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Today in Naval History
July 5
1801 David G. Farragut is born near Knoxville, Tenn. Known for the quote, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead during the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864, he is appointed vice admiral by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and is commissioned an admiral, the first-ever in the US Navy, by a Congressional Act in 1866.
1814 The sloop-of-war, USS Peacock, captures British vessels HMS Stranger, HMS Venus, HMS Adiona, and HMS Fortitude.
1859 Hawaiian bark Gambia, commanded by Capt. N.C. Brooks, discovers the Midway Islands. The islands are named "Middlebrook Islands." On Aug. 28, 1867, Capt. William Reynolds of the USS Lackawanna takes possession of the atoll for the U.S., making Midway the first offshore islands annexed by the U.S. government.
1862 The Navy Department is reorganized by act of Congress.
1942 USS Growler (SS 215) torpedoes and sinks the Japanese destroyer, Arare, in the Salmon Lagoon, off Kiska. In the attack, USS Growler damages destroyers Kasumi and Shiranui.
1944 USS Thomas (DE 102) and USS Baker (DE 190) from Task Group 22.5, sink German minelayer submarine (U 233) off Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Today in History July 5
1776
The Declaration of Independence is first printed by John Dunlop in Philadelphia.
1806
A Spanish army repels the British during their attempt to retake Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1814
U.S. troops under Jacob Brown defeat a superior British force at Chippewa, Canada.
1832
The German government begins curtailing freedom of the press after German Democrats advocate a revolt against Austrian rule.
1839
British naval forces bombard Dingai on Zhoushan Island in China and occupy it.
1863
Federal troops occupy Vicksburg, Mississippi and distribute supplies to the citizens.
1892
Andrew Beard is issued a patent for the rotary engine.
1940
Marshal Henri Petain's Vichy government breaks off diplomatic relations with Great Britain.
1941
German troops reach the Dnieper River in the Soviet Union.
1943
The Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, begins.
1944
The Japanese garrison on Numfoor, New Guinea, tries to counterattack but is soon beaten back by U.S. forces.
1950
American forces engage the North Koreans for the first time at Osan, South Korea.
Just a note from 4 July
1942 the 8th Air Force flies its first mission in Europe using borrowed British equipment. Only three of the six aircraft return to England.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for July 5, 2020 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
5 July
1911: The Chief Signal Officer approved the first flight form (Form N.277). Subsequently, the Army's Aviation School at Augusta inaugurated its use. (24)
1912: Capt Charles DeForest Chandler, Lts Thomas DeWitt Milling, and Lt Henry H. Arnold became the first qualified "Military Aviators." They received their badges on 6 October. (11) (24)
1938: Richard C. DuPont set US glider altitude record of 6,806 feet at Elmira.
1943: The first turbo jet engine developed for the Navy, the Westinghouse 19A, completed its 100-hour endurance test. (24)
1944: Harry Crosby, company pilot, flew the Northrop MX-324, the first US rocket-powered aircraft, for the first time at Harper Dry Lake, Calif. (20)
1952: World record of 124 parachute jumps in one day set at Grand Prairie, Tx., by paratrooper Neal Stewart of Birmingham, Ala. (24)
1962: Flying from Hill AFB to Springfield, Minn., Capt Chester R. Radcliffe, Jr., piloted a H-43B Huskie to a world's distance records of 900 miles. (24)
1970: Boeing received the first contract for the new AWACS that would serve as a combat direction center for ADC. (16) (26)
1974: The 555 TFS moved without personnel or equipment from Udorn RTAFB to Luke AFB to become the first F-15 Eagle squadron in the USAF. (16) (26)
1993: Through 12 July, AMC moved 334 US Army soldiers and 850 short tons of equipment from Germany to Macedonia on 15 C-5, 2 C-141, and 3 C-130 missions to help the UN prevent the spread of fighting in the former Yugoslavia. (16) (26)
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Thanks to Carl
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2019/07/03/lido-has-shuffled/
Lido Has Shuffled
By Eric Peters - July 3, 2019
Lee Iacocca died. And with him, an era.
The era of the car guy executive.
Iacocca wasn't a transplant from a toothpaste company – and he was an engineer, not a "human resources" manager. He smoked cigars, told ribald stories.
Most of all, Lido knew cars – and the car business. Put more precisely, he knew how to sell cars by making cars people wanted to buy;
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From a year ago
Thanks to Rich and Mud's Marines ….This was a last minute addition to today's list because when I opened it up and read it I laughed my a.. off
Learning to Cuss
And increased their vocabulary 10 fold.
14 years later they both enlisted in the Marines.
A 6 year old and a 4 year old are playing in the yard.
The 6 year old asks, "You know what? I think it's about time we started learning to cuss". The 4 year old nods his head in approval.
The 6 year old continues, "When we go in for breakfast, I'm gonna say something with hell and you say something with ass".
The 4 year old agrees with enthusiasm.
When the mother walks into the kitchen and asks the 6 year old what he wants for breakfast, he replies,
"Aw, hell, Mom, I guess I'll have some Cheerios".
WHACK!
He flies out of his chair, tumbles across the kitchen floor, gets up, and runs upstairs crying his eyes out, with his mother in hot pursuit, slapping his rear with every step. His mom locks him in his room and shouts, "You can stay there until I let you out!"
She then comes back downstairs, looks at the 4 year old and asks with a stern voice, "And what do YOU want for breakfast, young man?"
"I don't know", he blubbers, "but you can bet your ass it won't be Cheerios"..
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from Mark,
A little known fact. The "Bone" did more CAS sorties in OEF (Afghanistan) than any other aircraft. The A-10 was second. Note the term "sorties". If measuring by amount of weapons dropped then the Bone would far exceed any other aircraft. The B-52s dropped a butt load of weapons, but those were typically pre-planned and not CAS.
Back to the Bone...
They modified their ejection racks and software to enable simultaneous drops. Meaning, the three multiple ejection racks were originally programmed to drop one weapon at a time, rotate, drop another, in a sequence, etc. So the squadrons figured out how to fool the system into dropping several JDAM or Paveways at the same time. And they carried up to 80 separate bombs...uh huh...80! Depending if 250, 500, 1000 or 2000lbs. A lot of iron!
An airborne forward air controller (AFAC) in a fighter or more typically a ground-based TACP embedded with ground troops, very often SpecOps guys (early on Delta, SEALS, other SOF) coordinated CAS directly with Bone crews.
Why the Bone? It carried a lot of weapons, it could dial in multiple DMPIs ("dimpies" for Desired Mean Points of Impact, i.e. target coords) all at once and make a whopping multi-hit show of force, it could loiter for hours, day or night. And it had the Sniper pod (or Litening II, I'm not sure) to do the same targeting, laser designating and "buddy lasing" (for another platform) as A and F series aircraft.
Driving up to northern Afghanistan from Diego Garcia or Al Udeid required a couple air refuelings, and tankers typically came out of Uzbekistan, UAE or Diego. It all worked well. Think about this, though. The B-1s had to overfly Pakistan to get to Afghanistan. I'm not sure the average Pakistani would be thrilled about all the bombs overflying their country. But it went on day after day.
So at your next outing, ask "which aircraft did the most CAS over Afghanistan?" Most will assume the A-10 or F-16. Nope. "Da Bone".
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from Alan,
If this is to be believed one has to accept a new definition of close air support. Nonetheless, the Bone has proven to be a useful combat aircraft. As for it no longer having a nuclear capability, don't worry about it. What was done to make it non-nuclear capable can also be undone to make it nuclear capable again. Just need to go to the old spare parts bin and get after it.
Subject: B-1B
This article mentions the ability to offer CAS using the SNIPER Pod. I recall a "60 Minutes" article which takes exception to that capability.
Thanks. Ralph
Why the B-1 Bomber Is Such a Badass Plane
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Thanks to Red...and Dr. Rich
FLY NAVY!!
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This Day in US Military History
JULY 5
1861 – The first large-scale engagement of the Civil War is fought in southwestern Missouri, signaling an escalation in the hostilities between the North and South. Missouri was the scene of some of the most bitter partisan fighting during the war. After the clash at Fort Sumter in April, the state was deeply divided. The Missouri State Guardsmen, a force of 6,000 men commanded by Confederate Governor Claiborne Jackson and Colonel Sterling Price, were poorly equipped and outfitted mostly in civilian clothing. Their Union counterpart was a force of 1,100, mostly German-Americans from St. Louis, commanded by General Franz Sigel. Sigel's force occupied Springfield in late June, and then collided with the Confederates at nearby Carthage on July 5. Outnumbered, Sigel eventually withdrew, but was able to hold off several small attacks. By nightfall, the Union troops had retreated through Carthage and escaped a dangerous trap. Both sides declared victory, and losses were light: 13 Union men were killed and 31 were wounded, while 40 Confederates were killed and 120 were wounded. The forces remained in the area of Springfield, gathering strength over the next month. They would fight again in August at Wilson's Creek, Missouri.
1946 – French designer Louis Reard unveils a daring two-piece swimsuit at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris. Parisian showgirl Micheline Bernardini modeled the new fashion, which Reard dubbed "bikini," inspired by a news-making U.S. atomic test that took place off the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean earlier that week. European women first began wearing two-piece bathing suits that consisted of a halter top and shorts in the 1930s, but only a sliver of the midriff was revealed and the navel was vigilantly covered. In the United States, the modest two-piece made its appearance during World War II, when wartime rationing of fabric saw the removal of the skirt panel and other superfluous material. Meanwhile, in Europe, fortified coastlines and Allied invasions curtailed beach life during the war, and swimsuit development, like everything else non-military, came to a standstill. In 1946, Western Europeans joyously greeted the first war-free summer in years, and French designers came up with fashions to match the liberated mood of the people. Two French designers, Jacques Heim and Louis Reard, developed competing prototypes of the bikini. Heim called his the "atom" and advertised it as "the world's smallest bathing suit." Reard's swimsuit, which was basically a bra top and two inverted triangles of cloth connected by string, was in fact significantly smaller. Made out of a scant 30 inches of fabric, Reard promoted his creation as "smaller than the world's smallest bathing suit." Reard called his creation the bikini, named after the Bikini Atoll. In planning the debut of his new swimsuit, Reard had trouble finding a professional model who would deign to wear the scandalously skimpy two-piece. So he turned to Micheline Bernardini, an exotic dancer at the Casino de Paris, who had no qualms about appearing nearly nude in public. As an allusion to the headlines that he knew his swimsuit would generate, he printed newspaper type across the suit that Bernardini modeled on July 5 at the Piscine Molitor. The bikini was a hit, especially among men, and Bernardini received some 50,000 fan letters. Before long, bold young women in bikinis were causing a sensation along the Mediterranean coast. Spain and Italy passed measures prohibiting bikinis on public beaches but later capitulated to the changing times when the swimsuit grew into a mainstay of European beaches in the 1950s. Reard's business soared, and in advertisements he kept the bikini mystique alive by declaring that a two-piece suit wasn't a genuine bikini "unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring." In prudish America, the bikini was successfully resisted until the early 1960s, when a new emphasis on youthful liberation brought the swimsuit en masse to U.S. beaches. It was immortalized by the pop singer Brian Hyland, who sang "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini" in 1960, by the teenage "beach blanket" movies of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon, and by the California surfing culture celebrated by rock groups like the Beach Boys. Since then, the popularity of the bikini has hardly diminished; though on beaches in Brazil and the Mediterranean today, many women favor the "monokini," a swimsuit style that consists solely of a bikini bottom.
1952 – Kentucky's 623rd Field Artillery Battalion, armed with eighteen 155mm towed howitzers, moves into this area in support of X Corps in holding operations against Communist Chinese assaults. During this period it will earn a Republic of Korea Unit Citation for its fire support of South Korea troops in repelling an enemy assault. In October the battalion, the last Guard artillery unit deployed to Korea, will see hard fighting and earns a Navy Unit Commendation embroidered PANMUNJOM for firing missions in support of the 1st Marine Division. The unit served again overseas in Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
1954 – The B-52A bomber made its maiden flight.
2000 – Coast Guard HH-65A CGNR 6539 rescued 51 persons from a burning oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The aircrew responded to the fire and safely airlifted 15 people to a nearby platform nine miles from the fire. They then evacuated another 36 people to awaiting boats. One of the 6539's crew had landed on the platform to coordinate the rescue. As the helicopter returned to retrieve him, the rig exploded and sent a fireball 100 feet into the air. Unsure whether he survived, the 6539 flew into the thick, black column of smoke and safely rescued him. All four aircrew were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Congressional Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
None this Date.
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Thanks to Carl …of course
Star Spangled STEEL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHLlwiLebkc&feature=youtu.be
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How old is your dog in human years?
Thanks to Carl
Full report in PDF here: https://www.cell.com/cell-systems/pdf/S2405-4712(20)30203-9.pdf?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2405471220302039%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
https://go.newsfusion.com//science-news/item/7102481
How old is your dog in human years? Scientists develop better method than 'multiply by 7'
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UC San Diego
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July 5, 2020
If there is one myth that has persisted through the years without much evidence, it's this:
Multiply your dog's age by seven to calculate how old they are in "human years."
In other words, the old adage says, a four-year-old dog is similar in physiological age to a 28-year-old person.
But a new study by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine throws that out the window.
Instead, they created a formula that more accurately compares the ages of humans and dogs.
The formula is based on the changing patterns of methyl groups in dog and human genomes — how many of these chemical tags and where they're located — as they age.
Since the two species don't age at the same rate over their lifespans, it turns out it's not a perfectly linear comparison, as the 1:7 years rule-of-thumb would suggest.
The new methylation-based formula, published July 2 in Cell Systems, is the first that is transferrable across species.
More than just a parlor trick, the researchers say it may provide a useful tool for veterinarians, and for evaluating anti-aging interventions.
"There are a lot of anti-aging products out there these days — with wildly varying degrees of scientific support," said senior author Trey Ideker, PhD, professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center.
"But how do you know if a product will truly extend your life without waiting 40 years or so?
What if you could instead measure your age-associated methylation patterns before, during and after the intervention to see if it's doing anything?"
Ideker led the study with first author Tina Wang, PhD, who was a graduate student in Ideker's lab at the time.
The formula provides a new "epigenetic clock," a method for determining the age of a cell, tissue or organism based on a readout of its epigenetics — chemical modifications like methylation, which influence which genes are "off" or "on" without altering the inherited genetic sequence itself.
Epigenetic changes provide scientists with clues to a genome's age, Ideker said — much like wrinkles on a person's face provide clues to their age.
Ideker and others have previously published epigenetic clocks for humans, but they are limited in that they may only be accurate for the specific individuals on whom the formulas were developed. They don't translate to other species, perhaps not even to other people.
Ideker said it was Wang who first brought the dog idea to him.
"We always look at humans, but humans are kind of boring," he said. "So she convinced me we should study dog aging in a comparative way."
To do that, Ideker and Wang collaborated with dog genetics experts Danika Bannasch, DVM, PhD, professor of population health and reproduction at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, and Elaine Ostrander, PhD, chief of the Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Bannasch provided blood samples from 105 Labrador retrievers. As the first to sequence the dog genome, Ostrander provided valuable input on analyzing it.
Dogs are an interesting animal to study, Ideker said. Given how closely they live with us, perhaps more than any other animal, a dog's environmental and chemical exposures are very similar to humans, and they receive nearly the same levels of health care.
It's also important that we better understand their aging process, he said, as veterinarians frequently use the old 1:7 years ratio to determine a dog's age and use that information to guide diagnostic and treatment decisions.
What emerged from the study is a graph that can be used to match up the age of your dog with the comparable human age. The comparison is not a 1:7 ratio over time. Especially when dogs are young, they age rapidly compared to humans. A one-year-old dog is similar to a 30-year-old human. A four-year-old dog is similar to a 52-year-old human. Then by seven years old, dog aging slows.
"This makes sense when you think about it — after all, a nine-month-old dog can have puppies, so we already knew that the 1:7 ratio wasn't an accurate measure of age," Ideker said.
According to Ideker, one limitation of the new epigenetic clock is that it was developed using a single breed of dog, and some dog breeds are known to live longer than others. More research will be needed, but since it's accurate for humans and mice as well as Labrador retrievers, he predicts the clock will apply to all dog breeds.
Next, the researchers plan to test other dog breeds, determine if the results hold up using saliva samples, and test mouse models to see what happens to their epigenetic markers when you try to prolong their lives with a variety of interventions.
Meanwhile, Ideker, like many other dog owners, is looking at his own canine companion a little differently now.
"I have a six-year-old dog — she still runs with me, but I'm now realizing that she's not as 'young' as I thought she was," Ideker said.
Original study
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