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Good Tuesday morning June 17 .  The day is dawning clear and it will be 90 today and the temps will start dropping by a couple of degrees each day over the next week. . My girls made it home last night. Their team took first place in the big tournament that has east and west coast teams. Had the last class last night and we have a pot luck dinner and hand  out belts and certificates on Thursday and start the Summer quarter on Monday.

Warm regards,

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HAGD

 

Make it a GREAT Day

 

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This day in Naval and Marine Corps History (thanks to NHHC)

Go here to see the director's corner for all 91  H-Grams . .

Here is a link to the NHHC website: https://www.history.navy.mil/.

On This Day in Naval and Marine Corps History June 17

 

1815 Commodore Stephen Decatur's squadron engages the Algerian flagship Mashouda near Cape de Gatt, Spain. Though the Algerian frigate maneuvers actively to escape, she surrenders after 20 men, including her commander, are killed.

1833 The ship of the line, USS Delaware, becomes the first warship to enter a public drydock in the United States when secured at Gosport Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Va.

1870 Under the command of Lt. Willard H. Brownson, six boats from the steam sloop-of-war USS Mohican attack a group of pirates in the Teacapan River, Mexico.

1898 President William McKinley signs into law a Congressional bill authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Navy Hospital Corps.

1944 TBF (VC 95) from USS Croatan (CVE 25) damages German submarine (U 853) in the North Atlantic. On May 6, 1945, USS Atherton (DE 169) and USS Moberly (PF 63) sink (U 853) off Block Island.

2017 The guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) is involved in a collision with the Philippine-flagged merchant vessel ACX Crystal while operating about 56 nautical miles southwest of Yokosuka, Japan. Seven Sailors lose their lives and the ship is damaged on her starboard side above and below the waterline.

 

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Today in World History June 17

 

0362 Emperor Julian issues an edict banning Christians from teaching in Syria.

1579 Sir Francis Drake claims San Francisco Bay for England.

1775 The British take Bunker Hill outside of Boston, after a costly battle.

1799 Napoleon Bonaparte incorporates Italy into his empire.

1848 Austrian General Alfred Windisch-Gratz crushes a Czech uprising in Prague.

1854 The Red Turban revolt breaks out in Guangdong, China.

1856 The Republican Party opens its first national convention in Philadelphia.

1861 President Abraham Lincoln witnesses Dr. Thaddeus Lowe demonstrate the use of a hot-air balloon.

1863 On the way to Gettysburg, Union and Confederate forces skirmish at Point of Rocks, Maryland.

1872 George M. Hoover begins selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas--a town which had previously been "dry."

1876 General George Crook's command is attacked and bested on the Rosebud River by 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Crazy Horse.

1912 The German Zeppelin SZ 111 burns in its hangar in Friedrichshafen.

1913 U.S. Marines set sail from San Diego to protect American interests in Mexico.

1917The Russian Duma meets in secret session in Petrograd and votes for an immediate Russian offensive against the German Army.

1924 The Fascist militia marches into Rome.

1926 Spain threatens to quit the League of Nations if Germany is allowed to join.

1930 The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill becomes law, placing the highest tariff on imports to the United States.

1931 British authorities in China arrest Indochinese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh.

1932 The U.S. Senate defeats the Bonus Bill as 10,000 veterans mass around the Capitol.

1940 The Soviet Union occupies Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

1942 Yank a weekly magazine for the U.S. armed services, begins publication.

1944 French troops land on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.

1950 Surgeon Richard Lawler performs the first kidney transplant operation in Chicago.

1953 Soviet tanks fight thousands of Berlin workers rioting against the East German government.

1963 The U.S. Supreme Court bans the required reading of the Lord's prayer and Bible in public schools.

1965 27 B-52s hit Viet Cong outposts, but lose two planes in South Vietnam.

1970 North Vietnamese troops cut the last operating rail line in Cambodia.

1972 Five men are arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.

1994 Millions of Americans watch former football player O.J. Simpson--facing murder charges--drive his Ford Bronco through Los Angeles, followed by police.

 

On June 17, 1885, the dismantled Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of America, arrives in New York Harbor after being shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in 350 individual pieces packed in more than 200 cases. The copper and iron statue, which was reassembled and dedicated the following year in a ceremony presided over by U.S. President Grover Cleveland, became known around the world as an enduring symbol of freedom and democracy.

Intended to commemorate the American Revolution and a century of friendship between the U.S. and France, the statue was designed by French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi (who modeled it after his own mother), with assistance from engineer Gustave Eiffel, who later developed the iconic tower in Paris bearing his name. The statue was initially scheduled to be finished by 1876, the 100th anniversary of America's Declaration of Independence; however, fundraising efforts, which included auctions, a lottery and boxing matches, took longer than anticipated, both in Europe and the U.S., where the statue's pedestal was to be financed and constructed. The statue alone cost the French an estimated $250,000 (more than $5.5 million in today's money).

 

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Thanks to Interesting Facts..Star Wars

I was on cruise on USS Constellation in 1977 with the New F-14s when the movie came out and knew nothing about it. Went into The PI and a group of us caught a helo  from the ship to Manila to meet our wives who were coming over to meet us and then meet us again in Singapore. We arrived with hours to spare and were looking for something to do when we spotted a movie theatre. None of the shows look appealing but one of them looked interesting to a bunch of fighter pilots and it was called Star Wars. We all watched it and thought it was great. We then met our wives and told them about the movie and they went nuts and told us about the lines and furor about the move at home and they wanted to go see it so we did. They liked it and so did we again.

Few films have had as profound an impact on cinema as the original Star Wars and the multibillion-dollar franchise it inspired. For nearly 50 years, fans have been dressing up as Jedi, stormtroopers, and Sith, and imagining their own adventures in a galaxy far, far away. In fact, the films have had such a cultural impact that May 4 ("May the Fourth Be With You") is essentially an official holiday for Star Wars fans the world over. Here are seven little-known facts about Star Wars, exploring both the production of the films and the inspiration behind the saga's most iconic characters.

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Filming the Original "Star Wars" Almost Caused an International Conflict

Although Star Wars is famously set in a galaxy far, far away, George Lucas used real-world sets and locations to stand in for extraterrestrial locales throughout the original trilogy. The ice planet Hoth in Empire Strikes Back was filmed near the town of Finse, Norway, while the forest moon of Endor scenes made use of the giant redwoods near Crescent City, California.

One of the most iconic locations in all nine films is the Skywalker homestead on the desert planet of Tatooine. Lucas decided to shoot these scenes, which kick off the entire Star Wars franchise, in the desert of Tunisia (though parts were also filmed in Death Valley, California). In the mid-1970s, Tunisia had a tense relationship with the Libyan government, run by Muammar Gaddafi. Star Wars filmed in Nefta, Tunisia, not far from the Tunisian-Libyan border. The biography George Lucas: A Life details how the Libyan government originally perceived the production as a military buildup along the border, mistaking a Jawa Sandcrawler for military hardware. Libyan inspectors even crossed the border to confirm that these otherworldly vehicles posed no real military threat. Thankfully, the matter ended smoothly.

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Darth Vader's Look Is Based on a Real Japanese Samurai

The inspiration behind the original Star Wars is famously pulled from a variety of sources. The iconic title crawl that sets up the space drama in the film's opening seconds can be found in 1930s adventure serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. The space battles between TIE fighters and X-Wings are a direct reference to WWII dogfighting, and the concept of the Jedi is likely lifted from the pages of Frank Herbert's Dune.

But the most iconic character in the entire saga is undoubtedly Darth Vader, and his look is based on a very real historical figure — a Japanese samurai warlord named Date Masamune. Ralph McQuarrie, the concept artist behind the original trilogy of films, was influenced by Japanese samurai armor, and especially the jet-black armor of Masamune, who was born in 1567. The helmets are the most alike, but McQuarrie also borrowed the extended neck piece from Masamune's armor. Vader's helmet includes additional influences from helmets worn by the German army during WWII, all used to create the most ominous villain the galaxy (and moviegoers) have ever seen.

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"I Have a Bad Feeling About This" Is Said in Every "Star Wars" Film

The entire Star Wars saga is filled with little Easter eggs and references to other characters and events throughout the franchise. One that can be easily missed is the phrase "I have a bad feeling about this," said in every single Star Wars film (and sometimes even uttered multiple times). The phrase is also found in one-off live-action films, animated TV shows, video game series, and novels, and has become a kind of "in-joke" among Star Wars creators.

Notably, The Last Jedi, the eighth film in the Star Wars saga, appears to be the only exception, as no character seemingly utters the famous phrase on screen. But director Rian Johnson confirmed that BB-8 actually delivers the line in binary, after which Poe Dameron, played by Oscar Isaac, retorts, "Happy beeps here, buddy, come on."

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"The Last Jedi" Invented Porgs To Digitally Mask Real-Life Puffins

One of the most important locations in Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi is the remote island on the planet Ahco-To, where a disgruntled Luke Skywalker spends his self-imposed exile and subsequently trains an adamant Rey. These scenes were shot on a very real Irish island called Skellig Michael. Although perfect for creating a much-needed sense of isolation, the island is also a wildlife preserve for puffins. The puffins became a real problem during the many scenes filmed on the island, as they constantly flew into shots and disrupted production. By law, The Last Jedi crew couldn't mess with them, so according to Jake Lunt Davies, a creature concept designer on the film, the team decided to design an in-universe creature that lived on the island and digitally replaced any puffins that got in the shot with them. Hence, Porgs were born.

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'N Sync Was Almost in "Attack of the Clones"

Turn back the clock to 2001, and pop culture was obsessed with both the new Star Wars prequel franchise and the boy band 'N Sync. At the behest of George Lucas' daughter (along with the daughter of producer Rick McCullum), the members of 'N Sync were offered minor roles during the final battle on Geonosis. Justin Timberlake and Lance Bass declined the invitation, supposedly too tired from touring, but the other three band members — Joey Fatone, JC Chasez, and Chris Kirkpatrick — donned Jedi robes and shot their scenes for the film. The moment was particularly special for Fatone, who had an entire room of his house dedicated to Star Wars memorabilia. Sadly, the footage wasn't used in the final cut, and the blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo instead became a little-known piece of Star Wars history.

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The Original "Star Wars" Almost Wasn't Made

It's almost unfathomable that a movie studio would pass up the opportunity to make Star Wars, but in the mid-1970s, George Lucas' little indie film was perilously close to never being made. Lucas first tried to get the rights to Flash Gordon in order to make his own big-screen version, but when he was unable to secure a deal, he decided to make his own space adventure. Once he had the idea, he needed the money, but United Artists, Universal, and even Disney (which later bought the franchise rights for $4.05 billion in 2012) all passed on funding the film.

Finally, 20th Century Fox agreed to finance the project, not because they thought the film would be any good, but mostly to secure a relationship with the up-and-coming director. With an initial budget of only $8 million (eventually bumped up to $11 million) and plenty of disasters during filming and post-production, Star Wars was born from both financial and artistic adversity, yet it has gone on to inspire generations of fans around the globe.

 

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Thanks to Interesting Facts

Scientists have studied the ideal amount of time to dunk an Oreo in milk.

Milk and cookies go together like peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, Jay-Z and Beyoncé. However, there is a right way and a wrong way to dunk a cookie in milk, according to scientists. In 1998, a professor at the University of Bristol in the U.K. looked into the ideal method for dunking a British biscuit (aka a cookie) into a drink, using the concept of capillary action — the way fluids move spontaneously through small tubes in porous materials — and Washburn's equation, which describes their journey. Eventually, he determined that the typical British biscuit is best dunked for 3.5 to 5 seconds. Using this same technique in 2016, scientists at the University of Utah's Splash Lab determined the perfect dunk time for the much-beloved Oreo. Although the amount of time to get to "perfect" depends on preferred sogginess levels and milk fat content, the Utah researchers determined that three seconds was enough to thoroughly saturate the Oreo without losing structural integrity.

 

Oreos are a copy of another cookie.

The Oreo looks like the epitome of dessert ingenuity, but it actually got its start as a near-exact knockoff of a cookie called Hydrox, released in 1908. Hydrox eventually lost popularity in part because its name sounded like a cleaning product, but the brand is still around.

Here's the journey in slow motion. Cookies are porous, and milk travels through the small holes inside them the same way ink does through blotting paper, or a spill through a paper towel. During tests, the Oreo soaked up 50% of its potential liquid weight in one second. That number shot up to 80% at two seconds, flatlined at three seconds, and maxed out at four seconds — meaning the cookie could absorb no more milk. So if the goal was to saturate the cookie but not lose structural cohesion, three seconds was the perfect number. While this test used 2% milk as its dunking medium, the optimal dunking time will vary slightly when using other milk: The higher the milk fat (like whole milk or cream), the longer a cookie can be dunked, but only by mere fractions of a second. Mmmmm, we just made ourselves hungry.

 

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Rollingthunderremembered.com .

June 17

Thanks to Dan Heller and the Bear

 Links to all content can now be found right on the homepage http://www.rollingthunderremembered.com. If you scroll down from the banner and featured content you will find "Today in Rolling Thunder Remembered History" which highlights events in the Vietnam war that occurred on the date the page is visited. Below that are links to browse or search all content. You may search by keyword(s), date, or date range.

     An item of importance is the recent incorporation of Task Force Omega (TFO) MIA summaries. There is a link on the homepage and you can also visit directly via  https://www.rollingthunderremembered.com/task-force-omega/. There are 60 summaries posted thus far, with about 940 to go (not a typo—TFO has over 1,000 individual case files).

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Thanks to Micro

To remind folks that these are from the Vietnam Air Losses site that Micro put together. You click on the url below and get what happened each day to the crew of the aircraft. ……Skip

For Tuesday June 17 

June 17:  https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=635

 

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A couple from Nice News this morning

 

Environment

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For the First Time in Years, a Rare "Ghost Elephant" Was Spotted on Camera

 Panthera & Senegal's National Parks Directorate (DPN)

 

It's not every day a ghost is caught on camera, and this one has a trunk, tusk, and large ears. An elusive elephant dubbed a "ghost elephant" was spotted by a camera trap in Senegal's Niokolo-Koba National Park. The animal is a critically endangered African forest elephant, so this sighting is energizing conservationists about saving the species.

 

The rare footage, captured by the wild cat conservation organization Panthera and Senegal's National Parks Directorate, shows a glimpse of the elephant during an evening stroll. He pauses in the camera's direction before carrying on walking in the moonlight, not realizing he's providing the first images of his species in the park in five years.

 

Because of the elephant's mysterious nature combined with its species' small population size, sightings are hard to come by — making this moment all the more special. "Elephants are under immense pressure in West Africa. Only a few populations of the pachyderms survive in this region," Philipp Henschel, west and central regional director of Panthera, said in a statement to Newsweek. "Niokolo-Koba National Park, where this individual was filmed, is the last area in Senegal where this endangered species survives."

 

Now, officials hope to discover if this elephant is the last survivor in the park — and if so, whether or not introducing more elephants may be a possibility to give a much-needed boost to the overall population. Check out the footage.

 

Humanity

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Stitching Together Purpose in Prison: Quilting Doc Sparks a Surge of Fabric Donations

 Courtesy Netflix

 

ICYMI: In May, Netflix released a short documentary called The Quilters, which follows a group of men in a maximum security Missouri prison who spend 40 hours a week making personalized quilts for foster children and kids with disabilities. Stitch by stitch, the men are seen embracing the restorative justice program as they find a "sense of pride in creating something beautiful in this windowless, sacred space deep within the prison walls," the show description reads.

 

Just one month after the premiere date, it's clear the quilters' stories have touched viewers — so much so that the Missouri Department of Corrections recently issued a statement that donations of fabric and yarn are no longer needed. "We, too, are moved by the film and are, every day, awestruck by the generous and beautiful work done by Missourians in our Restorative Justice Organization programs … However, we currently are overwhelmed by donations and are running out of storage space for fabric and yarn," the statement said.

 

Although the fabric stash is at capacity, supporters are still welcome to offer monetary donations to help fund restorative justice programs. And if you haven't seen the documentary yet, we highly recommend setting aside 33 minutes to give it a watch.

 

 

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Thanks to Brett

What Exactly Was Iran Thinking — Or Not?

June 16, 2025

Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness

Iran apparently had not adjusted to its new 2025 status—or maybe it had. Most of its bought terrorists are currently either destroyed or anemic.

There is no more ascendant Iranian "Shia crescent" in the Middle East. Russia is no longer a Middle East power, patron, and protector.

The Assad dynasty imploded, flipping Syria from an Iranian proxy into a likely Iranian enemy. Hezbollah, once supposedly the most fearsome of all the Iranian terrorist tentacles, was humiliated and neutered by a series of surreal Israeli operations.

Hamas has been reduced to a subterranean terrorist remnant.

The Houthis' tit-for-tat encounters with Israel and the U.S. are systematically turning their Yemeni enclave into an impotent dump. At its present rate, the Houthis will likely soon launch their last rocket at Israel or the Red Sea in a country without fuel, electricity, and ports.

Iran itself, last year in a disastrous air war with Israel, lost its air defenses and is now more or less impotent and defenseless against Israeli air incursions. Its oil income has been slashed by 70-80 percent by the renewed Trump sanctions and 'maximum pressure' campaign. Israel can destroy all of its oil industry if it wishes and, apparently, send operatives inside Iran itself as it pleases.

Most of the Arab Sunni world is now losing its accustomed fear of Iran. While the weary pan-Islamic solidarity boilerplate of the Middle East remains the same, privately, most Arab nations rely on the U.S. or even Israel to deter Iran—and predicate their own foreign policy on the degree to which they do just that.

With the end of the Biden administration and Obama a distant memory, Iran lost all hope that it could bluster, bluff, and negotiate itself out of sanctions and embargoes—and into nuclear weapons. There are no more John Kerrys or Antony Blinkens in charge, eager to meet Iranian demands. Ben Rhodes's "echo chamber" Iran Deal is ancient history.

Israel had done more than all of America's Middle East wars or all of NATO's global presence to end Iran's claims on power and the ability to project its brand of terror and fear throughout the Middle East.

So why did a neutered Iran still sound like the fiery Iran of old, when it once terrorized the Middle East and sent its assassination teams worldwide, with its nearly weekly loud threats to wipe out the one-bomb "Zionist entity?"

What was Iran thinking in refusing to negotiate seriously with the Trump administration to disband its nuclear weapons program and "normalize" its role in the Middle East?

Apparently, given its disastrous last two years, Iran still felt its last-gasp claim both internally and externally on power was on spec to stall and delay by negotiating its way to a dozen nuclear weapons, or, barring that, a deterrent consisting of huge stockpiles of conventional guided missiles.

Such a mini-nuclear arsenal, or fleets of long-range, conventional rockets, would, in Iran's eyes, still frighten Israel, leverage Europe and the West, and eventually recharge its terrorist legions.

To achieve that unlikely deterrent, the theocracy thought it could draw out Trump's negotiations endlessly with a series of its trademark feints, falsities, and even threats until it had enriched enough weapons-grade uranium to deter Israel, or created a massive missile force that could overcome the Israeli Iron Dome.

Tehran naively assumed that Trump's own MAGA base forbade him from starting or even reacting to "forever wars." Thereby, the Iranians may have believed that Trump's willingness to deal was a signal that he was restrained domestically or naive enough to put up with their trademark dissimulation. And thus, they wished to believe that Trump would either harness Israel or keep distant from it should Israel preempt to end the Iranian nuclear option.

But Trump had always been clear that Iran could never obtain a nuclear weapon, if deliberately unclear about how that ultimatum would actually be enforced.

Moreover, Iran had always failed to grasp that Trump is not a neo-isolationist but rather a Jacksonian. He certainly does not believe in endless wars or, for that matter, any large, preemptive military action, especially on the ground in the Middle East. He loathes nation-building, and would likely never send a single platoon into Iran.

But all that said, the prior fates of the arch Iranian terrorist general Qasem Soleimani, ISIS kingpin Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, or the Russian Wagner group in Syria might have reminded Iran that Trump will use force to restore or enhance deterrence and ensure U.S. interests.

When Trump began negotiating with Iran for an end to its nuclear program, he warned the theocracy that it had 60 days to renounce nuclear weapon acquisitions. He apparently had picked such a two-month window, given that any time beyond that date might have ensured Iran would have developed a few nuclear weapons, a reality he knew was untenable for Israel and the U.S.

Iran arrogantly gambled that Trump was bluffing and would stay in endless Iranian bartering while pressuring Israel to stand down so as not to derail his peace efforts. But anyone who knew Benjamin Netanyahu or Trump would know that staying the deadline was impossible, and Iran would likely be hit right after the two-month warning expired.

And so, the regime was hit—swiftly and decisively.

Did Iran think its new Russian and Chinese allies would intervene on its behalf or threaten Israel to stand down? But Russia is bogged down in Ukraine in a new Stalingrad that may have cost it 1 million dead and wounded, with no end in sight. Its military has been weakened. It has no desire to enter any additional foreign conflict. If anything, Putin may soon wish Trump to find him a way out of his own self-created quagmire.

Anyway, an Israeli-Iranian conflict and the subsequent unrest and uncertainty in the Persian Gulf, as far as Vladimir Putin was concerned, would only raise the price of oil and further help feed his tiring Russian war machine.

China is currently trying to avoid a catastrophic trade war with the U.S. It has no desire to prevent the U.S. from aiding Israel. Unlike Russia, China wants no conflict of any kind in the Persian Gulf. It once bought 80-90 percent of Iranian oil, and the Middle East supplies about 50 percent of Beijing's current oil needs.

So, what was Iran's backup strategy of resistance if its nuclear infrastructure came under attack before it obtained a bomb? Apparently, it had none.

And in some sense, that is a silly question, given the theocracy has no reason to exist if it is not an exporter of Shiite Persian-sponsored terrorism aimed at isolating Israel, bullying the Sunni Arab world, and scaring the West. Indeed, the regime always believed it would dissolve without terrorist satellites, a nuclear threat, and oil money. Yet what we are beginning to witness after nearly half a century is a terrorist regime with no terrorists, a would-be nuclear bully with no nuclear weapons, and a conventional threat that will soon not be threatening.

So, what is the future of this latest episode of the Iran-Israel air war? For now, Trump will keep raising the specter of negotiations, and Israel will keep hammering Iran. Trump will expect that, at some point, either the cornered regime will return to drag out negotiations, lie and cajole to save their battered regime and dwindling resources, or see their oil and defense infrastructure eventually wiped out—and the possibility the regime disappears as well.

We might then expect the current hot war to turn into an intermittent one for a few weeks, its pulse controlled by Israel, in the manner that it has systematically eliminated Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis as threats.

Is that a viable solution? For now, yes, if the Iranian nuclear program is dismantled for a few years.

But no, if the regime survives.

The only end to the latest phase of forever wars in the Middle East is for the current regime in Iran to disappear and be followed by a somewhat sane regime resembling, say, Jordan or Egypt—mostly secular states that may loathe Israel in private but are pragmatic enough never to war with it ever again.

 

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed on Sunday that Iran was behind the two assassination attempts on President Donald Trump in 2024.

Netanyahu listed the alleged Iranian connection to the assassination attempts on Trump during an apparent defense of Israel's "Rising Lion" military campaign in Iran, which is designed to eliminate the regime's nuclear program and ballistic missile capabilities.

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"These people who chant death to America, tried to assassinate President Trump twice, kill 241 of your Marines in Beirut, killed and injured thousands of American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, try to bomb a restaurant in Washington, D.C., chant death to America, burn the American flag, do you want these people to have nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to your cities? Of course not. So we're defending ourselves, but we're also defending the world," the Israeli prime minister said in an appearance on Fox News's Special Report with Bret Baier.

Baier pressed Netanyahu on the claim, asking him, "Do you have intel that the assassination attempts on President Trump were directly from Iran?"

Netanyahu responded, "Through proxies, yes. Through their intel, yes. They want to kill him."

 

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Commentary

Why 'Original Sin' Is a Must-Read

Salena Zito

June 15, 2025

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Salena Zito @ZitoSalena

Salena Zito is a Pittsburgh-based columnist for the Washington Examiner. She is the author of "The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics."

In reading "Original Sin," the blockbuster book by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, I vividly remembered covering then-candidate Joe Biden when he came to my hometown in April 2019 to begin his run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

As someone who covered Biden for decades because he frequently visited the state in which he was born, I could not help but notice something was off—not in the way that would become apparent incrementally over the next five years, but he certainly was not the man who had jogged down Liberty Avenue in the Labor Day parade four years earlier to chants of "run, Joe, run."

By the time Biden secured the nomination one year later, the country was in mask mode, and Biden wore one all the time. He told others to do the same, called on governors to enforce mask mandates, and said it was the collective responsibility of all of us to do so. In short order, most of his events were adjusted to prioritize safety, so they were smaller, and social distancing was the rule.

What were those masks hiding? What were those small, conveniently timed, sparse campaign events hiding? The mask mandate was not lifted until four months into Biden's presidency, and it was only lifted for vaccinated people. It was clear in 2021 that this was not the man I saw in 2015.

It was also clear he was not the man I saw in 2019, when I noticed something was off.

Within the first few pages of "Original Sin," one is struck by the blunt, vivid, and troublesome reporting, and that gets to the darkness behind why it all happened: power. It was power that was unchecked by my profession and was used to destroy or weaken anyone who questioned Biden's abilities.

Tapper, along with Thompson, noted on Wednesday in an interview with Stephen A. Smith that Democrats' approval is in the toilet after hiding Biden and the limitations of his ability from the public.

"I think there are a lot of reasons, too, why Democrats have damaged themselves, and not just Democrats, by the way, institutions in general, the media … the failure to acknowledge certain realities" when it came to shutting down schools and the George Floyd riots, he said, listing several sins of the past few years.

"That is why there is a crisis of confidence in the news media, in the Democratic Party, in institutions," Tapper said. He added that he thinks it all needs to be hashed out and discussed to right the ship.

That is not going to happen if there isn't some sort of reckoning or remorse from those who abused power, Tapper said.

"We never got somebody that said, 'We should never have done this. I can't believe we did it. In retrospect, it was a mistake,'" he said.

Coming away from the book, it is clear that a small, tight-knit group of seasoned political veterans, including Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Bruce Reed, Jill Biden, and the president's son Hunter, committed the original sin through their egos and insatiable need for control.

Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pa., in a recent interview with the Washington Examiner, said he has not yet read the book, in which he appeared several times. On page 239, Shapiro tells the then-president he has concerns about him, but Biden pushes back, and Jill Biden abruptly ends the conversation.

However, Shapiro had some warnings about how power like what was used by Biden's inner circle happens.

Most importantly, Shapiro said that as an elected official, one must never surround oneself with people who only say what one wants to hear.

"I think one keeps themselves in check by surrounding themselves with people who tell the principal 'no,' who can stand up to the principal," he said. "Again, I haven't read the book, but the problem is when that principal thinks the job is to accumulate power. That's not the job. The job is to use the power that's inherent in the oath of office you take to do good for people."

Shapiro said surrounding himself with people who don't tell him what he wants to hear but what he needs to hear keeps him grounded.

"Being able to have enough respect for your colleagues at work that you can spar with them on different ideas or different approaches is important. I've got a chief of staff, Dana Fritz, who's been with me for 12, 13 years, and I respect that if she tells me 'no,' or she has a different perspective, I listen to that," he said.

As a reporter covering then-Sen. Biden, I had no problem requesting an interview and, within reason, being given access. But that ability waned midway through the second term of his vice presidency. As many other reporters experienced, there was zero access to interview him. Emails and requests went unanswered. As someone who does not live in Washington, my access was even more limited than someone who was covering him in the district.

What is most important about this book is how deeply the layers were peeled back. It is an opening to find out more. There is a very good chance this can undo the structure of legacy media and unleash more power in independent media.

No one should have the power to deem that he or she can contort and undo the democratic process in the name of "saving democracy."

Those in my profession, as well as the Democrats who enabled this, who have learned from this, are the ones who have apologized with the four Rs of true regret: recognition, responsibility, remorse and reform. Those who have not will continue to do exactly what the Biden family and his inner circle did—but the next time, they won't get away with it.

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Missile Strikes Escalate

Israel struck the headquarters of Iranian state television in northern Tehran yesterday, setting fire to the facility during a live broadcast hours after issuing evacuation warnings to residents in the capital. Israel said the building was being used to hide military infrastructure; the claim has not been verified independently. See updates here.

 

Earlier in the day, Israel said it had also attacked the headquarters of Iran's Quds Force—an elite branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (see overview). The strikes came on the fourth day of missile exchanges between Israel and Iran. Since Israel began its military operation Thursday, at least 224 people have been killed and over 1,400 wounded in Iran, and at least 24 people have been killed and around 600 wounded in Israel as of this writing. See nuclear sites in Iran before and after Israel's attacks here (w/maps).

 

Separately, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he wouldn't rule out targeting Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, while the US State Department raised its travel advisory for Israel to its highest level of "do not travel."

 

 

Purdue Pharma Settlement

All 50 states and US territories agreed to a $7.4B settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners yesterday over the company's role in the opioid crisis. If approved, the payout will resolve thousands of outstanding lawsuits but still allow future litigation. It is the largest settlement of its kind surrounding the decadeslong epidemic.

 

Purdue released OxyContin, a powerful prescription painkiller, in the 1990s. The drug has since been blamed for fueling the opioid epidemic, resulting in over 645,000 US deaths since 1999. Purdue filed for bankruptcy in 2019 to settle lawsuits accusing it of downplaying the drug's addictive nature.

 

Last year, the Supreme Court overturned a $6B settlement on the grounds that bankruptcy courts cannot prevent future lawsuits. By removing that stipulation, the new deal clears the way for Purdue to complete bankruptcy proceedings. The money will be used to fund state-run addiction treatment and prevention programs.

 

 

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Thanks to History Facts

 The Vikings reached North America before Columbus.

WORLD HISTORY

VIKING EXPLORERS

Though the idea that Christopher Columbus discovered America has long been taken as fact, the famous explorer did no such thing. Not only were Indigenous people already living in North America, but the Vikings reached the continent long before Columbus did. Led by Leif Erikson, a group of Norse explorers arrived on these shores in 1021, nearly 500 years before Columbus' 1492 journey. The two expeditions do have one thing in common, however: Erikson probably wasn't looking for America either.

There are two main accounts of the Norse journey to North America. The Saga of Erik the Red (Erikson's father) suggests the explorer made his way across the Atlantic by accident en route from Norway to Greenland. The Saga of the Greenlanders, meanwhile, claims it was indeed intentional. Having heard about the strange new land from Bjarni Herjólfsson, an Icelandic trader who had seen North America but not set foot on it after overshooting Greenland on a journey of his own a decade earlier, Erikson was inspired to make the voyage himself. Upon his successful arrival in present-day Canada, he named it "Helluland" — Old Norse for "Stone Slab Land." It's believed that this was Baffin Island, which certainly fits the description.

 

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This Day in U S Military History…….June 17

1579 – During his circumnavigation of the world, English seaman Francis Drake anchors in a harbor just north of present-day San Francisco, California, and claims the territory for Queen Elizabeth I. Calling the land "Nova Albion," Drake remained on the California coast for a month to make repairs to his ship, the Golden Hind, and prepare for his westward crossing of the Pacific Ocean. On December 13, 1577, Drake set out from England with five ships on a mission to raid Spanish holdings on the Pacific coast of the New World. After crossing the Atlantic, Drake abandoned two of his ships in South America and then sailed into the Straits of Magellan with the remaining three. A series of devastating storms besieged his expedition in the treacherous straits, wrecking one ship and forcing another to return to England. Only the Golden Hind reached the Pacific Ocean, but Drake continued undaunted up the western coast of South America, raiding Spanish settlements and capturing a rich Spanish treasure ship. Drake then continued up the western coast of North America, searching for a possible northeast passage back to the Atlantic. Reaching as far north as present-day Washington before turning back, Drake paused near San Francisco Bay in June 1579 to repair his ship and prepare for a journey across the Pacific. In July, the expedition set off across the Pacific, visiting several islands before rounding Africa's Cape of Good Hope and returning to the Atlantic Ocean. On September 26, 1580, the Golden Hind returned to Plymouth, England, bearing its rich captured treasure and valuable information about the world's great oceans. In 1581, Queen Elizabeth I knighted Drake during a visit to his ship.

1775 – During the American Revolution, British General William Howe lands his troops on the Charlestown peninsula overlooking Boston and leads them against Breed's Hill, a fortified American position just below Bunker Hill. As the British advanced in columns against the Americans, Patriot General William Prescott reportedly told his men, "Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" When the Redcoats were within 40 yards, the Americans let loose with a lethal barrage of musket fire, cutting down nearly 100 enemy troops and throwing the British into retreat. After reforming his lines, Howe attacked again, with much the same result. However, Prescott's men were now low on ammunition, and when Howe led his men up the hill for a third time, they reached the redoubts and engaged the Americans in hand-to-hand combat. The outnumbered Americans were forced to retreat. The British had won the so-called Battle of Bunker Hill, and Breed's Hill and the Charlestown peninsula fell firmly under British control. Despite losing their strategic positions, the battle was a morale-builder for the Americans, who had suffered far fewer casualties than their enemy while demonstrating that they could conduct war effectively against the British.

1944 – The US 1st Army cuts off the Contentin Peninsula. The US 9th Division (part of US 7th Corps) reaches the west coast to the north and south of Barneville. German divisions isolated to the north are not permitted to attempt to break out. Hitler meets with Rundstedt, Commander in Chief (West), and Rommel, commanding Army Group B. Both Field Marshals seek a withdrawal to more defensible positions inland. Hitler refuses to allow a retreat in Normandy. He suggests that the V1 bombing of Britain will force it out of the war.

1944 – The US 27th Infantry Division lands on Saipan to reinforce the American beachhead.

1944 – The carriers led by Admiral Clark and the rest of the main US carrier forces sail for a rendezvous to the west of the Mariana Islands.

1945 – On Okinawa, reinforced American units advance in the Kuishi Ridge area which has been stubbornly defended by forces of the Japanese 32nd Army. Along the line of the US 24th Corps, the last Japanese defensive line is broken. The US 7th Division completes the capture of Hills 153 and 115. The commander of the Japanese naval base on Okinawa, Admiral Minoru Ota, is found dead, having committed suicide.

1945 – On Luzon, elements of the US 37th Division, US 1st Corps, captures Naguilian after making a forced crossing of the Cagayan river, near the town of Cagayan.

1945 – General Arnold orders General Chennault to be replaced by General Stratemeyer as Commander in Chief of the US air forces operating in China. Japanese troops in southern China begin withdrawing northward in five long columns between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers.

1965 – For the first time, 27 B-52s fly from Guam to bomb a Vietcong concentration in a heavily forested area of Binhduong Province. Such flights, under the aegis of the Strategic Air Command, are known as Operation Arc Light.

 

Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day

BROSNAN, JOHN

Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company E, 164th New York Infantry. Place and date: At Petersburg, Va., 17 June 1864. Entered service at: New York, N.Y. Birth: Ireland. Date of issue: 18 January 1894. Citation: Rescued a wounded comrade who lay exposed to the enemy's fire, receiving a severe wound in the effort.

CHANDLER, HENRY F.

Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company E, 59th Massachusetts Infantry. Place and date: At Petersburg, Va., 17 June 1864. Entered service at: ——. Birth: Andover, Mass. Date of issue: 30 March 1898. Citation: Though seriously wounded in a bayonet charge and directed to go to the rear he declined to do so, but remained with his regiment and helped to carry the breastworks.

STRAUSBAUGH, BERNARD A.

Rank and organization: First Sergeant, Company A, 3d Maryland Infantry. Place and date: At Petersburg, Va., 17 June 1864. Entered service at: Warfordsburg, Pa. Birth: Adams County, Pa. Date of issue: 1 December 1864. Citation: Recaptured the colors of 2d Pennsylvania Provisional Artillery.

WAGEMAN, JOHN H.

Rank and organization: Private, Company I, 60th Ohio Infantry. Place and date: At Petersburg, Va., 17 June 1864. Entered service at: Amelia, Ohio. Birth: Clermont County, Ohio. Date of issue: 27 July 1896. Citation: Remained with the command after being severely wounded until he had fired all the cartridges in his possession, when he had to be carried from the field.

YOUNG, BENJAMIN F.

Rank and organization: Corporal, Company I, 1st Michigan Sharpshooters. Place and date: At Petersburg, Va., 17 June 1864. Entered service at: Canada. Born: 1844, Canada. Date of issue: December 1864. Citation: Capture of flag of 35th North Carolina Infantry (C.S.A.).

McGANN, MICHAEL A.

Rank and organization: First Sergeant, Company F, 3d U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Rosebud River, Mont., 17 June 1876. Entered service at:——. Birth: Ireland. Date of issue: 9 August 1880. Citation: Gallantry in action.

PARNELL, WILLIAM R.

Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, 1st U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At White Bird Canyon, Idaho, 17 June 1877. Entered service at: New York. Birth: Ireland. Date of issue: 16 September 1897. Citation: With a few men, in the face of a heavy fire from pursuing Indians and at imminent peril, returned and rescued a soldier whose horse had been killed and who had been left behind in the retreat.

ROBINSON, JOSEPH

Rank and organization: First Sergeant, Company D, 3d U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Rosebud River, Mont., 17 June 1876. Entered service at: ——. Birth: Ireland. Date of issue: 23 January 1880. Citation: Discharged his duties while in charge of the skirmish line under fire with judgment and great coolness and brought up the lead horses at a critical moment.

SHINGLE, JOHN H.

Rank and organization: First Sergeant, Troop 1, 3d U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Rosebud River, Mont., 17 June 1876. Entered service at: ——. Birth: Philadelphia, Pa. Date of issue: 1 June 1880. Citation: Gallantry in action.

SNOW, ELMER A.

Rank and organization: Trumpeter, Company M, 3d U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Rosebud Creek, Mont., 17 June 1876. Entered service at: ——. Birth. Hardwick, Mass. Date of issue: 16 October 1877. Citation. Bravery in action; was wounded in both arms.

 

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June 16, 1936

Seversky Aircraft Company won a contract to provide the Air Corps with P–35 airplanes—the Army's first single-seat fighters with enclosed cockpits and retractable landing gear.

June 17, 1986

After being returned to flyable condition, B-47E-25-DT Stratojet serial number 52-166, made the last flight of a B-47. It was flown by Maj. Gen. John D. ("J.D.") Moore and Lt. Col. Dale E. Wolfe from the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in the high desert of Southern California, to Castle AFB in California's San Joaquin Valley, to be placed on static display. Click HERE to learn more about this historic mission.

June 18, 1981

The first Full Scale Development Lockheed YF-117A Nighthawk, 79-10780, made its first flight at Groom Lake, Nevada, with Skunk Works test pilot Harold "Hal" Farley Jr. at the controls. The super-secret airplane was made of materials that absorbed radar waves, and built with the surfaces angled so that radar signals are deflected away from the source. Commonly called the "Stealth Fighter," the Nighthawk is actually a tactical bomber. Five developmental aircraft and 59 operational F-117As were built. They were in service from 1983 until 2008, when the Lockheed F-22 Raptor was planned to assume their mission. They are mothballed and could be returned to service if needed.

June 19, 1968

Lt. j.g. Clyde Everett Lassen was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions as the pilot and aircraft commander of a search and rescue helicopter during operations against enemy forces in North Vietnam. In part, the citation reads: "Although enemy fire was being directed at the helicopter, he initially landed in a clear area near the base of the hill, but, due to the dense undergrowth, the survivors could not reach the helicopter. With the aid of flare illumination, Lieutenant Lassen successfully accomplished a hover between two trees at the survivor's position. Illumination was abruptly lost as the last of the flares were expended, and the helicopter collided with a tree, commencing a sharp descent. Expertly righting his aircraft and maneuvering clear, Lieutenant Lassen remained in the area, determined to make another rescue attempt, and encouraged the downed aviators while awaiting resumption of flare illumination. After another unsuccessful, illuminated, rescue attempt, and with his fuel dangerously low and his aircraft significantly damaged, he launched again and commenced another approach in the face of the continuing enemy opposition."

June 20, 1941

The Department of War established the United States Army Air Forces. The new organization consisted of Headquarters Army Air Forces, the newly formed Air Force Combat Command, and the existing United States Army Air Corps. The U.S.A.A.F. was placed under the command of Maj. Gen. Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, Chief of the Air Forces. At the end of 1941, the U.S. Army Air Forces had a strength of 354,161 (24,521 officers and 329,640 enlisted) and 12,297 aircraft, with 4,477 of these classified as combat aircraft.

June 21, 1993

Lt. Col. Nancy J. Currie-Gregg, the first female Army aviator to become an astronaut, made her first space flight.

June 22, 1962

The last of 744 Boeing B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers, B-52H-175-BW, serial number 61-0040, was rolled out at the Boeing Military Airplane Company plant in Wichita, Kansas. The U.S. Air Force contracted 62 B-52H Stratofortresses, serial numbers 60-0001 through 60-0062, on May 6, 1960. A second group of 40, serials 61-0001 through 61-0040, were ordered later. All were built at the Boeing Wichita plant.

 

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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for June 17,  FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY

17 June

1909: Orville and Wilbur Wright received special gold medals from Congress. (24)

1917: The Aeronautical Mission (known as the Bolling Mission), under Maj Raynal Cawthorne Bolling, sailed for Europe. It determined the types of aircraft the US should build and surveyed foreign manufacturing techniques. (21)

1922: RAdm William A. Moffett became the first Naval Aviation Observer. (24)

1928: FIRST WOMAN TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC: Amelia Earhart flew her airplane, the Friendship, with Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon (navigator) from Newfoundland to Wales in 20 hours 40 minutes. (9) (24)

1942: Army Air Corps tow planes picked up their first gliders.

1943: PROJECT WINDOW. Tinfoil strips (chaff) were used to confuse German radar so American bombers could strike targets. (4)

1952: Goodyear delivered the world's largest nonrigid airship, ZPN-1, 324 feet long and 94 feet 5 inches high, to the Navy at Lakehurst, N. J. (24)

1957: The formation of the International Council of Aeronautical Services officially announced.

1958: The USAF accepted the Martin Company's first Titan I. (6) The Air Force picked the Boeing and Martin companies to be competing prime contractors on the X-20 Dyna-Soar boost-glide space vehicle. (20)

1963: The Polaris A3 made its first successful firing at sea from the USS Observation Island. (5)(16)

1964: The triservice XC-142A, a vertical takeoff and landing VTOL aircraft, made its roll-out in Dallas, Texas.

1968: MAC's first C-9 Nightingale aeromedical evacuation aircraft rolled out at the McDonnell Douglas facility at Long Beach. (16) (21)

1975: Detachment 5, 37 ARRS, saved 131 flood victims from a 13-county flood in Montana. (16) (26)

1983: The USAF launched the first Peacekeeper ICBM from Vandenburg AFB. Its unarmed reentry vehicles landed in the Kwajalein target area. (21)

1985: SAC initiated studies of five alternative basing modes in case Congress approved the second installment of 50 Peacekeeper missiles. The modes included superhardened silos in pattern array, superhard silos in Minuteman spaced basing, rail mobility, multiple protective shelters, and ground mobility. (16)

1986: Rickenbacker ANGB, Ohio, retired the last operational UC-123K Provider. (18)

1993: At Minot AFB, Lt Col Patricia Fornes became the 740th Missile Squadron commander. She was the first woman to command a combat missile unit. Her father, Lt Col Glenn L. Fornes, also commanded the 740th from 1969 thru 1971. (16) (26)

1996: The USAF selected Lockheed-Martin Integrated Systems of Orlando, Fla., and McDonnell Douglas Aerospace of St. Louis to compete to build the new JASSM. (AFNEWS)

1997: Operation PROVIDE HOPE. A C-5A Galaxy from the 436 AW at Dover AFB flew from Andrews AFB to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on the 500th humanitarian airlift mission supporting this operation. (22)

2003: DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSSES. The USAF awarded 34 aircrew members from Charleston AFB the DFC for actions in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Eight recipients earned the DFC during the first night of humanitarian relief operations in Afghanistan (7 October 2001), while the others received the DFC for inserting Marine forces at the Rhino Landing Zone near Kandahar on 28-30 November 2001. The crews flying to the landing zone performed the deepest insertion of Marines into hostile territory in Marine Corps history. They also accomplished three C-17 operational milestones: (1) the first C-17 combat landings on an unimproved dirt strip; (2) the first missions by C-17 special operations low-level aircrews in hostile conditions; and (3) the first use of night vision goggles by C-17 aircrews to make blacked-out approaches and landings in hostile territory. (22) An AFFTC B-1B dropped two JSOWs, the first time the new long-range glide weapon had been dropped from a Lancer, as part of a separation test. (3)

2007: The 555th Fighter Squadron deployed 300 airmen and 18 F-16 Fighting Falcons to Kunsan AB, Republic of Korea, making it the first U.S. Air Forces in Europe unit to deploy to a Pacific Air Forces unit for an air expeditionary force rotation. During its deployment to Kunsan, the 555th from Aviano AB, Italy, reunited with the 8th Fighter Wing for the first time since 1966, when the squadron joined the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing at Ubon AB, Thailand. (AFNEWS, "USAFE Fighter Squadron Deploys to Kunsan," 20 Jun 2007.)

 

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