play, and fair compensation according teach
individual's merits, which today makes me an anti-socialist.
I believe our system guarantees freedom of effort - not freedom of outcome
or subsidies which must make me a borderline sociopath.
I believe in the defense and protection of the United States for and by all
citizens, now making me a militant.
I am proud of our flag, what it stands for, and the many who died to let it
fly, so I stand during our National Anthem - so I must be a racist.
Please help me come to terms with the new me because I'm just not sure who I
am anymore !
Funny - it all took place over the last 7 or 8 years! If all this nonsense
wasn't enough to deal with, now I don't even know which restroom to use...
and these days I gotta go more frequently.
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Thanks to History Facts
Only two people have received the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice.
A longside the Congressional Gold Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom
is the highest civilian award in America. An average of roughly 10 awards
per year have been bestowed since the honor was first created by John F.
Kennedy in 1963 (though some presidents award more medals than others), and
only two people have received more than one: Ellsworth Bunker and Colin
Powell. The former, a career diplomat who served six different U.S.
presidents as the ambassador to Argentina, Italy, India, and South Vietnam,
received his in 1963 and 1967, both of them with distinction - an additional
level of veneration reserved for approximately 8% of recipients.
Powell, meanwhile, earned his awards in 1991 and 1993, the second with
distinction. He received the first from George H.W. Bush and the second from
Bill Clinton, both of whom he served under as chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff; he had previously been Ronald Reagan's national security adviser
and later became secretary of state for George W. Bush. While presenting
Powell with his first medal at the end of the Gulf War, the elder President
Bush said, "Your commitment and good counsel, your deep compassion for every
one of the thousands of men and women under your command, will always be
remembered."
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From the archives
Hiroshima 1945: Death and deliverance
By Henry Getley-
August 4, 2025
EIGHTY years ago this week, the US destroyed Hiroshima with an atomic bomb.
And ever since that horrific, world-changing moment, the debate over whether
it was justifiable to use the weapon has been ceaseless. The Japanese port
city was attacked on August 6, 1945, then on August 9 a second American
nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, 200 miles to the west. Six days later
Japan surrendered to the Allies, ending the Second World War.
With today's increasingly volatile international situation, the issue of the
atomic bombings has become more controversial and divisive than ever, with
words such as 'war crime' routinely - and naively - bandied about. Whatever
your view, one thing is certain: Japan's sudden forced capitulation in 1945
saved many Allied lives which otherwise would have been sacrificed had the
battle against Emperor Hirohito's merciless warriors continued. It also
meant that prisoners of war and civilians in conquered territories were
rescued from an unspeakably cruel regime of murder, torture, starvation and
slavery.
The bombing of Hiroshima resulted in the deaths of around 140,000 people by
the end of 1945, while some 70,000 were killed by the Nagasaki attack.
However, had the bombs not been used, history might have taken an even
bloodier turn. For in the spring of 1945, after the surrender of Germany,
planning was under way for Operation Downfall, a gigantic American-led
seaborne invasion of Kyushu and Honshu, two of Japan's home islands, aimed
at eventually taking Tokyo.
Downfall would have been the largest amphibious assault in history, easily
dwarfing the D-Day landings in Normandy in June 1944, and one of the largest
military operations ever undertaken. The Americans planned to launch it in
two phases, attacking Kyushu in November 1945 followed by a much bigger
invasion of Honshu, where Tokyo is located, in March 1946.
The forces to be deployed were staggering in scale. The invasion of Kyushu,
codenamed Operation Olympic, would initially see 650,000 US soldiers and
Marines landing on a 250-mile front. Four months later, the attack on Honshu
- codenamed Coronet - would be launched, with up to a million troops hurled
into the fray. Naval forces for both operations would include 1,200
warships, 4,000 landing craft and more than 2,000 troopships and ancillary
vessels. In the skies, 14,000 aircraft would support the landings.
The Coronet operation would include a British Commonwealth corps of three
army divisions - one each from Britain, Canada and Australia / New Zealand.
This force, forming part of an amphibious reserve, had been grudgingly
included by Downfall's supreme commander General Douglas MacArthur, who also
sanctioned the participation of the Royal Navy's Pacific Fleet and an RAF
bomber contingent.
Even when faced with Downfall's stupendously powerful juggernaut, the
Japanese were not expected to budge. Instead, it was thought they would
mount a fanatical resistance, as they had done earlier in 1945 on Okinawa,
where in a three-month battle they fought to the death for every inch of the
island. On Kyushu and Honshu, some three million of Hirohito's troops were
estimated to be dug in ready to repel the invaders, and civilians were also
expected to join the fighting.
It meant that Allied casualties would inevitably be horrific. Estimates of
the blood price that would have to be paid ranged from 250,000 to one
million. If the fighting dragged on, it was feared casualties could climb
into the multi-millions. The Japanese, both military and civilian, would
also die in unimaginable numbers. It was a grim prospect, but to Allied
chiefs there seemed no alternative as the Japanese refused to capitulate
despite their empire crumbling around them.
On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was successfully tested in the
desert of New Mexico as part of the secret Manhattan Project. On July 25,
after Japan rejected the Potsdam Declaration demanding its unconditional
surrender, US President Harry Truman gave the go-ahead for the bomb to be
used.
On August 15, six days after Nagasaki was destroyed, Hirohito announced
Japan's surrender with history's greatest understatement, saying: 'The war
situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.' Downfall was
cancelled and the surrender, overseen by MacArthur, was formally signed
aboard the US battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, ending the
Second World War one day short of six years after it began.
So was using the atomic bombs justified? Some critics claim they were an
unnecessary overkill because Japan, blockaded and starving, would have
surrendered sooner rather than later, particularly after its hopes were
dashed of getting the Soviets to broker a peace deal. Instead, the Kremlin
declared war on Japan on August 8 - two days after Hiroshima and one day
before Nagasaki - and invaded Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
Various supposed reasons are cited for Truman giving the go-ahead for the
bombs. It is claimed his main motive was to deter the Soviets from
expansionism in Europe by demonstrating the dreadful new weapon. Or else it
is said the bombs were detonated because scientists and generals wanted to
see if they worked and what their effects would be.
There may well have been such considerations by the president and his
advisers in making the decision. But the main purpose of the bombs at that
time was straightforward - to stop further Allied lives being thrown away
against the barbaric forces of Japan. By August 1945, more than 100,000
American military personnel and up to 30,000 British servicemen had already
died fighting Hirohito's pitiless fighters, while Chinese military and
civilian deaths at Japanese hands numbered in the millions.
In the 1870s, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck warned about avoiding
costly military entanglements, saying: 'The Balkans are not worth the bones
of a single Pomeranian grenadier.' In the summer of 1945, Japan was not
worth the bones of even one more Allied soldier, sailor or airman. Basic
military logic dictated that if there was a means of ending the war quickly
and thus saving lives, it should be taken - and the atomic bombs provided
that means. On that basis alone, it was surely right to use them.
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Socialist Monster Awakens
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
. August 1, 2026
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A man in a suit speaks into a microphone at a podium, gesturing with his
hands.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on July 27, 2026, in New York City.
(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Who caused unaffordability?
Fear about "affordability" supposedly fueled the new, strident socialism.
Yet annual inflation during former President Joe Biden's four years averaged
almost 5%. It peaked at over 9%, while prices for some key staples rose by
30% over his tenure-all to silence from the Left. (By contrast, annual
inflation during Trump's first term averaged 1.9%. In his second term, it
averaged 2.6% in 2025-and may rise to 4.5% in 2026, given the war with
Iran.)
The socialists were not just quiet during Biden's four years; they were
themselves responsible for the rampant Biden inflation. They had implemented
an inflationary de facto third Obama term, ramming through the most radical
and costly agenda in decades under the veneer of that cognitively challenged
waxen effigy, good ol' Joe Biden from Scranton.
So the current Jacobin takeover of the Democratic Party was not sparked by
concerns about "affordability"-or at least not if by "affordability" we mean
the middle-class struggle to buy a house, a car, or groceries.
Instead, the socialist moment was merely the logical culmination of years of
boutique radicalism within the Democrat aristocracy-the ossified leadership
of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Hakeem
Jeffries, along with the aging Black Caucus, the incoherent Squad, the DEI
crowd, the open-border zealots, and the radical greens.
The grandees of the party also normalized the crazy mobs of BLM and Antifa
long ago.
Democrats as Dr. Frankenstein
Almost every weaponized scam and national hysteria in the last two decades
was amplified and spread by mainstream Democrats: the farcical claim that
the Wuhan-lab-hatched COVID-19 virus came from pangolins or bats; the Duke
Lacrosse and Covington Kids hoaxes; the Jussie Smollett scam, the "Hands up,
don't shoot" lie; the deification of George Floyd, often portrayed with
wings and a halo; Fauxcahontas Liz Warren, touted as the first Native
American Harvard law professor (thanks to her grandfather's high
cheekbones); the radical diminution of in-person voting; the canonization of
Trayvon Martin and Karmelo Anthony as blameless model children; and the
mythology of a 1619 national founding.
Who allowed not just one, two, three, or four million border-jumpers into
the country, but over ten million-illegal, unvetted, viewed as an assumed
new political constituency, and instantaneously dependent on the welfare
state?
Who gave us three, four, five, or even more genders and biological males
showering with teenage girls or female prisoners? Who sloganeered about
"defund the police" and "no cash bail"?
All this was about as radical as it gets.
The Democrat establishment's unhinged hatred of Donald Trump mainstreamed
radicalism even further and helped birth the socialist-cum-communist
Frankensteinian monster that is now devouring its mad-scientist creators.
"By any means necessary" was a Democrat mantra over a decade ago. By 2016,
the Democrat leadership and the Clinton campaign were hatching the
Steele-dossier farce to warp an election.
In 2020, the Democrat deep state-Antony Blinken, Mike Morell, John Brennan,
James Clapper, Leon Panetta, and others-had fabricated the farcical claim
that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, a hoax that, this
time around, likely did alter an election.
The Democrat establishment, working with its appendages in Silicon Valley,
had censored news attesting to the authenticity of Hunter's embarrassing
laptop contents. (For an account of what the establishment was doing in
2020, read Molly Ball's Time essay describing the "conspiracies" and
"cabals" that worked behind the scenes to change voting rules and ensure a
Biden victory through mail-in, no-ID balloting.)
Then came four unhinged years of lawfare: special counsel Jack Smith's
seizure of the communications of senators and congressmen, the Mar-a-Lago
raid on Trump's home, the effort to de-ballot Trump, and the five civil and
criminal circuses that resulted in half a billion dollars in fines.
All those perversions of the legal system were accompanied by a host of
mainstream Democrats, retired generals, politicos, and athletes shouting
that Trump was a Nazi, a fascist, a Mussolini, a traitor, or a Putin asset.
Meanwhile, a host of loudmouth actors, Democrat activists, and celebrities
competed with each other about how best to kill him-whether by shooting,
stabbing, poisoning, beheading, burning him alive, or blowing him up.
Trump supporters were libeled over the years by establishment Democrats as
irredeemables, deplorables, chumps, dregs, and garbage.
Even an establishment figure like Rosa Brooks, a former Obama-appointed
Pentagon lawyer, called for a military coup in Foreign Policy just 10 days
after Trump first took office in 2017.
Three would-be assassins got close enough to killing Trump to draw return
fire from the Secret Service-near-death encounters that elicited both
unapologetic applause for the attempts and lamentations that the shooters
had failed from the now truly deranged social-media Left. Murderers
themselves were normalized as leftist icons, as seen in the canonization of
Luigi Mangione and the glee that followed in many Democrat social media
circles after the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Yet did the establishment Democrat apparat calm these waters? Or did it set
them boiling?
It was Chuck Schumer who threatened conservative Supreme Court justices,
screaming in front of a mob outside the court's doors, "I want to tell you,
Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and
you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with
these awful decisions." Schumer sounded more like a pink-haired
anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement street protester than a U.S.
senator.
No surprise, then, that two years later a left-wing would-be assassin turned
up at Kavanaugh's home, along with crowds of enthusiastic protestors.
Does anyone recall Maxine Waters urging the public to bird-dog Trump
administration officials and harass them whenever they were seen in public?
"If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department
store, at a gasoline station, you get out, and you create a crowd, and you
push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."
Does anyone also remember Nancy Pelosi, then-Democrat House Minority leader,
greenlighting "uprisings" over ICE deportations? "I just don't know why
there aren't uprisings all over the country. Maybe there will be." So spoke
the radical owner of two mansions, who entered Congress with little net
worth and will leave it worth over $100 million. A Tip O'Neill she wasn't.
Then there was soon-to-be Vice President Kamala Harris egging on the George
Floyd demonstrations, which, weeks earlier, had already turned violent and
indeed deadly (despite what the "fact-checkers" asserted):
"This is a movement, I'm telling you. They're not going to stop. And
everyone beware, because they're not going to stop. They're not going to
stop before Election Day in November, and they're not going to stop after
Election Day. And that should be-everyone should take note of that, on both
levels, that they're not going to let up, and they should not, and we should
not."
After four months of rioting in 2020-which left 25 people dead and 1,500 law
enforcement officers injured, inflicted $2 billion in damage, and saw a
police precinct, a federal courthouse, and an iconic church set ablaze-who
gave the perpetrators a pass, with 14,000 arrests followed by few
convictions and fewer jailings?
What happened during the violence against ICE in 2025-26? Did the Democrat
apparat at least pretend to deplore the violence, or did it instead egg it
on?
And who, as sore losers in 2016 and 2024, normalized the idea of dismantling
the constitutional order-first by calling for the abolition of the Electoral
College and later by planning to pack the court, end the filibuster, and
admit two new left-wing states?
The Frankenstein Monster Awakens
So the socialists and communists did not really hijack the party. Rather,
these youthful radicals were spawned and nurtured by aged Democrats. They
became irate over their impotence and loss of influence-and simply upgraded
the methods and message of their elders.
The upper-middle-class Mamdanis, Pikers, and AOCs did not storm the party
parapets but were invited in by a party that had already radicalized
itself-amid its hatred of Trump, its growing estrangement from the majority
of the American people, and its fury at becoming increasingly powerless
without the White House, Congress, or the Supreme Court.
Socialists did not lower the bar for extremism; establishment Democrats had
already destroyed that standard altogether.
Given all that, the Democratic Socialists of America scarcely had to be
invented.
After a decade of establishment Democrats destroying norms and traditions,
deliberately dividing us by race, seeking to eliminate life-giving fossil
fuels, and trying to implement dangerous crackpot ideas like critical race
theory, critical legal theory, no cash bail, and defunding the police, the
only change is that the now-electrified socialist monsters have awakened.
They have mocked their stagnant creators, reenergized the old messages, and
simply sought to replace the messengers.
Gone or going soon were the old white people like Pelosi and Schumer-despite
their pathetic efforts to appease the Jacobins. In their place arose a
cohort of upper-middle-class, degreed but otherwise poorly educated white
urbanites, furious that their empty university certificates, student debt,
inflated sense of self, and precious titles and jobs-but low salaries-had
not delivered the affluent lifestyles enjoyed by lawyers, doctors,
stockbrokers, and other professionals in their urban circles who had real
jobs.
The downwardly mobile whites who formed 85% of the official ranks of the
Democratic Socialists of America were joined by first- and second-generation
immigrants, many from failed socialist states.
These were ingrates who, once safe and prospering in America, learned that
boutique radicalism and identity chauvinism won cultural acceptance and
conferred DEI leverage in their blue-state urban circles-and so sought to
dismantle the very host nation that had saved them.
For both groups, anger was fed by envy of others with more stuff and by
furor at a Middle America that plowed ahead, ignoring both their supposed
talents and their hyped plight. And the Democratic Party provided the
radical model-which, in their youthful ignorance, the new socialists pledged
to enhance and exceed.
No longer, they thought, would hardcore leftists have to hide their agendas
for fear of losing elections. In their folly, they attributed Harris's 2024
implosion not to her clumsy efforts to disown and disguise her radical past
(including the most left-wing voting record in the Senate), but to her not
being left-wing enough.
In other words, a milquetoast socialist had lost in 2024 not because she was
too radical for America, but because she was not socialist-or indeed,
communist-enough.
The crazed new socialists bragged that they could win by loudly and brazenly
broadcasting the old agendas: open borders, mass amnesties, defunding the
police, ending fossil fuels, attacking-and now seeking to destroy-the Senate
and Supreme Court, and scapegoating whites and white "privilege." To this
old mainstream Democrat farrago, they added one new element: openly
embracing anti-Zionism and indeed antisemitism.
America will soon see how this insanity works out.
We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be
construed as representing the views of the Daily Signal.
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Thanks to Brett
August 3, 2026
Azerbaijan: Very Small, Very Significant
By: George Friedman
Azerbaijan is a small country in the South Caucasus, a region that was part
of the Soviet Union until most of its constituent parts became independent
in 1991.
After Vladimir Putin came to power, Russia tried to retake the region in
2008, first by invading Georgia. The invasion failed, and the Caucasus was
left independent of Moscow.
Within the region, Azerbaijan and Armenia had hostile relations for decades
over a region called Nagorno-Karabakh. In 2023, Azerbaijan ultimately won
the confrontation with support from Turkey.
Azerbaijan is an oil and gas producer that has used its wealth to create an
effective military, so the conflict's resolution has allowed it to operate
on a much bigger and more important stage. Every nation that borders
Azerbaijan, including Russia to the north, Iran to the south and Turkey to
the west, with which it has a small border - and indeed, many nations that
do not - have interests in dominating or working with Azerbaijan, and the
government in Baku has been able to influence events in its broader region.
As for foreign policy, Azerbaijan has extremely close ties to Turkey. Though
it has historically maintained pragmatic ties with Russia, its relationship
with Moscow is now strained. Azerbaijan has criticized Moscow for the war in
Ukraine, but, tellingly, Russia's response was measured because it did not
want to alienate the country. This owes in part to U.S. efforts in recent
years to develop a much closer and cooperative relationship with Azerbaijan.
Washington's strategy has been to gain a foothold in places like the South
Caucasus that have traditionally been within Russia's sphere of influence.
Efforts toward that end include supporting a new transportation corridor
from Asia to Europe that largely bypasses Russia. Until the Nagorno-Karabakh
war ended, the South Caucasus had been a geographic bottleneck. But in
August, the U.S. mediated an agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a key
part of which was a stipulation to build the "Trump Route for International
Peace and Prosperity," a connector road running from Azerbaijan to its
enclave of Nakhchivan along the border with Iran that will, in turn, connect
to Turkey and Europe. Unsurprisingly, China is also trying to enhance ties
with Azerbaijan, which Baku is certainly open to.
Iran - and, specifically, its border with Azerbaijan - is crucial here.
Azeris are the predominant ethnic group in Azerbaijan, comprising around 95
percent of the population. They are also Iran's third-largest ethnic group,
comprising roughly a quarter of its population. Baku, meanwhile, has had
close and friendly relations with Israel, and has been critical in
developing Azerbaijan's military after it gained its independence from the
Soviet Union.
Given the current geopolitical conditions with the U.S. and Israel fighting
a war with Iran, Azerbaijan has become an important player. It's unclear
whether Baku is exerting influence on ethnic Azeris inside Iran, but the
possibility cannot be ruled out. Because of its close ties to Israel and the
U.S., there may be opportunities there. At the same time, Azerbaijan is a
potential thorn in Russia's side. The South Caucasus is in some ways the
soft underbelly of Russia, and
Azerbaijan is the major power in the region. Russia understands as much, as
evidenced by its tepid response to Baku's criticism of the Ukraine war. And
in Turkey - an emerging power in the Middle East and the second-largest
military in NATO - Azerbaijan has a powerful ally that can potentially
bridge the gap between the U.S. and Iran.
Notably, the source of Azerbaijan's wealth - its oil and gas fields - is
based on offshore fields in the Caspian Sea, which has been the site of
recent combat in the Ukraine and Iran wars. In that sense, Baku is involved
in both conflicts, and it plays this role with a great deal of caution.
That caution is based on Azerbaijan's unique political system. Its first
president after independence from Russia was Heydar Aliyev, who had been a
very senior intelligence official in the former Soviet Union. After his
death in 2003, he was succeeded by his son, Ilham Aliyev, the current
president, who also appointed his wife, Mehriban Aliyeva, as vice president
in 2017. This system clearly works given the evolution of Azerbaijan. Having
visited the country several times in the past, I saw no significant tensions
over its old and unique system of government.
That a country with a population of a little over 10 million people should
have so much significance in the current geopolitical landscape is based to
a great extent on its geography but also on its utilization of its
geography, a combination of an obviously effective and cautious political
system and wealth and stabilty in a vast region of chaos, operating in a
very unique way as a small but significant power. What evolves from this
will be interesting and important.
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This Day in U S Military History... August 5
1864 - Rear Admiral Farragut took his squadron of 18 ships, including four
monitors, against the heavy Confederate defenses of Mobile Bay. Soon after 6
a.m., the Union ships crossed the bar and moved into the bay. The monitors
Tecumseh, Manhattan, Winnebago, and Chickasaw formed a column to starboard
of the wooden ships in order to take most of the fire from Fort Morgan,
which they had to pass at close range. The seven smaller wooden ships were
lashed to tile port side of the larger wooden screw steamers, as in the
passage of Port Hudson, Mississippi River. Shortly before 7 o'clock,
Tecumseh, Commander T.A.M. Craven, opened fire on Fort Morgan. The action
quickly became general. The Confederate squadron under Admiral Buchanan,
including the heavy ram Tennessee (6 guns) and the smaller ships Gaines (6
guns), Selma (4 guns), and Morgan (6 guns), moved out to engage the
attackers. Craven headed Tecumseh straight at Tennessee, bent on engaging
her at once. Suddenly, a terrific explosion rocked the Union monitor. She
careened violently and went down in seconds, the victim of one of the
much-feared torpedoes laid by the Confederates for harbor defense. Amidst
the confusion below decks as men struggled to escape the sinking ship,
Craven and the pilot, John Collins, arrived at the foot of the ladder
leading to the main deck. The captain stepped back. "After you, pilot," he
said. Collins was saved, but there was no afterwards for the heroic Craven.
He and some 90 officers and men of Tecumseh's crew of 114 went down with the
ship. Captain Alden called them "intrepid pioneers of that death-strewed
path." Alden, in Brooklyn, was to Tecumseh's port when the disaster
occurred; the heavy steamer stopped and began backing to clear "a row of
suspecious-looking buoys" directly under Brooklyn's bow. The entire line of
wooden vessels was drifting into confusion immediately under the guns of
Fort Morgan. Farragut, lashed in the rigging to observe the action over the
smoke billowing from the guns, acted promptly and resolutely, characteristic
of a great leader who in war must constantly meet emergencies fraught with
danger. The only course was the boldest through the torpedo field. "Damn the
torpedoes," he ordered; "full speed ahead " (Flag Lieutenant John C. Watson
later recalled that Farragut's exact words were: "Damn the torpedoes! Full
speed ahead, Drayton! Hard astarboard; ring four bells! Eight bells! Sixteen
bells!") His flagship Hartford s wept past Brooklyn into the rows of
torpedoes; the fleet followed. The torpedoes were heard bumping against the
hulls but none exploded. The Union force steamed into the bay. Hardly past
one hazard, Farragut was immediately faced with another: Buchanan attempted
to ram Hartford with Tennessee. The Union ship slipped by her slower,
clumsier antagonist, returning her fire but also being raked by the fire of
gunboat C.S.S. Selma, Lieutenant Peter U. Murphey. Wooden double-ender
U.S.S. Metacomet, Lieutenant Commander Jouett, engaged Selma and, though
sustaining considerable damage, compelled her to strike her colors shortly
after 9 a.m. Meanwhile, Tennessee also attempted in vain to ram Brooklyn.
C.S.S. Gaines, Lieu-tenant John W. Bennett, advanced to engage the Union
ships as they entered the bay, but she suffered a steering casualty early in
the action. ". . . subjected to a very heavy concentrated fire from the
Hartford, Richmond, and others at short range . . . , Bennett soon found his
command in a sinking condition. He ran her aground near Fort Morgan and
salvaged most of the ammuni-tion and small arms before she settled in two
fathoms. C.S.S. Morgan, Commander George W. Harrison, briefly engaged
Metacomet to assist Selma prior to her surrender, but as the action took
place at high speed, Morgan could not maintain her position and faced the
possibility of being cut off and captured by two Union ships. Harrison
determined to take her under Fort Morgan's guns and later he saved her by
boldly running the gauntlet of Federal ships to Mobile. Meanwhile, 300-ton
side-wheeler U.S.S. Philippi, Acting Master James T. Seaver, "wishing to be
of assistance to the fleet in case any vessels were disabled," grounded near
Fort Morgan attempting to get into the bay. The fort's heavy guns quickly
found the range and riddled Philippi with shot and shell, forcing Seaver and
his crew to abandon ship. A boat crew from C.S.S. Morgan completed her
destruction by setting her afire. The Union fleet, having steamed up into
the bay, anchored briefly. Buchanan heroically carried the fight to his
powerful opponents alone. Farragut reported: "I was not long in
comprehending his intention to be the destruction of the flagship. The
monitors and such of the wooden vessels as I thought best adapted for the
purpose were immediately ordered to attack the ram, not only with their
guns, but bows on at full speed, and then began one of the fiercest naval
combats on record." For more than an hour the titanic battle raged. Steam
sloop of war Monongahela struck Tennessee a heavy blow but succeeded only in
damaging herself. Lackawanna rammed into the Confederate ship at full speed
but, said Farragut, "the only perceptible effect on the ram was to give her
a heavy list." A shot from Manhattan's 15-inch gun, however, made a greater
impression on those on board Tennessee. Lieutenant Wharton, CSN, reported:
"The Monongahela was hardly clear of us when a hideous-looking monster came
creeping up on our Port side, whose slowly revolving turret revealed the
cavernous depths of a mammoth gun. 'Stand clear of the Port side!' I
shouted. A moment after a thundrous report shook us all, while a blast of
dense, sulpherous smoke covered our port-holes, and 440 pounds of iron,
impelled by sixty pounds of powder, admitted daylight through our side,
where, before it struck us, there had been over two feet of solid wood,
covered with five inches of solid iron. This was the only 15-inch shot that
hit us fair. It did not come through; the inside netting caught the
splinters, and there were no casualties from it. I was glad to find myself
alive after that shot." Hartford struck a glancing blow and poured a
broadside into Tennessee from a distance of ten feet Chickasaw pounded the
ram with heavy shot; steam sloops Lackawanna and Hartford had collided, but
had regained position and, with Ossipee and Monongahela, were preparing to
run down Buchanan's ship. The intrepid Confederate Admiral had been
seriously wounded and relinquished command to Commander James D. Johnston.
The rain of shells knocked out the ironclad's steering. Unable to maneuver
and taking on water, Tennessee struggled on against her overwhelmingly
superior foes despite the terrible cannonade that pounded her mercilessly.
Ultimately, Buchannan and Johnston concurred that Tennessee must surrender
to prevent loss of life to no fruitful end. At 10 o'clock a white flag was
hoisted. Farragut acknowledged the tenacity and ability with which the
Confederate seamen had fought: "During this contest with the rebel gunboats
and Tennessee . . . we lost many more men than from the fire of the
batteries of Fort Morgan
1945 - On Tinian, at about 0210 hours, seven American aircraft take off for
Japan. One of the aircraft is the specially modified B-29 Superfortress -
the Enola Gay - carrying the "Little Boy" atomic bomb and heading for
Hiroshima.
1945 - Aircraft from the US 5th and 7th Air Forces, based in Okinawa, raid
Tarumizu in the south. About 325 planes take part in the attack. Another 12
Japanese cities have leaflets dropped on them by B-29 bombers, warning of
coming raids. During the night, American bombers strike Imabari, Ube,
Mayobashi, Saga, Nishinomiya and Mikage, fulfulling the threat made by
leaflet drops.
1950 - The USS Philippine Sea arrived in Korean waters - the second carrier
to enter the war.
1950 - Major Kenneth L. Reusser was awarded a gold star in lieu of a second
Navy Cross and became the first Marine to be decorated for valor during the
Korean War.
1952 - USAF Major Robinson Risner scored his first aerial victory of the
Korean War. He later became a POW during the Vietnam War and retired as a
brigadier general.
1964 - F-8 Crusaders, A-1 Skyraiders, and A-4 Skyhawks, from the carriers
USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation stationed in the South China Sea, fly
64 sorties against North Vietnamese coastal targets as part of Operation
Pierce Arrow in retaliation for the Tonkin Gulf incidents of August 2 and 4.
The U.S. warplanes destroyed or damaged 25 North Vietnamese PT boats
(claimed by U.S. officials to be about one-half of the North Vietnamese
Navy) at bases at Hon Gai, Loc Ghao, Phuc Loi, and Quang Khe; destroyed
seven anti-aircraft installations at Vinh; and severely damaged an oil
storage depot at Phuc Loi. Two U.S. planes were shot down. One pilot,
Lieutenant j.g. (or "junior grade") Everett Alvarez, parachuted to safety,
but broke his back in the process and was taken prisoner by the North
Vietnamese. He was the first of some 600 U.S. airmen who would be captured
during the war and not released until the cease-fire agreement was signed in
1973.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
There were 100 MOH awarded this day 97 were for the battle of Mobile Bay
only a couple here
WORAM, CHARLES B.
Rank and organization: Seaman, U.S. Navy. Born: 1845, New York, N.Y.
Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 45, 31 December 1864. Citation: Served on
board the U.S.S. Oneida in the engagement at Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864.
Acting as an aid to the executive officer, Woram carried orders
intelligently and correctly, distinguishing himself by his cool courage
throughout the battle which resulted in the capture of the rebel ram
Tennessee and the damaging of Fort Morgan.
YOUNG, EDWARD B.
Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: 1835, Bergan, N.J.
Accredited to: New Jersey. G.O. No.: 59, 22 June 1865. Citation: On board
the U.S.S. Calena during the attack on enemy forts at Mobile Bay, 5 August
1864. Securely lashed to the side of the Oneida which had suffered the loss
of her steering apparatus and an explosion of her boiler from enemy fire,
the Calena aided the stricken vessel past the enemy forts to safety. Despite
heavy damage to his ship from raking enemy fire, Young performed his duties
with skill and courage throughout the action.
McDONALD, FRANKLIN M.
Rank and organization: Private, Company G, 11th U.S. Infantry Place and
date: Near Fort Griffin, Tex., 5 August 1872. Entered service at: --. Birth:
Bowling Green, Ky. Date of issue: 31 August 1872. Citation: Gallantry in
defeating Indians wlho attacked the mail.
*REESE, JAMES W.
Rank and organization. Private, U.S. Army, 26th Infantry, 1st Infantry
Division. Place and date. At Mt. Vassillio, Sicily, 5 August 1943. Entered
service at: Chester, Pa. Birth: Chester, Pa. G.O. No.: 85, 17 December 1943.
Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life.
above and beyond the call of duty in action involving actual conflict with
the enemy. When the enemy launched a counterattack which threatened the
position of his company, Pvt. Reese, as the acting squad leader of a 60-mm.
mortar squad, displaying superior leadership on his own initiative,
maneuvered his squad forward to a favorable position, from which, by
skillfully directing the fire of his weapon, he caused many casualties in
the enemy ranks, and aided materially in repulsing the counterattack. When
the enemy fire became so severe as to make his position untenable, he
ordered the other members of his squad to withdraw to a safer position, but
declined to seek safety for himself. So as to bring more effective fire upon
the enemy, Pvt. Reese, without assistance, moved his mortar to a new
position and attacked an enemy machinegun nest. He had only 3 rounds of
ammunition but secured a direct hit with his last round, completely
destroying the nest and killing the occupants. Ammunition being exhausted,
he abandoned the mortar. seized a rifle and continued to advance, moving
into an exposed position overlooking the enemy. Despite a heavy
concentration of machinegun, mortar, and artillery fire, the heaviest
experienced by his unit throughout the entire Sicilian campaign, he remained
at this position and continued to inflict casualties upon the enemy until he
was killed. His bravery, coupled with his gallant and unswerving
determination to close with the enemy, regardless of consequences and
obstacles which he faced, are a priceless inspiration to our armed forces.
*SEBILLE, LOUIS J.
Rank and organization: Major, U.S. Air Force, 67th Fighter-Bomber Squadron,
18th Fighter-Bomber Group, 5th Air Force. Place and date: Near Hanchang,
Korea, 5 August 1950. Entered service at: Chicago, Ill. Born: 21 November
1915, Harbor Beach. Mich. Citation: Maj. Sebille, distinguished himself by
conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and
beyond the call of duty. During an attack on a camouflaged area containing a
concentration of enemy troops, artillery, and armored vehicles, Maj.
Sebille's F-51 aircraft was severely damaged by antiaircraft fire. Although
fully cognizant of the short period he could remain airborne, he
deliberately ignored the possibility of survival by abandoning the aircraft
or by crash landing, and continued his attack against the enemy forces
threatening the security of friendly ground troops. In his determination to
inflict maximum damage upon the enemy, Maj. Sebille again exposed himself to
the intense fire of enemy gun batteries and dived on the target to his
death. The superior leadership, daring, and selfless devotion to duty which
he displayed in the execution of an extremely dangerous mission were an
inspiration to both his subordinates and superiors and reflect the highest
credit upon himself, the U.S. Air Force, and the armed forces of the United
Nations.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for August 5, FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT
ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE
INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
5 August
1911: Lincoln Beachey won the New York to Philadelphia race for the Gimbel
$5,000 purse in 1 hour 50 minutes 18 seconds with one stop for fuel. (24)
1922: Lt Clayton Bissell began first model airway night flight from
Washington DC to Dayton and return. (24)
1937: The XC-35, first aircraft with a pressurized cabin, made its first
performance flight at Wright Field.
1944: FIRST ATTACK AGAINST PHILIPPINES. Night raids began when the 63d
Bombardment Squadron from Fifth Air Force launched a single radar-equipped
B-24 Snooper. It conducted an ineffective attack on the Sasa airdrome, north
of Davao, Mindanao. (17
1950: KOREAN WAR/MEDAL OF HONOR. Maj Louis J. Sebille, the 67 FBS Commander,
died near Hamchang, Korea, when he crashed his severely damaged F-51 into an
enemy position. Major Sebille received the first Medal of Honor for an USAF
member in the Korean War posthumously. (16) (26) In the first SA-16 rescue
operation of the war, Captain Charles E. Shroder led a crew in saving a Navy
pilot who had crashed into the sea off the Korean coast. (28)
1951: Richard H. Johnson set a world record for single-place gliders,
covering 535.69 miles from Odessa, to Salina, Kans.
1954: A production-model B-52 flew for the first time. (12)
1964: The National Academy of Sciences set up a 10-man committee to study
sonic boom effects in the development of supersonic transports. The FAA
managed this program with support from NASA and the USAF. (5) (16) The JCS
established the Yankee Team Tanker Task Force (renamed the Foreign Legion on
3 September) with eight KC-135s at Clark AB to support combat operations in
the area. (1) SOUTHEAST ASIA FORCE DEPLOYMENTS. The USAF deployed more
squadrons of tactical fighters, bombers, and reconnaissance aircraft to
Southeast Asia. On 5 August, B-57s from Clark AB deployed to Bien Hoa AB and
additional F-100s moved to Da Nang AB. On 6 August, 18 F-105s from the 36
TFS from Yokota AB deployed to Korat RTAFB. Tactical Air Command provided
three tactical fighter squadrons, two troop carrier squadrons, and six
reconnaissance aircraft to the battle zone. (17)
1965: The 321 SMW at Grand Forks AFB accepted the first Minuteman II to
arrive in the field. (6)
1968: A 1,095-foot long STOLPORT (short takeoff and landing strip) opened at
LaGuardia Airport, N.Y.
1971: American Airlines flew the first McDonnell Douglas DC-10 flight
between Los Angeles and Chicago in 3 hours 18 minutes.
1975: The X-24B became the first lifting body to land on a concrete runway.
1983: EXERCISE AHUAS TARA II: Through 31 December, for exercises with
Honduran forces, MAC moved 6,000 passengers and 4,000 tons of cargo to
Honduras. (2)
1994: Two A-10 Thunderbolt IIs destroyed an armored vehicle near Sarajevo
after the Serbs took heavy weapons from a UN compound. The weapons were
returned. (16) (26)
1997: After a 747 Korean Airlines jetliner crashed on Guam, a C-141 from the
305 AMW at McGuire AFB flew a 31-member team of the National Transportation
Safety Board from Andrews AFB to Fairchild AFB, where they boarded a 92
AREFW KC-135 for the flight to Andersen AFB. A second C-141 from the 305 AMW
took medical equipment and seven physicians from Marine Corps Air Station
Kaneohe, Hawaii, to Guam to help treat the crash survivors, while a C-141
from the 62 AW at McChord AFB airlifted Red Cross, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, and FAA representatives from Hawaii to Guam. Additionally, a
joint Army-Air Force critical care team, consisting of two Critical Care Air
Transport Teams, each augmented by a second critical care nurse, and two
burn teams from the Brooke Army Medical Center's Institute of Surgical
Research, left for Guam on 6 August. (22)
2000: AFRC C-141s from the 452 AMW at March ARB and 445 AW at
Wright-Patterson AFB joined two active-duty C-141s from the 62 AW at McChord
AFB to move firefighters and equipment to Idaho Falls, Idaho, where they
were bused to Clear Creek, Idaho, to fight raging wildfires.Two AFRC C-130s
from the 302 AW at Peterson AFB and two ANG C-130s from the 146 AW at
Channel Islands ANG Station, Calif., dropped fire retardant on wildfires
near Los Angeles and Fresno. The 145 AW (ANG) at Charlotte, N. C., and the
153 AW (ANG) at Cheyenne, Wyo., flew sorties from Hill AFB to drop fire
retardant over the wildfires in California. (22)
2005: Through 7 August, AMC participated in an unusual rescue operation. A
C-5 returning to Travis AFB diverted to NAS North Island in San Diego to
pick up a 32 US Navy sailors and two Super Scorpio Remotely Operated
Vehicles. The C-5 then carried the Navy team 3,700 nautical miles nonstop
for 10 hours to Yelizovo Airport, near the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
on the Kamchatka Peninsula, to help rescue seven sailors from a stranded
Russian AS-28 mini-sub that became entangled in fishing net during a 4
August military exercise. On 6 August, three AMC aircraft landed at Yelizovo
Airport with more people and equipment, including a C-17 Globemaster III
from the 172d Airlift Wing (Mississippi ANG) that flew non-stop from New
Orleans NAS to Russia with 95,000 pounds of equipment and personnel. On 7
August, the US and British rescue specialists freed the submarine from the
fish nets, and all seven Russians survived. A KC-10 Extender from the 60 AMW
at Travis AFB, a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 939 AREFW (AFRC) at Portland,
and two KC-135s from the 168 AREFW (ANG) at Eielson AFB provided four
refuelings to support the operation. (22)
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