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To All,
Good Friday Morning September 16
I am leaving in a couple hours to head north to do a traveling vacation with my wife and my best and long time friend Paul Ringwood and his wife. We are going to do Yosemite and Glacier Park and other sites before the snow covers it all up. We will return next Saturday. I am taking my computer and will try to get as many Lists out as Wifi and my computer can handle. The Bubba list is open for lots of Airplane stuff. Cowboy has just about got the List and the Bubba list names all moved over to the new mail servers. So if you do not receive a list every day for the next 7 days the fault will be mine. Please don't bug us until after next Sunday 25th.
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Today in Naval and Marine Corps History
September. 16
1814 A squadron from the schooner USS Carolina attacks and raids the base of the pirate Jean Lafitte, at Barataria, La., capturing six schooners and other small craft while the pirates flee the attack.
1823 Samuel Southard becomes the seventh Secretary of the Navy, serving until March 3, 1829. During his tenure, he enlarges the Navy, improves administration, purchases land for the first Naval Hospitals, begins construction of the first Navy dry docks, undertakes surveying U.S. coastal waters and promotes exploration in the Pacific Ocean.
1854 Mare Island, Calif. becomes the first permanent U.S. naval installation on the west coast, with Cmdr. David G. Farragut as its first base commander.
1922 Cmdr. Halsey Powell in USS Edsall (DD 219 becomes the senior officer directing the evacuation of 250,000 Greek refugees from Turkey after war between Greece and Turkey.
1944 USS Barb (SS 220) sinks the Japanese 11,700-ton tanker, Azusa, and the 20,000-ton escort carrier, Unyo, 200 miles southeast of Hong Kong. Additionally, while off Yokosuka, Japan, USS Sea Devil (SS 400) sinks the Japanese submarine I-364.
1947 The National Security Act becomes effective after the bill signed by President Harry S. Truman on July 26, 1947. The Act realigns and reorganizes the U.S. Armed Forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community apparatus in the aftermath of World War II. The Act merges the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment, headed by the Secretary of Defense, Adm. James Forrestal.
1958 USS Grayback (SSG 574) fires the first operational launch of a Regulus II surface-to- surface guided missile, while off the coast of California.
1966 USS Oriskany (CVA 34) helicopters rescue 44 men of British merchant ship, Aug. Moon, as she was breaking up in heavy seas on Pratas Reef 175 miles southeast of Hong Kong.
1994 USS Charlotte (SSN 766) is commissioned at Naval Station Norfolk. The 16th of the Los Angeles-class(improved) attack submarines, the boat is the fourth Navy ship to be named for the North Carolina city.
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Today in History September 16
1620 The Pilgrims sail from England on the Mayflower.
1668 King John Casimer V of Poland abdicates the throne.
1747 The French capture Bergen-op-Zoom, consolidating their occupation of Austrian Flanders in the Netherlands.
1789 Jean-Paul Marat sets up a new newspaper in France, L'Ami du Peuple.
1810 A revolution for independence breaks out in Mexico.
1864 Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest leads 4,500 men out of Verona, Miss. to harass Union outposts in northern Alabama and Tennessee.
1889 Robert Younger, in Minnesota's Stillwater Penitentiary for life, dies of tuberculosis. Brothers Cole and Bob remain in the prison.
1893 Some 50,000 "Sooners" claim land in the Cherokee Strip during the first day of the Oklahoma land rush.
1908 General Motors files papers of incorporation.
1920 Thirty people are killed in a terrorist bombing in New York's Wall Street financial district.
1934 Anti-Nazi Lutherans stage protest in Munich.
1940 Congress passes the Selective Service Act, which calls for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
1942 The Japanese base at Kiska in the Aleutian Islands is raided by American bombers.
1945 Japan surrenders Hong Kong to Britain.
1950 The U.S. 8th Army breaks out of the Pusan Perimeter in South Korea and begins heading north to meet MacArthur's troops heading south from Inchon.
1972 South Vietnamese troops recapture Quang Tri province in South Vietnam from the North Vietnamese Army.
1974 Limited amnesty is offered to Vietnam-era draft resisters who would now swear allegiance to the United States and perform two years of public service.
1975 Administrators for Rhodes Scholarships announce the decision to begin offering fellowships to women.
1978 An earthquake estimated to be as strong as 7.9 on the Richter scale kills 25,000 people in Iran.
1991 The trial of Manuel Noriega, deposed dictator of Panama, begins in the United States.
1994 Britain's government lifts the 1988 broadcasting ban against member of Ireland's Sinn Fein and Irish paramilitary groups.
2007 Military contractors in the employ of Blackwater Worldwide allegedly kill 17 Iraqis in Baghdad's Nisour Square, further straining relations between the US and the people of Iraq.
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OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
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From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 16 September 1967… Operation Igloo White is introduced as McNamara's Wall…
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
MOAA - Wall of Faces Now Includes Photos of All Servicemembers Killed in the Vietnam War
(This site was sent by a friend last week and I forgot to forward. The site works, find anyone you knew in "search" feature. https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/ )
Wall of Faces Now Includes Photos of All Service members Killed in the Vietnam War
By: Kipp Hanley
AUGUST 15, 2022
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The third Friday in Sept is POW/MIA Recognition Day… thought you might like to spread the word on the great work that the VVMF is planning for the morrow and everyday …
Lest we forget… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
Begin forwarded message:
From: Jim Knotts <vvmf@vvmf.org>
Subject: Two Dads and Two Daughters - National POW/MIA Recognition Day
Reply-To: vvmf@vvmf.org
Hear the stories of two families and their search for answers, almost 50 years after the Vietnam War's end.
"None of the kids I went to school with had Dads that were away. And we just never talked about it. We didn't talk about it at home - and we certainly didn't talk about it in public. I grew up feeling all alone like nobody understood and that my Dad had been forgotten."
Cindy Stonebraker, daughter of Kenneth A. Stonebraker, Panel W40, Line 51.
Unaccounted for since October 28, 1968
Jeremy,
Almost 50 years after the war's end, there are still 1,584 American service members listed as missing and unaccounted for from the Vietnam War – including Kenneth A. Stonebraker. His family is one of the thousands of families still waiting for the fullest possible accounting for their loved ones.
Tomorrow – the third Friday in September - is National POW/MIA Recognition Day. The focus of this day is to ensure that America remembers its responsibility to stand behind those who serve our nation and do everything possible to account for those who do not return. And on this day, we recognize these service members and their families' decades long search for answers.
For some families, the answers have come. Rebecca Rusch, daughter of Stephen Rusch, Panel W2, Line 113, was able to bury her father's remains in 2007 after 35 years of waiting.
Both of these stories need to be preserved for future generations so that the sacrifices of these heroes are never forgotten. Both Cindy and Rebecca told their stories as part of VVMF's Echoes of the Vietnam War podcast. Cindy tells about her journey from silence to advocacy. While Rebecca explains why she rode her bicycle 1,200 miles along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through the jungles of Southeast Asia in search of her father's crash site.
HEAR THEIR STORIES: www.vvmf.org/echoes
We hope you'll listen to their stories and make a promise to never forget them and the sacrifice they made for our country.
We hope that one day every American service member from the Vietnam War is accounted for but until then, we stand with their families in their search for answers.
Respectfully,
Jim Knotts
President and CEO
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
1235 South Clark St.
Suite 910
Arlington, VA 22202
United States
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Geopolitical Futures:
Keeping the future in focus
Daily Memo: SCO Leaders' Summit in Uzbekistan, Russian-Chinese Drills in the Pacific
Xi Jinping is at the summit, his first foreign trip since the start of the pandemic.
By: GPF Staff
September 15, 2022
Leaders gather. The heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization are converging in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, for a two-day summit. The group will discuss security, economic ties and transport links. On the sidelines, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and praised his "balanced position" on Russia's war in Ukraine. Putin will also hold talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Xi, meanwhile, met with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to discuss bilateral cooperation. He also held talks with Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov on Thursday and emphasized China's opposition to external interference in Turkmenistan's affairs. He also noted the need to expand natural gas cooperation between the two countries. Ahead of the summit, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and China signed a cooperation agreement on the construction of a railway spanning the three countries.
Drilling in the Pacific. Russia and China launched joint naval drills in the Pacific on Thursday, their second such exercises in the past year. Russia's Ministry of Defense said the drills were aimed at strengthening naval cooperation, maintaining peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific, and protecting both countries' maritime activities. Moscow has been stepping up its ties with China as it faces severe economic pressure from Europe.
Support for Taiwan. The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a bill that would bolster U.S. military support for Taiwan. The Taiwan Policy Act would provide around $4.5 billion in weapons and security assistance over the next four years and designate the self-ruled island a "major non-NATO ally."
Japan and Russia. Japanese imports of liquefied natural gas from Russia continue to rise despite Tokyo's imposition of sanctions on Moscow. According to estimates by the Japanese Ministry of Finance, LNG supplies from Russia increased by 211.2 percent in August compared with a year ago.
Japan and the U.S. Japan's defense minister and the U.S. secretary of defense on Thursday agreed to launch joint research into hypersonic weapons defense systems amid China's growing hypersonic missile capabilities. Japan is a key U.S. ally in the region and has moved to expand its military capabilities in recent years.
Chinese banking. Some of China's biggest state-run banks cut deposit rates on Thursday for the first time since 2015. The move, which includes the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the Bank of China, the Bank of Communications and the Agricultural Bank of China, comes after Beijing reduced its benchmark lending rate in August.
Refugee road map. Officials from the Turkish and Syrian intelligence agencies recently met to establish a road map for the return of Syrian refugees to safe zones in their home country. The meeting focused on the return of property owned by the refugees before the war.
Trip to New Delhi. India and France agreed to strengthen defense and trade cooperation during a visit to New Delhi by French Foreign Affairs Minister Catherine Colonna. The two countries will establish a regional development fund and hold trilateral talks with both Australia and the United Arab Emirates in the coming weeks.
More from Brett
Difficult discussions. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to withdraw all Russian forces from Ukrainian territory and seek a diplomatic solution to the conflict during a phone call on Tuesday. It was the leaders' first conversation since late May. According to the Kremlin, Putin said Russia remains a reliable energy supplier and claimed that Western sanctions were to blame for the stoppage of deliveries through the Baltic Sea natural gas pipeline.
Xi in Kazakhstan. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Kazakhstan on Wednesday for a state visit. Xi and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will sign agreements on strengthening their comprehensive strategic partnership. Earlier, they signed a deal on the joint management of a water intake facility on the Sumbe River. Kazakhstan wants to improve relations with China to avoid becoming too reliant on its other large neighbor, Russia.
German energy woes. Germany's KfW state development bank will repurpose $67 billion worth of pandemic-related stabilization funds to support struggling energy firms. Separately, Germany is reportedly considering taking a controlling stake in energy giant Uniper, which already received some $19 billion in government support.
Indian-Japanese defense cooperation. India and Japan are jointly conducting naval combat exercises in the Bay of Bengal. The JIMEX drills focus on combat submarine maneuvers and aerial attacks. India and Japan are also participating in Australia's multinational Kakadu exercise this month.
U.S. replies to India. Following reports of private objections from India, the U.S. defended its $450 million deal to maintain Pakistan's F-16 fleet, saying it will support counterterrorism operations and strengthen the U.S.-Pakistani relationship.
Indian chips. India's Vedanta and Taiwan's Foxconn will invest $20 billion to build India's first semiconductor production plant.
Peace talks. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accepted a request from his Colombian counterpart to serve as guarantor in peace talks between Bogota and the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels. Venezuela's government has given shelter to various Colombian rebels, including the ELN, on its side of the border.
Border skirmish. Kyrgyz and Tajik border guards blamed one another for a skirmish on Wednesday morning, with the Kyrgyz side accusing the Tajiks of violating an agreement and taking up combat positions on the border. It's the second incidence of fighting in the post-Soviet space since reports started emerging late last month of a successful Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia.
UAE-Iran relations. The United Arab Emirates' ambassador to Iran met with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Tuesday. They discussed ways to improve bilateral relations.
China-Mongolia ties. China's top legislator, Li Zhanshu, met with Mongolia's president and prime minister during a two-day visit to the country. During the meeting with Prime Minister Luvsannamsrai Oyun-Erdene, they agreed to further develop economic cooperation and strategic alignment as part of their strategic partnership.
EAEU trade. Amid Western sanctions and a stronger ruble, Russia's imports from its fellow
Eurasian Economic Union member states increased by about 15 percent (to $9.4 billion, from $8.2 billion) from March to June compared with the same period a year ago.
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This Day in U S Military History
1620 – The Mayflower sails from Plymouth, England, bound for the New World with 102 passengers. The ship was headed for Virginia, where the colonists–half religious dissenters and half entrepreneurs–had been authorized to settle by the British crown. However, stormy weather and navigational errors forced the Mayflower off course, and on November 21 the "Pilgrims" reached Massachusetts, where they founded the first permanent European settlement in New England in late December. Thirty-five of the Pilgrims were members of the radical English Separatist Church, who traveled to America to escape the jurisdiction of the Church of England, which they found corrupt. Ten years earlier, English persecution had led a group of Separatists to flee to Holland in search of religious freedom. However, many were dissatisfied with economic opportunities in the Netherlands, and under the direction of William Bradford they decided to immigrate to Virginia, where an English colony had been founded at Jamestown in 1607. The Separatists won financial backing from a group of investors called the London Adventurers, who were promised a sizable share of the colony's profits. Three dozen church members made their way back to England, where they were joined by about 70 entrepreneurs–enlisted by the London stock company to ensure the success of the enterprise. In August 1620, the Mayflower left Southampton with a smaller vessel–the Speedwell–but the latter proved unseaworthy and twice was forced to return to port. On September 16, the Mayflower left for America alone from Plymouth. In a difficult Atlantic crossing, the 90-foot Mayflower encountered rough seas and storms and was blown more than 500 miles off course. Along the way, the settlers formulated and signed the Mayflower Compact, an agreement that bound the signatories into a "civil body politic." Because it established constitutional law and the rule of the majority, the compact is regarded as an important precursor to American democracy. After a 66-day voyage, the ship landed on November 21 on the tip of Cape Cod at what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts. After coming to anchor in Provincetown harbor, a party of armed men under the command of Captain Myles Standish was sent out to explore the area and find a location suitable for settlement. While they were gone, Susanna White gave birth to a son, Peregrine, aboard the Mayflower. He was the first English child born in New England. In mid-December, the explorers went ashore at a location across Cape Cod Bay where they found cleared fields and plentiful running water and named the site Plymouth. The expedition returned to Provincetown, and on December 21 the Mayflower came to anchor in Plymouth harbor. Just after Christmas, the pilgrims began work on dwellings that would shelter them through their difficult first winter in America. In the first year of settlement, half the colonists died of disease. In 1621, the health and economic condition of the colonists improved, and that autumn Governor William Bradford invited neighboring Indians to Plymouth to celebrate the bounty of that year's harvest season. Plymouth soon secured treaties with most local Indian tribes, and the economy steadily grew, and more colonists were attracted to the settlement. By the mid 1640s, Plymouth's population numbered 3,000 people, but by then the settlement had been overshadowed by the larger Massachusetts Bay Colony to the north, settled by Puritans in 1629. The term "Pilgrim" was not used to describe the Plymouth colonists until the early 19th century and was derived from a manuscript in which Governor Bradford spoke of the "saints" who left Holland as "pilgrimes." The orator Daniel Webster spoke of "Pilgrim Fathers" at a bicentennial celebration of Plymouth's founding in 1820, and thereafter the term entered common usage.
1920 – As lunchtime approached on September 16, 1920, New York's financial district was grinding through its regular motions–people were gathering outside to eat, and brokers were holed up inside, busily trading away the day. But before the clock hit noon, routine gave way to panic, as a horse-drawn wagon filled with explosives suddenly detonated near the subtreasury. Flames flooded Wall Street, shooting up nearly six-stories-high. The blast shattered windows around the area and sent a pipe crashing against the neck of a man strolling some six blocks away from the subtreasury. All told, 300 people were killed and a hundred more were wounded. The only famous financial figure to be injured was Junius Spencer, J.P. Morgan's grandson, who suffered a slight gash on one hand. Since radical bashing was in vogue at the time, Communists, Anarchists, and anyone else leaning too far to the left were accused of having staged a violent protest against capitalism. More pragmatic souls argued that the wagon belonged to an explosives operation and had simply strayed from its prescribed route. Whatever merits these theories have, the ensuing investigation failed to uncover the culprit or cause of the blast, and the case remains a mystery.
1940 – Under authority granted by Congress, President Franklin Roosevelt orders the Army to begin mobilizing the entire National Guard for one year's training prompted by the worsening conditions in Europe. The Nazis armies had conquered most of Western Europe except Britain. The president and Congress wanted the 242,000 men in the Guard to rapidly expand the Regular Army of only 190,000 men and begin to prepare in case of attack. The first of 18 increments enter active duty today, the last units will not be called up until the spring of 1941. Guardsmen report to forts located all across the country. Once settled in, they begin large maneuver training not usually available in peacetime. Guard aerial observation squadrons, separated from their parent divisions and placed in Army Air Corps groups, began antisubmarine patrols along the coasts. Helping to fill in the ranks were men drafted under a newly enacted conscription law passed by Congress. America was preparing for war.
1950 – The U.S. 1st Marine Division, assisted by four battalions of ROK Marines, secured the Inchon peninsula. The way was now clear for the landing of the rest of X Corps and the attack towards Seoul and Suwon.
1950 – The U.S. 8th Army broke out of the Pusan Perimeter in South Korea and began heading north to meet MacArthur's troops heading south from Inchon.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
PRESTON, ARTHUR MURRAY
Rank and organization: Lieutenant, U.S. Navy Reserve, Torpedo Boat Squadron 33. Place and date. Wasile Bay, Halmahera Island, 16 September 1944. Entered service at: Maryland. Born: 1 November 1913, Washington, D.C. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as commander, Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 33, while effecting the rescue of a Navy pilot shot down in Wasile Bay, Halmahera Island, less than 200 yards from a strongly defended Japanese dock and supply area, 16 September 1944. Volunteering for a perilous mission unsuccessfully attempted by the pilot's squadron mates and a PBY plane, Lt. Comdr. (then Lieutenant) Preston led PT-489 and PT-363 through 60 miles of restricted, heavily mined waters. Twice turned back while running the gauntlet of fire from powerful coastal defense guns guarding the 11-mile strait at the entrance to the bay, he was again turned back by furious fire in the immediate area of the downed airman. Aided by an aircraft smokescreen, he finally succeeded in reaching his objective and, under vicious fire delivered at 150-yard range, took the pilot aboard and cleared the area, sinking a small hostile cargo vessel with 40-mm. fire during retirement. Increasingly vulnerable when covering aircraft were forced to leave because of insufficient fuel, Lt. Comdr. Preston raced PT boats 489 and 363 at high speed for 20 minutes through shell-splashed water and across minefields to safety. Under continuous fire for 2l/2 hours, Lt. Comdr. Preston successfully achieved a mission considered suicidal in its tremendous hazards, and brought his boats through without personnel casualties and with but superficial damage from shrapnel. His exceptional daring and great personal valor enhance the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.
*VITTORI, JOSEPH
Rank and organization: Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Company F, 2d Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division (Rein.). Place and date: Hill 749, Korea, 15 and 16 September 1951. Entered service at: Beverly, Mass. Born: 1 August 1929, Beverly, Mass. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as an automatic-rifleman in Company F, in action against enemy aggressor forces. With a forward platoon suffering heavy casualties and forced to withdraw under a vicious enemy counterattack as his company assaulted strong hostile forces entrenched on Hill 749, Cpl. Vittori boldly rushed through the withdrawing troops with 2 other volunteers from his reserve platoon and plunged directly into the midst of the enemy. Overwhelming them in a fierce hand-to-hand struggle, he enabled his company to consolidate its positions to meet further imminent onslaughts. Quick to respond to an urgent call for a rifleman to defend a heavy machine gun positioned on the extreme point of the northern flank and virtually isolated from the remainder of the unit when the enemy again struck in force during the night, he assumed position under the devastating barrage and, fighting a single-handed battle, leaped from 1 flank to the other, covering each foxhole in turn as casualties continued to mount manning a machine gun when the gunner was struck down and making repeated trips through the heaviest shellfire to replenish ammunition. With the situation becoming extremely critical, reinforcing units to the rear pinned down under the blistering attack and foxholes left practically void by dead and wounded for a distance of 100 yards, Cpl. Vittori continued his valiant stand, refusing to give ground as the enemy penetrated to within feet of his position, simulating strength in the line and denying the foe physical occupation of the ground. Mortally wounded by the enemy machine gun and rifle bullets while persisting in his magnificent defense of the sector where approximately 200 enemy dead were found the following morning, Cpl. Vittori, by his fortitude, stouthearted courage, and great personal valor, had kept the point position intact despite the tremendous odds and undoubtedly prevented the entire battalion position from collapsing. His extraordinary heroism throughout the furious nightlong battle reflects the highest credit upon himself and the U.S. Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for September 16, 2020 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
September 16
1914: In Groton, Conn., the non-recoil, 6-pounder Davis airplane gun shown at the New London Ship and Engine Company. (24)
1919: Floods on the Texas border produced one of the earliest humanitarian uses of military aircraft. A relief detachment of four JN-4Ds and eight JN-4Hs left Kelly Field. After meeting at Corpus Christi, this detachment airdropped food to seven stranded victims. (18)
1940: A War Department announcement said the CAA would cooperate with the Army on the development of black aviation units. (21)
1944: Eighth Air Force sent seven fighter groups, four carrying bombs, to strafe Hannover, Bremen, Onasbruck and bomb Ahlhorn Airfield, Mannheim, and Kaiserslautern. (4)
1949: The first Air Force three-jet aircraft, the Martin XB-51, received its final checkout.
1952: KOREAN WAR. Fifth Air Force flew 110 B-26 sorties, the high figure for the month, mostly night armed reconnaissance and interdiction. Using the recently-developed roadblock tactics, the light bombers damaged or destroyed over 100 enemy vehicles. (28)
1958: A Regulus II missile, launched from a submarine off Point Mugu, flew 200 miles to Edwards AFB. (24) North American's T-39 Sabreliner made its first flight. (12)
1960: From Cape Canaveral, a 1.5-ton reentry nose cone on an Atlas missile flew on a 5,000-mile test flight. (24)
1978: Under a DoD-directed program, SAC transferred the 128th and last KC-135 (number 57-1438) from the 7 BMW at Carswell AFB to the 931 AREFG (AFRES) at Grissom AFB. (1) 1Lt Patricia M. Fornes, from the 381 SMW at McConnell AFB became SAC's first female officer to perform Titan II alert duty. (1) (6)
1983: MAC accepted the first of 11 Gulfstream III business jets, designated C-20A, into its inventory to replace C-140 special air mission aircraft. (18)
1995: Operation CARIBBEAN EXPRESS. After Hurricane Marilyn damaged or destroyed nearly 80 percent of the buildings on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and other Caribbean islands, in missions through 10 October AMC dispatched C-5s, C-17s, C-141s, and contracted commercial aircraft, and ACC sent C-130s on 212 missions to deliver 2,348 passengers and 3,617 short tons of cargo. (18)
1999: NASA's NB-52B (tail no. 52-0008) launch aircraft, nicknamed "Balls Eight," completed its 1,000th flight. (3)
2005: Travis AFB placed the restored C-141A Starlifter (tail number 63-8088), nicknamed the Golden Bear, on permanent static display. It was the USAF's first operational C-141A, the first to carry wounded troops from Vietnam to the US, the first to fly into Saigon, and in 1973 it helped fly the 566 military and 25 civilian former prisoners of war from North Vietnam to the US. (22)
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World News for 16 September thanks to Military Periscope
USA—Another $600 Million In Security Assistance Approved For Ukraine Dept. Of Defense | 09/16/2022 The Biden administration has authorized another $600 million in security assistance for Ukraine, reports the Dept. of Defense. The latest package announced on Thursday includes additional High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) ammunition; 36,000 105-mm artillery rounds; 1,000 precision-guided 155-mm artillery rounds; four counter-artillery radars; four trucks and eight trailers to transport heavy equipment; counter-uncrewed aerial systems weapons; mine-clearing equipment; Claymore anti-personnel munitions; demolition munitions and equipment; small arms and ammunition; and night-vision devices, cold-weather gear and other field equipment. U.S. aid will include unspecified arms, munitions and equipment drawn from Department of Defense stockpiles. This is the 21st drawdown of equipment from Defense Dept. inventories for Ukraine. The U.S. has provided around $15.8 billion in assistance to Ukraine since early 2021, the Pentagon said.
USA—Navy Awards Survey Contract For NSA Panama City, Fla. U.S. Navy | 09/16/2022 The U.S. Navy has awarded a Florida company a contract for professional surveying and mapping services at Naval Support Activity Panama City, Fla. The $45 million contract was awarded earlier this month to Southeast GeoSpatial, Jacksonville, Fla., the service said in a Wednesday release. An initial task order under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth $88,622 was awarded for high-resolution aerial imagery for the naval facility. The work at NSA Panama City includes geospatial data collection and development, geospatial systems and applications development and implementation and development of documentation and training material. It will help the base with asset management, installation planning, environmental planning, utilities collection and sustainment, infrastructure maintenance, and climate resiliency, the Navy said.
Ukraine—Zelenskyy Announces Investigation Into Izium Mass Grave Interfax-Ukraine | 09/16/2022 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says investigations have begun into a mass grave discovered in Izium in eastern Ukraine after Russian forces were driven out, reports Interfax-Ukraine. Ukrainian and international journalists were scheduled to visit the site on Saturday to help inform the world what Russian occupation is like, Zelenskyy said. "Bucha, Mariupol, now, unfortunately, Izium ... Russia leaves death everywhere," the president said. Ukrainian authorities found 440 graves at a mass burial site in Izium, reported CNN. The Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communications said that some of the graves were fresh and that it mostly contained the bodies of civilians. Serhii Bolvinov, the chief police investigator for the Kharkiv region, told Sky News (U.K.) that the bodies show evidence that some were shot to death and that others died from artillery fire, airstrikes or mine blasts.
Russia—Putin Meets Xi On Sidelines Of SCO Conference Reuters | 09/16/2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin has held talks with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of the Chinese-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, reports Reuters. During the talks on Thursday, Putin acknowledged Chinese concerns over Moscow's unprovoked war in Ukraine. Beijing has taken a cautious line since the Russian invasion in February, criticizing Western sanctions on Moscow but declining to endorse or assist Russia. Xi did not mention Ukraine in his public remarks nor was it mentioned in the Chinese readout of the meeting. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov later told reporters that the closed doors talks with China had been excellent.
Afghanistan—Taliban Excluded From SCO Summit The Print | 09/16/2022 The Chinese-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) decided not to invite the Taliban to participate in its heads of state meeting this week in Uzbekistan, reports the Print (New Delhi). Under the Uzbek chairmanship over the last year, the SCO has had several meetings about how to deal with the Taliban, which seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021. The SCO members were divided over whether to invite the Taliban, since Afghanistan issues are of regional importance. However, concerns about the new regime's legitimacy and lack of international recognition resulted in the decision not to invite Taliban officials. In addition, acting Taliban Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund is subject to U.N. sanctions related to the sheltering of terrorist groups. The two-day SCO conference, which began in Samarkand on Thursday, is expected to include Afghanistan as a top agenda item, along with general security and cooperation issues.
Australia—1st MQ-4C Triton Drone Rolled Out In Calif. Northrop Grumman | 09/16/2022 Northrop Grumman has unveiled the first of six long-range maritime surveillance uncrewed aerial vehicles ordered by Australia. On Wednesday, the company rolled out the MQ-4C Triton drone at its production facility in Palmdale, Calif. Construction of the air vehicle began in October 2020 and the fuselage and one-piece wing were mated in December 2021. The Triton is scheduled for production completion in 2023 and delivery in 2024 The MQ-4C is intended to work with Australian P-8A Poseidons to provide real-time intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) over wide ocean ranges.
Kyrgyzstan—Cease-Fire Agreed With Tajikistan After Renewed Clashes Eurasianet | 09/16/2022 Kyrgyz and Tajik border forces have clashed again, reports Eurasianet. The Kyrgyz government said that Tajik troops launched unprovoked mortar attacks on several locations in the Batken region on Friday. Regional media also reported that there were several exchanges of shelling and gunfire in areas dozens of miles apart. In the early afternoon, local media reported that Tajik forces had taken over the grounds of a school in the Kyrgyz village of Dostuk. Separately, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rakhmon agreed to a cease-fire to start at 4 p.m. local time while attending the Chinese-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) head of state meeting in Uzbekistan, reported Reuters. At least three people have been killed and dozens wounded in clashes this week.
Nicaragua—OHCHR Report Slams Government Human-Rights Abuses Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | 09/16/2022 The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has released a report condemning the ongoing deterioration of human, civil and political rights in Nicaragua. The report delivered on Tuesday details deteriorating democratic conditions in Nicaragua, including the arbitrary detention of activists, speech restrictions and the removal of several opposition mayors and their replacement by ruling party members in violation of the law. More than 20 faith-based radio and television stations have been shut down and 120 journalists exiled since 2018. In addition, 12 universities have been closed and more than 195 government critics detained, says the report. Additionally, 1,578 church-affiliated events are believed to have been canceled over the past four years. The number of Nicaraguan asylum seekers increased to 200,000, with three-quarters of them ending up in Costa Rica. In the first half of 2022, 84,055 Nicaraguans were intercepted at the U.S. border, up from 5,450 in all of 2020. The Nicaraguan government is increasingly isolated from the international community and has refused to cooperate with international human-rights bodies and mechanisms, said the OHCHR. Nicaraguan Attorney General Wendy Carolina Morales Urbina rejected the report and called it an "interventionist" plot by Western nations, reported the Voice of America News. Nicaragua would not accept any of the "deceitful" report's recommendations that would interfere in its domestic affairs, she said.
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