Good Sunday Morning 27 June
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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(A very good species to have in your yard!)
https://vetmed.illinois.edu/wildlife/2019/06/05/the-helpful-opossum-2/
The Helpful Opossum
BY: MARY KATE FELDNER, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE CLASS OF 2021
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) documented nearly 60,000 cases of tickborne disease within the United States in 2018. Tick populations have been rising, resulting in an increased spread of tickborne illness, including Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear
LOOKING BACK 55-YEARS to the Vietnam Air War— For The List for Sunday, 27 June 2021… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 27 June 1966…
"950,000 U.S. Troops in Theater by end of September 1966"
https://www.rollingthunderremembered.com/rolling-thunder-remembered-27-june-1966-requirements/
This following work accounts for every fixed wing loss of the Vietnam War and you can use it to read more about the losses in The Bear's Daily account. Even better it allows you to add your updated information to the work to update for history…skip
Vietnam Air Losses
Access Chris Hobson and Dave Lovelady's work at: https://www.VietnamAirLosses.com.
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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.
1942 – The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from 2 submarines, one off New York's Long Island and the other off of Florida. The men were tried by a military court and 6 were secretly executed in a DC jail. Ernest Burger and George Dasch were sentenced to 30 years in prison for their help in revealing the plot. They were pardoned in 1948 by Pres. Truman.
1944 – American forces of 7th Corps (part of US 1st Army) complete the capture of Cherbourg. The port, however, is not presently operational. To the left, the British 2nd Army continues attacks. Forces of the British 30th Corps capture Rauray, near Caen, and British 8th Corps launches new attacks.
1945 – On Luzon, units of the US 37th Division, part of US 1st Corps, reach Aparri, on the north coast. With the occupation of the whole of the Cagayan valley, the campaign for the recapture of the island is now effectively complete. The remaining Japanese forces are isolated in remote parts of Luzon and lack supplies or medical care.
1945 – The American carrier USS Bunker Hill is struck by a Kamikaze plane, killing 373 men.
1950 – Flying a F-82G Twin Mustang in a defensive mission over Kimpo Airfield, Lieutenant William G. "Skeeter" Hudson, 68th Fighter (All-Weather) Squadron, destroyed a Yak-7U fighter and was officially credited with the first aerial victory of the Korean War. Lieutenant Carl Fraser occupied the second cockpit as copilot.
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.
1993 – US warships fired 24 Tomahawk cruise missiles at intelligence headquarters in Baghdad in retaliation for the assassination plot. The Iraqis claimed 8 dead. Iraqis pulled their dead from the rubble of buildings wrecked by U.S. missiles during an early morning raid ordered by President Clinton in reprisal for an alleged assassination plot against former President Bush.
Congressional Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
BUTTERFIELD, DANIEL
Rank and organization: Brigadier General, U.S. Volunteers. Place and date: At Gaines Mill, Va., 27 June 1862. Entered service at: Washington, D.C. Born: 31 October 1831, Utica, N.Y. Date of issue: 26 September 1892. Citation: Seized the colors of the 83d Pennsylvania Volunteers at a critical moment and, under a galling fire of the enemy, encouraged the depleted ranks to renewed exertion.
DAVIS, CHARLES C.
Rank and organization: Major, 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Place and date: At Shelbyville, Tenn., 27 June 1863. Entered service at: Harrisburg, Pa. Born: 15 August 1830, Harrisburg, Pa. Date of issue: 14 June 1894. Citation: Led one of the most desperate and successful charges of the war.
HALL, HENRY SEYMOUR
Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, Company G, 27th New York Infantry; and Captain, Company F, 121st New York Infantry. Place and date. At Gaines Mill, Va., 27 June 1862. At Rappallannock Station, Va., 7 November 1863. Entered service at: New York. Birth: New York. Date of issue: 17 August 1891. Citation: Although wounded at Gaines Mill, Va., he remained on duty and participated in the battle with his company. At Rappahannock Station, Va., while acting as aide, rendered gallant and prompt assistance in reforming the regiments inside the enemy's works.
HOPKINS, CHARLES F.
Rank and organization: Corporal, Company I, 1st New Jersey Infantry. Place and date: At Gaines Mill, Va., 27 June 1862. Entered service at:——. Birth: Warren County, N.J. Date of issue: 9 July 1892. Citation: Voluntarily carried a wounded comrade, under heavy fire, to a place of safety; though twice wounded in the act, he continued in action until again severely wounded.
MOFFITT, JOHN H.
Rank and organization: Corporal, Company C, 16th New York Infantry. Place and date: At Gaines Mill, Va., 27 June 1862. Entered service at: Plattsburg, N.Y. Born. 8 January 1843, Chazy, Clinton County, N.Y. Date of issue: 3 March 1891. Citation: Voluntarily took up the regimental colors after several color bearers had been shot down and carried them until himself wounded.
SIDMAN, GEORGE E.
Rank and organization: Private, Company C, 16th Michigan Infantry. Place and date: At Gaines Mill, Va., 27 June 1862. Entered service at: Owosso, Mich. Born: 25 November 1844, Rochester, N.Y. Date of issue: 6 April 1892. Citation: Distinguished bravery in battle. Rallied his comrades to charge vastly superior force until wounded in the hip. He was a 16_year_old drummer.
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WEBBER, ALASON P.
Rank and organization: Musician, 86th Illinois Infantry. Place and date: At Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., 27 June 1864. Entered service at: Illinois. Birth: Greene County, N.Y. Date of issue: 22 June 1896. Citation: Voluntarily joined in a charge against the enemy, which was repulsed, and by his rapid firing in the face of the enemy enabled many of the wounded to return to the Federal lines; with others, held the advance of the enemy while temporary works were being constructed.
THOMPSON, HENRY
Rank and organization: Seaman, U.S. Navy. Biography not available. Citation: For rescuing a man from drowning at Mare Island, Calif., 27 June 1878.
BOWEN, HAMMETT L., JR.
Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company C, 2d Battalion, 14th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division. Place and date: Binh Duong Province, Republic of Vietnam, 27 June 1969. Entered service at: Jacksonville, Fla. Born: 30 November 1947, Lagrange, Ga. Citation: S/Sgt. Bowen distinguished himself while serving as a platoon sergeant during combat operations in Binh Duong Province, Republic of Vietnam. S/Sgt. Bowen's platoon was advancing on a reconnaissance mission into enemy controlled terrain when it came under the withering crossfire of small arms and grenades from an enemy ambush force. S/Sgt. Bowen placed heavy suppressive fire on the enemy positions and ordered his men to fall back. As the platoon was moving back, an enemy grenade was thrown amid S/Sgt. Bowen and 3 of his men. Sensing the danger to his comrades, S/Sgt. Bowen shouted a warning to his men and hurled himself on the grenade, absorbing the explosion with his body while saving the lives of his fellow soldiers. S/Sgt. Bowen's extraordinary courage and concern for his men at the cost of his life served as an inspiration to his comrades and are in the highest traditions of the military service and the U.S. Army.
*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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From the List archives for all my friends that flew the big birds
Thanks to Dr. Rich
The Final Approach: Living the Dream
Thanks to Tracy … excellent!!
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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 than 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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Gotta Love Millennials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpE1Pa8vvI
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I did not know about this stuff. I spent a lot of time at the Christian Science reading room.
From: Jack Woodul
Subject: Fwd: What was the NAS Cubi Point Officer's Club like?
OUT OF THE PAST: GB CAPT STEVE MILLIKIN, HOOK MAGAZINE EDITOR OF EXTRAORDINARY TOLERANCE!
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thanks to THE Bear and Dutch
Four times as many troops and vets have died by suicide as in combat, study finds
Dutch… I bet the insurance companies can tell us why the numbers of suicides goes up in proportion to investments in thousands of additional psychology and psychiatry staff hired to counsel folks who would rather be dead than face the future. Super cheap $500,000 life insurance policies change the poor soul's calculation to: I am worth more dead than I am alive. Nip this in the bud and save some lives (and VA staff). Limit insurance coverage of military folks to exclude suicide as a cause of death. …
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Red Flag - No Mas!
thanks to Doctor Rich
Thanks to Bill ...
Results of Critical Race Theory
Air Force News Service, Nellis AFB
AIR FORCE LAUNCHES NEW EXERCISE
The Air Force made a major policy shift Monday as they announced the iconic Red Flag program, the world's premier combat simulation and readiness exercise, would be rebranded as White Flag.
Major Ray Gingass, Chief Apologist for the newly-created Office of Inclusivity, said "Red Flag was created with the concept that a fighter pilot was more likely to survive in combat if he, she, or gender-fluid could survive their first five missions. Red Flag was designed to emulate those first five sorties."
"However, hindsight and new vibrant thinking has shown that victory in combat, measured only by defeating and destroying your enemy, especially when they are people of color, is a classic example of racist imperialism, bent on enslaving the peaceful multi-gendered persons targeted by our misguided National Policy and Objectives."
Col. Trey Torr, White Flag Recommender (formerly called "Commander") said "Research has shown that fewer combat losses occur when participants, formerly called "combatants," merely surrender. White Flag has been designed to show our pilots how to surrender, defect, flee to a neutral country, or simply refuse to deliver ordnance during their first five missions."
2Lt Eileen RaDiqel, on her first White Flag TDY, said "It was an amazing learning experience. I discovered in academics that my father had raped my mother, molested me, and he was personally responsible for the Holocaust and Climate Change. On my first sortie, I squawked 7700, flew to McCarran, made a Southwest 737 Max go around, and once in the terminal, spent all of my per diem in the slot machines. Billeting is mailing all my belongings to me. I'm never going back." She is seeking asylum in Henderson.
Capt Paul I. Tikal-Deuce, from Nellis Public Affairs, said the 57th Aggressor Squadron would be renamed as the 57th Peace-Activists for Social Change Squadron.
Gen. Ben Sucox, installation commander, was not available for comment, as he was emceeing a drag-queen show.
A Weapons School Instructor who spoke only with anonymity said 3-1 was being revised to change the inflight order "drag" to "pull with friction."
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Thanks to Tam and Dutch
The test, developed by US-based company Grail, looks for chemical changes in fragments of genetic code – cell-free DNA (cfDNA) – that leak from tumours into the bloodstream
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Thanks to Clint and others
Subject: FW: Don't this make you proud????
The Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada recently hosted its first-ever drag queen show at one of its on-base dining and entertainment clubs, according a base spokesperson.
Nellis Air Force Base and the 99th Air Base Wing hosted its first-ever drag show Thursday, June 17, at the Nellis Club. The event was sponsored by a private organization and provided an opportunity for attendees to learn more about the history and significance of drag performance art within the LGBT+ community.
Ensuring our ranks reflect and are inclusive of the American people is essential to the morale, cohesion, and (okay, are you ready for this) readiness of the military. Nellis Air Force Base is committed to providing and championing an environment that is characterized by equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion. LOL, You have to love the Air Force, they have quite the sense of duty to our country.
The drag queen show came to light after Air Force veteran podcaster "BK" posted a digital flyer for the event that read: "DRAG-U-NELLIS" and "CLASS IS IN SESSION."
"Discover the significance of Drag in the LGBT+ Community at the Nellis Club," it said.
It was scheduled for Friday, June 17, at 5 p.m. and "Sponsored by the Nellis Top 3."
The "Top 3" at Nellis Air Force Base is a social and professional organization established to "enhance the morale, esprit de corps, of all enlisted personnel assigned to the Wing and to facilitate cooperation between members of the top three enlisted grades," according to its private Facebook page.
"The base Top III will provide a forum for its members to meet, share personal experiences and expertise, and assist one another. It may function as an added channel of communication within the chain of command, between the commander, and the enlisted force on Nellis AFB," it said.
One person who attended the drag queen show posted on her social media account, "Had a fun night … at a drag Queen show at Nellis AFB last night."
The Nellis Club, according to the Nellis Force Support Squadron website, is a consolidated club offering a "versatile dining and entertainment experience for all its members."
"We now serve breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a midnight meal from Mon – Fri as well as brunch, dinner, and a midnight meal on Sat, Sun, Holidays, and Family Days. All meals are open to Essential Meal Card Holders! There is something for everyone to enjoy here at your Nellis Club, come give us a try," it said.
Nellis Air Force Base is home to the service's Warfare Center where Air Force pilots undergo the most demanding advanced air combat training in the country. "The crews do not come to learn how to fly, but instead how to be the best combat aviators in the world," the base website said. Really, the BEST at exactly what?
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thanks to THE Bear ,who posted this 5 years ago - mind the last paragraph addressing the national situation 55 years ago; the Vietnam Waris over, President Johnson is gone and the draft is not an issue BUT the rest, well, too much seems quite the same - - -
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED… 27 JUNE 1966… REQUIREMENTS…
June 27, 2016Bear Taylor
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED… 27 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #119… MORE AND MORE… but first…
Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN of my review of our nation's "air war" with North Vietnam fifty years ago…
27 JUNE 1966… ON THE HOME FRONT… New York Times… ("All the news that's fit to print") A sunny Monday, with showers likely in New York City…
Page 1: "12,000 End Rights March To Jackson"… "A wave of 12,000 to 15,000 singing, shouting marchers brought the long civil rights march through Mississippi to an end today (Sunday,26th) by crowding around the state capitol and demanding immediate and wide spread reforms to the testament of Negroes. The last eight mile leg of the march started slowly from Tougeloo College but picked up momentum as thousands of Mississippi Negroes in their Sunday best flocked into the column from the street corners, churches and lawns. They argued with policemen, stepped to the tune of a four piece brass band, and cheered when a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee burned a confederate flag on Capitol Grounds. Hundreds of National Guard troops, state highway patrolmen and other law enforcement officers, many of them carrying tear gas and riot guns looked on."
Page 1: "Many In Vietnam Say Opinion In U.S. Is Key to Victory"… "…The GIs in Vietnam tend to feel they can win the war if permitted to remain long enough…"…"An American Major General was recently questioning a North Vietnamese captain who had deserted. The general was curious about the enemy's policy on rotation of troops and asked, 'American troops can go home after 12-months, when do your leaders say you can go home?'…NVN captain: 'They say can go home when we win the war.'… MGEN: 'What do you think?'…NVN captain: 'I think we can go home after you win the war.' To which writer Charles Mohr adds:
"Who is winning? The North Vietnamese officer is one of many people who think the United States, the South Vietnamese and New Zealand allies are clearly winning. Hardly anyone in Vietnam argues that the Americans and South Vietnamese are losing or is in danger of a major military fiasco like the French met at Dienbienphu. But there is a small body of men who believe that the United States is not losing but not winning either and will not begin to win until there has been some success in the subtle battle to gain the allegiance of hostile or neutral parts of the rural population. The wildest feeling of all however is that the outcome will be decided by public opinion in the United States. In a real sense the United States forces in Vietnam are fighting a war while looking over their shoulders toward home."
Page 1: "Jersey Democrats Consider Rejecting Johnson War Policy"…"A number of New Jersey Democratic leaders alarmed by an apparent grass roots dissatisfaction in the state with President Johnson's Vietnam policy are seriously considering breaking with the President on the fall election campaign. One of the Democratic party's most influential state leaders firmly believes that Democratic candidates must come out emphatically in favor of de-escalation of the war and hope that President Johnson "pulls a rabbit out of a hat" in time to avert Republican victories in November. He added: "… and any Democrat who thinks he can drop the Vietnam thing out of the election will be campaigning in dreamland."
Page 1: "Rusk Sees No Hint Of An Early Peace"…"Secretary of State Dean Rusk said on arrival here (in Canberra, Australia) today for the 111th annual meeting of the SEATO that he saw no prospect of an early peace in Vietnam. The Secretary said that North Vietnam will not be permitted to seize South Vietnam by force and that there will be peace when Hanoi gives up its intention to attempt a seizure. I see no prospect of peace at this time."… Meanwhile, in Washington, Under Secretary George Ball, the leading Dove in the circle of LBJ closest advisors, said: "Hanoi must promptly show some interest in peace or we will attempt by heavier bombing to force them to peace."… and… "One of the gratifying aspects of service in the Johnson Administration is the fact that the President insists on hearing every side of every question. We make decisions by a kind of adversary procedure in which matters argued out and argued out in great detail, and I have played a part in this and very often played a part at the request of the President who has asked me to take one side or the other or even to argue each side in turn on a particular question."
27 June 1966…PRESIDENT's DAILY BRIEF…CIA (TS sanitized)… South Vietnam: Ky may now be gearing up to crack down on the five generals who "contributed to the unstable conditions" in I Corps area during the last three months. (extensive redacting) …Tam Chau, in a press conference interview today hedged on whether the Buddhists would continue to demand the resignation of Ky and Thieu, or would boycott the September elections. Chau's attitude, along with other indications, suggests that the Buddhists may be trying to reach a settlement with the government. (No North Vietnam notes)…
27 JUNE 1966…ROLLING THUNDER OPERATIONS…NYT (28 June page 1, reporting 27 June ops): "Navy Jets Smash Large Fuel Dump"…fireball raises 3,000 feet in attack on underground depot in North Vietnam…"United States Navy pilots attacked a large underground fuel dump 35 miles northeast of Vinh yesterday. The facility was one of the largest petroleum storage areas hit by American bombers so far. The planes, A-6 Intruders, unleashed 24 of their 500-pounders on the target. As the planes swooped away the flames and smoke gushed upward a pilot following said he had to swerve to avoid the debris. Sailors on the carrier Constellation, the fighter-bomber base 150-miles off shore, said they saw the smoke from the ship. Other pilots returning to the ship from missions thirteen hours after the attack could see the fires and wreckage still burning. The attack yesterday was the first on the Yen Bay petroleum storage area. Last week, however, United States Air Force pilots hit seven similar storage areas 30-miles from Hanoi. After the raids near Hanoi last Tuesday and Wednesday pilots reported extensive fires and a number of large explosions set off by the 1000-pound and 3000-pound (?) bombs that were dropped in eleven strikes. A photo released today showed heavy damage to a fuel dump 40 miles north of the capital city. The pilots said they left the depot in flames and smoke to 1500-feet."…"Navy pilots yesterday also knocked out 19 railroad cars in two attacks–one north of Vinh and the other south of Thanh hoa. At the same time Air Force pilots attacked a surface-to-air missile site 35 miles southeast of Vinh. There were no reports of damage."…In the south, B-52s completed Arc Light missions 65 miles west of Danang and 55-miles southwest of Saigon."…"Vietnam: Air Losses"… page 63…Two Navy A-4Es downed…
(1) LCDR GENE ALBERT SMITH was flying an A-4E of the VA-155 Silver Foxes embarked in USS Constellation in a flight of four A-4s striking barges in a canal 30 miles south of Thanh Hoa when the flight leader observed a large fireball on the ground a short distance from the targets. When radio calls to LCDR SMITH went unanswered the flight leader took the flight back to the target area and conducted a visual search of the site of the large fireball and concluded that the crater and debris at the site could be an aircraft. SAR aircraft combed the scene for two hours without any results. LCDR SMITH was subsequently declared Killed in Action and his remains were returned to the United States by the North Vietnamese in 1988. Fifty years ago on this date LCDR GENE SMITH gave up his life for his country…
(2) An A-4E from the VA-212 Rampant Raiders embarked in USS Hancock was lost while the ship and air wing were operating at Dixie Station and supporting combat operations south of Saigon. the aircraft had an engine fire en route to the target and the pilot was forced to eject. He was rescued. Chris Hobson in "Vietnam: Air Losses" notes: "This was the last Navy aircraft lost on a combat mission over South Vietnam before the Navy flew its final mission from Dixie Station on 4 August. By that time enough Air Force and Marine aircraft had arrived at South Vietnam bases to relieve the Navy of assistance in the in-country war. However, later in the war the Navy participated in further combat operations over the South, but from this date onward its main area of operations would be North Vietnam."
RIPPLE SALVO… #119… REQUIREMENTS… Wars are expensive. Expanding wars increases the demand for men and money to meet the growing requirements of the forces in the theater of combat. The Office of Secretary of Defense was responsible for determining valid requirements, identifying the scarce resources needed to fulfill the fully justified requirements, then pursuing the funds from the legislative branch that the President agreed were needed to carry out his Vietnam plans and policies. In mid-1966 the expanding war brought the cost of the war into full sunlight. For example, in early January 1966 the number of combat support personnel, "the support tail as opposed to the combat teeth," requested by MACV in Saigon was increased by 100,000 without explanation or justification. Pursuit of the money to fund this unexpected, unexplained and perhaps unjustified requirement was impossible. So Secretary McNamara set up an office within his Systems Analysis Division (Alain Enthoven's Whiz Kids) in February 1966 to validate the requirement inputs from all the Defense Department's big spenders. This did not sit well with the Joint Chiefs of Staff , who regarded this change as a way to bypass the Joint Chiefs and an indication that they were losing a piece of their turf. Lots of ruffled feathers. In addition to recognized difficulty in determining, and now validating requirements was the unstable and deteriorating political situation in South Vietnam during the period of March trough June of 1966– the period covered in detail (?) in the first 118 RTR posts. At this point President Johnson had three options to consider: (1) continue as usual anticipating that the political turmoil would be resolved, (2) pressure Saigon to negotiate with the Vietcong, or (3) prepare to disengage. LBJ decided on alternative one, press on. This was the state of affairs in mid-June 1966. Into this came an expanded requirement request from CINCPAC… The following is quoted from Edward Drea's Volume VI of the Secretary of Defense Historical Series, pages 125-126:
"In mid-June 1966, Admiral sharp submitted revised requirements asking for 475,000 U.S. and 46,000 allied troops in Vietnam by the end of 1966 plus a further increase of 84,000 during 1967. Sharp also wanted additional forces of 148,000 men by December 1966 and 172,000 by the end of 1967 elsewhere in the western Pacific to include a contingency corps (a theater reserve) either to shorten the war, if the opportunity appeared, or to offset future enemy buildups. Meanwhile, Westmoreland was appealing for still more troops because of his growing concern about an enemy buildup in South Vietnam's centrqal highlands. The President responded on 28 June 1966 (FIFTY YEARS AGO TOMORROW) by asking McNamara to expedite scheduled deployments to Southeast Asia.
"McNamara and Enthoven traveled to Hawaii for an 8 July briefing in another attempt to reconcile military strategy with the administration's political objectives. On arrival, McNamara told the press he was cautiously optimistic about military progress, an official attitude he maintained after returning to Washington, though advising reporters not to expect a short war. IN CRUDEST TERMS, THE COMMUNISTS WERE FIELDING MEN FASTER THAN THE ALLIES COULD KILL THEM (my bold letters). A National Intelligence estimate issued in early July 1966 estimated that the VC and NVA would gain 50,000 men during 1966 and grow to a force of about 125,000. So long as the enemy brought in these reinforcements, MACV would not likely meet goals developed after the February conference in Honolulu, such as securing population centers, opening lines of communication (LOCs), or denying base areas to the enemy. To achieve these agreed on objectives, PACOM had to have the additional forces requested in mid-June. The accompanying campaign plan would mass 65 per cent of the ground forces in the northern provinces of South Vietnam to a war of attrition against NVA regulars. Total PACOM requirements by the end of 1967, including areas outside of south Vietnam, numbered nearly 800,000, including about 59,000 allied troops; with the desired contingency troops, the number would increase to more than 950,000 troops."
Let that sink in, dear readers. Think guns or butter for a moment. At the same time the Vietnam requirements are ballooning, the civil rights marchers are in high gear, the LBJ Great Society is stalled, inflation has become a problem, the draft issues have fired up the 18-26 year olds and their folks, the nation is dividing into two camps–hawks and doves, it is an election year, the Soviets are restless, and both the Chinese and Soviets are fully committed to deliver whatever Ho Chi Minh asks for. That's where we were fifty years ago on 27 June 1966…
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