To All,
Good Monday morning March 13 2023.
IK hope that you all had a great weekend aside from the time change.
.I hope that you all had a great weekend. What I initially thought was some strange muscle pulls in different places on my left arm and shoulder neck and back turned out to be shingles. I went to urgent care yesterday after seeing red bumps in those places and got the good news along with three horse pills a day for 10 days and some cream to put on twice a day. It is not conducive to a good night's sleep. Yes I have had it before and yes I got the shot.
I hope you all have a great week.
Regards,
Skip
This day in Naval and Marine Corps History March 13
1944—Torpedo bomber aircraft from Composite Squadron Ninety-Five (VC 95) based aboard escort carrier Bogue (CVE 9), along with USS Hobson (DD 464) and USS Haverfield (DE 393), Canadian frigate HMCS Prince Rupert and RAF Flying Fortress (No. 220 Squadron) sink German submarine U 575 in the North Atlantic.
1952—During the Korean War, counter-battery engagements by USS Manchester (CL 83), USS James E. Kyes (DD 787), USS McGinty (DE 365) and USS Douglas H. Fox (DD 779) are supported by aircraft from Task Force 77 silence enemy guns at Kalmagak during the Siege of Wonsan.
1963—USS Albany (CG 10) and aircraft from Navy Airborne Early Warning Squadron Four aid five ill crewmembers of Norwegian freighter Jotunfjell.
1993—USS Montpelier (SSN 765) is commissioned at Naval Station Norfolk, her homeport. The boat is the 15th in the Los Angeles-Improved class of attack submarines.
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Today in History March 13
483 St. Felix begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
607 The 12th recorded passage of Halley's Comet occurs.
1519 Hernando Cortez lands in what will become Mexico.
1660 A statute is passed limiting the sale of slaves in the colony of Virginia.
1777 Congress orders its European envoys to appeal to high-ranking foreign officers to send troops to reinforce the American army.
1781 Astronomer William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus, which he names 'Georgium Sidus,' in honor of King George III.
1793 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
1861 Jefferson Davis signs a bill authorizing slaves to be used as soldiers for the Confederacy.
1868 The U.S. Senate begins the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson.
1881 Czar Alexander II is assassinated when a bomb is thrown at him near his palace.
1915 The Germans repel a British Expeditionary Force attack at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in France.
1918 Women are scheduled to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York due to a shortage of men.
1935 A three-thousand-year-old archive is found in Jerusalem confirming biblical history.
1940 Finland capitulates conditionally to Soviet terms, but maintains its independence.
1941 Hitler issues an edict calling for an invasion of the Soviet Union.
1942 Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps becomes the first woman colonel in the U.S. Army.
1943 Japanese forces end their attack on the American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville.
1951 Israel demands $1.5 billion in German reparations for the cost of caring for war refugees.
1957 The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa on bribery charges.
1963 China invites Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev to visit Beijing.
1970 Cambodia orders Hanoi and Viet Cong troops to get out.
1974 The U.S. Senate votes 54-33 to restore the death penalty.
1974 Arab nations decide to end the oil embargo on the United States.
1981 The United States plans to send 15 Green Berets to El Salvador as military advisors.
1985 Upon the death of Konstantin Chernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the new leader of the Soviet Union.
1991 Exxon pays $1 billion in fines and costs for the clean-up of the Alaskan oil spill.
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
Skip… For The List for Monday, 13 March 2023… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
55-Years Ago Today…
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 13 March 1968… President Johnson put his heart into honoring two of the bravest of the brave…
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 https://www.vhpa.org/KIA/KIAINDEX.HTM
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Some humor to start the week
Thanks to Tom H
Understanding Engineers…
Two engineering students were riding bicycles across a university campus when one said, "Where did you get the great bike?
The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking yesterday, minding my own business, when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike, threw it to the ground, took off all her clothes, and said, "Take what you want."
The first engineer nodded approvingly and said, "Good choice: The clothes probably wouldn't have fit you anyway."
Understanding Engineers 2 This explains much eh!
To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
Understanding Engineers 3
A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers.
The engineer fumed, "What's with those guys? We've been waiting for fifteen minutes!"
The doctor chimed in, "I don't think I've ever seen such inept golf!"
The priest said, "Here comes the green-keeper. Let's have a word with him."
He said, "Hello George, What's wrong with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?"
The green-keeper replied, "Oh, yes. That's a group of blind firemen. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime!"
The group fell silent for a moment.
The priest said, "That's so sad. I'll say a special prayer for them tonight."
The doctor said, "Good idea. I'll contact my ophthalmologist colleague and see if there's anything she can do for them."
The engineer said, "Why can't they play at night?"
Understanding Engineers 4
What is the difference between mechanical engineers and civil engineers?
Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.
Understanding Engineers 5
The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?"
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"
The graduate with a Commerce degree asks, "How much will it cost?"
The graduate with an Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?
Understanding Engineers 6
Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it isn't sufficiently complex yet.
And Finally
Two engineers were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking at its top. A woman walked by and asked what they were doing
"We're supposed to find the height of this flagpole," said Steve, "but we don't have a ladder."
The woman took pliers from her purse, loosened a couple of bolts, and laid the pole down on the ground. Then she took a tape measure from her purse, took a measurement, announced, "21 feet," and walked away.
One engineer shook his head and laughed, "A lot of good that does us. We ask for the height, and she gives us the length!"
Both engineers have since quit their engineering jobs and have been elected to The House Of Representatives.
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Thanks to Al
Monday Marnin' Humor--St. Patrick's Day
A group of Americans was touring Ireland. One of the women in the group was a real curmudgeon, constantly complaining. The bus seats are uncomfortable. The food is terrible. It's too hot. It's too cold. The accommodations are awful.
The group arrived at the site of the famous Blarney Stone. "Good luck will be followin' ya all your days if you kiss the Blarney Stone, "the guide said. "Unfortunately, it's being cleaned today and so no one will be able to kiss it. Perhaps we can come back tomorrow."
"We can't be here tomorrow," the nasty woman shouted. "We have some other boring tour to go on.
So I guess we can't kiss the stupid stone."
"Well now," the guide said, "it is said that if you kiss someone who has kissed the stone, you'll have the same good fortune."
"And I suppose you've kissed the stone," the woman scoffed.
"No, ma'am," the frustrated guide said, "but I've sat on it."
A Texan walks into a pub in Galway, Ireland and raises his voice to the crowd of drinkers. He shouts, 'I hear you Irish are a bunch of drinkin' fools. I'll give 500 American dollars to anybody in here who can drink 10 pints of Guinness back to back.'
The room is quiet and no one takes of the Texan's offer.
Paddy Murphy gets up and leaves the bar. Thirty minutes later, he shows back up and taps the Texan on the shoulder. Is your bet still good?' asks Paddy.
The Texan answers, 'Yes', and he orders the barman to line up 10 pints of Guinness.
Immediately, Paddy downs all 10 pints of beer, drinking them all back to back. The other pub patrons cheer and the Texan sits down in amazement. The Texan gives the Irishman the $500 and asks, 'If ya don't mind me askin', where did you go for that 30 minutes you were gone?'
Paddy Murphy replies, 'Oh...I had to go to the pub down the street to see if I could do it first.'
IRISH JOKES…
Why was the Irishman late?
His car broque down.
What's Irish and stays out all night?
Paddy O'Furniture.
You know you overdid it on St. Patrick's Day when you think you're kissing the Blarney Stone and then it kisses back.
What do you call an Irishman bouncing off the walls?
Rick O'Shay.
How does an Irish person tell you a dance party is upstairs?
They say, "The jig is up."
How should you greet someone on March 17?
Irish you a happy St. Patrick's Day.
What do you call an Irish fella trying to break up a fight?
Liam Malone.
Why are the Irish so concerned with Global Warming?
They're into green living.
LEPRECHAUN JOKES…
What does a leprechaun eat for lunch?
A ba-larney sandwich.
How can you tell if a leprechaun likes your joke?
He's Dublin over with laughter.
Why do leprechauns love to garden?
They have green thumbs!
What do you call a leprechaun prank?
A saint pat-trick.
What does a leprechaun call a happy man wearing green?
A Jolly Green Giant!
Name the top three songs by leprechaun cover bands.
• "It Must Have Been Love (But It's Clover Now)" by Sham-Roxette
• "Shamrock and Roll All Nite" by KISS Me I'm Irish, and
• "Party on the Paddy-O" by ZZ Green Top Hat.
SHAMROCK JOKES…
What's the difference between wisdom and luck?
One is clever. The other is clover.
Why shouldn't you iron a four-leaf clover?
You might press your luck!
What does it mean if you find a four-leaf clover?
That you have too much time on your hands!
What do you call a nomad with a lucky charm?
A four-leave rover.
What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover?
A rash of good luck.
The Night Before St. Patrick's Day by Natasha Wing
'Twas the night before St. Patrick's—the day to wear green.
Not a creature was stirring, except Tim and Maureen.
They decked out the den from ceiling to floor
With streamers and rainbows and shamrocks galore.
Later they carefully made traps with gold charms and rings.
"I bet we catch a leprechaun. They love shiny things."
For if they caught one—so legend told
They'd find where he buried his big pot of gold.
They set all the traps 'round the room with great care,
In hopes a wee Irishman soon would be theirs.
The children then nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of golden coins danced in their heads.
"Happy St. Paddy's!" said Dad early the next morning.
Then he started to play bagpipes without warning.
He huffed and he puffed an old Irish song.
Mom dished out green eggs and sang loudly along.
When from their bedroom, there arose such a clatter,
The kids ran down the hallway to see what was the matter.
And what to their wondering eyes should appear…
But a terrible mess. A leprechaun was here!
"Be quiet," whispered Maureen. "He's hiding somewhere.
When we find him, remember, we must hold his stare."
For if you look away, if you so much as blink,
Leprechauns vanish, quick as a wink.
The kids trailed muddy footprints back and forth 'cross the floor
Which led them under Tim's bed and past the closet door.
And then, inside a trap, they heard someone giggling.
A real live leprechaun! The both saw him wriggling.
His eyes—how they twinkled! His body so tiny!
His hands clasped a trinket so golden and shiny!
He was dressed in all green, from his head to his toes,
And he looked like a cobbler wearing fairy-sized clothes.
The children approached him, staring straight in his eyes.
"Tell us where the gold is. Don't be tricky—no lies!"
"I buried it under a rock, smooth and hard.
It's marked with an X right in your backyard."
But when the kids when outside with their shovel and pick,
They instantly saw it had been a big trick!
"ha ha! I fooled you! It's time to disappear.
Happy St. Paddy's Day to you—and better luck next year!"
Erin go braugh,
Al
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Thanks to Dr.Rich and YP
Fwd: The Pleaure of Daylight Savings Day
NM Happenings w. YP
First, I am a time Nazi. I got paid money in both the Navy and with Grits Airways for being exactly on time, and I have clocks everywhere, some automatically change, others are a real pain. TUNITA TIME is fashionably late, then a panic departure, which is accurately calculated to drive her husband batchit in reciprocity for being a Nazi. I am done except for a couple of timepieces which require a ladder, which is not good these days.
Other Rancho Rites of (almost) Spring: Sun is shining brightly, but there were snowflakes falling earlier. There is an especially destructive kind of Woodpecker known locally as a Flicker (Mother Flicker?) that has decided that the metal chimnea for my gas fireplace would be a nice place to build a nest, and early mornings settles in it and hammers away at the metal. Very annoying. Short term solution is to turn on the fireplace. Bird is patient and will come back. Permanent solution is for me to sneak outside our garage,and Tunita go out on our deck and YELL AND WAVE HANDS. Bird flies away to my side and I dissolve it with shotgunnery. No luck so far, but shotgun is out and ready.
We were greeted this morning by two tom turkeys, all puffed up and trying to impress a lone hen. Tunita has plants in all our south facing windows, and said turkeys are attracted to them and peck madly at the windows and fertilize our back deck liberally. This happens every year, and ends only when turkey lust is satisfied.
The Air Wing of illegal immigrant ducks left early today out of disgust for emptying my feeder down at the pond, so it is refill day with five 50# bags of cracked corn. I have temporarily won the battle with RATS that enter thru the feed horns and make a mess. Last time, I plugged up the horns, and used my frog gig to spear two of the liddle bastids and offer them up as a sacrifice to the crows. The same bastids made a horrid nest in the engine compartment of my truck, parked outside under the shelter we call the Pagoda. I cleaned it all out and put two cubes of rat poison on top of a flat place. Checked yesterday and the cubes were gone, so I put out two more. I hope they are deaded.
May we live in UNINTERESTING TIMES.
YP
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Thanks to Newell
Recently it is becoming fashionable in certain states, or in some cases certain cities, to espouse an ill-defined government program of reparations to be paid to an as yet poorly defined population of minority persons. All in the spirit of a 21st century apology for pre-20th century slavery. One earlier news release cited a proposed payment of $550,000 per person ... that, if my memory is correct, was linked to the program's pitch in CA.
Lunacy! Current tax payers who never owned slaves owe persons who never were slaves a sizable reparation? Gratis lunacy squared!
Newell
A BRIEF HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
OF SLAVERY
by Newell Tarrant
The following Candace Owens' "YouTube" historical narrative regarding slavery confronts the revisionist historians distorting Homo Sapiens' long journey from primitive predator status to modernity. Its historical basis becomes ever more relevant currently as the strident cacophony for reparation payments increases. Her narrative message stands on its own factual content without need of comment from me.
That said, however, I will add some observations garnered from my interest in our species' uneven trek forward from our most primitive origins to ever-increasing degrees of civilization – observations that predate Ms. Owens' narrative-subject by several thousand years. Nothing controversial, just a brief unadorned description of humankind's distant past circumstances.
Paleoanthropologists agree that for more than 80,000 years our species (Homo sapiens sapiens) predominantly existed as "hunter-gatherers", which usually meant a semi-nomadic form of following migratory wild life, or gathering the seasonal naturally-occurring fruits, vegetables and nuts, or taking sea life from coastal waters, or fishing the inland lakes and rivers. The fossil evidence found in European and Mid-Eastern caves proves that some of these natural shelters were used and occupied off and on for thousands of years by our ancient hunter-gatherer ancestors. Ancestors who learned how to make and to use fire, who made primitive tools for hunting and fishing, who produced cave-art, and who ceremonially interred their beloved dead. DNA and attendant physical evidence indicate that these ancient cohabitating groups were relatively small in size – family, extended family and several families cooperatively surviving together. Collectively, these groups would be the forbearers of tribes and clans, coexisting for the mutual benefits of group survival and security in a challenging world.
Harsh realities: it would be unnatural for these different groups not to interact, and, in their quest for survival, to fight occasionally with one another over scant resources or territorial dominance. The victors often took surviving prisoners, most likely the women and children, and made these captives a part of their own small community. A coerced adoption. Yet, over the years, interbreeding also averted smaller familial societies from incestuous decline.
Side note: modern DNA analyses confirm that during those many thousands of years of the uneasy European coexistence of Neanderthal (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) and Cro-Magnon (Homo sapiens sapiens), some interbreeding between the two species occurred prior to the Neanderthals' extinction, which occurred about 30,000 years ago. And this interbreeding wasn't likely the result of inter-species romance.
The point of this historical back-story is that these small communities of early mankind did fight, and the victors integrated those few captured survivors into their own communities. But what, if any, circumstances bound these captives to their new community? After the initial coercion, it was not non-existent fences, nor non-existent locks and chains, nor non-existent city boundaries, nor armed perimeter-guards, nor the security of a permanent residence amid an often-nomadic hunter-gatherer population. Once the fighting was over and the dead interred, there was just no other safe place to go except the immediate protective environment of the victors' temporary camp or home-cave.
More harsh realities: beyond the bounds of their nighttime campfires, the unlit predatory world was savage in fang and claw. Additionally, the climatic challenges of the most recent ice age, with global glaciation reaching its peak 18,000 years ago, provided an ever more difficult environment for each small group's survival. So even if fresh captives were initially used in servile roles, they eventually became integral productive members of the group, because community survival depended upon everyone's contribution. Useful contributive membership entailed a lack of bondage. Besides, there were no small-community resources for holding, monitoring or guarding someone in coercive bondage 24-7-365.
Sunrise approximately 11,700 years ago dawned the end of our planet's most recent ice-age glaciation. The ensuing centuries of warming climate and retreating ice prompted a major cultural revolution in mankind's existence. It allowed our forbearers to progress from hunter-gatherer communities to agricultural ones. Mankind's survival became considerably less risky when food could be cultivated and harvested rather than contending with the uncertainties and dangers of the hunt.
You already know the results of this quantum leap in man's evolving civilization.
Agricultural advances produced the following revolutionary changes in our distant ancestors' lives: stable homogenous larger communities, widespread domestication of animals – particularly pigs, goats, sheep, chickens, cattle, donkeys and horses. It produced greater personal security; it introduced specialized crafts and professions; it permitted permanent residency on fertile land in homes built and owned by individuals; it encouraged the rise and growth of villages, towns and cities that grew evermore dependent on agriculture and domesticated animals for their sustenance. Populations grew, and so did the commercial trade of goods and services, the use of currency, the advancement of metallurgy in the production of tools and weapons, the embryo formations of government, the need for security forces to protect successful communities from either internal or external threat, and the acceptance of ruling classes to guide the sociopolitical development of their respective communities. Countless additional advances occurred as the thriving cities, whose citizens shared a common language, culture and heritage, grew to become states, and states became territorial nations, and the most successful of armed-nations became empires.
Homo sapiens sapiens had evolved to become the most intelligent and successful predator on the planet.
Our predation, however, was not limited to the animals of the surrounding wilds, because each material advance of mankind came with ever increasing demands for manual labor. So, wielding the double-edged sword of expanding civilization and bonded servitude, mankind preyed on its own less powerful or less advanced populations. Globally, these weaker or conquered peoples became the victors' primary sources of slave labor. Slavery thus became an accepted norm of mankind's complex advanced societies.
The concept of weaker conquered people becoming little more than chattel or property to serve the needs of the more powerful became entrenched worldwide. And now there were land owners, enforced private property rights, sprawling cities, confining walls, perimeter guards, powerful governments, and the requisite locks-and-chains to enforce the societal norms of acquiring, marketing and sustaining human bondage. Thus, for thousands of years following mankind's agricultural evolution, slavery was an established and accepted economic and sociopolitical fact of human life.
I realize a few short paragraphs describing in most general terms many thousands of years of evolving human history is, by definition, an oversimplification. Despite this lean summation, however, the concluding results are historically factual. All of which becomes an appropriate segue-way to Candace Owens' video, because her narrative illustrates slavery's general existence during mankind's post agricultural-evolution historical record. It serves as an Abbreviated Sketch Of Human Bondage, chronicling that worldwide slavery was not exclusive to a particular race, heritage or gender.
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This Day in U S Military History
13 March
1781 – Astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus, which he named 'Georgium Sidus,' in honor of George III. He initially though it was a comet. It is the 7th planet from the sun and revolves around the sun every 84.02 years. It is 14.6 time the size of Earth and has five satellites. The planet Uranus is a gas giant like Jupiter and Saturn and is made up of hydrogen, helium, and methane. The third largest planet, Uranus orbits the sun once every 84 earth years and is the only planet to spin perpendicular to its solar orbital plane. In January 1986, the unmanned U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 visited the planet, discovering 10 additional moons to the five already known, and a system of faint rings around the gas giant.
1895 – Award of first submarine building contract to John P. Holland Torpedo Boat Co. In 1895, John Philip Holland received the U.S. Navy contract to build a submarine. The Plunger would have been the first submarine destined for service in the U.S. Navy. However, foreseeing her failure because of an overly optimistic set of requirements, he began building another submarine using his own money and plans. This vessel was later christened USS Holland. This was truly the first successful U.S. submarine in America's Navy. After some acceptance tests in the Potomac River (she wasn't certified for the high seas), she was delivered in 1900 and became a model against which all subsequent submarines were compared. She could attain a speed of 7 knots on the surface with her 45 HP gasoline engine and about 5.5 knots submerged on her batteries. Her hardy crew consisted of one officer and five enlisted men. 1901 – Benjamin Harrison (67), 23rd president of the United States (1889-1893), died in Indianapolis.
1944 – On Bougainville, US forces mount a counterattack, with armor and air support, and recapture most of the ground lost during the last few days.
1944 – On Hauwei Island, the small US forces overrun the Japanese garrison. Artillery units are landed to support planned operations on Manus Island.
1945 – The 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 9th Marine Regiment attacked through "Cushman's Pocket," Iwo Jima. This was the last strongpoint of enemy resistance on the island.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
KYLE, PATRICK J.
Rank and organization: Landsman, U.S. Navy. Born: 1855, Ireland. Accredited to: Massachusetts. Citation: For rescuing from drowning a shipmate from the U.S.S. Quinnebaug, at Port Mahon, Minorca, 13 March 1879.
*CRAIN, MORRIS E.
Rank and organization: Technical Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company E, 141st Infantry, 36th Infantry Division. Place and date: Haguenau, France, 13 March 1945. Entered service at: Paducah, Ky. Birth: Bandana, Ky. G.O. No.: 18, 13 February 1946. Citation: He led his platoon against powerful German forces during the struggle to enlarge the bridgehead across the Moder River. With great daring and aggressiveness he spearheaded the platoon in killing 10 enemy soldiers, capturing 12 more and securing its objective near an important road junction. Although heavy concentrations of artillery, mortar, and self-propelled gunfire raked the area, he moved about among his men during the day, exhorting them to great efforts and encouraging them to stand firm. He carried ammunition and maintained contact with the company command post, exposing himself to deadly enemy fire. At nightfall the enemy barrage became more intense and tanks entered the fray to cover foot troops while they bombarded our positions with grenades and rockets. As buildings were blasted by the Germans, the Americans fell back from house to house. T/Sgt. Crain deployed another platoon which had been sent to his support and then rushed through murderous tank and small-arms fire to the foremost house, which was being defended by 5 of his men. With the enemy attacking from an adjoining room and a tank firing pointblank at the house, he ordered the men to withdraw while he remained in the face of almost certain death to hold the position. Although shells were crashing through the walls and bullets were hitting all around him, he held his ground and with accurate fire from his submachinegun killed 3 Germans. He was killed when the building was destroyed by the enemy. T/Sgt. Crain's outstanding valor and intrepid leadership enabled his platoon to organize a new defense, repel the attack and preserve the hard-won bridgehead.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for March 13, 2021 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
13 March
1911: Capt W. Irving Chambers (USN) joined the Bureau of Navigation to devote his efforts exclusively to naval aeronautics. (24)
1917: The birth of Army air intelligence took place when Chief Signal Officer Brig Gen George O. Squier approved an intelligence subdivision office in the Aeronautical Division. (24)
1958: The USAF Ballistic Missile Committee picked Lowry AFB to become the first Titan I base. (6)
1959: Aviation Cadet E. R. Cook soloed in a TT-1 Pinto and became the first student in naval aviation history to solo a jet without previous experience in propeller aircraft. (24) An Aerobee-Hi rocket launched from White Sands took the first ultraviolet photos of the sun from an altitude of 123 miles. (24)
1977: TAC received its first air refuelable Combat Talon C-130 Hercules. (16)
1993: STORM OF THE CENTURY. Through 14 March, 301 RS helicopters saved 93 people after a major blizzard swept over a third of the US from the Gulf of Mexico to New England. (16) (26)
1994: The first Taurus booster lifted two military satellites into space from Vandenberg AFB. (16) (26)
2007: The first MQ-9 Reaper, a newer, larger and stronger version of the MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, arrived at Creech AFB, Nev. The 42nd Attack Squadron commander, Lt Col Jon Greene, flew the MQ-9 more than 250 miles in two hours to land there. (AFNEWS, "First MQ-9 Reaper Makes Its Home on Nevada Flightline," 14 Mar 2007.) At Little Rock AFB, Ark., General Duncan McNabb, the Air Mobility Command commander, delivered the first combat-ready C-130J Hercules to the 463d Airlift Group. (AFNEWS, "Air Mobility Command, 463d Airlift Group Welcomes First C-130J," 15 Mar 2007.)
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