To All
Good Saturday Morning June 27, 2020
I hope that you all had a great week.
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Today in Naval History
June 27
1861 While commanding a gunboat flotilla, Cmdr. James Harmon Ward is mortally wounded by a musket ball while aiming the bow gun of his flagship, USS Thomas Freeborn at Mathias Point, Va. Ward is the first US Naval officer casualty of the Civil War.
1898 During the Spanish-American War, the 301-ton yacht Hornet captures the Spanish steamer Benito Estenger off Cape Cruz, Cuba.
1945 PV-1 (VPB 142) sinks the Japanese submarine I 165, 450 miles east of Saipan, Mariana Islands.
1945 USS Blueback (SS 326) sinks Imperial Japanese Navy submarine chaser, (CH 2), north of Lombok, Java Sea.
1950 President Harry Truman authorizes U.S. Naval and Air operations south of 38th Parallel, Korea, in support of the U.N. call to assist South Korea.
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Today in History June 27
1743 | English King George II defeats the French at Dettingen, Bavaria. | |
1833 | Prudence Crandall, a white woman, is arrested for conducting an academy for black women in Canterbury, Conn. | |
1862 | Confederates break through the Union lines at the Battle of Gaines' Mill--the third engagement of the Seven Days' campaign. | |
1864 | General William Sherman is repulsed by Confederates at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. | |
1871 | The yen becomes the new form of currency in Japan. | |
1905 | The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin mutinies. | |
1918 | Two German pilots are saved by parachutes for the first time. | |
1923 | Yugoslav Premier Nikola Pachitch is wounded by Serb attackers in Belgrade. | |
1924 | Democrats offer Mrs. Leroy Springs the vice presidential nomination, the first woman considered for the job. | |
1927 | The U.S. Marines adopt the English bulldog as their mascot. | |
1929 | Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York reveal a system for transmitting television pictures. | |
1942 | The Allied convoy PQ-17 leaves Iceland for Murmansk and Archangel. | |
1944 | Allied forces capture the port city of Cherbourg, France. | |
1950 | The UN Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea. | |
1963 | Henry Cabot Lodge is appointed U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam. | |
1973 | President Richard Nixon vetoes a Senate ban on the Cambodia bombing. | |
1985 | The U.S. House of Representatives votes to limit the use of combat troops in Nicaragua. |
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Thanks to Clyde
Today I took a call from Chaser, Tailhook Association ED, that HOOK 20 is cancelled. A virtual HOOK is in the works with details to follow. Chaser said the decision was made following a recent message from Fleet Forces Command and his briefing with the Airboss. See the statement on the HOOK website https://www.tailhook.net/.
I thanked Chaser for taking the time to reach out personally. He said he had over 150 calls to make with all vendors. Relationships were most important. As he said, Tailhook is not just a business but a membership-based association.
Chaser said if associations still want to meet, the NUGGET will offer spaces at the HOOK rate. I'm not sure we want to do that with our own reunion pending but that's not my decision. Any reservations will be fully refundable.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for June 27
FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR June 27
THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
27 June
1909: In New York, the Sun, Times, and Herald newspapers printed the first ads in the world of a practical airplane for sale. (24)
1911: Lt (JG) John H. Towers (USN), reported to the Curtiss School in Hammondsport for instruction. He became Naval Aviator No. 3. (24)
1923: Lts Lowell H. Smith and John P. Richter made the Army Air Service's first complete hose refueling between two aircraft over San Diego, while setting world refueled speed records for 2,500 and 3,000 kilometers. Their DH-4B received two hose refuelings from a DH-4B flown by Lts Virgil Hine and Frank Seifert. (18) (24)
1929: Capt Frank Hawks set a FAI record for a round-trip cross-country flight from New York to Los Angeles and back. He reached Los Angeles in 19 hours 10 minutes 32 seconds and returned to New York in 17 hours 38 minutes 10 seconds. (9)
1944: American bombers left Russian bases with an escort of P-51 Mustangs and attacked oil production plants in Poland before flying on to Italy. (4)
1950: KOREAN WAR. FEAF and the 374 TCW flew C-54, C-47, and C-46 aircraft to airlift 748 evacuees from Kimpo and Suwon airfields to Japan. Moreover, F-82s, F-80 jets, and B-26 light bombers provided air cover for the evacuation. (21) KOREAN WAR. Fifth Air Force accepted a mission to establish air superiority over S. Korea to prevent N. Korean air attacks on Republic of Korea forces and to protect evacuation forces. When N. Korean planes appeared over Kimpo and Suwon Airfields, USAF fighters engaged them in the first air battle. Major James W. Little, the 339th Fighter All-Weather Squadron Commander, fired the first shot; however, Lt William G. Hudson flying an F-82 Twin Mustang from the 68th Fighter All-Weather Squadron scored the first aerial victory by shooting down an enemy Yak-11. In all, six pilots shot down seven N. Korean propeller-driven fighters over Kimpo, the highest number of USAF aerial victories in one day for 1950. (16) (24) (28)
KOREAN WAR. Fifth Air Force B-26s, flying from Ashiya AB, Japan, attacked enemy targets in South Korea in the evening, but bad weather made the raids ineffective. (28)
1952: Glide tests on the Bell X-2 rocket research airplane began at Edwards AFB. (3)
1956: Through 28 June, Navy held its first annual Fleet Air Gunnery Meet at El Centro, Calif. VF112 won team honors and the Earle Trophy, while Lt (JG) H. N. Wellman from VF-43 earned individual honors. (24)
1957: The SM-73 (Goose) was the first plastic airframe missile to fly and the first missile to complete countdown, launch, and flight on the first attempt. (16) (24)
1958: First production model F-105B Thunderchief delivered to the USAF. Operation TOP SAIL. Two 99 AREFS KC-135s from Westover AFB, Mass., broke the FAI speed record from New York to London. Major Burl B. Davenport landed his lead tanker in London after 5 hours 29 minutes 14.6 seconds. Two days later, they returned in 5 hours 53 minutes 12.8 seconds for another record. (1) (9) The 556 SMS from Patrick AFB launched SAC's first Snark missile from Cape Canaveral. (6) (12)
1961: At the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., NASA fired the eight-engine Saturn SA-72 successfully in a 29.9-second static test. (24)
1962: Joseph A. Walker flew the X-15 No. 1 at its maximum speed to set a record 4,159 MPH (Mach 5.92) in a climb from 96,000 to 120,000 feet. (3) (9)
1963: Maj Robert A. Rushworth flew the X-15 No. 3 to 54.15 miles (285,000 feet) and became the second military pilot to receive astronaut's wings for space flight in a winged aircraft. (3) (9) 1966: The McDonnell Douglas F-4K Phantom II first flew.
1968: The first Marine pilot to fly the NF-104 on a zoom flight flew it to 91,000 feet over the desert near Edwards AFB. (3) 1970: The ADC marked its 20th anniversary of continuous 24-hour alert.
1972: USAF C-123 Provider aircraft operations in SEA ended with the inactivation of the 310th Tactical Airlift Squadron (TAS) and the transfer of its aircraft to the Vietnamese Air Force. (16) (17)
1976: Vandenberg AFB launched the first Titan II with a Universal Space Guidance System. (6)
1990: In the forest north of Santa Barbara, Calif, a fire erupted near the Painted Cave. Through 2 July, MAC C-130 aircrews delivered first suppressant chemicals, fire fighters, and fire-fighting equipment to the area. Aircraft also sprayed the fire from the air. The fire burned 4,900 acres and more than 450 homes, causing $250 million in damage. (26)
1994: C-130 Hercules aircraft from ANG and AFRES units (the 145th Airlift Group (AG), 153 AG and 302 AW) began flying missions to fight fires in the West. Eight aircraft continued this operation through September and dropped more the 5 million gallons of fire retardant. The fires burned more than 2 million acres in six western states. (16) (26)
1995: Lockheed-Martin started assembling the first production model F-22. (16) (26) For the first time a Space Shuttle, the Atlantis, visited the Russian Mir space station. (21)
1996: A C-5 returned to Dover AFB the remains of 19 Air Force officers and airmen killed in the 25 June terrorists attack on the Khobar Towers housing area in Saudi Arabia. (22)
1998: At Edwards AFB, Aurora Flight Service's Perseus B reached 60,200 feet in altitude, slightly above its designed altitude. (3)
2003: An F/A-18 Hornet from the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB achieved a 29 percent fuel savings by flying in a DC-8's wingtip vortex for a study of vortex-induced performance benefits on fighters. The Hornet flew about 200 feet behind the larger plane at 25,000 feet in altitude. (3)
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An interesting read. Click the link to read the full article.
Cheers
Nordo
The USS GERALD R. FORD might be the biggest defense acquisition disaster of all time?!?! I'm not certain it will ever deploy.
AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
The Aircraft Carrier We Need
By Jerry Hendrix, National Review, 18 Jun 20
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/07/06/the-aircraft-carrier-we-need/#slide-1
On April 24 the U.S. Navy announced that a fifth weapons elevator had been certified for use onboard the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78). (A weapons elevator lifts munitions, such as bombs and missiles, from the storage area to the flight deck.) Six more elevators remain uncertified, requiring additional testing and modifications before the carrier can be deployed. Originally estimated to cost $10.5 billion to build, the ship was officially "delivered" to the Navy in May 2017, some 18 months behind schedule, at an eye-popping cost of $12.9 billion. However, even those cost numbers and dates are misleading, as the ship still does not have all of its essential systems certified, owing to major difficulties with its ship-service turbine generators, electromagnetic aircraft-launch systems, advanced arresting gear (the apparatus that slows down aircraft as they land on deck), and finally its weapons elevators. The upshot of all of these difficulties is that the Navy has been forced to use dollars from its crucial operations-and-maintenance accounts to "repair" a brand-new ship, for which it had already paid $13 billion, that has yet to deploy operationally, despite having officially been in the fleet for nearly three years.
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Thanks to Mike….a bit of humor
What those early guys went through way back when. Humor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Q6_8EyRYY
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Thanks to gm AND DUTCH
Subject: More Interesting info!
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Report and the Washington Post, last year there were 10 million arrests by police...10 Million!! Out of those 10 MILLION arrests there were 1,004 officer involved fatalities. Out of those 1,004 officer involved fatalities 41 were unarmed. Out of those 41 officer involved unarmed fatalities, now you might find it hard to believe I know, but out of 41 deaths, now hear this... 19 were white - 19 WERE WHITE! 9 were black - 9 WERE BLACK! Now 1 is 1 too many but to me 41 out of 10 million is pretty damn great! Now ask me how many police officers were killed in the line of duty...take a wild guess... 89 police officers, but where's the news on that one? Just to bring it home to you. Take a guess at how many people were shot in CHICAGO just this last weekend. In Chicago last weekend 82 people were shot within a 48 hour period. Of those 82 people 19 people died. Yes you got it. In Chicago last weekend alone there were more black people killed by (wait for it..) black people than were killed by police all last year! The hypocrisy is mind blowing. Now please go research and see for yourself. Thank you to Bernard Kerik, Former NYPD Police Commissioner for sharing this information.
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Thanks to Dr. Rich
The Final Approach: Living the Dream
Thanks to Tracy … excellent!!
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This day in US Military History
June 27
1829 – In Genoa, Italy, English scientist James Smithson dies after a long illness, leaving behind a will with a peculiar footnote. In the event that his only nephew died without any heirs, Smithson decreed that the whole of his estate would go to "the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Smithson's curious bequest to a country that he had never visited aroused significant attention on both sides of the Atlantic. Smithson had been a fellow of the venerable Royal Society of London from the age of 22, publishing numerous scientific papers on mineral composition, geology, and chemistry. In 1802, he overturned popular scientific opinion by proving that zinc carbonates were true carbonate minerals, and one type of zinc carbonate was later named smithsonite in his honor. Six years after his death, his nephew, Henry James Hungerford, indeed died without children, and on July 1, 1836, the U.S. Congress authorized acceptance of Smithson's gift. President Andrew Jackson sent diplomat Richard Rush to England to negotiate for transfer of the funds, and two years later Rush set sail for home with 11 boxes containing a total of 104,960 gold sovereigns, eight shillings, and seven pence, as well as Smithson's mineral collection, library, scientific notes, and personal effects. After the gold was melted down, it amounted to a fortune worth well over $500,000. After considering a series of recommendations, including the creation of a national university, a public library, or an astronomical observatory, Congress agreed that the bequest would support the creation of a museum, a library, and a program of research, publication, and collection in the sciences, arts, and history. On August 10, 1846, the act establishing the Smithsonian Institution was signed into law by President James K. Polk. Today, the Smithsonian is composed of 18 museums and galleries and many research facilities throughout the United States and the world. Besides the original Smithsonian Institution Building, popularly known as the "Castle," visitors to Washington, D.C., tour the National Museum of Natural History, which houses the natural science collections, the National Zoological Park, and the National Portrait Gallery. The National Museum of American History houses the original Star-Spangled Banner and other artifacts of U.S. history. The National Air and Space Museum has the distinction of being the most visited museum in the world, exhibiting marvels of aviation and space history such as the Wright brothers' plane and Freedom 7, the space capsule that took the first American into space. John Smithson, the Smithsonian Institution's great benefactor, is interred in a tomb in the Smithsonian Building.
1874 – Using new high-powered rifles to devastating effect, 28 buffalo hunters repulse a much larger force of attacking Indians at an old trading post in the Texas panhandle called Adobe Walls. The Commanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne Indians living in western Texas had long resented the advancement of white settlement in their territories. In 1867, some of the Indians accepted the terms of the Treaty of Medicine Lodge, which required them to move to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) but also reserved much of the Texas Panhandle as their exclusive hunting grounds. Many white Texans, however, maintained that the treaty had ignored their legitimate claims to the area. These white buffalo hunters, who had already greatly reduced the once massive herds, continued to hunt in the territory. By the early 1870s, Commanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne hunters were finding it harder to locate buffalo, and they blamed the illegal white buffalo hunters. When the federal government failed to take adequate measures to stop the white buffalo hunters, the great chief Quanah Parker and others began to argue for war. In the spring 1874, a group of white merchants occupied an old trading post called Adobe Walls near the South Canadian River in the Indian's hunting territory. The merchants quickly transformed the site into a regional center for the buffalo-hide trade. Angered by this blatant violation of the treaty, Chief Quanah Parker and Lone Wolf amassed a force of about 700 Commanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne braves. On this day in 1874, the Indians attacked Adobe Walls. Only 28 hunters and traders occupied Adobe Walls, but they had two advantages over the Indians: the thick walls of the adobe structure were impenetrable to arrows and bullets, and the occupants had a number of high-powered rifles normally used on buffalo. The hunters .50 caliber Sharps rifles represented the latest technology in long-range, rapid firing weaponry. Already skilled marksmen, the buffalo hunters used the rifles to deadly effect, decimating the warriors before they came close enough even to return effective fire. On the second day of the siege, one hunter reportedly hit an Indian warrior at a distance of eight-tenths of a mile. Despite their overwhelmingly superior numbers, after three days the Indians concluded that Adobe Walls could not be taken and withdrew. The defenders had lost only four men in the attack, and they later estimated that the Indians had lost 13. Enraged by their defeat, several Indian bands subsequently took their revenge on poorly defended targets. Fearful settlers demanded military protection, leading to the outbreak of the Red River War. By the time the war ended in 1875, the Commanche and Kiowa had been badly beaten and Indian resistance on the Southern Plains had effectively collapsed.
1940 – The Germans set up two-way radio communication in their newly occupied French territory, employing their most sophisticated coding machine, Enigma, to transmit information. The Germans set up radio stations in Brest and the port town of Cherbourg. Signals would be transmitted to German bombers so as to direct them to targets in Britain. The Enigma coding machine, invented in 1919 by Hugo Koch, a Dutchman, looked like a typewriter and was originally employed for business purposes. The German army adapted the machine for wartime use and considered its encoding system unbreakable. They were wrong. The Brits had broken the code as early as the German invasion of Poland and had intercepted virtually every message sent through the system. Britain nicknamed the intercepted messages Ultra.
1950 – A patrol of F80C Shooting Stars from the 35th Fighter-Bomber Squadron intercepted eight Ilyushin IL-10 fighters over Kimpo. Captain Raymond E. Schillereff and Lieutenant Robert H. Dewald each scored single victories while Lieutenant Robert E. Wayne claimed a pair IL-10s. These were the first air-to-air victories achieved by jet fighters in U.S. Air Force history.
Congressional Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
*MURPHY, MICHAEL P.
Rank and organization: Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 1, Naval Special Warfare Task Unit. Place and Date: Asadabad, Konar Province, Afghanistan, 27 – 28 June 2005. Entered Service at: Patchogue, New York. Born: 7 May 1976, Smithtown, New York Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as the leader of a special reconnaissance element with Naval Special Warfare Task Unit Afghanistan on 27 and 28 June 2005. While leading a mission to locate a high-level anti-coalition militia leader, Lieutenant Murphy demonstrated extraordinary heroism in the face of grave danger in the vicinity of Asadabad, Konar Province, Afghanistan. On 28 June 2005, operating in an extremely rugged enemy-controlled area, Lieutenant Murphy's team was discovered by anti-coalition militia sympathizers, who revealed their position to Taliban fighters. As a result, between 30 and 40 enemy fighters besieged his four-member team. Demonstrating exceptional resolve, Lieutenant Murphy valiantly led his men in engaging the large enemy force. The ensuing fierce firefight resulted in numerous enemy casualties, as well as the wounding of all four members of the team. Ignoring his own wounds and demonstrating exceptional composure, Lieutenant Murphy continued to lead and encourage his men. When the primary communicator fell mortally wounded, Lieutenant Murphy repeatedly attempted to call for assistance for his beleaguered teammates. Realizing the impossibility of communicating in the extreme terrain, and in the face of almost certain death, he fought his way into open terrain to gain a better position to transmit a call. This deliberate, heroic act deprived him of cover, exposing him to direct enemy fire. Finally achieving contact with his headquarters, Lieutenant Murphy maintained his exposed position while he provided his location and requested immediate support for his team. In his final act of bravery, he continued to engage the enemy until he was mortally wounded, gallantly giving his life for his country and for the cause of freedom. By his selfless leadership, courageous actions, and extraordinary devotion to duty, Lieutenant Murphy reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.
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Thanks to Carl
How Long Does Alcohol Stay in Your System?
Last Updated: May 19, 2020
When you have a glass of wine, a beer, or your favorite mixed cocktail, the body goes through an extensive process to break down the alcohol. It does this mainly in the liver through two enzymes: alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH). These enzymes help break apart the alcohol molecule so your body can eliminate it from the body.
It typically takes about one hour for the liver to break down one 'unit' of alcohol. But this can vary depending on your age, weight, gender, metabolism, how much you eat, the type and strength of alcohol, and any medicines you take. How your liver is functioning may also have an effect on how your body metabolizes alcohol.
Breaking Down Units
Units of alcohol are typically represented by the standard measure, alcohol by volume (ABV), which shows the amount of pure alcohol as a percentage of the total volume of liquid in a drink. You can monitor how many units you are getting by the strength and size of your drink:
Standard glass of wine (12% ABV) = 2.1 units
Large glass of wine (12% ABV) = 3 units
Pint of low-strength beer (3.6% ABV) = 2 units
Pint of high-strength beer (5.2% ABV) = 3 units
Single measure (25 milliliters, ml) of spirits (gin, rum, tequila, whiskey, vodka) = 1 unit
If you drink a standard glass of wine, which equals 2.1 units, it will generally take your body about two hours to break down the alcohol (depending on the factors previously mentioned). A standard drink is defined as:
5 fl oz of wine
12 fl oz of regular beer
8 to 9 fl oz of malt liquor
1.5 fl oz shot of distilled spirits
Detecting Alcohol in Your System
The liver breaks down 92 to 98% of an alcoholic drink as it moves through the digestive system, filtering out toxins through the kidneys. That leaves roughly 2 to 8% of alcohol that's eliminated through other means, such as sweat, breath and urine. This process of eliminating alcohol from your body can take many hours (though the absorption may be slightly slower when you have food in your stomach). This means if you have a few drinks in the evening, the alcohol could still be in your blood the next day. You could even be over the legal alcohol limit to drive the next day.
Some alcohol will enter the bloodstream through the stomach walls before it's broken down, and part of it then travels to the brain. A blood test is the preferred test during DUI arrests and in rehabilitation centers that treat individuals with alcohol use disorder. It can detect alcohol in the bloodstream for up to 12 hours after the last drink. Breath tests (breathalyzer) can also determine the blood alcohol content (BAC). The higher your BAC, the more likely you are to show signs of intoxication. These tests can detect alcohol consumption about 24 hours after the last drink.
Urine tests can detect metabolized alcohol between 12 and 48 hours after drinking, depending on how much alcohol was consumed. Other tests, like a hair test, which can detect alcohol for up to 90 days, can show that you drank alcohol, but not specifically when or how much you drank.
Reducing Your Risk
With each drink, your BAC rises, and you are more likely to show signs of intoxication. These may include:
Decreased coordination
Lowered inhibitions
Breathing problems
Drinking heavily puts people at risk for many adverse health consequences, including alcoholism and liver damage. With excessive drinking, or binge drinking the risk of overdose increases, and your breathing can become dangerously slow, or even stop. So it's important to regularly monitor how much you are drinking and how often:
Try not to drink more than 14 units of alcohol per week—seven standard glasses of wine (5 ounces each).
If you drink 14 units per week, spread your drinking over three or more days.
Be sure to go several days a week without any alcohol.
Also, keep in mind that while things like coffee, water, a shower or sleep may perk you up, they do not speed up the breakdown of alcohol, or sober you up any faster. And they will not eliminate alcohol from your blood. As long as you are consuming more alcohol than you're eliminating, your BAC will continue to go up.
For information about alcohol use disorder, or treatment of alcohol abuse, visit SAMHA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration).
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