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Good Sunday Morning April 19

I hope that your weekend is going well.

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Today in Naval History

April 19

On This Day

1917

The U.S. Naval Armed Guard crew on board SS Mongolia engages and damages a German U-boat, the first engagement against the enemy after declaration of war on April 6.

1920

The first German submarine brought to the United States after World War I arrives at New York. During World War I, U 111 sank three Allied merchant vessels that included the British steamer Boscastle on April 7, 1918. The submarine surrendered later that year.

1945

USS Buckley (DE 51) and USS Reuben James (DE 153) sink the German submarine U-879 southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

1955

USS Albany (CA 123) and USS William Wood (DD 715) begin providing disaster relief to citizens of Volos, Greece, following a catastrophic earthquake.

1960

The Grumman A2F-1 Intruder makes its first flight. The Intruder receives the designation of A-6A in 1962, and upon entering service in 1963, becomes the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps principle all weather/night attack aircraft.

1997

USS The Sullivans (DDG 68) is commissioned at Staten Island, N.Y. The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer is the second Navy ship named after the five Sullivan brothers who died when USS Juneau (CL 52) was sunk shortly after the Battle of Guadalcanal Nov. 13, 1942.

2017

The Cyclone-class patrol coastal ship USS Zephyr (PC 8), its embarked U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) personnel and coalition forces pursue and board a small fishing vessel, called a panga, and interdict 750 kilograms of cocaine with a total street value of $22.5 million.



CHINFO

No CHINFO on the weekend



This day in World History



April 19



1539

Emperor Charles V reaches a truce with German Protestants at Frankfurt, Germany.


1689

Residents of Boston oust their governor, Edmond Andros.


1764

The English Parliament bans the American colonies from printing paper money.


1775

The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.


1782

The Netherlands recognizes the United States.


1794

Tadeusz Kosciuszko forces the Russians out of Warsaw.


1802

The Spanish reopen New Orleans port to American merchants.


1824

English poet Lord George Gordon Byron dies of malaria at age 36 while aiding Greek independence.


1861

The Baltimore riots result in four Union soldiers and nine civilians killed.


1861

President Abraham Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports.


1880

The Times war correspondent telephones a report of the Battle of Ahmed Khel, the first time news is sent from a field of battle in this manner.


1927

In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek.


1934

Shirley Temple appears in her first movie.


1938

General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War.


1939

Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights.


1943

The Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi rule begins.


1960

Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs.


1971

Russia launches its first Salyut space station.


1977

Alex Haley receives a special Pulitzer Prize for his book Roots.


1982

NASA names Sally Ride to be the first woman astronaut.


1989

The battleship USS Iowa's number 2 turret explodes, killing sailors.


1993

The FBI ends a 51-day siege by storming the Branch Davidian religious cult headquarters in Waco, Texas.


1995

A truck bomb explodes in front of the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.





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1776 The American Revolution begins »



1775 – At about 5 a.m., 700 British troops, on a mission to capture Patriot leaders and seize a Patriot arsenal, march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker waiting for them on the town's common green. British Major John Pitcairn ordered the outnumbered Patriots to disperse, and after a moment's hesitation the Americans began to drift off the green. Suddenly, the "shot heard around the world" was fired from an undetermined gun, and a cloud of musket smoke soon covered the green. When the brief Battle of Lexington ended, eight Americans lay dead or dying and 10 others were wounded. Only one British soldier was injured, but the American Revolution had begun. By 1775, tensions between the American colonies and the British government approached the breaking point, especially in Massachusetts, where Patriot leaders formed a shadow revolutionary government and trained militias to prepare for armed conflict with the British troops occupying Boston. In the spring of 1775, General Thomas Gage, the British governor of Massachusetts, received instructions from England to seize all stores of weapons and gunpowder accessible to the American insurgents. On April 18, he ordered British troops to march against the Patriot arsenal at Concord and capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. The Boston Patriots had been preparing for such a military action by the British for some time, and upon learning of the British plan, Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes were ordered to set out to rouse the militiamen and warn Adams and Hancock. When the British troops arrived at Lexington, Adams, Hancock, and Revere had already fled to Philadelphia, and a group of militiamen were waiting. The Patriots were routed within minutes, but warfare had begun, leading to calls to arms across the Massachusetts countryside. When the British troops reached Concord at about 7 a.m., they found themselves encircled by hundreds of armed Patriots. They managed to destroy the military supplies the Americans had collected but were soon advanced against by a gang of minutemen, who inflicted numerous casualties. Lieutenant Colonel Frances Smith, the overall commander of the British force, ordered his men to return to Boston without directly engaging the Americans. As the British retraced their 16-mile journey, their lines were constantly beset by Patriot marksmen firing at them Indian-style from behind trees, rocks, and stone walls. At Lexington, Captain Parker's militia had its revenge, killing several British soldiers as the Red Coats hastily marched through his town. By the time the British finally reached the safety of Boston, nearly 300 British soldiers had been killed, wounded, or were missing in action. The Patriots suffered fewer than 100 casualties. The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the American Revolution, a conflict that would escalate from a colonial uprising into a world war that, seven years later, would give birth to the independent United States of America.

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1951 – Gen. Douglas MacArthur, relieved of his command by President Truman, bid farewell to Congress.

"I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that 'old soldiers never die; they just fade away.'
"And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.
"Good Bye."



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1995 – A massive explosion at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, kills 168 people and injures hundreds more. The bomb, contained in a Ryder truck parked outside the front of the building, went off at 9:02 a.m. as people were preparing for the workday. Among the victims of America's worst incident of domestic terrorism were 19 children who were in the daycare center on the first floor of the building. A little over an hour after the explosion, Oklahoma state trooper Charles Hangar pulled over a car without license plates in the town of Perry. Noticing a bulge in the driver's jacket, Hangar arrested the driver, Timothy McVeigh, and confiscated his concealed gun. McVeigh was held in jail for gun and traffic violations. Meanwhile, a sketch of the man who was seen driving the Ryder truck in Oklahoma City was distributed across the country. On April 21, Hangar saw the sketch and managed to stop McVeigh's impending release. When investigators looked into McVeigh's background, they quickly learned that he had ties to militant right-wing groups and was particularly incensed by the Branch Davidian incident in Waco, Texas. The Oklahoma City bomb exploded exactly two years after David Koresh and his followers were killed in the federal government's raid of the cult compound. Soon, three friends of McVeigh-Terry and James Nichols, and Michael Fortier-were also arrested for their involvement in the bombing. McVeigh and Terry Nichols had gone through basic training together after joining the Army on the same day in 1988. Although Nichols was discharged in 1989, McVeigh had served in Operation Desert Storm before quitting the Army when he was rejected for the Special Forces course. Acquaintances of McVeigh knew that he was obsessed with a book called The Turner Diaries, a fictional account of a race war caused by right-wing extremists in the United States. The book begins with the bombing of the FBI headquarters. McVeigh also told his sister Jennifer that he planned on doing "something big" in April 1995. With Nichols and Fortier's assistance, McVeigh assembled a bomb that contained nearly 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate and racing fuel. After Fortier testified against his former friend, McVeigh was convicted in June 1997. The jury imposed a death sentence. Terry Nichols was convicted of being an accessory to the mass murder, and he received a life sentence. On June 11, 2001, McVeigh was put to death by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, the first federal death penalty to be carried out since 1963.



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Congressional Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day



THORSNESS, LEO K.
Rank and organization: Lieutenant Colonel (then Maj.), U.S. Air Force, 357th Tactical Fighter Squadron. Place and date: Over North Vietnam, 19 April 1967. Entered service at: Walnut Grove, Minn. Born: 14 February 1932, Walnut Grove, Minn. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. As pilot of an F- 105 aircraft, Lt. Col. Thorsness was on a surface-to-air missile suppression mission over North Vietnam. Lt. Col. Thorsness and his wingman attacked and silenced a surface-to-air missile site with air-to-ground missiles, and then destroyed a second surface-to-air missile site with bombs. In tile attack on the second missile site, Lt. Col. Thorsness' wingman was shot down by intensive antiaircraft fire, and the 2 crewmembers abandoned their aircraft. Lt. Col. Thorsness circled the descending parachutes to keep the crewmembers in sight and relay their position to the Search and Rescue Center. During this maneuver, a MIG-17 was sighted in the area. Lt. Col. Thorsness immediately initiated an attack and destroyed the MIG. Because his aircraft was low on fuel, he was forced to depart the area in search of a tanker. Upon being advised that 2 helicopters were orbiting over the downed crew's position and that there were hostile MlGs in the area posing a serious threat to the helicopters, Lt. Col. Thorsness, despite his low fuel condition, decided to return alone through a hostile environment of surface-to-air missile and antiaircraft defenses to the downed crew's position. As he approached the area, he spotted 4 MIG-17 aircraft and immediately initiated an attack on the MlGs, damaging 1 and driving the others away from the rescue scene. When it became apparent that an aircraft in the area was critically low on fuel and the crew would have to abandon the aircraft unless they could reach a tanker, Lt. Col. Thorsness, although critically short on fuel himself, helped to avert further possible loss of life and a friendly aircraft by recovering at a forward operating base, thus allowing the aircraft in emergency fuel condition to refuel safely. Lt. Col. Thorsness' extraordinary heroism, self-sacrifice, and personal bravery involving conspicuous risk of life were in the highest traditions of the military service, and have reflected great credit upon himself and the U.S. Air Force.



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Thanks to Paul

Cradle of Aviation Museum to receive last F-14 to ever fly

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/cradle-of-aviation-museum-to-receive-the-last-f-14-to-ever-fly-to-celebrate-50th-anniversary-of-the-iconic-tomcat/

Deuce



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Thanks to Micro….A repeat and unfortunately he recently passed away

Great Video!



This video on the Last Fighter Pilot, is probably NOT what you're expecting, but it's only four min long, so, give it a try, you may be surprised.

Jerry Yellen is 93 years old. Worth your time.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/6q_8lY12hEM?rel=0



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Thanks to Dutch

Were we played? Of course we were/Rich

From the net…courtesy of Rich and JC …



Hi to all -



Virus Studies



Several have come out in the last few days. Some have been forwarded to each of you as we saw them. The gist of all of them, without exception, is that the virus is much more widespread than we imagined. And, far less deadly. Less deadly than the common flu that we experience annually. This does not diminish the sorrow of the death toll we have seen, but it does raise a lot of questions about why THIS virus has had the reaction it has, compared to others.



Well, one of those opinion articles explained it very well indeed. The left has run out of standard ideas to get rid of Trump. However, if they can stir up panic over this virus, and shut down his successful economy, then they think they can defeat him in November. At the very least, they will try to blame him for the shutdown, and all that came with it. Again, the left offers no alternatives, no solutions, only complaints.



In fact, the shutdown appears to have been a gross over reaction to the situation. Places that did not shut down have done no better or worse than those which did.



Cuomo is also trying his version of extortion. Trump has unveiled a three step plan to open the economy. Implementing it is up to state governors. Cuomo claims this is 'passing the buck, without passing the bucks'. In other words, he cannot run his state unless the feds pay for it all. This is the man who wants to be your president, or vice president. If he is that incompetent, do you really want him in charge?



Nancy actually said something I can agree with. Her solution to riding out the quarantine is to stock up on chocolate. I like chocolate - and also bought snacks. She showed a video of her expensive kitchen, filled with gourmet ice creams, etc. Forget about that waitress who lost her job over this, let them eat cake.



Notice that she is NOT WORKING. She is doing nothing at all for the people of this country. But, you can bet she is very, very busy scheming and plotting for her next effort at extortion and getting rid of Trump. Of course, stay at home means nothing when she has another lie to sell. For that, hop on the private jet and travel to Washington to deliver terms.



NYC has been found to be inflating the death count - just as other states. This, of course, is preparatory to blaming Trump for it all, never themselves and their clear lack of preparation.



In Michigan, the democrat female governor, Whitmer, has been flexing her tyrant muscles very hard. You cannot get dental care, or 'elective' medical procedures, such as knee replacement (forget the pain you are in), nor are church services allowed - even drive in with no person to person contact - but abortions - which are far more intimate in their contacts - are not only fine, but 'life sustaining'. Well, except for the baby, of course. But, who cares? She now has protests in the street (which she claims endanger lives - how dare you peasants violate my dictates!), and even the police refuse to enforce some of her more crazy orders. The people are finally figuring out that such measures are illegal, unconstitutional, and unnecessary. If this continues, and spreads. we may save our nation from a socialist takeover, for now.



CNN



When Kavanaugh was up for appointment to the Supreme Court, CNN ran 700 stories about him. Almost all were negative and critical. Now, Joe Biden has been accused of actual, not imagined (I don't remember, but it must have happened) sexual misconduct - with criminal charges filed. CNN has run exactly ZERO stories on this.



Trump



He is tired of all the foot dragging in congress ( I seem to remember Obama complaining about the same thing, when he couldn't get his way fast enough. He suggested that they get back to work, and vote on his judicial appointments, or go on recess so he can proceed without them. Of course, congress has already seen the results of all those conservative, constitutional, judges impacting the legal system, and they oppose it. It will happen, in spite of congress.



Notice that the left, and all the states and cities they control, are working very hard to prevent returning to normal, ignoring the evidence and science, and praising China. Do you really think that 'democrats care about you, republicans do not care about you'??



Rich



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thanks to Doctor Rich and Dutch

Working in China ...

Thanks to Super via Bruddah ...

This from a former squadron mate who did well at FEDEX and knows much of the world up close and personal.


Bruddah,

I worked in Europe for 10 years with some degree of success dealing with all the different governments. Most of the government bureaucrats were a pain in the ass, but you got work done. I was based in Paris and the French bureaucrats were the worst pompous idiots where little was accomplished during meetings. Everyone just waiting to go to lunch and drink. I liked the food, but could not drink, otherwise asleep the rest of the day. The Russians were very cooperative when setting up our Moscow operation. Again just too many vodka or brandy shots for lunch and dinner, especially with the senior officials. But we got stuff done.

On the other hand, living and working in China was quite an experience. Hong Kong was workable, but all over mainland China...forget about it. There was NEVER any cooperation. Their way or the highway! Worst place to work in the world!!! Typical centralized command structure prevented any decisions at lower levels. Very, very frustrating!!! E.G. three hour ATC delays from Shanghai southbound. Very difficult for an express cargo company! Even at the highest CAAC levels (China FAA) no one would listen to ideas to alleviate the delays and no one would make a decision, even if it would help Chinese airlines. In Europe we would design new airways (essentially parallel to the desired direction) to mitigate ground delays. But not in China!! Your new airway would inevitably be near or over a "Top Secret" military base or other sensitive area. It could easily be fixed, but no way!! Delays continue today.

Every problem area turned into a big, big issue, with them never listening. It was their way or the highway. Just horrible place to work!!

On the other hand, Vietnam, another Communist country, was indeed a pleasure to work with. They listened to our ideas and would generally do whatever we wanted. Very Cooperative!!!!

China was the worst country to deal with, compared to many, many others in Europe or Asia.

I could go on and on. But enough! So it is easy to understand their lies and misinformation when the virus leaked out of their Wuhan lab. I do not think that it was a designed and purposely leaked military bio-weapon.

FedEx did ship all the Apple products from China to the world. Apple had a HUGE (even larger than huge as described by Trump) manufacturing facility in Chengdu, China. I went there once to see the operation as well as the birthing farm for all pandas, which we shipped to zoos all over the world.

I cannot even describe the enormous size of this manufacturing building where 200,000 workers would build over 200,000 iPhones and iPads per day. It is simply incredible, sterile facility making these extremely high tech devices. All the workers are provided housing (one room) and food to WILLINGLY work six days a week.

Enough of my blather. Glad that Trump is the first president to hold China accountable after China has ripped off the US for so long in bad trade deals. It will be interesting to see how he holds his buddy, Xi Jinping, accountable for their lies and lack of transparency regarding this bat flu disaster.

At least he got Fowxi and the Scarf queen to sign off on his re-opening plan. We must get this country back to work after listening to the stupid modelers and their false results like 2 million dead. So bad!

Hope you and T are hangin' in there!

Semper Ride Nunc!
Super



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BBC News: Nasa to launch first crewed mission from US in decade



thanks to Doctor Rich

Thanks to Michael ... WOW!!
NASA to launch first crewed mission to ISS from US in decade next month ... SpaceX rocket/capsule ..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52333932




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