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Good Monday Morning October 12, 2020.

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I attached 5478 from yesterday. Some may not have received it. Also today's world news.

 

Today in Naval History

October 12

 

1800 American frigate Boston captures French frigate Le Berceau, one of the French ships that was plaguing the American coast during the Quasi-War with France. After a bloody engagement, Boston brings her prize back to the United States. Though condemned as a legitimate prize of war and sold to the United States government, Le Berceau is returned to France under the terms of the Treaty of Mortefontaine, concluded about two weeks before her capture.

1914 USS Jupiter (AC 3) is the first U.S. Navy ship to transit the Panama Canal. In March 1920, Jupiter is decommissioned. Following conversion, she is renamed USS Langley (CV 1). Upon commissioning in March 1922, Langley becomes the U.S. Navy's first aircraft carrier.

1940 USS Wasp (CV 7) launches 24 Army Curtiss P-40 Warhawks from the 8th Pursuit Group and North American P-47s from the 3rd Observation Squadron off the Virginia Capes, marking the first launches of Army aircraft from U.S. carrier.

1942 Scout dive bombers from VS-71 sink the Japanese destroyer Natsugumo off Savo Island. Also on this date, torpedo bombers from VT-8, Navy and Marine Corps SBDs from VS-3, VS-71, and VMSB-141 and F4F Wildcats from VMF-121, VMF-212, and VMF-224 damage Japanese destroyer Murakumo off New Georgia as she is helping survivors at the Battle of Cape Esperance. She is later scuttled by Japanese destroyer Shirayuki.

1965 Project SEALAB II concludes. During this project, teams of Navy divers and scientists spent 15 days each in SEALAB II moored 205 ft. below the surface near La Jolla, Calif.

1980 USS Guadalcanal (LPH 7) and other ships of Amphibious Forces, Sixth Fleet bring assistance to earthquake victims in Al Asnam, Algeria.

2000 USS Cole (DDG 67) is attacked by terrorists in a small boat laden with explosives during a brief refueling stop in the harbor of Aden, Yemen. The suicide terrorist attack kills 17 members of the ship's crew, wounds 39 others, and seriously damages the ship.

 

 

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October 12

1492		Christopher Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas.
1576		Rudolf II, the king of Hungary and Bohemia, succeeds his father, Maximillian II, as Holy Roman Emperor.
1609		The song "Three Blind Mice" is published in London, believed to be the earliest printed secular song.
1702		Admiral Sir George Rooke defeats the French fleet off Vigo.
1722		Shah Sultan Husayn surrenders the Persian capital of Isfahan to Afgan rebels after a seven month siege.
1809		Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies under mysterious circumstances in Tennessee.
1899		The Anglo-Boer War begins.
1872		Apache leader Cochise signs a peace treaty with General Howard in Arizona Territory.
1915		Despite international protests, Edith Cavell, an English nurse in Belgium, is executed by Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners.
1933		Alcatraz Island is made a federal maximum security prison.
1943		The U.S. Fifth Army begins an assault crossing of the Volturno River in Italy.
1949		Eugenie Anderson becomes the first woman U.S. ambassador.
1960		Inejiro Asanuma, leaders of the Japan Socialist Party, is assassinated during a live TV broadcast.
1964		1964 USSR launches Voskhod I, first spacecraft with multi-person crew; it is also the first mission in which the crew did not wear space suits.
1970		President Richard Nixon announces the pullout of 40,000 more American troops in Vietnam by Christmas.
1971		The House of Representatives passes the Equal Rights Amendment 354-23.
1984		The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonates at bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; 5 others are killed and 31 wounded.
1994		NASA loses contact with the Magellan probe spacecraft in the thick atmosphere of Venus.
1999		Chief of Army Staff Perez Musharraf seizes power in Pakistan through a bloodless military coup.
2000		Suicide bombers at Aden, Yemen, damage USS Cole; 17 crew members killed and over 35 wounded.
2002		Terrorist bombers kill over 200 and wound over 300 more at the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali.

 

1957…Yeager breaks sound barrier

 

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Thanks to Al

 

Monday Morning Humor--Judges

 

     A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says, "You've been brought here for drinking." 

     The drunk says "Okay, let's get started."

 

     In 1456, an English judge reviews Joan of Arc's case and cancels her death sentence. Unfortunately for her, she was put to death in 1431.

 

     The judge had just awarded a divorce to Lena, who had charged non-support.He said to Ole, "I have decided to give your wife $400 a month for support."
     "Vell, dat's fine, Judge," said Ole. "And vunce in a while I'll try to chip  in a few bucks, myself."

 

     Mr. Jones was sued by a Mrs. Johnson for defamation of character. She charged that he had called her a pig. Mr. Jones was indeed found guilty and fined.  After the trial he asked the judge, "Your Honor, this means that I cannot call Mrs. Johnson a pig?"

     The judge replied, "Yes, Mr. Jones. That is correct."

     "Does this mean I cannot call a pig Mrs. Johnson?" the man asked.

     The judge replied that he could indeed call a pig 'Mrs. Johnson' with no fear of legal action.

     Mr. Jones grinned, looked directly at Mrs. Johnson and said, "Good afternoon, Mrs. Johnson."

 

     Everybody I know who has a dog usually calls him "Rover" or "Spot". I call mine Sex. Now, Sex has been very embarrassing to me.   When my wife and I separated, we went to court to fight for custody of the dog. I said, "Your Honor, I had Sex before I was married but Sex left me after I was married."

     The judge said, "Me too!"

 

     On day three of the corporate conspiracy trial, the star witness began to recant his story.  

     "Were you aware that both the FBI and the IRS intended to investigate this CPA, starting ASAP?" the judge asked.  

     "Not initially."

 

     After a trial had been going on for three days, Finley, the man accused of committing the crimes, stood up and approached the judge's bench.  "Your Honor, I would like to change my plea from 'innocent' to 'guilty' of the charges." 

     The judge angrily banged his fist on the desk. "If you're guilty, why didn't you say so in the first place and save this court a lot of time and inconvenience?" he demanded. 

     Finley looked up wide-eyed and stated, "Well, when the trial started I thought I was innocent, but that was before I heard all the evidence against me."

 

     "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."—Groucho Marx

 

     The judge read the charges, then asked, "Are you the defendant in this case?"

     "No sir, your honor, sir," replied Billy Bob, "I've got a lawyer to do the defendin'. I'm the person who done it."

 

     A priest, a minister, and a rabbi played poker for small stakes once a week. The only problem was that they lived in a very conservative blue-law town. The sheriff raided their game and took all three before the local judge.

     After listening to the sheriff's story, the judge sternly inquired of the priest, "Were you gambling, Father?"

     The priest looked toward heaven, whispered, "Oh, Lord, forgive me!" and then said aloud, "No, your honor, I was not gambling."

     "Were you gambling, Reverend?" the judge asked the minister.

     The minister repeated the priest's actions and said, "No, your honor, I was not."

     Turning to the third clergyman the judge asked, "Were you gambling, Rabbi?"

     The rabbi eyed him coolly and replied, "With whom?"

 

     A kleptomaniac woman had been caught shoplifting in a supermarket and had to appear in court, taking along her long-suffering husband for support.

     The prosecution proved that the theft had taken place so the judge told her that, considering her record, he was forced to impose a jail term.  "This time you stole a can of tomatoes. Let us suppose that there were six tomatoes in the can. Do you agree?"

     The woman agreed.

     "Then I sentence you to six nights in jail."

     The husband jumped to his feet, addressing the judge, "Your honor, may I approach the bench?"

     "Well," said his honor, this is somewhat unusual but I will make an exception in this case. You may approach the bench."

     The husband wasted no time getting there and, leaning forward, he said in a low voice, "She also stole a can of peas."

 

     A judge was interviewing a woman regarding her pending divorce, "What are the grounds for your divorce?"

     She replied, "About four acres and a nice little home in the middle of the property."

     "I mean," he continued, "What are your relations like?"

     "I have an aunt and uncle living here in town, and so do my husband's parents."

     He said, "Do you have a real grudge?"

     "No," she replied, "We have a two-car carport and have never really needed one."

     "Please," he tried again, "is there any infidelity in your marriage?"

     "Yes, both my son and daughter have stereo sets. We don't necessarily like the music, but the answer to your question is 'yes'."

     "Ma'am, does your husband ever beat you up?"

     "Yes," she responded, "most days he gets up earlier than I do."

     Finally, in frustration, the judge asked, "Lady, why do you want a divorce?"

     "Oh, I don't want a divorce," she replied. "I never wanted divorce. It's my husband. He says he can't communicate with me."

 

 

Have a great week,

Al

 

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This Day in U S Military History

 

 

1946 – Joseph W. Stilwell, US general in China, died. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, the man who commanded the U.S. and Chinese Nationalist resistance to Japanese incursions into China and Burma, dies today at age 63. Born March 19, 1883, in Palatka, Florida, and a graduate of the West Point Military Academy, Stilwell began distinguishing himself early in his career. In World War I, he served with the American Expeditionary Force in Europe, as well as in the Philippines. He was also a student of the Chinese language, which garnered him a position as military attache in Peking from 1935 to 1939. It was during the 1930s that Stilwell began to bond with the Chinese peasantry-and developed an infamous distrust, if not contempt, for Chinese political leadership. Known for his straight-talking manner and as a man who did not suffer fools gladly, he made no qualms about his dislike for Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, who Stilwell considered corrupt and greedy (and whom he nicknamed "the Peanut"). Nevertheless, when World War II broke out, Stilwell reluctantly accepted Chiang's offer to become commander of U.S. Army forces in China and Burma-as well as to become Chiang's chief of staff. Stilwell also supervised the dispersion of American Land-Lease shipments to China, much-needed supplies for the war effort that Chiang wanted funneled through his office. Stilwell's initial military operation, to keep open the Burma Road between India and China and to repel Japanese incursions into Burma, failed. The operation in Burma was so disastrous that Chinese forces under his command stopped taking orders. And as Allied supplies to China were being strangled (the Burma Road was the necessary shipping route), Stilwell and his forces were forced to retreat into India. "We got run out of Burma, and it is humiliating as hell," the general later admitted. Further attempts by Stilwell to rally Chinese forces against the Japanese in both Burma and China were often thwarted by both Chiang, who was more concerned about the communist threat of Mao Tse-tung, and not allowing his ultimate authority to be usurped by the Americans, and the American Air Force, which, naturally, wanted to divert the war effort from the ground to the air. Stilwell did manage to lead Chinese divisions to retake Myitakyina, and its airfield, from Japanese control, rebuilding the Ledo Road, a military highway in India that led into Burma (the road was later renamed Stilwell Road). But conflicts with Chiang resulted in Stilwell's removal in 1944. He then served as commander of the 10th Army on Okinawa, ultimately receiving the surrender of 100,000 Japanese troops in the Ryukyu Islands, in southern Japan. Stilwell finished off his career as commander of the 6th Army. The man who Gen. George C. Marshall declared "far-sighted" and "one of the exceptionally brilliant and cultured men in the Army…qualified for any command in peace or war," died in San Francisco-with his nation at peace.

 

2000 – A US Navy destroyer, the USS Cole, refueling in Yemen suffered an enormous explosion in a terrorist attack. Initial reports had at least 6 sailors killed with 11 missing. The death toll was revised to 17. The 8,600-ton Cole was returned to the US aboard the Norwegian ship Blue Marlin. In 2001 a video tape by "Al-Sahab Productions" circulated among Muslim militants with footage of the bombed vessel. The Cole returned to active duty in 2003 following $250 million in repairs. Those killed: Hull Maintenance Technician 2nd Class Kenneth Clodfelter, Electronics Technician Chief Petty Officer Richard Costelow, Mess Management Specialist Seaman Lakeina Francis, Information Systems Technician Seaman
Timothy Lee Gauna, Signalman Seaman Cherone Louis Gunn, Seaman James Rodrick McDaniels, Engineman 2nd Class Marc Ian Nieto, Electronics Warfare Technician 2nd Class Ronald Owens, Seaman Lakiba Nicole Palmer, Engineman Fireman Joshua Langdon Parlett, Fireman Patrick Howard Roy, Electronics Warfare Technician 1st Class Kevin Shawn Rux, Mess
Management Specialist 3rd Class Ronchester Santiago, Operations Specialist 2nd Class Timothy Lamont Saunders, Fireman Gary Graham Swenchonis Jr., Ensign Andrew Triplett, Seaman Craig Bryan Wibberley.

 

 

 

 

Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day

 

WOODFILL, SAMUEL
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, 60th Infantry, 5th Division. Place and date: At Cunel, France, 12 October 1918. Entered service at: Bryantsburg, Ind. Birth: Jefferson County, Ind. G.O. No.: 16, W.D., 1919. Citation: While he was leading his company against the enemy, his line came under heavy machinegun fire, which threatened to hold up the advance. Followed by 2 soldiers at 25 yards, this officer went out ahead of his first line toward a machinegun nest and worked his way around its flank, leaving the 2 soldiers in front. When he got within 10 yards of the gun it ceased firing, and 4 of the enemy appeared, 3 of whom were shot by 1st Lt. Woodfill. The fourth, an officer, rushed at 1st Lt. Woodfill, who attempted to club the officer with his rifle. After a hand-to-hand struggle, 1st Lt. Woodfill killed the officer with his pistol. His company thereupon continued to advance, until shortly afterwards another machinegun nest was encountered. Calling on his men to follow, 1st Lt. Woodfill rushed ahead of his line in the face of heavy fire from the nest, and when several of the enemy appeared above the nest he shot them, capturing 3 other members of the crew and silencing the gun. A few minutes later this officer for the third time demonstrated conspicuous daring by charging another machinegun position, killing 5 men in one machinegun pit with his rifle. He then drew his revolver and started to jump into the pit, when 2 other gunners only a few yards away turned their gun on him. Failing to kill them with his revolver, he grabbed a pick lying nearby and killed both of them. Inspired by the exceptional courage displayed by this officer, his men pressed on to their objective under severe shell and machinegun fire.

*PENDLETON, JACK J.
Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company I, 120th Infantry, 30th Infantry Division. Place and date: Bardenberg, Germany, 12 October 1944. Entered service at: Yakima, Wash. Birth: Sentinel Butte, N. Dak. G.O. No.: 24, 6 April 1945. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty on 12 October 1944. When Company I was advancing on the town of Bardenberg, Germany, they reached a point approximately two-thirds of the distance through the town when they were pinned down by fire from a nest of enemy machineguns. This enemy strong point was protected by a lone machinegun strategically placed at an intersection and firing down a street which offered little or no cover or concealment for the advancing troops. The elimination of this protecting machinegun was imperative in order that the stronger position it protected could be neutralized. After repeated and unsuccessful attempts had been made to knock out this position, S/Sgt. Pendleton volunteered to lead his squad in an attempt to neutralize this strongpoint. S/Sgt. Pendleton started his squad slowly forward, crawling about 10 yards in front of his men in the advance toward the enemy gun. After advancing approximately 130 yards under the withering fire, S/Sgt. Pendleton was seriously wounded in the leg by a burst from the gun he was assaulting. Disregarding his grievous wound, he ordered his men to remain where they were, and with a supply of handgrenades he slowly and painfully worked his way forward alone. With no hope of surviving the veritable hail of machinegun fire which he deliberately drew onto himself, he succeeded in advancing to within 10 yards of the enemy position when he was instantly killed by a burst from the enemy gun. By deliberately diverting the attention of the enemy machine gunners upon himself, a second squad was able to advance, undetected, and with the help of S/Sgt. Pendleton's squad, neutralized the lone machinegun, while another platoon of his company advanced up the intersecting street and knocked out the machinegun nest which the first gun had been covering. S/Sgt. Pendleton's sacrifice enabled the entire company to continue the advance and complete their mission at a critical phase of the action.

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More history thanks to Dutch

·         1492: According to the Old Style calendar, Christopher Columbus' expedition arrives in the present-day Bahamas.

·         1810: The German festival Oktoberfest was first held in Munich to celebrate the wedding of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

·         1870: General Robert E. Lee dies in Lexington, Va., at age 63.

·         1973: President Richard Nixon nominates House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.

·         1984: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escapes an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb explodes at a hotel in Brighton, England, killing five people.

·         1984: Actor Jon-Erik Hexum is mortally wounded on the set of his TV show "Cover Up" when he jokingly shoots himself in the head with a prop pistol loaded with a blank cartridge; he would be declared dead six days later.

·         1997: Singer John Denver is killed in the crash of his privately built aircraft in Monterey Bay, Calif.

·         2001: NBC announces that an assistant to anchorman Tom Brokaw has contracted the skin form of anthrax after opening a "threatening" letter to her boss containing powder.

·         2002: Bombs blamed on al-Qaeda-linked militants destroy a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people, including 88 Australians and seven Americans.

·         2007: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change win the Nobel Peace Prize for sounding the alarm over global warming.

·         2014: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms that a health care worker at the Texas hospital where Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan was treated before his death tested positive for the illness in the first known case of Ebola being contracted or transmitted in the U.S. (The worker, identified as nurse Nina Pham, would be treated and declared free of Ebola.)

·         2018: Pope Francis accepts the resignation of the archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Donald Wuerl after he becomes entangled in two major sexual abuse and cover-up scandals.

·         2018: American pastor Andrew Brunson flies out of Turkey after a Turkish court convicts him of terror links but frees him from house arrest; he'd already spent nearly two years in detention.

 

 

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Oct. 11, 1968

Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo spacecraft, was launched aboard a Saturn IB rocket from Launch Complex 34, Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Cape Kennedy, Florida. The flight crew were Capt. Walter M. "Wally" Schirra, United States Navy, the mission commander, on his third space flight; Maj. Donn F. Eisele, U.S. Air Force, the command module pilot, on his first space flight; and Maj. Walter Cunningham, U.S. Marine Corps, lunar module pilot, also on his first space flight. Retired Colonel Cunningham is a Daedalian Life Member; retired Captain Schirra was one until his death in 2007.

 

Oct. 12, 1976

The Sikorsky S-72 Rotor Systems Research Aircraft (RSRA) made its first flight at Stratford, Connecticut. The S-72 was a hybrid aircraft built for the United States Army and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Its purpose was to serve as a flight test vehicle for various helicopter rotor configurations. Learn more about the S-72 HERE. 

 

Oct. 13, 1922

First Lt. Theodore Joseph Koenig, Air Service, United States Army, won the Liberty Engine Builders' Trophy Race, a race for observation-type aircraft powered by the Liberty 12 engine at the National Air Races at Selfridge Field, Michigan. Flying a Packard Lepère L USA C.II, Air Service serial number A.S. 40015, Koenig completed 10 laps of the triangular racecourse in 2:00:01.54, at an average speed of 128.8 miles per hour. In addition to a trophy, cash prizes were awarded to the competitors for first, second and third place finishes. First place received $1,200 (about $16,747 in 2017); second place, $600; third place, $200.

 

Oct. 14, 1938

The first flight of the Curtiss XP-40 Tomahawk was on this date.

 

Oct. 15, 1944

More than 1,000 Eighth Air Force heavy bombers attacked marshalling yards and a gas unit plant at Cologne, Germany; they were escorted by less than 12 fighter groups. Another two P-47 groups swooped in low to bomb and strafe targets in Hannover and Muenster-Kassel.

 

Oct. 16, 1943

Lockheed received a contract to produce the XP-80 Shooting Star, the first true American jet-propelled fighter.

 

Oct. 17, 1911

Searching for improved powerplants, Navy Capt. Washington I. Chambers of the Bureau of Navigation, in a letter to Glenn H. Curtiss, discussed heavy oil (or diesel) engines and turbine engines similar in principle to those that, some 30 years later, would make jet propulsion practical. Chambers wrote, "In my opinion, this turbine is the surest step of all, and the aeroplane manufacturer who gets in with it first is going to do wonders."

 

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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for October 12, 2020 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY

 

12 October

1916: Tony Jannus died in Russia while demonstrating a Curtiss flying boat. (24)

1918: America's 185th Pursuit Squadron flew the first U. S. night air pursuit operations in France. (21)

1925: Lt Cyrus Bettis, Air Service, set a world speed record of 249.3 MPH in the National Air Races at Mitchel Field using a Curtiss R3C-1. (24)

1937: The Air Corps transferred its last airship to the Navy, which left one airship in the inventory as a motorized training balloon.

1939: Harry B. Chapman used an Aeronca seaplane to set a world distance record for light seaplanes by flying 1,164 miles from Jamaica Bay, N. Y., to New Orleans. (24)

 1944: Lt Chuck Yeager shot down five of his 12 1/2 aircraft victories in a single engagement. (4)

1950: KOREAN WAR. Far East Air Forces Combat Cargo Command began to airlift ROK military supplies to Wonsan and 600 tons of bridge sections to Kimpo airfield. (28)

1952: KOREAN WAR. An SA-16 pilot, 3d Air Rescue Squadron, participated in two rescues within thirty minutes and over 100 miles apart. After directing a helicopter pickup of a downed F-86 Sabrejet pilot, the SA-16 pilot landed in the Haeju harbor and, while overhead fighters suppressed ground fire from the shore, picked up from a dinghy a 69th Fighter-Bomber Squadron pilot who had parachuted from his burning F-84. (28) KOREAN WAR. Through 14 October, the 315th Air Division conducted paratroop-drop exercises with the US Army's 187th Regimental Combat Team as part of the Kojo deception. Additionally, on 12-13 October 26 B-29s from all three medium bombardment units struck 9 separate troop concentrations on Haeju Peninsula. (28)

1954: At Wichita, Ks., the Cessna XT-37 flew for the first time. (20)

1963: Joseph A. Walker, NASA's senior X-15 pilot and holder of world altitude and speed records for research aircraft, received the Christopher Columbus International Prize for Communications.

1964: The XB-70A achieved supersonic flight for the first time above Edwards AFB. (3)

1967: The FAA certified the all-weather landing system for the C-141 Starlifter.

1973: Pilot Einar K. Enevoldson guided the first flight of a new remotely piloted research vehicle from a ground cockpit and TV screen. After the 3/8ths scale-model F-15 dropped from a B-52, he led it to a safe landing.

1977: The USAF's first class of five women navigators graduated. Three of the five women were assigned to MAC aircrews. (18)

1980: Two earthquakes struck El Asnam, Algeria, only hours apart on 10 October, killing at least 6,000 people and leaving about 200,000 homeless. From 12-26 October, 1 C-130, 2 C-5, and 14 C-141 missions airlifted some 400 tons of relief supplies to Algeria. The aircraft came from the 436, 437, and 438 MAWs, and the 435 TAW. (18) (26)

1997: The SECDEF deployed US military assets to support of fire-fighting efforts in Indonesia as part of a technical assistance package to the most seriously affected countries in that region. Military support included 60 crew and support personnel for three C-130 aircraft, two equipped with Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems, and one flying in support. The crew and aircraft came from the 153 AW, Wyoming ANG. PACAF directed the operation to drop 685,000 gallons of water and fire retardant in Java and Sumatra. The operation ended in December after 215 sorties and 316.5 flying hours. (21) (32)

1998: The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, 403rd Wing (AFRC), at Keesler AFB received the USAF's first WC-130J Hercules aircraft. The WC-130J, outfitted as a special weather reconnaissance version of Lockheed-Martin's C-130J cargo plane, had a mission to fly into the eye of hurricanes to retrieve critical information about active storms. (AFNEWS Article 991900, 14 Oct 99)

2006: The 14 FTW at Columbus AFB received its first T-6 Texan. The two-seat, single-engine aircraft would replace the T-37 Tweet in the pilot primary training mission. (AFNEWS Article, "14th FTW Welcomes New Training Aircraft," 13 Oct 2006)

 

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