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To All,
Good Saturday morning October 29
I hope you all have a great weekend
Bits and pieces but no world news on the weekends
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Today in Naval and Marine Corps History
October 29
1814—The first steam-powered U.S. Navy warship, Fulton, launches at New York City. Commissioned in June 1816, she carries President James Monroe on a day cruise in New York Harbor a year later.
1942—PBY-5 Catalinas from Patrol Squadron (VP) 11 sink Japanese submarine I 172.
1956—The 6th Fleet is ordered to evacuate U.S. nationals during the Suez Canal Crisis. Some of the ships involved are USS Coral Sea (CVA 43), USS Randolph (CVA 15), USS Antietam (CVA 36), and a series of support vessels. By Nov. 3, approximately 2,000 people are evacuated.
1980—USS Parsons (DDG 33) rescues 110 Vietnamese refugees 330 miles south of Saigon.
1989—A developmental prototype of the advanced capability version of the EA 6B Prowler makes its first flight.
2002—Commander Central Command Gen. Tommy R. Franks, USA, announces the impending deployment of 700 to 800 Marines to Djibouti as part of Combined Joint Task Force–Horn of Africa.
2011—Virginia-class submarine USS California (SSN 781) is commissioned at Norfolk, VA.
Thanks to Mike for this bit of history
Don't Tread on Me" Flag Story
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This Day in History
October 29
1618 Sir Walter Raleigh is executed. After the death of Queen Elizabeth, Raleigh's enemies spread rumors that he was opposed to the accession of King James.
1787 Mozart's opera Don Giovanni opens in Prague.
1814 The Demologos, the first steam-powered warship, launched in New York City.
1901 Leon Czolgosz is electrocuted for the assassination of US President William McKinley. Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot McKinley on September 6 during a public reception at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, N.Y. Despite early hopes of recovery, McKinley died September 14, in Buffalo, NY.
1927 Russian archaeologist Peter Kozloff apparently uncovers the tomb of Genghis Khan in the Gobi Desert, a claim still in dispute.
1929 Black Tuesday--the most catastrophic day in stock market history, the herald of the Great Depression. 16 million shares were sold at declining prices. By mid-November $30 billion of the $80 billion worth of stocks listed in September will have been wiped out.
1945 The first ball-point pen goes is sold by Gimbell's department store in New York for a price of $12.
1949 Alonzo G. Moron of the Virgin Islands becomes the first African-American president of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia.
1952 French forces launch Operation Lorraine against Viet Minh supply bases in Indochina.
1964 Thieves steal a jewel collection--including the world's largest sapphire, the 565-carat "Star of India," and the 100-carat DeLong ruby--from the Museum of Natural History in New York. The thieves were caught and most of the jewels recovered.
1969 The U.S. Supreme Court orders immediate desegregation, superseding the previous "with all deliberate speed" ruling.
1969 First computer-to-computer link; the link is accomplished through ARPANET, forerunner of the Internet.
1972 Palestinian guerrillas kill an airport employee and hijack a plane, carrying 27 passengers, to Cuba. They force West Germany to release 3 terrorists who were involved in the Munich Massacre.
1983 More than 500,000 people protest in The Hague, The Netherlands, against cruise missiles.
1986 The last stretch of Britain's M25 motorway opens.
1998 South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports condemns both sides on the Apartheid issue for committing atrocities.
1998 John Glenn, at age 77, becomes the oldest person to go into outer space. He is part of the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery, STS-95.
1998 The deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record up to that time, Hurricane Mitch, makes landfall in Honduras (in 2005 Hurricane Wilma surpassed it); nearly 11,000 people died and approximately the same number were missing.
2004 For the first time, Osama bin Laden admits direct responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US; his comments are part of a video broadcast by the Al Jazeera network.
2008 Delta and Northwest airlines merge, forming the world's largest airline.
2012 Hurricane Sandy devastates much of the East Coast of the US; nearly 300 die directly or indirectly from the storm.
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear … Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
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OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 29 October 1967… No way out…
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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First the US Marine and now this……not good
Thanks to CAP
Here it is and this is NOT good!
Ex-RAF top gun (call sign Hooligan) has made a killing training China's fighter pilots - and helped recruit dozens of British airmen paid £250,000 a year by Beijing... so why has the MoD only just woken up to this outrage?
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Thanks to Grant
The F-4 flew with a couple of big engines so why not Snoopy
FW: Watch "RC Snoopy's Flying Doghouse (The Peanuts) -- Big Jolt 2015" on YouTube
This is so cool. Some people's brains are still working.
https://youtu.be/MTnnXhcmSgY. I knew it was real
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Thanks to Mike
NGAD - 6th Generation Fighter??
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(Go to the link below and read this horrifying story on page 70. Beyond belief!)
AN INSTRUCTIVE BLAST FROM THE PAST
By Massad Ayoob
October 28, 2022
For decades now, I've done a series for American Handgunner magazine called "The Ayoob Files" in which we dissect and analyze actual gunfights. Some are historical, but most are contemporary and include interviews with the survivors.
I recently reviewed this one. That September/October 1991 issue covered a classic and tragic incident in Baton Rouge. A young policewoman was murdered, and a particularly determined cop-killer finished off at last by the sole survivor.
Lessons: Some bad guys take a lot of lead before they stop committing mayhem and murder. Body armor can be a life-saver…if you're wearing it. Armed people need to full grasp both gun disarming and the flip side of such struggles, weapon retention.
Lots of other useful material in that issue, too.
The chilling true story of a real-life Terminator. Page 70
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Thanks to Brett and STRATFOR……
Xi's New Motto for Governing China: My Way or the Highway
Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a meeting between members of China's Politburo Standing Committee and journalists at the Great Hall of the People on Oct. 23, 2022, in Beijing, China.
(Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping secured a new term and a thoroughly loyal cabinet, which will enable him to carry out his nationalist and confrontational policy agenda over the next five-to-ten years. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) appointed its new leadership at the 1st Plenum of its 20th Central Committee on Oct. 23, which comes after the CCP amended the Party constitution to consolidate Xi's position during the closing of China's 20th Party Congress on Oct. 22. Xi will remain the leader of the CCP for the next five years after gaining another term as General Secretary. The entire seven-person Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC), effectively Xi's cabinet, is now composed of loyalists who either owe their careers to Xi's patronage or whose views align with his policy agenda. Moreover, Xi still has no designated successor, as the youngest member of the new PBSC (from which the next CCP leader will likely be chosen) is Ding Xuexiang, who will be 65 years old at the next Party Congress in 2027 — an uncharacteristically old age for a new General Secretary. At 69 years old, Xi is also advanced in age. But he is increasingly the exception to Party leadership rules, as shown by his ability to secure an unprecedented third term at the CCP's helm. Thus, with no obvious prospects for a successor in the PBSC — whose members, unlike Xi, are not yet above the Party's unwritten leadership rules — Xi appears more likely to take a fourth term in 2027. From the events of Oct. 22-23, the Party changes that will most affect China's governance, both in formal institutions as well as in a widely televised breach of leadership etiquette:
• Politburo Standing Committee: The new PBSC's seven members comprise two leaders associated with Xi's anti-corruption campaign; two heads of the National Security Commission; Xi's ideological czar; and an old associate of Xi's who dutifully carried out the sweeping Shanghai lockdowns in April-May as part of Beijing's ''zero-COVID'' strategy.
• Politburo: Aside from the Politburo's seven pro forma seats guaranteed to PBSC members, 13 of the new Politburo's 17 other seats were newly appointed, and most of them have close ties to or ideological alignment with Xi. The body also includes at least six technocrats who will help advance Xi's technological innovation plans for China.
• Premier: Wang Yang and Hu Chunhua, the most qualified candidates for Premier (who serves as the chief government administrator and oversees economic policies) were ousted from the Politburo, and the Shanghai Party Secretary Li Qiang, who has no experience with central government duties, appears to be Premier-designate.
• Party constitution: The amendments to the Party constitution include pledges to uphold the ''Two Establishments'' and ''Two Safeguards,'' Party jargon that declares Xi as the core leader of the Chinese Communist Party and deems ''Xi Jinping Thought'' as the foundation of governing China in this ''new era.''
• Disrespecting elders: Former Chinese President Hu Jintao was forcibly removed from the televised Oct. 22 conclusion of the Party Congress, despite his physical protestations, leaving his seat next to Xi's empty for the rest of the meeting. The exact reason for his ejection is unclear, but these congresses are extremely choreographed quinquennial events, so it may have been a message to cadres nationwide that those whose loyalties don't lie with Xi are not welcome in the CCP.
In the next five years, Xi's preferred policies will grow in prominence. After the Oct. 22-23 constitutional and institutional changes, Beijing will forge ahead with Xi's hard-nosed approach to deleveraging the economy (including the real estate sector), even if it brings short-term pain, in order to make China's growth more sustainable. Politically, Xi will use his anti-corruption campaign to deter policy dissent and expand regulations in key sectors like tech to align market activities with state innovation and economic development goals. More controversial policies — like the Chinese government's strict ''zero-COVID'' approach to pandemic management and its ongoing crackdown on political dissent in Hong Kong — will also help Beijing maintain societal control by bolstering its narratives about effective governance.
• The ''Common Prosperity'' policy — feared in the West to be veiled wealth redistribution — was enshrined in the Party constitution, giving Beijing the long-term remit to crack down on ''excessive incomes'' and close China's income inequality via market regulations, not just government transfers.
• The anti-corruption campaign, which has tamped down on bribery and purged Xi's political rivals, was also placed in the constitution and will remain Xi's primary cudgel for aligning China's ministries and localities with central policy.
• The ''zero-COVID'' strategy will continue as long as Beijing deems it necessary for preventing deaths from the virus and preserving the Party's reputation for effective governance.
• Beijing's regulatory scrutiny in tech, entertainment and beyond will grow as Xi attempts to mold the economy to best achieve his views for China's ''national rejuvenation'' to global leadership.
• Xi's penchant to crush resistance to Beijing's rule (e.g. in Hong Kong and Xinjiang) will also persist, with sharp-tongued diplomats combatting naysayers. China will increasingly pester Taiwan as well, with military drills to deter the territory's independence.
China's strategic competition with the United States and Europe will accelerate, and Beijing will be vulnerable to policy blunders that ward off Western businesses and threaten to arrest China's development. The preponderance of technocrats in the Politburo, along with the national security bent of the PBSC, suggests that Xi will escalate China's geopolitical rivalry with the United States — and the West at large — through greater and more industrial policies aimed at spurring innovation, as well as legal (and extralegal) retaliation against Western sanctions. This will erode cross-border supply chains and further place Western businesses at a disadvantage to Chinese competitors.
• In domestic politics, Xi's overt power play against Hu will silence dissent, reinforcing the policy echo chamber around Xi. PBSC members will be reluctant to contradict Xi's policy machinations and lower-level cadres motivated to feed Beijing rosy but inaccurate data (e.g. on economic growth or military modernization efforts). Though Xi will be able to wield all levers of the state to achieve his policy goals, this echo chamber effect will make it harder for the Chinese government to detect economic failures.
• The deficit of economic administrative talent in the Politburo and China's likely novice Premier, Li Qiang, will make it tougher for Beijing to navigate the perilous waters of China's current economic downturn. The CCP's pro-Xi leadership will thus likely respond with more state intervention to remediate symptoms, but the economic fundamentals (especially the consumption depressing effects of Beijing's ''zero-COVID'' policy) will weigh on growth.
• Xi's China may slowly become less tenable as a market for foreign businesses (despite its 1.4 billion customers) as the unpredictability and costs of regulatory and compliance risks rises under a more interventionist Beijing that is increasingly distrustful of the West.
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Thanks to Carl
45 Deaths, 5,000+ Adverse Events Following Updated Booster Shots Reported to VAERS, CDC Data Show • Children's Health Defense
10/28/22
45 Deaths, 5,000+ Adverse Events Following Updated Booster Shots Reported to VAERS, CDC Data Show
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Thanks to Carl
Banister of Life
As You Slide Down The Banister Of Life, Remember:
1. Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggert have written an impressive new book. It's called .."Ministers Do More Than Lay People".
2. Transvestite: A guy who likes to eat, drink and be Mary.
3. The difference between the Pope and your boss is, the Pope only expects you to kiss his ring.
4. My mind works like lightning, one brilliant flash , and it is gone.
5. The only time the world beats a path to your door is if you're in the bathroom.
6. I hate sex in the movies Tried it once. The seat folded up, the drink spilled and that ice, well, it really chilled the Mood.
7. It used to be only death and taxes Now, of course, there's shipping and handling, too.
8. A husband is someone who , after taking the trash out, gives the impression that he just cleaned the whole house.
9. My next house will have no kitchen - just vending machines and a large trash can.
10 Definition of a teenager?
God's punishment...for enjoying sex.
And as you slide down that Banister of Life..pray that all the splinters are all pointed the other way..
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This Day in U S Military History
1956 – Israeli armed forces push into Egypt toward the Suez Canal, initiating the Suez Crisis. They would soon be joined by French and British forces, creating a serious Cold War problem in the Middle East. The catalyst for the joint Israeli-British-French attack on Egypt was the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egyptian leader General Gamal Abdel Nasser in July 1956. The situation had been brewing for some time. Two years earlier, the Egyptian military had begun pressuring the British to end its military presence (which had been granted in the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty) in the canal zone. Nasser's armed forces also engaged in sporadic battles with Israeli soldiers along the border between the two nations, and the Egyptian leader did nothing to conceal his antipathy toward the Zionist nation. Supported by Soviet arms and money, and furious with the United States for reneging on a promise to provide funds for construction of the Aswan Dam on the Nile River, Nasser ordered the Suez Canal seized and nationalized. The British were angry with the move and sought the support of France (which believed that Nasser was supporting rebels in the French colony of Algeria), and Israel (which needed little provocation to strike at the enemy on its border), in an armed assault to retake the canal. The Israelis struck first, but were shocked to find that British and French forces did not immediately follow behind them. Instead of a lightening strike by overwhelming force, the attack bogged down. The United Nations quickly passed a resolution calling for a cease-fire. The Soviet Union began to issue ominous threats about coming to Egypt's aid. A dangerous situation developed quickly, one that the Eisenhower administration hoped to defuse before it turned into a Soviet-U.S. confrontation. Though the United States sternly warned the Soviet Union to stay out of the situation, Eisenhower also pressured the British, French, and Israeli governments to withdraw their troops. They eventually did so in late 1956 and early 1957.
1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. The first message on the ARPANET was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline, at 10:30 pm, from Boelter Hall 3420. Kline transmitted from the university's SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the Stanford Research Institute's SDS 940 Host computer. The message text was the word login; the l and the o letters were transmitted, but the system then crashed. Hence, the literal first message over the ARPANET was lo. About an hour later, having recovered from the crash, the SDS Sigma 7 computer effected a full login. The first permanent ARPANET link was established on 21 November 1969, between the IMP at UCLA and the IMP at the Stanford Research Institute. By 5 December 1969, the entire four-node network, adding University of California, Santa Barbara and The University of Utah, was established.
1998 – The shuttle Discovery blasted off with 6 crew mates including John Glenn (77), the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. Nearly four decades after he became the first American to orbit the Earth, Senator John Hershel Glenn, Jr., is launched into space again as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery. At 77 years of age, Glenn was the oldest human ever to travel in space. During the nine-day mission, he served as part of a NASA study on health problems associated with aging. Glenn, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, was among the seven men chosen by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1959 to become America's first astronauts. A decorated pilot, he had flown nearly 150 combat missions during World War II and the Korean War. In 1957, he made the first nonstop supersonic flight across the United States, flying from Los Angeles to New York in three hours and 23 minutes. In April 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space, and his spacecraft, Vostok 1, made a full orbit before returning to Earth. Less than one month later, American Alan B. Shepard, Jr., became the first American in space when his Freedom 7 spacecraft was launched on a suborbital flight. American "Gus" Grissom made another suborbital flight in July, and in August Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov spent more than 25 hours in space aboard Vostok 2, making 17 orbits. As a technological power, the United States was looking very much second-rate compared with its Cold War adversary. If the Americans wanted to dispel this notion, they needed a multi-orbital flight before another Soviet space advance arrived. On February 20, 1962, NASA and Colonel John Glenn accomplished this feat with the flight of Friendship 7, a spacecraft that made three orbits of the Earth in five hours. Glenn was hailed as a national hero, and on February 23 President John F. Kennedy visited him at Cape Canaveral. Glenn later addressed Congress and was given a ticker-tape parade in New York City. Out of a reluctance to risk the life of an astronaut as popular as Glenn, NASA essentially grounded the "Clean Marine" in the years after his historic flight. Frustrated with this uncharacteristic lack of activity, Glenn turned to politics and in 1964 announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate from his home state of Ohio and formally left NASA. Later that year, however, he withdrew his Senate bid after seriously injuring his inner ear in a fall from a horse. In 1970, following a stint as a Royal Crown Cola executive, he ran for the Senate again but lost the Democratic nomination to Howard Metzenbaum. Four years later, he defeated Metzenbaum, won the general election, and went on to win reelection three times. In 1984, he unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president. In 1998, Glenn attracted considerable media attention when he returned to space aboard the space shuttle Discovery. In 1999, he retired from his U.S. Senate seat after four consecutive terms in office, a record for the state of Ohio.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
CARR, JOHN
Rank and organization: Private, Company G, 8th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Chiricahua Mountains, Ariz., 29 October 1869. Entered service at:——. Birth: Columbus, Ohio. Date of issue: 14 February 1870. Citation: Gallantry in action.
MATHEWS, GEORGE W.
Rank and organization: Assistant Surgeon, 36th Infantry, U.S. Volunteers. Place and date: Near Labo, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 29 October 1899. Entered service at: Worcester, Mass. Birth: Worcester, Mass. Date of issue: 14 March 1902. Citation: While in attendance upon the wounded and under a severe fire from the enemy, seized a carbine and beat off an attack upon wounded officers and men under his charge.
HAJIRO, BARNEY F.
Private Barney F. Hajiro distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 19, 22, and 29 October 1944, in the vicinity of Bruyeres and Biffontaine, eastern France. Private Hajiro, while acting as a sentry on top of an embankment on 19 October 1944, in the vicinity of Bruyeres, France, rendered assistance to allied troops attacking a house 200 yards away by exposing himself to enemy fire and directing fire at an enemy strong point. He assisted the unit on his right by firing his automatic rifle and killing or wounding two enemy snipers. On 22 October 1944, he and one comrade took up an outpost security position about 50 yards to the right front of their platoon, concealed themselves, and ambushed an 18-man, heavily armed, enemy patrol, killing two, wounding one, and taking the remainder as prisoners. On 29 October 1944, in a wooded area in the vicinity of Biffontaine, France, Private Hajiro initiated an attack up the slope of a hill referred to as "Suicide Hill" by running forward approximately 100 yards under fire. He then advanced ahead of his comrades about 10 yards, drawing fire and spotting camouflaged machine gun nests. He fearlessly met fire with fire and single-handedly destroyed two machine gun nests and killed two enemy snipers. As a result of Private Hajiro's heroic actions, the attack was successful. Private Hajiro's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon him, his unit, and the United States Army.
*OKUBO, JAMES K.
Technician Fifth Grade James K. Okubo distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 28 and 29 October and 4 November 1944, in the Foret Domaniale de Champ, near Biffontaine, eastern France. On 28 October, under strong enemy fire coming from behind mine fields and roadblocks, Technician Fifth Grade Okubo, a medic, crawled 150 yards to within 40 yards of the enemy lines. Two grenades were thrown at him while he left his last covered position to carry back wounded comrades. Under constant barrages of enemy small arms and machine gun fire, he treated 17 men on 28 October and 8 more men on 29 October. On 4 November, Technician Fifth Grade Okubo ran 75 yards under grazing machine gun fire and, while exposed to hostile fire directed at him, evacuated and treated a seriously wounded crewman from a burning tank, who otherwise would have died. Technician Fifth Grade James K. Okubo's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the United States Army.
SAKATO, GEORGE T.
Private George T. Sakato distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 29 October 1944, on hill 617 in the vicinity of Biffontaine, France. After his platoon had virtually destroyed two enemy defense lines, during which he personally killed five enemy soldiers and captured four, his unit was pinned down by heavy enemy fire. Disregarding the enemy fire, Private Sakato made a one-man rush that encouraged his platoon to charge and destroy the enemy strongpoint. While his platoon was reorganizing, he proved to be the inspiration of his squad in halting a counter-attack on the left flank during which his squad leader was killed. Taking charge of the squad, he continued his relentless tactics, using an enemy rifle and P-38 pistol to stop an organized enemy attack. During this entire action, he killed 12 and wounded two, personally captured four and assisted his platoon in taking 34 prisoners. By continuously ignoring enemy fire, and by his gallant courage and fighting spirit, he turned impending defeat into victory and helped his platoon complete its mission. Private Sakato's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the United States Army.
CAPTAIN HUMBERT R. VERSACE
UNITED STATES ARMY for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty: Captain Humbert R. Versace distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism during the period of 29 October 1963 to 26 September 1965, while serving as S-2 Advisor, Military Assistance Advisory Group, Detachment 52, Ca Mau, Republic of Vietnam. While accompanying a Civilian Irregular Defense Group patrol engaged in combat operations in Thoi Binh District, An Xuyen Province, Captain Versace and the patrol came under sudden and intense mortar, automatic weapons, and small arms fire from elements of a heavily armed enemy battalion. As the battle raged, Captain Versace, although severely wounded in the knee and back by hostile fire, fought valiantly and continued to engage enemy targets. Weakened by his wounds and fatigued by the fierce firefight, Captain Versace stubbornly resisted capture by the over-powering Viet Cong force with the last full measure of his strength and ammunition. Taken prisoner by the Viet Cong, he exemplified the tenets of the Code of Conduct from the time he entered into Prisoner of War status. Captain Versace assumed command of his fellow American soldiers, scorned the enemy's exhaustive interrogation and indoctrination efforts, and made three unsuccessful attempts to escape, despite his weakened condition which was brought about by his wounds and the extreme privation and hardships he was forced to endure. During his captivity, Captain Versace was segregated in an isolated prisoner of war cage, manacled in irons for prolonged periods of time, and placed on extremely reduced ration. The enemy was unable to break his indomitable will, his faith in God, and his trust in the United States of America. Captain Versace, an American fighting man who epitomized the principles of his country and the Code of Conduct, was executed by the Viet Cong on 26 September 1965. Captain Versace's gallant actions in close contact with an enemy force and unyielding courage and bravery while a prisoner of war are in the highest traditions of the military service and reflect the utmost credit upon himself and the United States Army.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for October 29 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
29 October
1917: Civilian test pilot, Howard Rinehart, flew the first American DH-4 completed at Dayton. (21)
1928: Mrs. Clara Adams of Tannersville, Pa., became the first paying woman passenger on a Zeppelin. She left Lakehurst in the Graf Zeppelin on the eastward return flight to Germany. (24)
1950: KOREAN WAR. C-47s made aeromedical flights from Sinanju Airfield, N. Korea, the northernmost Korean airfield ever used by FEAF aircraft, some 40 miles north of Pyongyang. (28)
1953: In the first flight of the YF-100A Super Sabre at Edwards AFB, Lt Col Frank K. Everest set a speed record of 755.149 MPH over a 15-kilometer (9.3 miles) course. (9) (12)
1955: The first official flight of the Douglas RB-66B occurred. (31)
1956: Lockheed Missile Systems Division received a contract to start the Agena program. (12)
1963: General Curtis E. LeMay, CSAF, congratulated the 18 TFW at Kadena AB for its record conversion from F-100 to F-105 aircraft under combat status conditions and for passing the subsequent operational readiness inspection. The 18 TFW was the first USAF F-105 unit to accomplish this feat. (17)
1965: Test pilots Col Robert L. Stephens and Lt Col Daniel Andre received the Thompson Trophy for their 1 May 1965 flight of the YF-12, which set nine world performance records. C-130s began carrying fuel, ammunition, and supplies to Pleiku for the defense of Plei Me camp from North Vietnamese attacks. For the next 29 days, the C-130s moved 186 tons a day to support the 1st Cavalry Division. (18)
1969: SAC announced the phaseout of all B-58 Hustler strategic bombers from its inventory. (16) (26)
1975: Nellis AFB received the first F-5E Tiger II in the USAF aircraft inventory. (16) (26)
1986: TAC won the first Reconnaissance Air Meet at Bergstrom AFB. (16) SAC selected rail garrison as the preferred basing mode for the second deployment of Peacekeeper missiles. This basing mode would have placed another 50 missiles on continuous alert in railroad cars garrisoned on SAC bases for dispersal over the commercial rail network on short notice. (16)
1994: The Air Force's fourth B-2 (#8-0332), the Spirit of Washington, joined the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman. (15)
1998: John H. Glenn, Jr., a former US Senator and the first astronaut to orbit earth, returned to space on the Space Shuttle Discovery. At 76, Glenn became the oldest person to enter space. He participated in a test to determine the effects of microgravity on the elderly. (21)
2004: NASA's KC-135A aerospace vehicle trainer, the "Vomit Comet," flew its final sortie. NASA used the "Comet" at Edwards AFB to provide zero gravity training to students at the Aerospace Vehicle Test Course. The KC-135A performed its famed roller-coaster maneuver some 35,000 times. (3)
2007: WILDFIRE SUPPORT. Air Forces Northern tasked various specialized aircraft to provide firefighting commanders and civil authorities with photos and video of wildfires in Southern California. The aircraft included the RQ-4 Global Hawk and U-2 Dragon Lady from Beale AFB, Calif., and a Navy P-3 Orion from Naval Air Station North Island, Calif. This event was the first time a Global Hawk provided domestic support civil authorities. (AFNEWS, "Global Hawk, U-2 Capture Essential Wildfires Images," 29 Oct 2007.) Operation IRAQI FREEDOM/DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS. An A-10 pilot from the 510th Fighter Squadron received this award for supporting friendly forces near An Najaf, Iraq. After a local training mission over the Dolomite Mountains, Capt George Collings received his award at Aviano AB, Italy, from his father Maj Gen Michael Collings, the senior U.S. defense representative to Egypt. The junior Collings distinguished himself during a close-airsupport mission for friendly forces trying to reach a downed AH-64 Apache helicopter. When small-arms fire from anti-Iraqi forces pinned the rescue forces down, Collings delivered a 500- pound laser-guided bomb inside a canal to kill six anti-Iraqi forces and incapacitate 30 others. His attack allowed the rescue party to recover the bodies of the American fallen warriors. (AFNEWS, "Father Pins Distinguished Flying Cross on Son," 30 Oct 2007.)
2007: OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM/MACKAY TROPHY. Captain Scott Markle received the trophy for his actions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Captain Markle, an A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot from the 81st Fighter Squadron at Spangdahlem AB, Germany, engaged Taliban fighters on 16 June 2006, who were fighting an American special forces team on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. When he arrived just before dawn, visibility made it difficult to find the team's location. Unable to employ weapons due to the enemy's close proximity to the team, he flew a dangerously low pass over the area and released self-protection flares. A ground controller then asked Markle to make a few more close passes to give the U. S. team the time to create more distance from the Taliban forces. Afterwards, he strafed the enemy with more than 1,000 30-millimeter rounds, allowing the special forces team to escape with no casualties. In his effort, Markle destroyed three machine gun nests and killed 40 enemy combatants. (AFNEWS, "A-10 Pilot Awarded Mackay Trophy," 30 Oct 2007.)
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