Good Saturday Morning October 10, 2020.
I hope that you all having a great weekend.
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Today in Naval History
October 10
1845 The Naval School, now known as the Naval Academy, opens in Annapolis, Md. with 50 midshipmen and seven professors. The first superintendent, Cmdr. Franklin Buchanan, later becomes an admiral in the Confederate Navy and commands the Confederate forces at Mobile Bay, Ala.
1860 USS San Jacinto, commanded by Capt. T.A. Dorwin, captures the slave ship Bonito in the South Atlantic with about 622 slaves onboard. Bonito is then taken into naval service.
1923 The first American-built rigid airship USS Shenandoah (ZR 1), powered by helium gas instead of hydrogen, is christened at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, N.J. On Sept. 3, 1925, USS Shenandoah encounters violent weather over southern Ohio and breaks up. Fourteen of her crew lose their lives in this tragedy.
1943 USS Bonefish (SS 223) sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Isuzugawa Maru and merchant transport Teibi Maru off Cam Ranh Bay, French Indochina.
1955 Following a week of disaster relief operations in the wake of Hurricane Hilda, USS Saipan (CVL 48), with HTU-1 embarked, sails from Tampico, Mexico. Helicopters flying from the ship rescue 5,439 people and deliver 183,017 pounds of food and medical supplies.
1985 Navy F-14's launch from USS Saratoga (CV 60), intercept an Egyptian 737 airliner over international waters, and direct it to Sigonella, Sicily. The airliner was carrying four Middle Eastern terrorists who hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro Oct. 7 and murdered a U.S. citizen. The hijackers are taken into custody.
2005 A 7.6 magnitude earthquake near the Indo-Pakistani border kills more than 73,000 people and renders nearly three million homeless. USS Tarawa (LHA 1) Expeditionary Strike Group Commander, Rear Adm. Michael A. LeFever, coordinates the operations of the Disaster Assistance Center at Islamabad, Pakistan. Through 13 Feb., U.S. and allied aircraft fly more than 4,000 missions, deliver over 11,000 tons of supplies, and transport more than 18,000 people.
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Today in History October 10
19 | Germanicus, the best loved of Roman princes, dies of poisoning. On his deathbed he accuses Piso, the governor of Syria, of poisoning him. | |
732 | At Tours, France, Charles Martel kills Abd el-Rahman and halts the Muslim invasion of Europe. | |
1733 | France declares war on Austria over the question of Polish succession. | |
1789 | In Versailles France, Joseph Guillotin says the most humane way of carrying out a death sentence is decapitation by a single blow of a blade. | |
1794 | Russian General Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov crushes the rebel Polish army at Maciejowice, Poland. | |
1845 | The U.S. Naval Academy is founded at Annapolis, Md. | |
1863 | The first telegraph line to Denver is completed. | |
1877 | Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer is buried at West Point in New York. | |
1911 | Revolution in China begins with a bomb explosion and the discovery of revolutionary headquarters in Hankow. The revolutionary movement spread rapidly through west and southern China, forcing the abdication of the last Ch'ing emperor, six-year-old Henry Pu-Yi. By October 26, the Chinese Republic will be proclaimed, and on December 4, Premier Yuan Shih-K'ai will sign a truce with rebel general Li Yuan-hung. | |
1911 | The Panama Canal opens. | |
1933 | At Rio de Janeiro, nations of the Western Hemisphere sign a non-aggression and conciliation treaty. President Roosevelt adopts a "good neighbor" policy toward Latin America and announces a policy of nonintervention in Latin American affairs at the December 7th International American Conference at Montevideo, Uruguay. | |
1941 | Soviet troops halt the German advance on Moscow. | |
1953 | The Mutual Defense Treaty between the US and South Korea signed. | |
1966 | U.S. Forces launch Operation Robin, in Hoa Province south of Saigon in South Vietnam, to provide road security between villages. | |
1970 | The Quebec Provincial Minister of Labour, Pierre Laporte, is kidnapped by terrorists. | |
1971 | The London Bridge, built in 1831 and dismantled in 1967, reopens in Lake Havusu City, Arizona, after being sold to Robert P. McCulloch and moved to the United States. | |
1973 | Spiro Agnew resigns the vice presidency amid accusations of income tax evasion. President Richard Nixon names Gerald Ford as the new vice president. Agnew is later convicted and sentenced to three years probation and fined $10,000. | |
1985 | An Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship is intercepted by US Navy F-14s and forced to land at a NATO base in Sicily. | |
2008 | Orakzai bombing, Afghanistan: members of the Taliban drive an explosive-laden truck into a meeting of 600 people discussing ways to rid their area of the Taliban; the bomb kills 110. |
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Thanks to Bill
When you read these quotes from many years ago it reminds of how little things have changed in attitudes toward Congress and politicians in general.
Some humor. hope you enjoy
The brain is an amazing organ. It starts working in a mother's womb and doesn't stop working till you get elected to Congress.
----Senator John Neely Kennedy
"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." ----Mark Twain
Ronald Reagan on National Emergencies
"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency -- even if I'm in a Cabinet meeting."
Lyndon Johnson on the News Media
"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'"
"In a recent fire, Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them." — Jack Kemp
The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ....Henry Cate
Every politician has a promising career. Unfortunately, most of them do not keep those promises. -- Jarod Kintz
The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back. -- Will Rogers
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it." –Clarence Darrow
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Thanks to Richard
Subject: The Crash - 5280
https://www.5280.com/2010/10/the-crash/
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Thanks to Mike
A little history for you.
Cheers
Nordo
https://www.military.com/off-duty/why-wwii-navy-veterans-added-salt-their-coffee.html
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Thanks to Richard
Subject: The Dawn of Transatlantic Flight
To:
> https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/forgotten-first-flight-180975833/
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Thanks to Carl
VA Announces Completion of Vietnam-Era Deck Log Digitization
By: Kevin Lilley SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
A recently completed joint effort between the VA and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to digitize Vietnam-era deck logs should simplify and speed up the claims process for Blue Water Navy veterans.
VA announced completion of the digitization of the Navy and Coast Guard records from 1956 to 1978 in a Sept. 28 press release. All Navy deck logs from the period were digitized by December 2019, per the release, with the Coast Guard logs finished in September 2020.
The digital records will ease the validation process for whether beneficiaries served in the waters off Vietnam, establishing a presumptive exposure to toxic defoliants such as Agent Orange and making them eligible for benefits under the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019. NARA will make the logs available online to researchers and others.
That law went into effect Jan. 1. Since that date, VA has paid out $641 million in benefits to 22,254 Blue Water Navy veterans and survivors, per the Sept. 28 release. That means nearly $60 million has been paid out since July 31, when VA reported $583.8 million in total payments for 20,690 granted claims.
The current list of 14 Agent Orange presumptive diseases can be found at this link. MOAA has supported language in the Senate draft of the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would add three conditions to the list: bladder cancer, hypothyroidism, and Parkinsonism symptoms.
[TAKE ACTION: Write or Call Your Lawmaker In Support of Expanding Coverage Connected to Agent Orange Exposure]
The release did not address submarine deck logs, which were not included in the original grouping from the archives. This group is not included in the toxic-exposure presumption, and there is no official estimate of when, or if, this group will be included.
Veterans, dependents, and surviving spouses can contact VA at (800) 827-1000 for more information on filing a claim, or can reach out to an approved veterans service organization (VSO) for guidance.
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Thanks to Richard
Subject: Memory test
THIS MAY BE HARDER THAN YOU MIGHT THINK.
THE ANSWERS WILL BE ON THE TIP OF YOUR TONGUE BUT YOU JUST CAN'T QUITE REMEMBER THE CORRECT ANSWER.
DON'T LOOK BELOW FOR THE ANSWERS UNTIL YOU'VE TRIED TO FIGURE THEM OUT. The answers are at the end of today's List.
A TEST FOR 'OLDER' KIDS. I was picky who I sent this to. It had to be those who might actually remember.
So have some fun, my sharp-witted friends.
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1. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, "Who was that masked man?" Invariably, someone would answer, "I don't know, but he left this behind." What did he leave behind? __ _______ _______.
2. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. in early 1964, we all watched them on The ____ ___________ Show.
3. 'Get your kicks __ _________ _______.'
4. 'The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to _____ _ _____.
5. 'In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ____ ____ ____ ____.'
6. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we 'danced' under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the '_____.'
7. Nestlé's makes the very best....' _________.'
8. Satchmo was America 's 'Ambassador of Goodwill.' Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was ______ ___________.
9. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? _______.
10. Red Skeleton's hobo character was named ______ ___ ________ and Red always ended his television show by saying, 'Good Night, and '________ ________ . '
11. Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their ______ _______.
12. The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the front was called the VW. What other names did it go by? ___ & _______.
13. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, "The day the music died." This was a tribute to _______ ____________. (Omitted here but still part of the tribute were The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens.)
14. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians did it. It was called __________.
15. One of the big fads of the late 50's and 60's was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the ______ _____ .
16. Remember LS/MFT _____ _____/_____ _____ _____?
17. Hey Kids! What time is it? It's _____ ______ _____!
18. Who knows what secrets lie in the hearts of men? Only The _____ Knows!
19. There was a song that came out in the 60's that was "a grave yard smash". Its name was the ______ ______!
20. Alka Seltzer used a "boy with a tablet on his head" as its Logo/Representative - What was the boy's name? ________
Send this to your 'older' friends, (better known as "Seniors.") It will drive them crazy!
And keep them busy and let them forget their aches and pains for a few minutes.
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Thanks to Richard
Anti'Trump Bimbo
This one started my day with a hardy laugh.
After you click on this website below: Be sure to scroll down to watch the vIdeo of this lady.
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Thanks to Robert some are just worth repeating
Always a good laugh.
Rob
Probably Would Not Pass Today's PC Check
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This Day in U.S. Military History
A day-by-day digest of events regarding all services of the U.S. military. Click HOME from any page to use the Quick Navigation Calendar.
This Day in U S Military History
1941 – The destroyer USS Kearney is attacked by a German, submarine. In the attack, ten sailors are killed and scores injured. America suffers its first war casualties in World War II. Pearl Harbor is still seven weeks away.
1944 – Nearly two hundred of Admiral Halsey's planes struck Naha, Okinawa's capital and principal city, in five separate waves. The city was almost totally devastated. The American war against Japan was coming inexorably closer to the Japanese homeland.
1950 – A total of sixteen Air Guard squadrons are mobilized for duty during the Korean War. Five of these fighter squadrons, the 111th (TX), 136th (TX), 154th (AR), 158th (GA) and 196th (CA) would fly missions in Korea. Sixteen other units were deployed to NATO bases in Europe.
2013 – Scott Carpenter, Mercury 7 astronaut and second American to orbit the earth, dies at 88 following complications from a stroke. Malcolm Scott Carpenter (born May 1, 1925) was an American test pilot, astronaut, and aquanaut. He was one of the original seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959. Carpenter was the second American (after John Glenn) to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, following Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and John Glenn. After being chosen for Project Mercury in 1959, Carpenter, along with the other six astronauts, oversaw the development of the Mercury capsule. He served as backup pilot for John Glenn, who flew the first U.S. orbital mission aboard Friendship 7 in February 1962. Carpenter, serving as capsule communicator on this flight, can be heard saying "Godspeed, John Glenn" on the recording of Glenn's liftoff. When Deke Slayton was withdrawn on medical grounds from Project Mercury's second manned orbital flight (which Slayton would have named Delta 7), Carpenter was assigned to replace him. He flew into space on May 24, 1962, atop the Mercury-Atlas 7 rocket for a three-orbit science mission that lasted nearly five hours. His Aurora 7 spacecraft attained a maximum altitude of 164 miles (264 km) and an orbital velocity of 17,532 miles per hour (28,215 km/h). In July 1964 in Bermuda, Carpenter sustained a grounding injury from a motorbike accident while on leave from NASA to train for the Navy's SEALAB project. In 1965, for SEALAB II, he spent 28 days living on the ocean floor off the coast of California. During the SEALAB II mission, Carpenter's right index finger was wounded by the toxic spines of a scorpion fish. He returned to work at NASA as Executive Assistant to the Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, then returned to the Navy's Deep Submergence Systems Project in 1967, based in Bethesda, Maryland, as a Director of Aquanaut Operations for SEALAB III. In the aftermath of aquanaut Berry L. Cannon's death while attempting to repair a leak in SEALAB III, Carpenter volunteered to dive down to SEALAB and help return it to the surface, although SEALAB was ultimately salvaged in a less hazardous way. Carpenter retired from the Navy in 1969, after which he founded Sea Sciences, Inc., a corporation for developing programs for utilizing ocean resources and improving environmental health.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
DARROUGH, JOHN S.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company F, 113th Illinois Infantry. Place and date: At Eastport, Miss., 10 October 1864. Entered service at: Concord, Morgan County, Ill. Birth: Kentucky. Date of issue: 5 February 1895. Citation: Saved the life of a captain.
CARTER, ROBERT G.
Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, 4th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: On Brazos, River, Tex., 10 October 1871. Entered service at: Bradford, Mass. Birth: Bridgeport, Maine. Date of issue: 27 February 1900. Citation: Held the left of the line with a few men during the charge of a large body of Indians, after the right of the line had retreated, and by delivering a rapid fire succeeded in checking the enemy until other troops came to the rescue.
BONG, RICHARD 1. (Air Mission)
Rank and organization: Major, U.S. Army Air Corps. Place and date: Over Borneo and Leyte, 10 October to 15 November 1944. Entered service at: Poplar, Wis. Birth: Poplar, Wis. G.O. No.: 90, 8 December 1944. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action above and beyond the call of duty in the Southwest Pacific area from 10 October to 15 November 1944. Though assigned to duty as gunnery instructor and neither required nor expected to perform combat duty, Maj. Bong voluntarily and at his own urgent request engaged in repeated combat missions, including unusually hazardous sorties over Balikpapan, Borneo, and in the Leyte area of the Philippines. His aggressiveness and daring resulted in his shooting down 8 enemy airplanes during this period.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for October 10, 2020 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
10 October
1910: Armstrong Drexel used a Bleriot airplane to set a FAI altitude record of 9,449 feet at Philadelphia. (9)
1911: Lt Thomas DeWitt Milling flew a Wright Airplane at College Park to test the Riley E. Scott bombsight and dropping device in its first military trial. (21)
1923: The first American rigid dirigible, the Shenandoah, was the first Zeppelin-type to use helium gas. (21) (24)
1928: Capt St. Clair Streett, pilot, and Capt Albert W. Stevens, observer and photographer, set an unofficial world altitude record of 37,854 feet for planes carrying more than one person in flight from Wright Field. (24)
1943: Eighth Air Force sent 313 heavy bombers to attack Munster, Germany, where 33 aircraft were destroyed and 102 damaged. (4)
1946: Headquarters US AAF assigned SAC the additional mission of sea search and antisubmarine warfare. A few weeks later, the 509 BG deployed its B-29s to Rio Hato, Panama, to join Navy forces in Operation Nullus. (1)
1947: The US Patent Office issued a patent on the Norden bombsight. Inventor Carl L. Norden had applied for the patent in 1931. (24)
1950: KOREAN WAR. The USAF activated the first ANG units to support the Korean War. The US eventually mobilized 66 flying units and 45,000 guardsmen into federal service. An H-5 crew from the 3 ARS administered, for the first time while a helicopter was in flight, blood plasma to a rescued pilot. The crewmembers received Silver Stars for this action. (21) (28)
1951: KOREAN WAR. Far East Air Forces marked a significant date for the Chinese, the anniversary of the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty, by dropping special leaflets and making radio broadcasts aimed at Chinese Communist Forces in Korea. (28)
1956: NACA, the forerunner of NASA, revealed that a four-stage, rocket-propelled research missile had attained speeds of mach 10.4, the equivalent of 6,864 MPH at high altitudes. (24)
1961: NASA, in a Wallops Station launching, lifted an Argo D-4 rocket to an altitude of 585 miles to study the density of electricity charged helium atoms in the upper atmosphere. (24)
1963: COLLIER TROPHY. The seven original Mercury astronauts received the trophy for their flights to orbit the earth. (16) (26)
1967: The 351 SMW at Whiteman AFB fielded the first Minuteman II Emergency Rocket Communication System (ERCS). It replaced the Blue Scout Junior ERCS system in Nebraska. (1) (6)
1972: Competitive flight tests between the A-9 and A-10 began. (3)
1981: McDonnell-Douglas' AV-8B Harrier shown at St. Louis. (12)
1982: Boeing's AGM-86B ALCM flew its last flight at Edwards. (3)
1983: The C-20A flew its first operational mission. (18)
1986: The USAF placed the Peacekeeper ICBM (LGM-118A) on alert. (21)
1994: Operation VIGILANT WARRIOR. When Iraqi troops massed on the Kuwaiti border, USAF airlifters started flying troops to the Persian Gulf. The number of planes also increased from 77 to 270 as the USAF sent more F-15E Eagles, F-16 Fighting Falcons, and A-10 Thunderbolt IIs to the region. (16) (18)
1998: After a year of testing, Lockheed-Martin test pilot Jon Beesley flew the F-22 Raptor beyond Mach 1.0 for the first time at Edwards AFB. In nonafterburning level flight at 29,000 feet, the first production F-22 (tail no. 4001) passed through Mach 1.1 seven times. (3)
2005: Sixty years of American military airlift operations officially ended at AMC's "Gateway to Europe," Rhein-Main AB. At the ceremony the AMC Vice Commander, Lt Gen Christopher Kelly, unveiled the Spirit of Rhein-Main C-17 Globemaster III. Earlier on 1 October 2005, AMC transferred Rhein-Main's airlift responsibility to Ramstein and Spangdahlem AB. (22)
2006: From a Twin Otter aircraft, AFFTC parachutists made 10 jumps at Edwards AFB to test a new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter parachute system. The IGQ type 6000, which incorporated the parachute and harness into the F-35 cockpit, was designed to inflate at various speeds. It resembled an aeroconical dome when extended. (3)
2007: The USAF launched a Wideband Global SATCOM satellite, the first of a next generation of military communications satellites, from Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla., aboard an Atlas V booster. The new satellite augmented and would eventually replace the aging Defense Satellite Communications System. (AFNEWS, "First Next-Generation Communications Satellite Launches," 11 Oct 2007.)
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ANSWERS:
01. The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.
02. The Ed Sullivan Show
03. On Route 66
04. To protect the innocent.
05. The Lion Sleeps Tonight
06. The Limbo
07. Chocolate
08. Louis Armstrong
09. The Timex watch
10. Freddy, The Freeloader and 'Good Night and God Bless.'
11. Draft cards (Bras were also burned by "feminists," to protest women being "second class citizens." Flags were not burned, as some have guessed.)
12. Beetle or Bug
13. Buddy Holly
14. Sputnik
15. Hoola-hoop
16. Lucky Strike/Means Fine Tobacco
17. Howdy Doody Time
18. Shadow
19. Monster Mash
20. Speedy
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