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Good Sunday Morning May 3.. A year ago Friday the Bubba Breakfast was a lot of fun with a number of the Top Gun reunion group joining us and we had over 50 folks.

Regards,

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This day in Naval History May 3



1777 During the American Revolution, the Continental lugger Surprise, led by Capt. Gustavus conyngham, captures the British mail packet Prince of Orange and the brig Joseph in the North Sea.

1942 USS Spearfish (SS 190) evacuates naval and military officers, including nurses, from Corregidor before surrenderitheng island to Japan.

1949 The U.S. Navy executes its first firing of a high altitude Viking rocket at White Sands, N.M.

1975 USS Nimitz (CVN 68) is commissioned at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. Only America can make a machine like this, notes President Gerald R. Ford about the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. There is nothing like her in the world.

1980 USS Peleliu (LHA 5) is commissioned in Pascagoula, Miss. She is the final Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship built and the first to be named in honor of the battles fought in the Palau Islands.

2008 USS North Carolina (SSN 777) is commissioned at Port of Wilmington, N.C., before sailing for its homeport of Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn.





Thanks to CHINFO



No CHINFO on the weekends





Today in History May 3



495

Pope Gelasius asserts that his authority is superior to Emperor Anastasius.


1568

French forces in Florida slaughter hundreds of Spanish.


1855

Macon B. Allen becomes the first African American to be admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts.


1859

France declares war on Austria.


1863

The Battle of Chancellorsville rages for a second day.


1865

President Abraham Lincoln's funeral train arrives in Springfield, Illinois.


1926

U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua.


1952

The first airplane lands at the geographic North Pole.


1968

After three days of battle, the U.S. Marines retake Dai Do complex in Vietnam, only to find the North Vietnamese have evacuated the area.


1971

James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassin, is caught in a jail break attempt.


1979

Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman prime minister of Great Britain.


1982

A British submarine sinks Argentina's only cruiser during the Falkland Islands War.


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1942 – The first day of the first modern naval engagement in history, called the Battle of the Coral Sea, a Japanese invasion force succeeds in occupying Tulagi of the Solomon Islands in an expansion of Japan's defensive perimeter. The United States, having broken Japan's secret war code and forewarned of an impending invasion of Tulagi and Port Moresby, attempted to intercept the Japanese armada. Four days of battles between Japanese and American aircraft carriers resulted in 70 Japanese and 66 Americans warplanes destroyed. This confrontation, called the Battle of the Coral Sea, marked the first air-naval battle in history, as none of the carriers fired at each other, allowing the planes taking off from their decks to do the battling. Among the casualties was the American carrier Lexington; "the Blue Ghost" (so-called because it was not camouflaged like other carriers) suffered such extensive aerial damage that it had to be sunk by its own crew. Two hundred sixteen Lexington crewmen died as a result of the Japanese aerial bombardment. Although Japan would go on to occupy all of the Solomon Islands, its victory was a Pyrrhic one: The cost in experienced pilots and aircraft carriers was so great that Japan had to cancel its expedition to Port Moresby, Papua, as well as other South Pacific targets.



More to come later



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Thanks to Richard YaHoo



Subject: Re: Budapest Air Show





Subject: Budapest Air Show



The helicopter shots are unreal. The FAA would never allow an air show like this in the United States. Great views of a beautiful city

https://www.youtube.com/embed/0px9HFIVYjY?feature=player_embedded



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Thanks toDick…Another look at it



Subject: FW: Real Flying !





Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2020 12:50 PM
Ed Chadwick who long ago was a member of CACC at the old clubhouse PDX. He's a naval aviator of my vintage. Roger Smith



The view from the cockpit! What a lesson in coordination!

Four Hands, Four feet, and six eyes - all working as one! WOW !!!

The old company, Bombardier Aerospace, makes these. They don't "motor around" to fill the tanks---they touch down at approach speed, open the fill scoops, add lots of power, and the tanks fill in seconds.

There's one scene in the film where you can see the two tank level gauges rapidly go up. The other neat thing is watching the magnitude of the flight control inputs, especially aileron, as they are maneuvering down low---sometimes the pilot is literally going stop to stop.

Real flying... Where do I sign up!!!

https://player.vimeo.com/video/48642618



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Thanks to Dick

This a repeat from not too long ago but a great story





From my friend , Gene.

May be a repeat for you.

Subject: FW: Happy Happy Happy - Bubba the Tiger!



Begin forwarded message: If you have a few minutes, you'll like this story from the Viet Nam era of a special tiger——

especially the last part of how he contributed to the war effort!. b



Nice kitty



.From a med school friend who spent some time.. well,...... read the short story.





Credit to a helicopter pilot that posted this today on Facebook:





We lived with and flew in support of these Green Berets out of Forward Operating Base (FOB)-2 in Kontum Vietnam 1967-1968.



Warren Castaneira

February 25 at 3:09 PM







Here is a re-post on Bubba. We got him in Laos after his mom tramped on

a land mine. He was only two days old, but I had him in my jungle jacket

wrapped in a towel and when we were extracted we fed him milk and got

him on his way.



He did well because he got much larger than an Asian Tiger usually grew

to. His weakness was real beer (He had two cans a day) which he slurped

down, went to a corner of the hooch, rolled on his back, showed his junk

and snored like the last day! If the Bubster wanted to get in your bunk

with you, you just rolled over and dealt with it.



It's such a shame so many tigers were killed over there because most

were killed for sport and not in human defense.



When we cycled out, the question was what the hell do with Bubba? He

couldn't survive because he only knew SOG, Special Forces, Seals etc.

Here is where we got creative. We had access to things normal military

didn't.



So we got creative and a phone call went to a research zoo in Sidney,

Australia and we asked if they wanted a free tiger. When the lady at the

other end realized we were for real she pissed her pants and said, "Yes,

but how do we get him?"



I don't want to reference Air America, but we flew the Bubster to his

new home and I got off the airplane with him walking beside me like a

dog on a leash. They all went nuts when he walked to the lady and heeled

by her side looking at her for instructions. He must have had a very

good time and life there because he sired tons of babies.



When I was back in Sidney in 87 I saw a bronze plaque telling about the

SF Tiger that came to them in 1969 and made lots a great baby tigers.

That part of my life is gone like Bubba who lasted to 85, but every time

I hear a Tiger make those special noises my head and heart goes back to

a tiny little baby we found in Laos in 1968.



God I miss him! ?? BTW the Bubster never lived in a cage. He was always

shown love from a bunch of very dangerous men whose hearts melted when

they met him. To discipline him you grabbed a handful of hair and flesh

on his shoulder and simply said no. He never retaliated he just

complied.



When I said he never lived in a cage, the decision about the zoo where

he ended up was a research zoo that was very excited because of gene

diversity. It also had the new concept of no animals in cages. People

were the ones in cages or behind glass.



It took a bit for him to get back to being a tiger, but after he figured

out the male female thing, nature took its course and he was off to the

races and made a ton of tiger babies who are in zoos around the world.

God Bless to my knowledge was the only Special Forces tiger in the

history books.



An interesting side note is that SF and MAC V were in many ways involved

with the CIA. The coats and ties back in Langley, VA couldn't understand

how our intel was so accurate.



Picture a NVA prisoner strapped into a chair and questioned. Also

picture the prisoner telling us in multiple languages to go F ourselves.

So a hood goes back on and the prisoner was told to spill the beans or

we were going to feed the zip to our tiger.



They all laughed their asses off and said we were crazy. Enter the

Bubster and have his head about two feet from the prisoner, pull the

hood off at the same time I would pinch the back of Bubbas neck. He

roared in the dinks face with his extremely nasty tiger breath and the

prisoner pissed his pants or worse while he sang like the Mormon

tabernacle choir.



God I miss that stuff. BTW our intel was so accurate the pencil necks

were amazed and never found out why!





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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS

FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR APRIL 30

THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY



May 3



1930: Laura Ingalls completed 344 consecutive loops. Afterwards, she tried again and accomplished

980 loops. In another flight later in the year, she successfully completed 714 barrel rolls, giving

her a pair of records no one has cared to challenge. (2)



1943: Lt Gen Frank M. Andrews, Commanding General, European Theater of Operations, US Army,

died in an air crash in Iceland. (11) (24)



1945: In the last 9th Bomb Division mission, 132 A-26s bombed Czechoslovakia's Stod ammunitions

plant. (4)



1949: The Navy fired its Martin Viking rocket at the White Sands Proving Ground. It reached an altitude of 51½ miles and a speed of 2,250 MPH. (24)



1950: North American Aviation's Mark X-1 inertial guidance system for the Navaho missile completed

its first flight test in a C-47. The X-1 was the first US inertial guidance system tested. (6)



1952: KOREAN WAR/ACES. In aerial combat, F-86 Sabre pilots destroyed five MiG-15s. Major

Donald E. Adams from the 16th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron destroyed two and Capt Robert T.

Latshaw, Jr., from the 335th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, downed another to become aces.

That gave the USAF 14 aces to date in the Korean War. (28)An Air Force C-47 Skytrain, equipped with ski and wheels made the world's first successful

North Pole landing. (16) (24)



1960: General Curtis E. LeMay, VCSAF, announced the approval of a single tanker force, SAC

managed and KC-135 equipped, to support training and combat for full implementation by the

end of Fiscal Year 1963. (18)



1961: An AFSC crew launched the first ICBM, a Titan, from an underground silo at Vandenberg

AFB. (1) (12)



1966: The first operational service of Minuteman II began when 50 missiles were delivered to SAC's

Wing VI at Grand Forks AFB.At Edwards AFB, an HC-130H completed the first live ground-to-air recovery with a singleharnesscapture of Capt Gerald T. Lyvere and a double harness capture of Col Allison Brooks

and A3C Ronald L. Doll. (3)



1968: The first ANG unit called to active duty, the 120 TFS from Buckley ANGB, Colorado, arrived

in South Vietnam. It started flying combat operations on 5 May. (16) (21)



1973: The National Aeronautic Association presented the 1972 Mackay Trophy to three Vietnam aces:

Captains Richard S. "Steve" Ritchie, Charles B. DeBellevue, and Jeffery S. Feinstein.



1990: An all-Air Force crew flew Northrop's B-2A for the first time. Lt Cols Tom LeBeau and John

Small flew the Stealth Bomber on a 7-hour, 20-minute test flight above Edwards AFB. (8: Jul

90)



1992: Through 4 May, C-141 Starlifters and C-130 Hercules transports evacuated 350 people, including

some Americans, from Sierra Leone after a military coup. (16) (26)



1994: The Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center at Davis-Monthan AFB received the last

B-52G for storage. That transfer left only B-52H models in the active USAF inventory. (16)



2001: The Northrop X-4 Bantam tailless transonic research plane, originally tested by NACA in 1950-

1953, returned to the AFFTC from the USAF Academy for permanent display. (3)



2006: AFFTC completed the first-ever wet runway taxi testing of an unmanned vehicle, the Global

Hawk. The tests at Edwards AFB validated the Global Hawk's anti-skid braking system and gathered

braking performance data on wet runways. (3)



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Thanks to Duth …





Here's a photo of with an example of every jet the flight demo teams have flown. On the Navy side, I was allowed to fly two examples: the F9F Couger and the A-4E. And had I been two weeks earlier arriving in Kingsville for advanced training, I'd have had a few hops in the F11. Cool photo.









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Here is a re-post on Bubba. We got him in Laos after his mom tramped on

a land mine. He was only two days old, but I had him in my jungle jacket

wrapped in a towel and when we were extracted we fed him milk and got

him on his way.



He did well because he got much larger than an Asian Tiger usually grew

to. His weakness was real beer (He had two cans a day) which he slurped

down, went to a corner of the hooch, rolled on his back, showed his junk

and snored like the last day! If the Bubster wanted to get in your bunk

with you, you just rolled over and dealt with it.



It's such a shame so many tigers were killed over there because most

were killed for sport and not in human defense.



When we cycled out, the question was what the hell do with Bubba? He

couldn't survive because he only knew SOG, Special Forces, Seals etc.

Here is where we got creative. We had access to things normal military

didn't.



So we got creative and a phone call went to a research zoo in Sidney,

Australia and we asked if they wanted a free tiger. When the lady at the

other end realized we were for real she pissed her pants and said, "Yes,

but how do we get him?"



I don't want to reference Air America, but we flew the Bubster to his

new home and I got off the airplane with him walking beside me like a

dog on a leash. They all went nuts when he walked to the lady and heeled

by her side looking at her for instructions. He must have had a very

good time and life there because he sired tons of babies.



When I was back in Sidney in 87 I saw a bronze plaque telling about the

SF Tiger that came to them in 1969 and made lots a great baby tigers.

That part of my life is gone like Bubba who lasted to 85, but every time

I hear a Tiger make those special noises my head and heart goes back to

a tiny little baby we found in Laos in 1968.



God I miss him! ?? BTW the Bubster never lived in a cage. He was always

shown love from a bunch of very dangerous men whose hearts melted when

they met him. To discipline him you grabbed a handful of hair and flesh

on his shoulder and simply said no. He never retaliated he just

complied.



When I said he never lived in a cage, the decision about the zoo where

he ended up was a research zoo that was very excited because of gene

diversity. It also had the new concept of no animals in cages. People

were the ones in cages or behind glass.



It took a bit for him to get back to being a tiger, but after he figured

out the male female thing, nature took its course and he was off to the

races and made a ton of tiger babies who are in zoos around the world.

God Bless to my knowledge was the only Special Forces tiger in the

history books.



An interesting side note is that SF and MAC V were in many ways involved

with the CIA. The coats and ties back in Langley, VA couldn't understand

how our intel was so accurate.



Picture a NVA prisoner strapped into a chair and questioned. Also

picture the prisoner telling us in multiple languages to go F ourselves.

So a hood goes back on and the prisoner was told to spill the beans or

we were going to feed the zip to our tiger.



They all laughed their asses off and said we were crazy. Enter the

Bubster and have his head about two feet from the prisoner, pull the

hood off at the same time I would pinch the back of Bubbas neck. He

roared in the dinks face with his extremely nasty tiger breath and the

prisoner pissed his pants or worse while he sang like the Mormon

tabernacle choir.



God I miss that stuff. BTW our intel was so accurate the pencil necks

were amazed and never found out why!





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Protecting Americans from remaining medically dependent on China

Next U.S. health crisis is dependence on China for medical supplies and drugs

By Hal Scherz

The COVID-19 pandemic has altered our daily lives in unimaginable ways, leaving little doubt as to how unprepared we were. Our Achilles' heel is our reliance on other countries — especially China — for many of our drugs and medical supplies. Now we must take evasive action to protect American patients and health care professionals from the consequences of remaining medically dependent on China. One solution may be right in front of us — or, rather, south of us.

The pandemic has brought to the fore the drug and medical supply shortages surgeons have experienced in operating rooms for years. The United States imports almost half of its personal protective equipment (PPE) from China, Financial Times reports. This includes masks, face shields, disposable gowns, and gloves.

Unsurprisingly, these items were no longer available once China realized it was facing an epidemic.

To help meet the shortage, 3M, an American company, committed to President Trump that it would ramp up production of N-95 masks. The problem?

These are produced in China by 3M's partner company. The Chinese Communist Party essentially nationalized production of PPE and stopped the export of this equipment.

China's choke hold on our medical supply lines is far worse when it comes to drugs. In the 1990s, 90 percent of the global supply of active ingredients for the world's prescription drugs, overthe- counter medications and vitamins were produced in the United States, Europe and Japan. Now the leading global supplier of these is China. And other nations manufacturing drugs are dependent on China for the key ingredients that go into making medications.

How has China done it? Through cheap labor and by glutting the world's drug supply. The Chinese have systematically driven competitors out of business by flooding the world's markets with cheap drugs, driving prices down and making it unprofitable to continue production. Now China is the predominant force in the world's drug market.

America is also to blame. The United States has helped China corner the market on drug ingredients. An ingredient's Chinese origin may not be appear on its label. Finding it out can prove impossible, if a manufacturer closely guards the origin as a trade secret. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been a party to this secrecy, allowing drug companies to hide where active ingredients are produced.

These active ingredients sourced from China are in virtually every class of commonly used drugs: Cancer drugs, antibiotics, antidepressants, oral contraceptives and blood pressure medications. China even controls the world's supply of both aspirin and acetaminophen — the active ingredient in Tylenol, which is found in the majority of ordinary cold medications, in addition to being a go-to over-the-counter pain reliever by itself.

If Americans knew the truth that drug companies hide about the source of their drugs, they would go ballistic.

As we should. The risk is not confined to loss of access to Chinese-made drugs. The Chinese-made drugs themselves are unsafe.

The most troubling and dangerous problem of our medical dependence on China involves patient safety, because of substandard quality control in Chinese manufacturing facilities.

In her 2018 book, "China Rx," Rosemary Gibson described the tragedy involving tainted Heparin in 2007–08, which killed dozens of people worldwide. Heparin is a drug essential to preventing blood clots, used in operating rooms and intensive care units.

This story was originally reported in the New England Journal of Medicine and traced to a supplier of the Chinese partner ofthe Wisconsin-based medical manufacturer Baxter International. The Chinese partner used tainted chondroitin sulfate, a key ingredient that was produced unacceptably using substandard extraction from pigs and contaminated storage tanks.

More recently, generic Valsartan — a blood pressure medication — was recalled because of its contamination with N-nitrosodimethylamine, a human carcinogen. This problem was noted back in 2012 but allowed to continue until 2019.Unfortunately, there are other examples of Chinese maleficence involving dangerous drug ingredients, used because they were cheap substitutes.

Our dangerous dependence on Chinese production of our medical equipment and medications should have been obvious before COVID-19 struck, but the United States has largely ignored it. Now the United States is racing China to produce a coronavirus vaccine. This is a race we must win, for as Ms. Gibson presciently wrote, "if a global public health crisis occurs, China will likely keep its domestically produced medicines at home and stockpile them before sharing with other nations."

Now is the time to cast off our dependence on Chinese medical manufacturing. The solution is to bring production back to North America. The U.S. is the best place to produce drugs and medical equipment, but another option is Mexico, thanks to the new USMCA — U.S./ Mexico/Canada Trade agreement.

Mexico is a source of plentiful, cheap labor the United States could leverage to break free from China. Accessing factories and controlling quality should be far easier in Mexico than in China.

In exchange for bolstering Mexico's economy and creating better jobs there, conditions could be placed on Mexico that strengthen the U.S. border.

It is imperative that we loosen China's grip on our medical supply lines — immediately. The United States has the power to free our patients from China's choke hold. We just have to choose to break our addiction to secretive, contaminated medical manufacturing overseen by the Chinese Communist Party.

Hal Scherz, M.D. (info@d4pcfounda-tion. org), is the board secretary and a co-founder of Docs 4 Patient Care Foun-dation. He is president and managing partner at Georgia Urology.



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1946 – In Tokyo, Japan, the International Military Tribunals for the Far East begins hearing the case against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II. On November 4, 1948, the trial ended with 25 of 28 Japanese defendants being found guilty. Of the three other defendants, two had died during the lengthy trial, and one was declared insane. On November 12, the war crimes tribunal passed death sentences on seven of the men, including General Hideki Tojo, who served as Japanese premier during the war, and others principles, such as Iwane Matsui, who organized the Rape of Nanking, and Heitaro Kimura, who brutalized Allied prisoners of war. Sixteen others were sentenced to life imprisonment, and two were sentenced to lesser terms in prison. On December 23, 1948, Tojo and the six others were executed in Tokyo. Unlike the Nuremberg trial of Nazi war criminals, where there were four chief prosecutors, to represent Great Britain, France, the United States, and the USSR, the Tokyo trial featured only one chief prosecutor–American Joseph B. Keenan, a former assistant to the U.S. attorney general. However, other nations, especially China, contributed to the proceedings, and Australian judge William Flood Webb presided. In addition to the central Tokyo trial, various tribunals sitting outside Japan judged some 5,000 Japanese guilty of war crimes, of whom more than 900 were executed. Some observers thought that Emperor Hirohito should have been tried for his tacit approval of Japanese policy during the war, but he was protected by U.S. authorities who saw him as a symbol of Japanese unity and conservatism, both favorable traits in the postwar U.S. view.



1952 – A ski-modified U.S. Air Force C-47 piloted by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher of Oklahoma and Lieutenant Colonel William P. Benedict of California becomes the first aircraft to land on the North Pole. A moment later, Fletcher climbed out of the plane and walked to the exact geographic North Pole, probably the first person in history to do so. In the early 20th century, American explorers Robert Peary and Dr. Frederick Cook, both claiming to have separately reached the North Pole by land, publicly disputed each other's claims. In 1911, Congress formally recognized Peary's claim. In recent years, further studies of the conflicting claims suggest that neither expedition reached the exact North Pole, but that Peary came far closer, falling perhaps 30 miles short. In 1952, Lieutenant Colonel Fletcher was the first person to undisputedly stand on the North Pole. Standing alongside Fletcher on the top of the world was Dr. Albert P. Crary, a scientist who in 1961 traveled to the South Pole by motorized vehicle, becoming the first person in history to have stood on both poles.





1965 – The lead element of the 173rd Airborne Brigade ("Sky Soldiers"), stationed in Okinawa, departs for South Vietnam. It was the first U.S. Army ground combat unit committed to the war. Combat elements of the 173rd Airborne Brigade included the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Battalions, 503rd Infantry; the 3rd Battalion, 319th Airborne Artillery; Company D, 16th Armor; Troop E, 17th Cavalry; and the 335th Aviation company. Headquartered at Bien Hoa Air Base near Saigon, the Brigade conducted operations to keep communist forces away from the Saigon-Bien Hoa complex. In February 1967, the Brigade conducted a combat parachute jump into a major communist base area to the north of Saigon near the Cambodian border. In November 1967, the Brigade was ordered to the Central Highlands, where they fought a major battle at Dak To against an entrenched North Vietnamese Army regiment on Hill 875. In some of the most brutal fighting of the war, the paratroopers captured the hill on Thanksgiving Day, winning the Presidential Unit Citation for bravery in action. After more than six years on the battlefield, the Brigade was withdrawn from Vietnam in August 1971. During combat service, they suffered 1,606 killed in action and 8,435 wounded in action. Twelve paratroopers of the 173rd won the Medal of Honor for conspicuous bravery in battle.