To All,
Good Tuesday morning October 10, 2023
Well the water leak is still going and the Plumber never showed up. Hoping he will show up today and we can lower the DEFCON level in the house.
I hope that your week has started much better than ours.
Regards
Skip
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Today in Naval and Marine Corps History thanks to NHHC
October 10
1845 The Naval School, now known as the Naval Academy, opens in Annapolis, Md. with 50 midshipmen and seven professors. The first superintendent, Cmdr. Franklin Buchanan, later becomes an admiral in the Confederate Navy and commands the Confederate forces at Mobile Bay, Ala.
1860 USS San Jacinto, commanded by Capt. T.A. Dorwin, captures the slave ship Bonito in the South Atlantic with about 622 slaves onboard. Bonito is then taken into naval service.
1923 The first American-built rigid airship USS Shenandoah (ZR 1), powered by helium gas instead of hydrogen, is christened at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, N.J. On Sept. 3, 1925, USS Shenandoah encounters violent weather over southern Ohio and breaks up. Fourteen of her crew lose their lives in this tragedy.
1943 USS Bonefish (SS 223) sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Isuzugawa Maru and merchant transport Teibi Maru off Cam Ranh Bay, French Indochina.
1955 Following a week of disaster relief operations in the wake of Hurricane Hilda, USS Saipan (CVL 48), with HTU-1 embarked, sails from Tampico, Mexico. Helicopters flying from the ship rescue 5,439 people and deliver 183,017 pounds of food and medical supplies.
1985 Navy F-14's launch from USS Saratoga (CV 60), intercept an Egyptian 737 airliner over international waters, and direct it to Sigonella, Sicily. The airliner was carrying four Middle Eastern terrorists who hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro Oct. 7 and murdered a U.S. citizen. The hijackers are taken into custody.
2005 A 7.6 magnitude earthquake near the Indo-Pakistani border kills more than 73,000 people and renders nearly three million homeless. USS Tarawa (LHA 1) Expeditionary Strike Group Commander, Rear Adm. Michael A. LeFever, coordinates the operations of the Disaster Assistance Center at Islamabad, Pakistan. Through 13 Feb., U.S. and allied aircraft fly more than 4,000 missions, deliver over 11,000 tons of supplies, and transport more than 18,000 people.
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Today in World History October 10
19 Germanicus, the best loved of Roman princes, dies of poisoning. On his deathbed he accuses Piso, the governor of Syria, of poisoning him.
732 At Tours, France, Charles Martel kills Abd el-Rahman and halts the Muslim invasion of Europe.
1733 France declares war on Austria over the question of Polish succession.
1789 In Versailles France, Joseph Guillotin says the most humane way of carrying out a death sentence is decapitation by a single blow of a blade.
1794 Russian General Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov crushes the rebel Polish army at Maciejowice, Poland.
1845 The U.S. Naval Academy is founded at Annapolis, Md.
1863 The first telegraph line to Denver is completed.
1877 Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer is buried at West Point in New York.
1911 Revolution in China begins with a bomb explosion and the discovery of revolutionary headquarters in Hankow. The revolutionary movement spread rapidly through west and southern China, forcing the abdication of the last Ch'ing emperor, six-year-old Henry Pu-Yi. By October 26, the Chinese Republic will be proclaimed, and on December 4, Premier Yuan Shih-K'ai will sign a truce with rebel general Li Yuan-hung.
1911 The Panama Canal opens.
1933 At Rio de Janeiro, nations of the Western Hemisphere sign a non-aggression and conciliation treaty. President Roosevelt adopts a "good neighbor" policy toward Latin America and announces a policy of nonintervention in Latin American affairs at the December 7th International American Conference at Montevideo, Uruguay.
1941 Soviet troops halt the German advance on Moscow.
1953 The Mutual Defense Treaty between the US and South Korea signed.
1966 U.S. Forces launch Operation Robin, in Hoa Province south of Saigon in South Vietnam, to provide road security between villages.
1970 The Quebec Provincial Minister of Labour, Pierre Laporte, is kidnapped by terrorists.
1971 The London Bridge, built in 1831 and dismantled in 1967, reopens in Lake Havusu City, Arizona, after being sold to Robert P. McCulloch and moved to the United States.
1973 Spiro Agnew resigns the vice presidency amid accusations of income tax evasion. President Richard Nixon names Gerald Ford as the new vice president. Agnew is later convicted and sentenced to three years probation and fined $10,000.
1985 An Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship is intercepted by US Navy F-14s and forced to land at a NATO base in Sicily.
2008 Orakzai bombing, Afghanistan: members of the Taliban drive an explosive-laden truck into a meeting of 600 people discussing ways to rid their area of the Taliban; the bomb kills 110.
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear … Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
Skip… For The List for Tuesday, 10 October 2023… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 10 October 1968… Remembering LTJG Mike Confer, USN, who perished on this day 57-years ago…
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
MOAA - Wall of Faces Now Includes Photos of All Service members Killed in the Vietnam War
By: Kipp Hanley
AUGUST 15, 2022
(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/ )
Thanks to Micro
From Vietnam Air Losses site for Tuesday October 10
October 10: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=845
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Thanks to Richard
Subject: Memory test
THIS MAY BE HARDER THAN YOU MIGHT THINK.
THE ANSWERS WILL BE ON THE TIP OF YOUR TONGUE BUT YOU JUST CAN'T QUITE REMEMBER THE CORRECT ANSWER.
DON'T LOOK BELOW FOR THE ANSWERS UNTIL YOU'VE TRIED TO FIGURE THEM OUT. The answers are at the end of today's List.
A TEST FOR 'OLDER' KIDS. I was picky who I sent this to. It had to be those who might actually remember.
So have some fun, my sharp-witted friends.
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1. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, "Who was that masked man?" Invariably, someone would answer, "I don't know, but he left this behind." What did he leave behind? __ _______ _______.
2. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. in early 1964, we all watched them on The ____ ___________ Show.
3. 'Get your kicks __ _________ _______.'
4. 'The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to _____ _ _____.
5. 'In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ____ ____ ____ ____.'
6. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we 'danced' under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the '_____.'
7. Nestlé's makes the very best....' _________.'
8. Satchmo was America 's 'Ambassador of Goodwill.' Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was ______ ___________.
9. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? _______.
10. Red Skeleton's hobo character was named ______ ___ ________ and Red always ended his television show by saying, 'Good Night, and '________ ________ . '
11. Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their ______ _______.
12. The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the front was called the VW. What other names did it go by? ___ & _______.
13. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, "The day the music died." This was a tribute to _______ ____________. (Omitted here but still part of the tribute were The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens.)
14. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians did it. It was called __________.
15. One of the big fads of the late 50's and 60's was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the ______ _____ .
16. Remember LS/MFT _____ _____/_____ _____ _____?
17. Hey Kids! What time is it? It's _____ ______ _____!
18. Who knows what secrets lie in the hearts of men? Only The _____ Knows!
19. There was a song that came out in the 60's that was "a grave yard smash". Its name was the ______ ______!
20. Alka Seltzer used a "boy with a tablet on his head" as its Logo/Representative - What was the boy's name? ________
Send this to your 'older' friends, (better known as "Seniors.") It will drive them crazy!
And keep them busy and let them forget their aches and pains for a few minutes.
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Thanks to barrel
Update from Israeli
IDF Spokesperson Gives an Update
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Thanks to Mike
A little history for you.
Cheers
Nordo
https://www.military.com/off-duty/why-wwii-navy-veterans-added-salt-their-coffee.html
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Thanks to Barrel
Life Lesson for Today
https://youtu.be/dhIkLozpN6o?si=1RTNaeLpszZaIkMr
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Thanks to Carl
The War in Israel
JON RAPPOPORT OCT 8, 2023
There is far too much to say about this—and people will. Everybody and his brother will have a special theory about WHY NOW and WHAT IT REALLY MEANS and WHAT IT'S A DISTRACTION FROM and WHO IS ACTUALLY BEHIND IT and the blizzard of commentary will come from the political left, right, and center.
Right now, I have this to say.
This war could spiral into something much bigger, and fast. Involving many more people and other countries. The EXTREME dangers are obvious.
And major corporations are going to war, for "causes and ideals" but most importantly for profit, because multiple money-making war machines are humming.
Corporate entities are "doing battle," and they're all getting richer during the horror and the slaughter.
War-machine government/corporations do battle to protect other corporations as well.
As Major General Smedley Butler wrote, 90 years ago, WAR IS A RACKET.
Butler, the most decorated Marine in history, four years after his retirement from military service, wrote:
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I spent 33 years and 4 months in active service as a member of our country's most agile military force—the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from a second lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for [crony] capitalism…Thus I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in…I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-12. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916…During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotion. Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents.
No matter what people write, no matter what people say, keep this in mind as we move forward.
-- Jon Rappoport
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Thanks to Brett
Geopolitical Futures:
Keeping the future in focus
https://geopoliticalfutures.com
Daily Memo: The World Begins to Reorder Itself
By: George Friedman
October 10, 2023
I wrote a few months ago that the world is in the process of reordering itself, something it does every few generations. It is not a process that depends on the decisions of the mighty or something that can readily be stopped. It flows out of economic and political pressures within countries. These internal pressures turn into military pressures, as the internal system tries to stabilize itself. Some countries experience these things as painful but routine events, while others destabilize or lash out. Another name for this is progress, which is far from a triumphal march to happiness but a painful struggle with reality; the pains of progress turn to charges against other people and other nations. Someone must be responsible for the disruption and disorientation of change, and the finger is always pointed at others and never oneself.
The foundation of this current cycle was Europe in the early 1990s, when the Soviet Union disintegrated and the Maastricht treaty was signed to unite the Continent. In 2001, the United States experienced the 9/11 attacks. In 2013, Xi Jinping became the president of China. Within the cycle of history, a decade or two is a relatively short time.
The fragmentation of the Soviet Union was, at the time, intended to create a more efficient region. The unification of Europe under the European Union was intended to reduce the prospect of conflict while creating widespread prosperity. The U.S. response to the 9/11 attack was intended to reduce the threat of terrorism. Xi's election was intended to put China on the road to unprecedented prosperity.
None of these intentions ended in outright failure. The Soviet breakup led some of the former Soviet Union and its satellites to a higher degree of prosperity. European unification led to a period of relative productivity. The American response did prevent another 9/11-type attack on the United States. And China surged. As with other cycles, the intentions of leaders were not a complete failure, at least until the next cycle.
It is now a generation since the last shift began, and the fault lines of the previous phase are in the final stage of change. Russia is engaged in an attempt to reconstruct the Soviet Union, starting with its war in Ukraine. The European Union is deeply divided, and Germany and France have proposed institutionalizing the division. In recent days, Islamic radicalism has reared its head again with the invasion of Israel by Hamas. The United States, having prevented further major attacks by Islamic terrorists, has slipped into the predicted final phase of its own cycle, where tensions between people over politics, race, religion, sexuality and whatever else you might have in mind will dominate the next few years. And China's economic surge has given way to massive economic weakness and political tension.
There are two points I am trying to make here. First, nations contain many millions of people. These people spew out decisions that they blame on leaders, because the real process of millions of people living together is too complicated to grasp. Someone must be blamed, and it can't be oneself, so there is periodic rage. Second and perhaps more significant, the problem of the new period grows out of the solution of the last period.
We are therefore in a new period, which has its origins in the last and consists of war, economic crisis and mutual rage. These are the realities that are truly universal, sometimes happy, too often tragic. But I am sure that the Greeks looked at this the same way. Can we avoid these cycles? I would like to think so, but we haven't yet.
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Thanks to Brett
October 09, 2023
Special Israel Attack Edition
It would appear that the Mainstream Media has avoided portraying the inhumane brutality of Hamas' attacks on the non-military citizens of Israel
Reflections on Israel's
New Existential War
By: Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
October 9, 2023
There have been plenty of terrorist attacks on Israel. A dozen or so conventional wars of various magnitude have been waged against the Jewish state. And more often there have been mixtures of both.
Yet never have hundreds of gangs of black-clad murderers carefully planned to swarm Israel, with an agenda to pull random Jews out of their homes and off the street, murder them, and toss their bodies in the street.
The closest parallel to the sort of methods Hamas is now embracing is something close to the Rwanda 1994 mass killing, when swarms of Hutu militia killers launched a preplanned murder spree against thousands of Tutsi civilians.
Note one common theme of these horrific videos of the murdering of young women: the bloodthirst of the Gaza crowd. There appears a natural desire of everyday Gazans to video the mutilations, an embrace of the spitting on the doomed, a frenzied effort to mutilate the dead—and the absence of a single Gazan objecting to the group murder of a civilian.
Hamas did not act out of the ordinary but in sync with its people. In truth, there is something so terribly wrong in Gaza that the United States should keep as far away as it can from such barbarity—and hope that it too feels the same about America and keeps to itself.
So again why did Hamas mount such a long-planned and multifaceted assault on Israeli towns, public buildings, soldiers, and civilians?
The invasion was not so much a surprise attack, in the conventional Pearl Harbor sense, as a carefully calibrated land, sea, and ground effort at mass killing and hostage-taking. It was designed to execute noncombatants, grab Jews for bargaining leverage, and shock Israelis through their pre-civilizational desecration of the bodies of the dead.
It targeted first a youth concert near the border, on the theory that cowardly killers could gain maximum media traction and Arab solidarity by sensationally butchering and kidnapping helpless adolescents. Will the murderers in the weeks ahead transfer their killing zeal to attacks on the IDF? They will soon have their long desired and ample opportunity to showcase to the world their bravado as they face real soldiers and not unarmed elderly and youth.
Apparently, the Palestinians in their now ISIS role also thought their descent into even greater barbarity, rarely witnessed in even the most savage parts of the world, would shock Israelis into assuming some sort of collective fetal position, with hands over their ears screaming, "Make all these demons just go away."
If so, Hamas sorely miscalculated.
The sheer horror of their methods, and the cowardice shown by focusing on teenage girls and children rather than the IDF, will have the exact opposite effect, both in Israel and worldwide.
Israel now knows there is no living with a precivilizational Hamas. It must destroy it, permanently block off Gaza from itself, and adopt a strategy of chronic disproportionate response from now on out.
In such a change of strategy, Israel will have the backing of most of the civilized world and its own people, since there is no other choice once Hamas has adopted its campaign of death. We will likely see things in the next month that no one has anticipated, and yet the Israeli response will be in the eyes of most of the world long overdue.
In other words, few will pay any more attention to the Squads of the world, the radical Jew-haters of the Western Left, or the Democratic-Socialists of America who cheered on the killing. They are now revealed on the side of death for death's sake and cannot be reasoned with.
We are not yet 80 years out from the Holocaust. Yet here again we witness black-clad cadres of special killer units trying to round up Jews and execute them on the spot. There is one strange difference though between the current Hamas SS cadres and their spiritual forefathers in Nazi Germany.
Between 1941-45 America fought to destroy the SS and its hired local death squads. But in 2023, the Biden administration has restored hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority and to Gaza under Hamas, despite the commitments of both to the destruction of Israel and the mass killing of Jews—and regardless of the warnings of its own State Department.
That too will change, as there will soon be zero American support for giving one more cent to any Palestinian "organization."
Why the attacks now? Other than the usual reasons the Palestinians slaughter Jews—envy, the easy preference to destroy others than to create a successful modern state of their own, ethnic and religious hatred—the timing and methods of this particular killing spread were predicated on some particular catalysts.
Palestinians wanted to stop any rumored rapprochement between the Gulf monarchies—their traditional purse strings—and Israel, by forcing the issue of Arab solidarity in times of "war," especially through waging a gruesome attack aimed at civilians and encompassing executions and hostage-taking. They wished to force, for example, the Saudis to endorse their mutilation of corpses or else be seen as sell-outs to the "Jews."
Iran is the likely driving force in prompting the war. Its greatest fear is a Sunni Arab-Israel deal that would finally transcend the anti-Semitic and ethnic hatred that now resides most prominently in Palestine and Iran.
In addition, Arab forces only achieved success against Israel in surprise assaults during an Israel holiday. So the current attack was timed 50 years after the October 6, 1973 beginning of the Yom Kippur War. They struck during Simchat Torah, coming at the end of a weeklong Jewish celebration of Sukkot. And yet despite the iconic date, Hamas caught both the sophisticated intelligence networks of Israel, the United States, and the West in general completely unaware.
Did Hamas think Hezbollah and Iran would join in? Will they? If one believes their rhetoric they will; if one believes that they do not wish to experience what will likely follow in Gaza, they will not.
For the time being, after all, there are now zero restraints on Israel for the first occasion perhaps in its history. Few other than the international relations major AOC or a bigot in the American State Department will call for proportionality, an immediate ceasefire, or an Israeli stand down.
Hamas may also have reckoned that recent Israeli turmoil and mass street protests over proposed reforms of the Israeli Supreme Court had led to permanent internal divisions and thus a climate of domestic distraction if not an erosion of deterrence.
True, there was something eerie about the Israeli left's opposition that extended to the politicization of IDF recruits. This propensity to commit collective civilizational suicide is now toxic in Western society, from Sweden to America. But it could prove fatal in a frontline state like Israel–as Hamas apparently also reasoned.
Let us also be candid, the Biden administration has contributed to the notion that Hamas was a legitimate Middle East player. It fueled the perception that the U.S. was backing away from its traditional support for Israel—to the delight of Hamas—based on inexplicable policies.
Remember there is an iron law in the Middle East: anytime the U.S. distances itself from Israel and gravitates to Iran, its violent enemies see that as a de facto greenlight to ratchet up their aggression. It is now a tenet of the base of the new woke Democratic Party, whether on campuses, among its Squad, in the media, or as championed by its identify politics caucuses, that Israel is an illegitimate state, while radical Palestinians are freedom fighters.
Do we remember that in February the ridiculous Secretary of State Blinken bragged that not only had the Biden administration resumed massive aid to the corrupt PLA, canceled by Trump, but also cumulatively had transferred $1 billion—even as Palestinian authorities and Abbas bragged that they would continue to pay bounties to the families of "martyrs" (i.e., those killed while conducting terrorists attacks against Israel)?
All such funds are fungible. So the more Biden's people brag that the money goes to humanitarian purposes or has not yet arrived in Iranian accounts, the more these terrorist entities preemptively free up cash to mobilize for war.
So millions of American dollars went into Gaza, run by Hamas—despite the Biden administration's efforts to keep mostly quiet the resumption of such inexplicable support.
In this regard, note the shameful State-Department ("U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs") website news release that was posted instantly after the attack (since mysteriously taken down). It had ended with this quite embarrassing, morally equivalent admonition:
"We urged all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing." "All sides?" "Refrain from retaliatory attacks?"
So Israel is to be the moral equivalent of terrorists executing civilians and brutalizing their corpses? And all this from the U.S. government? And what exactly is the "U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs," a megaphone for "normalizing" Hamas?
The IDF then is not to retaliate against these killers?
Does the Biden administration now also call upon Ukraine, "to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks?" Does it believe that Ukraine's "violence" in response to Putin's "terror" will "solve nothing?"
Remember also the Biden administration had recently released some $6 billion to Iran through a prison swap deal that saw South Korea had over embargoed Iranian money to Qatar—despite Tehran's increased anti-Israeli rhetoric and its loud brag about the escalation.
In fungible fashion and anticipation of the arrival of this cash windfall, Iran no doubt accelerated its shipments of arms to Gaza. We should assume Iranian money for rockets (Hamas claims they have launched 5,000, and have received 100,000 of them via the Damascus airport) and weapons in general for Hamas were supplied by Iran, a terrorist state that the Biden administration apparently sees as a strategic partner.
Almost immediately, after his inauguration, an eager Biden mobilized to resume the bankrupt Iran deal. In unhinged fashion, he appointed the anti-Israeli bigot, pro-Iranian zealot journalist Robert Malley as America's chief Iranian negotiator. Remember, Malley was the special ISIS advisor of Barack Obama (who kept mum during the 2009 mass uprising against the Iranian theocracy) when ISIS overran Iraq.
Our envoy Malley advertises himself, to quote his Wikipedia bio, as "an expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has written extensively on this subject advocating rapprochement with Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood."
We are now witnessing the reification of our Iranian envoy's idea of "rapprochement" in the streets of Israel.
Note that Malley is now under FBI investigation for security breaches, involving disclosing classified U.S. documents. He also is under further scrutiny for allegedly helping pro-Iranian activists and propagandists land influential billets inside the U.S. government.
Imagine that: Iran now cheers on mass death in Israel while its agents and provocateurs burrow into the U.S. government (which might explain the Biden State Department's immediate call to cease Israeli retaliation).
The result of this madness is that there was a general Hamas and Iranian perception that the Biden administration had resumed the discredited Obama insanity of empowering Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas. This discredited agenda aimed to "balance" the power of Israel and the moderate Arab Gulf governments to achieve "creative tension," and was certainly exacerbated by Biden's loathing of the government of Benjamín Netanyahu.
Note as well that the Biden administration has insidiously siphoned off key weapons and munitions from emergency stockpiles inside Israel apparently to transfer them to Ukraine. The so-called "War Reserve Ammunition—Israel" is reportedly all but depleted of just the sorts of weapons and shells that will be likely needed in the present crisis.
Who knows, we should soon expect that some of the multibillion-dollar arsenal abandoned to the Taliban—who have now voiced a willingness to help Gaza in the killing of Jews—will end up with Hamas. So we deplete strategic arsenals in Israel but leave them to the Taliban.
In this regard is there a Carteresque pattern here?
Upon the ascension of Biden and his woke strategic agendas, we witnessed the following chain of events:
1) the 2021 complete humiliation of the U.S. military in Kabul in its greatest defeat in 50 years;
2) followed by Vladimir Putin's 2022 opportunistic invasion of Ukraine;
3) followed by China's new belligerence and escalating threats to Taiwan;
4) followed by Turkey's new de facto alliance with Russia and recent drone encounter with the U.S. air force in Syria;
5) followed by the Hamas/Iranian-inspired attack on Israel;
6) with more to come, unfortunately.
Will Biden finally get the message from the attacks on the Ukraine and Israeli borders, that borders matter? We too are being invaded, with the encouragement of the Mexican government and to the advantage of the cartels. Biden should carefully digest the ranting of President Obrador who seems to feel he has veto power over the White House, as he demands our own borders remain open to his citizens for whom he cannot provide, while he seeks to influence U.S. elections.
In a sane world, the Biden administration would immediately cancel all talks with Iran, renew sanctions, and stop any cash transferences. (Why were the Obama and Biden administrations so fond of sending so much money to theocratic Iran)? It would stop all aid to the West Bank and Gaza. It would put a travel ban on anyone from Iran or the West Bank and Gaza and pull visas of any currently from Palestine in the U.S. It would immediately ramp up defense spending, especially on missile defense, dismantle the woke commissariat in the Pentagon, and prepare for the unthinkable and existential abroad.
And there is likely zero chance that the handlers of Joe Biden will do any of that.
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Thanks to Interesting Facts
Male squirrels get smarter in the fall.
Autumn heralds the arrival of many things: pumpkin pie, crisp morning air, and, apparently, more intelligent rodents. Male squirrels get smarter in the fall due to their hippocampus (a part of the brain involved in memory) increasing in size during the caching season — the time of year when they gather even more nuts than usual. (In an especially adorable move, they stuff their snacks in their cheeks before moving their food to a more permanent storage spot.) Interestingly, female squirrel brains don't show the same effect; researchers speculate that male squirrel brains may change in the fall to act more like the females' brains already function all year long. The slightly bigger brains may help male squirrels remember exactly where they've stored their nuts, although scientists are still teasing out how.
Though we don't tend to think of squirrels as especially bright, studies have shown that they and other tree-dwelling rodents have evolved larger brains compared to their burrowing counterparts. This all began some 34 million years ago, according to Dr. Ornella Bertrand of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences. There weren't nearly as many arboreal primates back then, which allowed squirrels' ancestors to take up residence among the leaves and branches. "When trees became available to them, squirrels' ancestors seized the opportunity," Bertrand explains. "This transition was a key evolutionary step for squirrels as it enabled them to acquire larger and more complex brains." Whether it's more than mere coincidence that male squirrels get smarter as (human) schools come back to session remains unconfirmed.
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This Day in U S Military History
October 10
1941 – The destroyer USS Kearney is attacked by a German, submarine. In the attack, ten sailors are killed and scores injured. America suffers its first war casualties in World War II. Pearl Harbor is still seven weeks away.
1944 – Nearly two hundred of Admiral Halsey's planes struck Naha, Okinawa's capital and principal city, in five separate waves. The city was almost totally devastated. The American war against Japan was coming inexorably closer to the Japanese homeland.
1950 – A total of sixteen Air Guard squadrons are mobilized for duty during the Korean War. Five of these fighter squadrons, the 111th (TX), 136th (TX), 154th (AR), 158th (GA) and 196th (CA) would fly missions in Korea. Sixteen other units were deployed to NATO bases in Europe.
2013 – Scott Carpenter, Mercury 7 astronaut and second American to orbit the earth, dies at 88 following complications from a stroke. Malcolm Scott Carpenter (born May 1, 1925) was an American test pilot, astronaut, and aquanaut. He was one of the original seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959. Carpenter was the second American (after John Glenn) to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, following Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and John Glenn. After being chosen for Project Mercury in 1959, Carpenter, along with the other six astronauts, oversaw the development of the Mercury capsule. He served as backup pilot for John Glenn, who flew the first U.S. orbital mission aboard Friendship 7 in February 1962. Carpenter, serving as capsule communicator on this flight, can be heard saying "Godspeed, John Glenn" on the recording of Glenn's liftoff. When Deke Slayton was withdrawn on medical grounds from Project Mercury's second manned orbital flight (which Slayton would have named Delta 7), Carpenter was assigned to replace him. He flew into space on May 24, 1962, atop the Mercury-Atlas 7 rocket for a three-orbit science mission that lasted nearly five hours. His Aurora 7 spacecraft attained a maximum altitude of 164 miles (264 km) and an orbital velocity of 17,532 miles per hour (28,215 km/h). In July 1964 in Bermuda, Carpenter sustained a grounding injury from a motorbike accident while on leave from NASA to train for the Navy's SEALAB project. In 1965, for SEALAB II, he spent 28 days living on the ocean floor off the coast of California. During the SEALAB II mission, Carpenter's right index finger was wounded by the toxic spines of a scorpion fish. He returned to work at NASA as Executive Assistant to the Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, then returned to the Navy's Deep Submergence Systems Project in 1967, based in Bethesda, Maryland, as a Director of Aquanaut Operations for SEALAB III. In the aftermath of aquanaut Berry L. Cannon's death while attempting to repair a leak in SEALAB III, Carpenter volunteered to dive down to SEALAB and help return it to the surface, although SEALAB was ultimately salvaged in a less hazardous way. Carpenter retired from the Navy in 1969, after which he founded Sea Sciences, Inc., a corporation for developing programs for utilizing ocean resources and improving environmental health.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
DARROUGH, JOHN S.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company F, 113th Illinois Infantry. Place and date: At Eastport, Miss., 10 October 1864. Entered service at: Concord, Morgan County, Ill. Birth: Kentucky. Date of issue: 5 February 1895. Citation: Saved the life of a captain.
CARTER, ROBERT G.
Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, 4th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: On Brazos, River, Tex., 10 October 1871. Entered service at: Bradford, Mass. Birth: Bridgeport, Maine. Date of issue: 27 February 1900. Citation: Held the left of the line with a few men during the charge of a large body of Indians, after the right of the line had retreated, and by delivering a rapid fire succeeded in checking the enemy until other troops came to the rescue.
BONG, RICHARD 1. (Air Mission)
Rank and organization: Major, U.S. Army Air Corps. Place and date: Over Borneo and Leyte, 10 October to 15 November 1944. Entered service at: Poplar, Wis. Birth: Poplar, Wis. G.O. No.: 90, 8 December 1944. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action above and beyond the call of duty in the Southwest Pacific area from 10 October to 15 November 1944. Though assigned to duty as gunnery instructor and neither required nor expected to perform combat duty, Maj. Bong voluntarily and at his own urgent request engaged in repeated combat missions, including unusually hazardous sorties over Balikpapan, Borneo, and in the Leyte area of the Philippines. His aggressiveness and daring resulted in his shooting down 8 enemy airplanes during this period.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for October 10, 2020 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
10 October
1910: Armstrong Drexel used a Bleriot airplane to set a FAI altitude record of 9,449 feet at Philadelphia. (9)
1911: Lt Thomas DeWitt Milling flew a Wright Airplane at College Park to test the Riley E. Scott bombsight and dropping device in its first military trial. (21)
1923: The first American rigid dirigible, the Shenandoah, was the first Zeppelin-type to use helium gas. (21) (24)
1928: Capt St. Clair Streett, pilot, and Capt Albert W. Stevens, observer and photographer, set an unofficial world altitude record of 37,854 feet for planes carrying more than one person in flight from Wright Field. (24)
1943: Eighth Air Force sent 313 heavy bombers to attack Munster, Germany, where 33 aircraft were destroyed and 102 damaged. (4)
1946: Headquarters US AAF assigned SAC the additional mission of sea search and antisubmarine warfare. A few weeks later, the 509 BG deployed its B-29s to Rio Hato, Panama, to join Navy forces in Operation Nullus. (1)
1947: The US Patent Office issued a patent on the Norden bombsight. Inventor Carl L. Norden had applied for the patent in 1931. (24)
1950: KOREAN WAR. The USAF activated the first ANG units to support the Korean War. The US eventually mobilized 66 flying units and 45,000 guardsmen into federal service. An H-5 crew from the 3 ARS administered, for the first time while a helicopter was in flight, blood plasma to a rescued pilot. The crewmembers received Silver Stars for this action. (21) (28)
1951: KOREAN WAR. Far East Air Forces marked a significant date for the Chinese, the anniversary of the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty, by dropping special leaflets and making radio broadcasts aimed at Chinese Communist Forces in Korea. (28)
1956: NACA, the forerunner of NASA, revealed that a four-stage, rocket-propelled research missile had attained speeds of mach 10.4, the equivalent of 6,864 MPH at high altitudes. (24)
1961: NASA, in a Wallops Station launching, lifted an Argo D-4 rocket to an altitude of 585 miles to study the density of electricity charged helium atoms in the upper atmosphere. (24)
1963: COLLIER TROPHY. The seven original Mercury astronauts received the trophy for their flights to orbit the earth. (16) (26)
1967: The 351 SMW at Whiteman AFB fielded the first Minuteman II Emergency Rocket Communication System (ERCS). It replaced the Blue Scout Junior ERCS system in Nebraska. (1) (6)
1972: Competitive flight tests between the A-9 and A-10 began. (3)
1981: McDonnell-Douglas' AV-8B Harrier shown at St. Louis. (12)
1982: Boeing's AGM-86B ALCM flew its last flight at Edwards. (3)
1983: The C-20A flew its first operational mission. (18)
1986: The USAF placed the Peacekeeper ICBM (LGM-118A) on alert. (21)
1994: Operation VIGILANT WARRIOR. When Iraqi troops massed on the Kuwaiti border, USAF airlifters started flying troops to the Persian Gulf. The number of planes also increased from 77 to 270 as the USAF sent more F-15E Eagles, F-16 Fighting Falcons, and A-10 Thunderbolt IIs to the region. (16) (18)
1998: After a year of testing, Lockheed-Martin test pilot Jon Beesley flew the F-22 Raptor beyond Mach 1.0 for the first time at Edwards AFB. In nonafterburning level flight at 29,000 feet, the first production F-22 (tail no. 4001) passed through Mach 1.1 seven times. (3)
2005: Sixty years of American military airlift operations officially ended at AMC's "Gateway to Europe," Rhein-Main AB. At the ceremony the AMC Vice Commander, Lt Gen Christopher Kelly, unveiled the Spirit of Rhein-Main C-17 Globemaster III. Earlier on 1 October 2005, AMC transferred Rhein-Main's airlift responsibility to Ramstein and Spangdahlem AB. (22)
2006: From a Twin Otter aircraft, AFFTC parachutists made 10 jumps at Edwards AFB to test a new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter parachute system. The IGQ type 6000, which incorporated the parachute and harness into the F-35 cockpit, was designed to inflate at various speeds. It resembled an aeroconical dome when extended. (3)
2007: The USAF launched a Wideband Global SATCOM satellite, the first of a next generation of military communications satellites, from Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla., aboard an Atlas V booster. The new satellite augmented and would eventually replace the aging Defense Satellite Communications System. (AFNEWS, "First Next-Generation Communications Satellite Launches," 11 Oct 2007.)
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ANSWERS:
01. The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.
02. The Ed Sullivan Show
03. On Route 66
04. To protect the innocent.
05. The Lion Sleeps Tonight
06. The Limbo
07. Chocolate
08. Louis Armstrong
09. The Timex watch
10. Freddy, The Freeloader and 'Good Night and God Bless.'
11. Draft cards (Bras were also burned by "feminists," to protest women being "second class citizens." Flags were not burned, as some have guessed.)
12. Beetle or Bug
13. Buddy Holly
14. Sputnik
15. Hoola-hoop
16. Lucky Strike/Means Fine Tobacco
17. Howdy Doody Time
18. Shadow
19. Monster Mash
20. Speedy
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