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Good Monday Morning July 18.
I hope that you all had a great weekend.
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This Day in Navy and Marine Corps History:
July 18
1779 In the largest prize value of the American Revolution, Commodore Abraham Whipples squadron consisting of Continental frigates Providence, Queen of France and sloop Ranger, captures 11 British prizes off the Newfoundland Banks sailing from Jamaica. The cargoes are worth more than $1 million.
1792 Continental Navy Capt. John Paul Jones dies in Paris, France. A legend during the American Revolution, Jones argues for Congress establishing a United States Navy. When it fails to do so, the unemployed captain found work as a rear admiral in the Russian navy for a couple of years, but eventually returns to France, where he dies. More than a century later, his body is discovered, exhumed, brought back to the United States under huge fanfare and reburied in a magnificent sarcophagus at the United States Naval Academy.
1813 During the War of 1812, the frigate, USS President, commanded by John Rodgers, sinks the British brig, HMS Daphne, off the Irish coast. In the next few weeks, she engages three more vessels. USS President captures the ship, HMS Eliza Swan July 24, burns the brig, HMS Alert, on July 29, and captures the bark Lion on Aug. 2.
1921 U.S. Army and U.S. Navy aircraft sink the ex-German cruiser, Frankfurt, in target practice as part of General Billy Mitchell's aerial bombing demonstration.
1943 German submarine (U 134) shoots down (K 47), the first and only U.S. airship lost during WW II, in the Fla. straits. In Aug. 1943, (U 134) is sunk by British aircraft near Vigo, Spain.
1966 Gemini 10 is launched with Lt. Cmdr. John L. Young as command pilot and Michael Collins is the pilot. The mission entails 43 orbits at an altitude of 412.2 nautical miles and lasts two days, 22 hours, and 46 minutes.
1981 USS Dallas (SSN 700) is commissioned at Groton, Conn., her first homeport. The Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine is the first to be built with an all-digital fire control and sonar system.
1992 USS Shiloh (CG 67) is commissioned at Bath, Maine. The 21st Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser is the named after the Civil War Battle of Shiloh.
Today in History July 18
1789 Robespierre, a deputy from Arras, France, decides to back the French Revolution.
1812 Great Britain signs the Treaty of Orebro, making peace with Russia and Sweden.
1830 Uruguay adopts a liberal constitution.
1861 Union and Confederate troops skirmish at Blackburn's Ford, Virginia, in a prelude to the Battle of Bull Run.
1877 Inventor Thomas Edison records the human voice for the first time.
1872 The Ballot Act is passed in Great Britain, providing for secret election ballots.
1935 Ethiopian King Haile Selassie urges his countrymen to fight to the last man against the invading Italian army.
1936 General Francisco Franco of Spain revolts against the Republican government, starting the Spanish Civil War.
1942 The German Me-262, the first jet-propelled aircraft to fly in combat, makes its first flight.
1971 New Zealand and Australia announce they will pull their troops out of Vietnam.
1994 In Buenos Aires, a massive car bomb kills 96 people.
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OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
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OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 18 July 1967… A bad day for USS ORISKANY and LT Dick Hartman, Ghost Rider, also, background for Rolling Thunder 57…
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OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post of 18 July 2017… Fifty-five years ago today… The last flight of LT Richard Hartman, Ghost Rider… by Dr. Richard Schaffert, Storyteller
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.
This is a list of all Helicopter Pilots Who Died in the Vietnam War
. Listed by last name and has other info
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These are great. I have four granddaughters and the two oldest live with us.
Thanks to Boysie ... and Dr. Rich
Grandparent Jokes
How grandchildren perceive their grandparents
1. I was in the bathroom, putting on my makeup, under the watchful eyes of my young granddaughter, as I'd done many times before. After I applied my lipstick and started to leave, the little one said, "But Grandma, you forgot to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!" I will probably never put lipstick on again without thinking about kissing the toilet paper good-bye....
2. My young grandson called the other day to wish me Happy Birthday. He asked me how old I was, and I told him, 72. My grandson was quiet for a moment, and then he asked, "Did you start at 1?"
3. After putting her grandchildren to bed, a grandmother changed into old slacks and a droopy blouse and proceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children getting more and more rambunctious, her patience grew thin. Finally, she threw a towel around her head and stormed into their room, putting them back to bed with stern warnings. As she left the room, she heard the three-year-old say with a trembling voice, "Who was THAT?"
4. A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like. "We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods." The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this all in. At last she said, "I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner!"
5. My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, "Grandma, do you know how you and God are alike?" I mentally polished my halo and I said, "No, how are we alike?'' "You're both old," he replied.
6. A little girl was diligently pounding away on her grandfather's word processor. She told him she was writing a story.
"What's it about?" he asked.
"I don't know," she replied. "I can't read."
7. I didn't know if my granddaughter had learned her colors yet, so I decided to test her. I would point out something and ask what color it was. She would tell me and was always correct. It was fun for me, so I continued. At last, she headed for the door, saying, "Grandma, I really think you should try to figure out some of these colors yourself!"
8. When my grandson Billy and I entered our vacation cabin, we kept the lights off until we were inside to keep from attracting pesky insects. Still, a few fireflies followed us in. Noticing them before I did, Billy whispered, "It's no use Grandpa. Now the mosquitoes are coming after us with flashlights."
9. When my grandson asked me how old I was, I teasingly replied, "I'm not sure." "Look in your underwear, Grandpa," he advised "Mine says I'm 4 to 6." (WOW! I really like this one -- it says I'm only '38'!)
10. A second grader came home from school and said to her grandmother, "Grandma, guess what? We learned how to make babies today." The grandmother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool. "That's interesting." she said. "How do you make babies?" "It's simple," replied the girl. "You just change 'y' to 'i' and add 'es'."
11. Children's Logic: "Give me a sentence about a public servant," said a teacher. The small boy wrote: "The fireman came down the ladder pregnant." The teacher took the lad aside to correct him. "Don't you know what pregnant means?" she asked. "Sure," said the young boy confidently. 'It means carrying a child."
12. A grandfather was delivering his grandchildren to their home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children started discussing the dog's duties.
"They use him to keep crowds back," said one child.
"No," said another. "He's just for good luck."
A third child brought the argument to a close. "They use the dogs," she said firmly, "to find the fire hydrants."
13. A 6-year-old was asked where his grandma lived. "Oh," he said, "she lives at the airport, and whenever we want her, we just go get her. Then, when we're done having her visit, we take her back to the airport."
14. Grandpa is the smartest man on earth! He teaches me good things, but I don't get to see him enough to get as smart as him!
15. My Grandparents are funny, when they bend over, you hear gas leaks and they blame their dog.
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Thanks to Dr.Rich
An hour well spent …
If you ever swam, fished, surfed, sailed, scuba dived, snorkeled, etc. take the time to watch this ...........
This is a link to a Patagonia film which I really enjoyed! I hope you will too.
Get wet!!
AirPlay it from your phone -> AppleTV to your HDTV…
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Thanks to Al
Monday Morning Humor--Computers
An unemployed man goes to try for a job with Microsoft as a cleaner. The manager there arranges for an aptitude test.
After the test, the manager says: "You will be appointed on the scale of $120 per day. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send you a form to complete and advise you where to report for work on your first day."
Taken aback, the unemployed man protests that he is neither in possession of a computer nor of an e-mail address.
To this the MS manager replies: "Well, then, that really means that you virtually don't exist and can therefore hardly expect to be employed."
Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and only having about $20 left, he decides to buy a 10 lb box of tomatoes at the supermarket. Within less than two hours, he sells the tomatoes singly at 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $400 before going to sleep that night. And thus it dawns on the man that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes.
Getting up early and earlier every day and going to bed late and later, he multiplies his hoard of profits in quite a short time. Not too long thereafter, he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again shortly afterwards on a pick-up truck.
By the end of the second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks and manages a staff of a hundred former unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. Considering the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some life insurance.
Calling an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the telephone conversation, the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order that he might forward the documentation. When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned: "What, you don't even have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to amass such wealth without the internet, e-mail and e-commerce? Just imagine where you would have been by now, if you had been connected from the very start!"
After a moment's silence, the tomato millionaire replied: "Sure! I would have been a cleaner at Microsoft!"
Morals of the story:
• The internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life.
• If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a millionaire.
• Seeing that you got this story via computer, you're probably closer to becoming a cleaner than you are to becoming a millionaire.
• If you do have a computer and e-mail, you're may have already being taken to the cleaners by Microsoft.
This virus going around again. You will know if you receive it as you will get this message:
"By opening this e-mail you have just received the Amish Virus. Since we have no electricity or computers, you are on the honor system.
Please delete all of your files.
Thank thee."
Norton AntiVirus issued an apology to Microsoft yesterday after the security software maker's AntiVirus Research Center issued an alert for a "widespread and lethal virus known to cause system crashes and data loss" that turned out to be the Windows 11 operating system. The CEO called it a "regrettable but understandable" mistake.
Rethink your URL name... All of these are legitimate companies that didn't spend quite enough time considering how their online names might appear and be misread.......
• Who Represents is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Their Web site is http://www.whorepresents.com
• Experts Exchange is a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at http://www.expertsexchange.com
• Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at http://www.therapistfinder.com
• And don't forget the Mole Station Native Nursery in New South Wales, http://www.molestationnursery.com
• If you're looking for IP computer software, there's always http://www.ipanywhere.com
• And the designers at Speed of Art await you at their wacky Web site http://www.speedofart.com
Zen Computer Error Messages:
• The Web site you seek cannot be located, but countless more exist.
• Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.
• Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much.
• Windows crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.
• Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that.
• Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone.
• Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down.
• A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone.
• Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred?
• You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not here.
• Having been erased, the document you're seeking must now be retyped.
• Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared.
• Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
An old, wise bearded elder, with a crooked staff, once walked up to a stone pulpit in a Near Eastern Territory (or NET) and told the following story:
And lo it came to pass that the trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a young wife by the name of Dot. And Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she had been called "Amazon Dot Com."
And she said unto Abraham, her husband, "Why doth thou travel far, from town to town, with thy goods when thou can trade without ever leaving thy tent?"
And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said, "How, Dear?"
And Dot replied, "I will place drums in all the towns and drums in between to send messages saying what you have for sale, and they will reply telling you which hath the best price. And the sale can be made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable(UPS)."
Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums, as long as he could have his way with her. And Dot said, "There will be a lot of banging in the land."
And Abraham replied, "It is my most fervent wish that this be so."
And the drums rang out and were an immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he had, at the top price, without ever moving from his tent. But his success did arouse envy.
A man named Maccabia did secrete himself inside Abraham's drum and was accused of insider trading. And the young did take to Dot Com's trading as doth the greedy horsefly to camel dung. They were called "Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Siderites," or "NERDS" for short.
And lo the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of drums, that no one noticed that the real riches were going to the drum maker, one Brother William of Gates, who bought up every drum company in the land. And indeed did insist on making drums that would only work if you bought Brother Gates' drumsticks.
And Dot did say, "Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by others."
And, as Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel, or as it came to be known, "eBay," he said, "We need a name of a service that reflects what we are."
And Dot replied, "How about Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators."
"Whoopee!", said Abraham.
"No, Abraham, YAHOO!", said Dot Com.
I was having trouble with my computer. So I called Eric, the 11 year old next door, whose bedroom looks like Mission Control and asked him to come over. Eric clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem.
As he was walking away, I called after him, 'So, what was wrong? He replied, "It was an ID ten T error."
I didn't want to appear stupid, but nonetheless inquired, "An, ID ten T error? What's that? In case I need to fix it again."
Eric grinned.... "Haven't you ever heard of an ID ten T error before?"
"No," I replied.
"Write it down," he said, "and I think you'll figure it out."
So I wrote down: I D 1 0 T
Have a great week,
Al
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This Day in U S Military History…….July 18
1792 – American naval hero John Paul Jones died in Paris at age 45. His body was preserved in rum in case the American government wished him back. In 1905 his body was transported to the US and placed in a crypt in Annapolis.
1863 – Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and 272 of his troops are killed in an assault on Fort Wagner, near Charleston, South Carolina. Shaw was commander of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, perhaps the most famous regiment of African-American troops during the war. Fort Wagner stood on Morris Island, guarding the approach to Charleston harbor. It was a massive earthwork, 600 feet wide and made from sand piled 30 feet high. The only approach to the fort was across a narrow stretch of beach bounded by the Atlantic on one side and a swampy marshland on the other. Union General Quincy Gillmore headed an operation in July 1863 to take the island and seal the approach to Charleston. Shaw and his 54th Massachusetts were chosen to lead the attack of July 18. Shaw was the scion of an abolitionist family and a veteran of the 1862 Shenandoah Valley and Antietam campaigns. The regiment included two sons of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the grandson of author and poet Sojourner Truth. Union artillery battered Fort Wagner all day on July 18, but the barrage did little damage to the fort and its garrison. At 7:45 p.m., the attack commenced. Yankee troops had to march 1,200 yards down the beach to the stronghold, facing a hail of bullets from the Confederates. Shaw's troops and other Union regiments penetrated the walls at two points but did not have sufficient numbers to take the fort. Over 1,500 Union troops fell or were captured to the Confederates' 222. Despite the failure, the battle proved that African-American forces could not only hold their own but also excel in battle.
1942 – The German Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, the first jet-propelled aircraft to fly in combat, made its first flight. Walter Nowotny was a rising young star in the Luftwaffe, chosen by Hitler to be the point man to lead the new jet fighter under the tutelage of General of Fighters Adolf Galland who was assigned to prove the airplane in battle. The Axis hopes were dashed when Nowotny was attacked by American pilots during landing and crashed. Col. Edward R. "Buddy" Haydon was one of those American pilots.
1943 – German submarine shoots down K-47, the first and only U.S. airship lost during WW II.
1943 – An aircraft carrying the Commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Admiral Yamamoto, is shot down by P-38 Lighting fighters over Bougainville. Yamamoto is killed. This action is the result the interception of a coded Japanese message announcing a visit by Yamamoto. The Japanese fail to deduce that their codes are insecure.
1944 – Two Guard divisions, the 29th (DC, MD, VA) and the 35th (KS, MO, NE) both claim credit for the final capture of the vital crossroads city of St. Lo from the Nazis. According to the D-Day plan, St. Lo was supposed to be secured ten days after D-Day. But due to stubborn German resistance using each Norman hedgerow as a defensive fighting position, it took 42 days to take the city. During the 35th Division's approach, Nebraska Guardsman First Lieutenant Francis Greenlief, of Company L, 134th Infantry (NE), was awarded the Silver Star for capturing an enemy machine gun nest single-handedly. In 1971 Major General Greenlief was appointed by President Richard Nixon as the Chief, National Guard Bureau. Another Guard soldier was to gain fame on the approach to St. Lo, but in a different way. Virginian Major Thomas Howie, the popular commander of the 2nd Battalion, 116th Infantry (VA), told his officers in a meeting on the edge of the city "I'll see you in St. Lo!" and then was killed by a mortar fragment. When the division commander heard the story he instructed that Howie's body be transported with the lead elements when they moved into the city. His body was placed on a stretcher and draped with an American flag and placed on the ruins of the Ste. Croix Church in the center of the city. A passing New York Times reporter heard the story and wrote a moving tribute entitled "The Major of St. Lo" but could not identify Howie by name due to security. The story was picked up by newspapers across the nation and the "Major" came to represent all the men killed in the Normandy campaign to liberate France. To honor these men today, Nebraska has the "Major General Francis Greenlief Training Site" in Hastings and the "Major Thomas Howie Memorial Armory" is in his hometown of Staunton, VA.
1945 – Captured German mines explode accidentally, destroying an American Red Cross club in Italy and killing 36 people.
1945 – Aircraft from the American carrier Wasp attack Japanese positions on Wake Island.
1945 – The battleship Nagato, which has been reduced to service as a floating antiaircraft battery, is damaged by American planes at Yokosuka. Allied air and naval forces strike numerous other targets in the Tokyo area and encounter almost no opposition.
1947 – President Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which placed the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.
1966 – Launch of Gemini 10 with LCDR John W. Young, USN as Command Pilot. Mission involved 43 orbits at an altitude of 412.2 nautical miles and lasted 2 days, 22 hours, and 46 minutes. Recovery was by HS-3 helicopter from USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7).
1973 – Task Force 78, Mine Countermeasures Force, departs waters of North Vietnam after completing their minesweeping operations of 1,992 tow hours for the cost of $20,394,000.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
CARNEY, WILLIAM H.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company C, 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry. Place and date: At Fort Wagner, S.C., 18 July 1863. Entered service at: New Bedford, Mass. Birth: Norfolk, Va. Date of issue: 23 May 1900. Citation: When the color sergeant was shot down, this soldier grasped the flag, led the way to the parapet, and planted the colors thereon. When the troops fell back he brought off the flag, under a fierce fire in which he was twice severely wounded.
CROSS, JAMES E.
Rank and organization: Corporal, Company K, 12th New York Infantry. Place and date: At Blackburns Ford, Va., 18 July 1861. Entered service at: ——. Birth: Darien, N.Y. Date of issue: 5 April 1898. Citation: With a companion, refused to retreat when the part of the regiment to which he was attached was driven back in disorder, but remained upon the skirmish line for some time thereafter, firing upon the enemy.
HIBSON, JOSEPH C.
Rank and organization: Private, Company C, 48th New York Infantry. Place and date: Near Fort Wagner, S.C., 13 July 1863, Near Fort Wagner, S.C., 14 July 1863; Near Fort Wagner, S.C., 18 July 1863. Entered service at: New York, N.Y. Birth: England. Date of issue: 23 October 1897. Citation: While voluntarily performing picket duty under fire on 13 July 1863, was attacked and his surrender demanded, but he killed his assailant. The day following responded to a call for a volunteer to reconnoiter the enemy's position, and went within the enemy's lines under fire and was exposed to great danger. On 18 July voluntarily exposed himself with great gallantry during an assault, and received 3 wounds that permanently disabled him for active service.
RAND, CHARLES F.
Rank and organization: Private, Company K, 12th New York Infantry. Place and date: At Blackburns Ford, Va., 18 July 1861. Entered service at: Batavia, N.Y. Birth: Batavia, N.Y. Date of issue: 23 October 1897. Citation: Remained in action when a part of his regiment broke in disorder, joined another company, and fought with it through the remainder of the engagement.
CUKELA, LOUIS (Army Medal)
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps, 66th Company, 5th Regiment. Place and date: Near Villers-Cotterets, France, 18 July 1918. Entered service at: Minneapolis, Minn. Born: 1 May 1888, Sebenes, Austria. G.O. No.: 34, W.D., 1919. (Also received Navy Medal of Honor.) Citation: When his company, advancing through a wood, met with strong resistance from an enemy strong point, Sgt. Cukela crawled out from the flank and made his way toward the German lines in the face of heavy fire, disregarding the warnings of his comrades. He succeeded in getting behind the enemy position and rushed a machinegun emplacement, killing or driving off the crew with his bayonet. With German handgrenades he then bombed out the remaining portion of the strong point, capturing 4 men and 2 damaged machineguns.
CUKELA, LOUIS (Navy Medal)
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps, 66th Company, 5th Regiment. Born: 1 May 1888, Sebenes, Austria. Accredited to: Minnesota. (Also received Army Medal of Honor.) Citation: For extraordinary heroism while serving with the 66th Company, 5th Regiment, during action in the Forest de Retz, near Viller-Cottertes, France, 18 July 1918. Sgt. Cukela advanced alone against an enemy strong point that was holding up his line. Disregarding the warnings of his comrades, he crawled out from the flank in the face of heavy fire and worked his way to the rear of the enemy position. Rushing a machinegun emplacement, he killed or drove off the crew with his bayonet, bombed out the remaining part of the strong point with German handgrenades and captured 2 machineguns and 4 men.
*DILBOY, GEORGE
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company H, 103d Infantry, 26th Division. Place and date: Near Belleau, France, 18 July 1918. Entered service at: Keene, N.H. Birth: Greece. G.O. No.: 13, W.D., 1919. Citation: After his platoon had gained its objective along a railroad embankment, Pfc. Dilboy, accompanying his platoon leader to reconnoiter the ground beyond, was suddenly fired upon by an enemy machinegun from 100 yards. From a standing position on the railroad track, fully exposed to view, he opened fire at once, but failing to silence the gun, rushed forward with his bayonet fixed, through a wheat field toward the gun emplacement, falling within 25 yards of the gun with his right leg nearly severed above the knee and with several bullet holes in his body. With undaunted courage he continued to fire into the emplacement from a prone position, killing 2 of the enemy and dispersing the rest of the crew.
EDWARDS, DANIEL R.
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company C, 3d Machine Gun Battalion, 1st Division. Place and date: Near Soissons, France, 18 July 1918. Entered service at: Bruceville, Tex. Born: 9 April 1897, Moorville, Tex. G.O. No.: 14, W.D., 1923. Citation: Reporting for duty from hospital where he had been for several weeks under treatment for numerous and serious wounds and although suffering intense pain from a shattered arm, he crawled alone into an enemy trench for the purpose of capturing or killing enemy soldiers known to be concealed therein. He killed 4 of the men and took the remaining 4 men prisoners; while conducting them to the rear one of the enemy was killed by a high explosive enemy shell which also completely shattered 1 of Pfc. Edwards' legs, causing him to be immediately evacuated to the hospital. The bravery of Pfc. Edwards, now a tradition in his battalion because of his previous gallant acts, again caused the morale of his comrades to be raised to high pitch.
*KOCAK, MATEJ (Army Medal)
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps, 66th Company, 5th Regiment, 2d Division. Place and date: Near Soissons, France, 18 July 1918. Entered service at: New York, N.Y. Born: 31 December 1882, Gbely (Slovakia), Austria. G.O. No.: 34, W.D., 1919. (Also received Navy Medal of Honor.) Citation: When the advance of his battalion was checked by a hidden machinegun nest, he went forward alone, unprotected by covering fire from his own men, and worked in between the German positions in the face of fire from enemy covering detachments. Locating the machinegun nest, he rushed it and with his bayonet drove off the crew. Shortly after this he organized 25 French colonial soldiers who had become separated from their company and led them in attacking another machinegun nest, which was also put out of action.
*KOCAK, MATEJ (Navy Medal)
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps. Born: 31 December 1882, Gbely (Slovakia), Austria. Accredited to: New York. ( Also received Army Medal of Honor. ) Citation: For extraordinary heroism while serving with the 66th Company, 5th Regiment, 2d Division, in action in the Viller-Cottertes section, south of Soissons, France, 18 July 1918. When a hidden machinegun nest halted the advance of his battalion, Sgt. Kocak went forward alone unprotected by covering fire and worked his way in between the German positions in the face of heavy enemy fire. Rushing the enemy position with his bayonet, he drove off the crew. Later the same day, Sgt. Kocak organized French colonial soldiers who had become separated from their company and led them in an attack on another machinegun nest which was also put out of action.
*EVANS, RODNEY J.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company D, 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division. Place and date: Tay Ninh Province, Republic of Vietnam, 18 July 1969. Entered service at: Montgomery, Ala. Born: 17 July 1948, Chelsea, Mass. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sgt. Evans distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism while serving as a squad leader in a reconnaissance sweep through heavy vegetation to reconnoiter a strong enemy position. As the force approached a well-defined trail, the platoon scout warned that the trail was booby-trapped. Sgt. Evans led his squad on a route parallel to the trail. The force had started to move forward when a nearby squad was hit by the blast of a concealed mine. Looking to his right Sgt. Evans saw a second enemy device. With complete disregard for his safety he shouted a warning to his men, dived to the ground and crawled toward the mine. Just as he reached it an enemy soldier detonated the explosive and Sgt. Evans absorbed the full impact with his body. His gallant and selfless action saved his comrades from probable death or injury and served as an inspiration to his entire unit. Sgt. Evans' gallantry in action at the cost of his life were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army.
McGINTY, JOHN J. III
Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant (then S/Sgt.), U.S. Marine Corps, Company K, 3d Battalion, 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force. place and date: Republic of Vietnam, 18 July 1966. Entered service at: Laurel Bay, S.C. Born: 2 1 January 1940, Boston, Mass. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. 2d Lt. McGinty's platoon, which was providing rear security to protect the withdrawal of the battalion from a position which had been under attack for 3 days, came under heavy small arms, automatic weapons and mortar fire from an estimated enemy regiment. With each successive human wave which assaulted his 32-man platoon during the 4-hour battle, 2d Lt. McGinty rallied his men to beat off the enemy. In 1 bitter assault, 2 of the squads became separated from the remainder of the platoon. With complete disregard for his safety, 2d Lt. McGinty charged through intense automatic weapons and mortar fire to their position. Finding 20 men wounded and the medical corpsman killed, he quickly reloaded ammunition magazines and weapons for the wounded men and directed their fire upon the enemy. Although he was painfully wounded as he moved to care for the disabled men, he continued to shout encouragement to his troops and to direct their fire so effectively that the attacking hordes were beaten off. When the enemy tried to out-flank his position, he killed 5 of them at point-blank range with his pistol. When they again seemed on the verge of overrunning the small force, he skillfully adjusted artillery and air strikes within 50 yards of his position. This destructive firepower routed the enemy, who left an estimated 500 bodies on the battlefield. 2d Lt. McGinty's personal heroism, indomitable leadership, selfless devotion to duty, and bold fighting spirit inspired his men to resist the repeated attacks by a fanatical enemy, reflected great credit upon himself, and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the U.S. Naval Service.
MODRZEJEWSKI, ROBERT J.
Rank and organization: Major (then Capt.), U.S. Marine Corps, Company K, 3d Battalion, 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division, FMF. place and date: Republic of Vietnam, 15 to 18 July 1966. Entered service at: Milwaukee, Wis. Born: 3 July 1934, Milwaukee, Wis. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. On 15 July, during Operation HASTINGS, Company K was landed in an enemy-infested jungle area to establish a blocking position at a major enemy trail network. Shortly after landing, the company encountered a reinforced enemy platoon in a well-organized, defensive position. Maj. Modrzejewski led his men in the successful seizure of the enemy redoubt, which contained large quantities of ammunition and supplies. That evening, a numerically superior enemy force counterattacked in an effort to retake the vital supply area, thus setting the pattern of activity for the next 2 1/2 days. In the first series of attacks, the enemy assaulted repeatedly in overwhelming numbers but each time was repulsed by the gallant marines. The second night, the enemy struck in battalion strength, and Maj. Modrzejewski was wounded in this intensive action which was fought at close quarters. Although exposed to enemy fire, and despite his painful wounds, he crawled 200 meters to provide critically needed ammunition to an exposed element of his command and was constantly present wherever the fighting was heaviest, despite numerous casualties, a dwindling supply of ammunition and the knowledge that they were surrounded, he skillfully directed artillery fire to within a few meter* of his position and courageously inspired the efforts of his company in repelling the aggressive enemy attack. On 18 July, Company K was attacked by a regimental-size enemy force. Although his unit was vastly outnumbered and weakened by the previous fighting, Maj. Modrzejewski reorganized his men and calmly moved among them to encourage and direct their efforts to heroic limits as they fought to overcome the vicious enemy onslaught. Again he called in air and artillery strikes at close range with devastating effect on the enemy, which together with the bold and determined fighting of the men of Company K, repulsed the fanatical attack of the larger North Vietnamese force. His unparalleled personal heroism and indomitable leadership inspired his men to a significant victory over the enemy force and reflected great credit upon himself, the Marine Corps, and the U.S. Naval Service.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for July 18, 2021 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
18 July
1909: American Louis Paulhan set an FAI altitude record of 492 feet in a Voisin airplane at Dounais, France. (9)
1916: The Secretary of the Navy created allowances for flight clothes. (24)
1943: A German sub shot down the Navy's K-74 Airship off the coast of Florida. It was the only airship lost to enemy action in the war. (24)
1946: Formal jet transition training course established at Williams Field with P-80 Shooting Stars.
1950: KOREAN WAR. The 19 BG began modifying a few B-29s to use radio-guided (Razon) bombs to bomb bridges accurately. (28)
1958: The USAF awarded a contract to North American's Autonetics Division to develop an allinertial guidance system for the Minuteman. (6)
1961: The largest polyethylene balloon manufactured to date, holding 13.5 million cubic feet of helium at peak altitude, launched from Bemidji, Minn.
1962: NASA achieved a record for man-made objects in space when it launched "Big Shot." This rigidized Echo-type balloon left Cape Canaveral aboard a Thor missile. When it inflated at 922 miles in altitude, the balloon stood 13-stories tall. (16) (24)
1966: The Air Force's Cambridge Research Laboratory sent up a balloon twice as large as any previously launched from Holloman AFB. The 456-foot-diameter, 26-million-cubic-foot balloon lifted 1,700 pounds to 130,000 feet to test its equipment in rarified air similar to that of Mars for the Voyager program. (5) (16) GEMINI X: Through 21 July, a Titan booster sent Astronauts Cmdr John W. Young (USN) and Maj Michael Collins (USAF) into space to practice docking with targets. In the first hookup, the astronauts achieved the longest docking yet, while in the second they retrieved an object from a passive satellite. Young and Collins splashed down 594 miles east of Cape Kennedy after 70 hours 47 minutes in space and 43 orbits. They also set an FAI altitude record of 476 miles. (9) (26)
1967: For the first time, an HH-3E Jolly Green Giant helicopter was refueled during a rescue mission. The helicopter was refueled by an HC–130 Hercules. (18)
1969: NASA and the Air Force decided to conduct a cooperative YF-12 flight research program. (3)
2002: At McConnell AFB, the Airborne Laser (ABL), a highly-modified Boeing 747-400F, made its first flight. The world's first directed-energy combat aircraft had a rotating nose turret with a 5- foot diameter telescope to focus and direct a laser to destroy ballistic missiles in flight. (3)
2006: The eighth and final C-17 (tail no. 05-5153), named the Spirit of Kamehameha-Imua in honor of Kamehameha the Great, arrived at Hickam AFB to complete the 15 AW's conversion to an operational strategic airlift wing. (22)
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World News for 18 July thanks to Military Periscope
USA—Coast Guard Commandant Pushes For More Icebreakers To Keep Up With China, Russia Defense News | 07/18/2022 The head of the U.S. Coast Guard says her service needs more icebreakers to maintain its presence in the Arctic, reports Defense News. The steady decline in polar ice and potential opening of trade routes linking Asia, Europe and North America has increased interest in the region, with China and Russia expanding their Arctic capabilities. On Thursday, Adm. Linda Fagan told the House Homeland Security Committee's transportation and maritime security panel that the Coast Guard needed more icebreakers to maintain a strong U.S. presence in the Arctic. The service currently has two aging icebreakers, the heavy Polar Star and medium icebreaker Healy. Work has begun on the first of three Polar Security Cutters, with plans for three new medium icebreakers to follow. Meanwhile, Russia has more than 40 active icebreakers, including 10 nuclear-powered variants, noted the Coast Guard's Office of Waterways and Ocean Policy. In 2018, China declared itself a "near-Arctic power," indicating its intention to expand its ability to operate in the region.
USA—Stryker Power Issues Discovered During Capability Set Exercise C4ISRNet | 07/18/2022 U.S. Army Stryker wheeled armored vehicles conducting testing with new communications and network tools did not have enough power for some operations, reports C4ISRNet. The 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment, evaluated Capability Set 23 (CS 23) at the Grafenwohr Training Area in Germany earlier this month. CS 23 is the latest step in the Army's program to incrementally upgrade soldier communications and network capabilities. The latest phase of the project began in 2021 with a focus on infantry brigades. Capability Set 23 is tailored for Stryker brigades and builds on the CS 21. It features several input and output radios, improved GPS routing and cellular hotspots. Another larger demonstration is scheduled for later this year, with the goal of informing a fielding decision in early 2023.
Ukraine—Zelenskyy Removes Top Security Official, Prosecutor Over Counterintel Failures Reuters | 07/18/2022 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has suspended the head of the Ukrainian intelligence and security agency and his top prosecutor for failing to uncover Russian spies, reports Reuters. On Sunday, Zelenskyy announced the Ivan Bakanov, a close childhood friend and head of the SBU, and Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova had been removed from their posts. The president said that more than 60 officials from the SBU and prosecutor's office were discovered to be working for Russian occupation authorities, and 651 treason and collaboration cases had been opened against law enforcement officials. On Monday, government officials clarified that Bakanov and Venediktova had been suspended pending further investigation and had not been fired.
Ghana—Marburg Virus Outbreak Declared After Pair Of Cases Confirmed Agence France-Presse | 07/18/2022 The World Health Organization has declared an outbreak of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever in the same family as Ebola, in Ghana, reports Agence France-Presse. Blood samples taken from two people in the southern Ashanti region suggested the disease, the Ghana Health Service said. The samples were sent to Senegal for further analysis, which confirmed the diagnosis. The Marburg virus spreads to people from fruit bats and is transmitted among people through direct contact with bodily fluids and surfaces. Symptoms include high fever and internal and external bleeding. The disease has a fatality rate of 24 to 88 percent, depending on the strain and treatment. No treatment or vaccine exists to combat Marburg. Guinea confirmed a single case last year in an outbreak that was declared over in September 2021.
India—Another Nilgiri-Class Frigate Launched In Kolkata Naval News | 07/18/2022 The fourth of seven new stealth frigates for the Indian navy has been launched in Kolkata in northeastern India, reports Naval News. The Dunagiri was put in the water during a ceremony on July 15 at the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) shipyard. The Indian navy has ordered seven Nilgiri-class frigates from GRSE and Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders. The latter laid the keel for the seventh frigate in the class last month. The class, a development of India's Shivalik-class stealth frigates, feature multidimensional capabilities to address aerial, surface and underwater threats, officials said. The frigates are armed with a 76-mm main gun; two 30-mm AK-630M anti-aircraft artillery systems; two torpedo tubes; eight BrahMos cruise missile launchers; and 32 Barak 8 surface-to-air missiles. The ships are also equipped with the Israeli MF-STAR radar.
Indonesia—Papuan Separatists Claim Highland Ambush Agence France-Presse | 07/18/2022 Separatist militants in the Papua region in eastern Indonesia have taken responsibility for the killing of 10 people in a remote highland region, reports Agence France-Presse. On Saturday, fighters from the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) attacked a truck carrying traders and their goods, police said. On Monday, a TPNPB spokesman said the militants had shot 11 Indonesians and a Papuan, who took pictures and fought back when they were stopped for questioning. He warned other "Indonesian immigrants" to leave the region and threatened to kill those who did not. The Papuan rebels, who have fought Indonesian security forces for decades, have stepped up attacks of late against workers who they accuse of working for the Indonesian state. The Melanesian population in Papua shares few cultural links with the rest of Indonesia. The Indonesian military has long been accused of human-rights violations against the locals.
Saudi Arabia—Biden And Crown Prince Trade Barbs Over Journalist Killings The Intercept | 07/18/2022 President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman exchanged harsh words over separate journalist killings during talks last week in Saudi Arabia, reports the Intercept. During a press conference in Jeddah on Friday during Biden's visit, the president said he had confronted the crown prince over the murder of dissident Saudi-U.S. journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency concluded that Mohammed bin Salman had directed a hit squad to murder Khashoggi during a visit to the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul in October 2018. The crown prince denied that he was involved in the killing and reportedly asked why Khashoggi's murder was more important to him than the death of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at the hands of Israeli security forces in May. On Friday, Biden told a press conference in Bethlehem that he would "insist on a full and transparent accounting of her death."
United Kingdom—RAF Seeks To Accelerate Development Of Uncrewed Capabilities Breaking Defense | 07/18/2022 The British Royal Air Force wants to accelerate the development of capabilities for uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), reports Breaking Defense. As part of the shift, the service canceled Project Mosquito, which sought to develop a "loyal wingman" drone as part of its Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft (LANCA) program. Plans called for the Project Mosquito air vehicle, developed by Northrop Grumman, Spirit AeroSystems and British firm Callen-Lenz, to make its first flight at the end of 2023. However, service officials said they had learned a lot from the program but wanted to focus on fielding advanced uncrewed capabilities faster. In September and October, the Rapid Capabilities Office are slated to launch a series of industry competitions to expedite the development of scalable uncrewed systems that can be delivered to the front lines faster, said Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, the chief of Air Staff. The RAF will focus the projects on technologies for swarming drones, uncrewed combat aircraft and next-generation piloted aircraft such as the U.K.-led Tempest, Wigston said. The service is also looking at new models of capability delivery and accelerating production "when we need them" rather than "in case we need them," he said.
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