To All.
Good Saturday Morning March 7, 2026.
The weather was wonderful yesterday and should be about the same today except for a wind advisory starting at 9 and going most of the day
. Thanks to Python
Don't forget the dreaded, hated "spring forward" routine THIS SUNDAY, 8 MARCH 2026, @ 0200 LOCAL
All the best Skip
Warm Regards,
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This day in Naval and Marine Corps History (thanks to NHHC)
Here is a link to the NHHC website: https://www.history.navy.mil/. Go here to see the director's corner for all 94 H-Grams.
March 7
1778 Continental frigate Randolph explodes while attacking HMS Yarmouth off the coast of Barbados, killing all but four of her 305 crew.
1942 USS Grenadier (SS 210) torpedoes Japanese Asahisan Maru south of Shioya Saki, causing damage to the transport ship.
1956 The fleet assignment of the all-weather fighter, F3H-2N Demon, begins with the delivery of six to VF-14 at Naval Air Station Cecil Field, Fla.
1958 USS Grayback (SSG 574) is commissioned. She is the first submarine built from the keel up with guided missile capability to fire the Regulus II missile.
1994 The Navy issues the first orders for women to be assigned on board a combatant ship, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69).
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This Day in World History March 7
0161 On the death of Antoninus at Lorium, Marcus Aurelius becomes emperor.
0322 The Greek philosopher Aristotle dies.
1774 The British close the port of Boston to all commerce.
1799 In Palestine, Napoleon captures Jaffa and his men massacre more than 2,000 Albanian prisoners.
1809 Aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard -- the first person to make an aerial voyage in the New World -- dies at the age of 56.
1838 Soprano Jenny Lind ("the Swedish Nightingale") makes her debut in Weber's opera Der Freischultz.
1847 U.S. General Winfield Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico.
1849 The Austrian Reichstag is dissolved.
1862 Confederate forces surprise the Union army at the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas, but the Union is victorious.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone.
1904 The Japanese bomb the Russian town of Vladivostok.
1906 Finland becomes the third country to give women the right to vote, decreeing universal suffrage for all citizens over 24, however, barring those persons who are supported by the state.
1912 French aviator, Heri Seimet flies non-stop from London to Paris in three hours.
1918 Finland signs an alliance treaty with Germany.
1925 The Soviet Red Army occupies Outer Mongolia.
1927 A Texas law that bans Negroes from voting is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
1933 The film King Kong premieres in New York City.
1933 The board game Monopoly is invented.
1935 Malcolm Campbell sets an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida.
1936 Hitler sends German troops into the Rhineland, violating the Locarno Pact.
1942 Japanese troops land on New Guinea.
1951 U.N. forces in Korea under General Matthew Ridgeway launch Operation Ripper, an offensive to straighten out the U.N. front lines against the Chinese.
1968 The Battle of Saigon, begun on the day the Tet Offensive, ends.
1971 A thousand U.S. planes bomb Cambodia and Laos.
1979 Voyager 1 reaches Jupiter.
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From the archives
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Another reminder
March 6, 2023
Another Pulitzer Prize discredited as propaganda…
By Monica Showalter
Remember all that political hay the far left and its media allies made during the Vietnam War about the wickedness of America's South Vietnamese ally and the importance of abandoning that country to the communists?
Here's the Pulitzer Prize–winning AP photo that was supposed to prick our consciences and make us turn against that "immoral" war against a communist takeover:
There's no doubt about it, the photo is hard to look at. It's crude, rough, wartime justice, a picture of South Vietnamese Police Captain Nguyễn Ngọc Loan coldly executing Viet Cong Captain Nguyễn Văn Lém. The film is even harder to look at.
It ran on the front page of the New York Times, cropped from the original to fill the space and make its impact even more immediate.
And it got the results the anti-war left wanted: public sentiment abruptly turned against the war as a result of this photo. The Vietnamese people were abandoned by the Americans, whose cut-and-run evacuation from the Saigon embassy rooftop was only recently bested by Joe Biden's Afghanistan pullout. After that, the re-education camps rolled in, the boat people launched into the high seas, and the killing fields of Cambodia began.
Jane Fonda must have been so proud of herself.Just one problem, though: The context was missing, and that context mattered.
The guy who got shot, who went by the nom de guerre Bay Lop, was a death squad psychopath in the Viet Cong who had just gotten done massacring 34 innocent people.
According to GroovyHistory:
From January to September 1968, North Vietnamese forces launched a coordinated series of attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam, proof that American forces had failed to quash the guerilla combatants. Death squads made their way through the cities, killing anyone who wasn't joining their revolution. Captured in a building in the Cho Lon quarter of Saigon, Nguyễn Văn Lém was a member of the Viet Cong whose downfall began in the Tet Offensive. Allegedly Lém was arrested for cutting the throats of South Vietnamese Lt Col Nguyen Tuan, his wife, their six children and the officer's 80-year-old mother. On top of that, he was leading a Viet Cong team whose whole deal was taking out members of the National Police and their families. A the time of his death, Lém should have been considered a prisoner of war under the Geneva Convention, but because he was dressed in civilian clothing and he wasn't carrying a firearm, he was technically seen as an "illegal combatant."
During the Tet Offensive, Lém was on a bloodthirsty tear through Saigon. He may look boyish, but he had the heart of a killer. The photo shows Lém handcuffed and in civilian clothing, but he was operating a death squad that had killed 34 that same day. He allegedly took out seven police officers, multiple members of their families, and even a few Americans. Each victim was bound by their wrists and shot in the back of the head, execution style. Because he wasn't wearing the outfit of a solider this put him in a bad scenario. As a person committing war crimes he was in a bad way, especially with General Loan coming after him. Not only had he carried out a gruesome act, but he was eligible for immediate execution.
Wikipedia notes that maybe this didn't happen the way these facts say it happened. A leftist professor quoted on Wikipedia said:
In 2018, author Max Hastings detailed the allegations against Lém, adding that American historian Ed Moise "is convinced that the entire story of Lém murdering the Tuân family is a post-war invention" and that "The truth will never be known."
Now that revisionist history is falling apart.
The Daily Mail found an admiral in the U.S. Navy, who was a tiny sole survivor of that massacre.
He was a little Vietnamese boy at the time who watched as this psychopath shot civilian after civilian including his entire family. He survived by playing dead and eventually made his way to America to becomee an American citizen, joining the U.S. Navy, and rising to the rank of admiral.
According to the Mail:
Bay Lop, the subject in the photo, had been executed in Saigon after carrying out the mass murder of Huan Nguyen's father — South Vietnamese Lt. Col. Nguyen Tuan, along with the officer's wife, mother, and six of his children, five boys and one girl.
Huan Nguyen, managed to survive despite being shot three times through the arm, thigh, and skull. The youngster stayed with his mother's dead body for two hours following the cold-blooded murder according to Military.com.
When night fell, Nguyen then escaped managing to avoid the communist guerrillas, and went to live with his uncle, a colonel in the South Vietnamese Air Force.
There's no disputing the facts of what happened to him, which pretty well puts paid to the nutty leftist professor's claims, and there's no excusing the behavior of the anti-war left, which used this child's family's murder to sell the first great bug-out of America on its allies for the purpose of spreading communism. The press, which acted pretty much in the same dishonest manner as it does today, was amazingly dishonest in its presentation of its "narrative," particularly at the editorial level.
Now we learn that a brave survivor exists from that terrible incident, and the badness of America suddenly wasn't so bad. The bad guy, in fact, was the communist Viet Cong "captain" who was a mass murderer not at all different from the Las Vegas spray shooter.
It's amazing what the press got away with on that one. And it serves as a reminder that pictures can be distorted and manipulated without context, without even Photoshop. While the photographer, Eddie Adams, was blameless, as he was just doing his job, the way the photo was presented, by broadcasters and newspaper editors, was not. This is one sorry incident that the left got away with. They showered their Pulitzers and watched the protests begin. One only wonders what the little kid who survived the massacre to become an admiral must have thought. Now that it's out that he survived this psychopath, his life is living testimony to that reality.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/another_pulitzer_prize_discredited_as_propaganda.html
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From the archives
. Thanks to the Bear
Subject: Passing of Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)
Fellow Flag Officers,
It is with deep regret I inform you of the passing of Vice Admiral Richard Harrison "Dick" Truly, U.S. Navy, Retired, on 27 February 2024 at age 86. VADM Truly entered the U.S. Navy via the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps in September 1955, serving as a Naval Aviator and Astronaut until his retirement in July 1989 as Associate Administrator for Space Flight, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA.) He was the pilot of Space Shuttle mission STS-2 in 1981, and Commander of Space Shuttle mission STS-8 in 1983. He was the first Commander of Naval Space Command. He led the investigation into the destruction of Space Shuttle CHALLENGER. Following retirement from active duty, he served as the 8th Administrator of NASA, the first former astronaut to hold that position, before "retiring" again in 1992.
Dick Truly entered the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps at the Georgia Institute of Technology on 27 September 1955. He graduated in June 1959 with a Bachelor's Degree in Aeronautical Engineering and was commissioned an ensign. That same month he reported to the Naval Aviation Basic Training Course (NATBC) at Naval Air Station (NAS,) Pensacola, Florida. Primary flight training followed at Naval Auxiliary Air Stations (NAAS) Saufley Field and Whiting Field. In April 1960, Ensign Truly reported to NAAS Chase Field, Beeville, Texas for jet training in the F9F8B/T Cougar and F11F1 Tiger jets. He was designated a Naval Aviator on 7 October 1960, reporting briefly to Attack Squadron FOUR FOUR (VA-44) for duty under instruction.
In November 1960, Ensign Truly reported to Fighter Squadron ONE SEVEN FOUR (VF-174) "Hell Razors" at NAS Cecil Field, Florida, the Replacement Air Group (RAG) for the F8U Crusader jet fighter. He was promoted to lieutenant (junior grade) in December 1960.
In April 1962, LTJG Truly was assigned to Fighter Squadron THREE THREE (VF-33) "Tarsiers" at NAS Oceana, Virginia, flying the F8U Crusader (redesignated F-8E later in 1962.) VA-33 deployed to the Mediterranean embarked on attack carrier USS INTREPID (CVA-11) for an emergency deployment to the Caribbean in May 1961 in response to the assassination of Dominican Republic dictator Trujillo. INTREPID then deployed to the Mediterranean from August 1961 to March 1962. INTREPID was then designated to convert to an Anti-Submarine Warfare carrier and VA-33 cross-decked to nuclear-powered attack carrier USS ENTERPRISE (CVA(N)-65) deploying to the Mediterranean again from August to October 1962. Within days of return from deployment, ENTERPRISE was emergency sortied to participate in the quarantine of Cuba as part of the four-carrier task force (TF-135) during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, returning to Norfolk in December 1962. He was promoted to lieutenant in June 1963.
In November 1963, Lieutenant Truly reported to the Aerospace Research Pilot School, Edwards Air Force Base, California. Under the tutelage of the Commandant, the legendary Chuck Yeager (first pilot to break the sound barrier,) LT Truly spent the first year as a Test Pilot Student, before transitioning to an Academic and Flight Test Instructor, flying many different types of aircraft. He was then selected as the youngest member of the then-classified U.S. Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Program. In November 1965, he reported to the MOL Systems Office at Headquarters Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO,) Los Angeles, California. LT Truly was to serve as an astronaut on 30-day orbital missions, but the program was cancelled by President Nixon in June 1969. LT Truly was promoted to lieutenant commander in January 1967.
Selected to be part of National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) Astronaut Group 7, he reported in September 1969 to the NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. He was promoted to commander in July 1973. He served as the Capsule Communicator for all three crewed Skylab Missions in 1973, and for the joint U.S/Soviet Apollo-Soyuz Docking Mission in 1975. He then served as pilot for Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests with Test Shuttle ENTERPRISE, making one captive approach on top of a 747 and then two glide approach and landings.
Promoted to captain in July 1980, he served as a backup pilot for the first Space Shuttle mission (STS-1) in 1981. In November 1981, he was the pilot for the second Space Shuttle Mission (STS-2) in COLUMBIA, marking the first time a space vehicle had been reused for another mission, while also setting the world circular orbital altitude record. In August-September 1983, he was the commander of Space Shuttle mission STS-8 in CHALLENGER, including the first night Shuttle landing.
In October 1983, Captain Truly was assigned as the first commander of the newly-established Naval Space Command, Dahlgren, Virginia, stood up at the direction of Chief of Naval Operations Admiral James Watkins. In March 1984, CAPT Truly was designated a rear admiral (lower half) for duty in a billet commensurate with that rank. In October 1984, Naval Space Command became the Naval Component Command in U.S. Space Command. He was promoted to rear admiral (lower half) on 1 January 1986.
Following the Space Shuttle CHALLENGER disaster on 28 January 1986, RDML Truly was ordered back to NASA to lead the investigation and then the "Return to Flight" program, with the title of Associate Administrator for Space Flight, Office of Space Flight. The CHALLENGER accident (mission STS-51-L), which killed all seven aboard, was the 10th mission for CHALLENGER and the 25th overall for the Space Shuttle program. Determining the technical problem responsible for explosion did not take long, but identifying and correcting the organizational and cultural problems at the root of the problem took much longer.
RDML Truly was designated a rear admiral (two star) in May 1987 and promoted to rear admiral in 1 December 1987. On 28 September 1988, Space Shuttle DISCOVERY launched on Shuttle Mission STS-26 (the 7th for DISCOVER) for the first Shuttle flight since the CHALLENGER accident. For his efforts, RADM Truly was awarded the Collier Trophy and the President's Citizen Medal by President Reagan. He retired from active duty on 1 July 1989 in the grade of vice admiral.
In July 1989, VADM (Ret.) Truly became the first former astronaut appointed to be NASA Administrator, the 8th person to hold the position. Among numerous accomplishments, he broke an internal NASA argument by ordering the unmanned Voyager 1 space probe (launched in 1971) to take a last picture of earth at a distance of 3.7 billion miles, with the photograph known as the "Pale Blue Dot." (Voyager 1 is in interstellar space, still heading away from our Solar System, at a distance if 15 billion miles in January 2024.) However, plans for the future International Space Station (ISS) were becoming problematic due to escalating costs and loss of Congressional support (the first ISS module would launch in 1998.) In addition, there was increasing friction between VADM Truly and Vice President Dan Quayle's National Space Council over the direction of the Space Program. In late January 1992, the Vice President requested that Truly step down and accept an ambassadorship. Truly considered the offer but declined. On 12 February 1992, VADM Truly was fired as the Administrator of NASA.
VADM Truly's awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (two awards,) Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation, Air Force Outstanding Unit Commendation, NASA Distinguished Service Medal (NASA's highest award,) NASA Distinguished Flying Cross, NASA Space Flight Medal (two awards,) NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Exceptional Service Medal (two awards,) Navy Expeditionary Medal (Cuba,) National Defense Service Medal, and Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (Cuba.)
During his career VADM Truly flew 7,500 plus flight hours, with 304 arrested recoveries on aircraft carriers.
Following his departure from NASA, VADM Truly served as Vice President of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of the Georgia Technology Research Institute, Atlanta. In 1997, he became Director of the Department of Energy (DoE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Executive Vice President of MRI Global (Midwest Research Institute,) in Golden, Colorado, retiring from there in 2005.
In May 2007, he testified before Senate Foreign Relations Committee as a member of the military advisory board on the subject of threats to U.S. National Security posed by global climate change. In 2010, he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines by the Governor of Colorado, serving as Vice Chairman of the Board. He was also a Golden Eagle Emeritus.
Although Vice Admiral Dick Truly's tenure as NASA Administrator ended on a sour note, he was to the end known as a man of great integrity, with the courage of his convictions, and an enormous body of expertise and experience to back up those convictions. His forced resignation in 1992 was viewed within NASA as a great loss, and at a particularly critical time. On his retirement from active duty in 1989, he was given a rare retirement promotion to vice admiral (known in days gone by as a "tombstone promotion.") It was, however, extremely well-earned. His entire career as a Navy pilot and astronaut was spectacular, but his finest hour came when he was called back to NASA after the CHALLENGER disaster and given the task of "righting the ship" and getting the program back on track and resume flying Space Shuttle missions, safely. This was an extraordinarily difficult task, requiring extraordinary leadership. The technical problem that caused the disaster was quickly determined, but correcting a culture that had come to allow unnecessary risk-taking (influenced by bad publicity over delays and even political pressure – and aggravated by systemic underfunding of NASA relative to the complexity of the mission) took a lot longer. Nevertheless, between 1986 and 1988, VADM Truly brought the Shuttle program back to life. The courage of his convictions would cause him to run afoul of the National Space Council, chaired by the Vice President, which had far less expertise than he did, but nevertheless had a very different vision for the future of the Space Program. With his solid engineering grounding, he resisted some of the Council's "innovative" ideas (inflatable space craft?) as well as the pressure for speeding up programs and reducing cost at the same time (factors in the CHALLENGER disaster.) In the end, VADM Truly did what he believed was right, rather than what was politically expedient, and he set a great example of the Navy core values of honor, courage and commitment, and the Navy, the Space Program, and the nation are better for his dedicated service.
Rest in Peace Admiral Truly
Very respectfully,
Sam
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. A COUPLE FROM THE ARCHIVES
Here's the behind-the-scenes trailer for 'The Outpost' - Task & Purpose
WATCH the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PYC3rKUw1Q
The fighting resulted in two Medals of Honor, as well as 27 Purple Hearts, 37 Army Commendation Medals and 18 Bronze Stars for valor, and nine Silver Stars, according to Military.com.
How 'The Outpost' tells the true story of a handful of American soldiers heroically fighting back hundreds of Taliban
JAMES CLARK MARCH 6, 2020
On Oct. 3, 2009, a handful of American soldiers at Combat Outpost Keating, a remote and highly exposed base in eastern Afghanistan, repelled a massive attack from more than 300 Taliban fighters.
In the wake of what would later be called the Battle of Kamdesh, the outpost still stood, but the desperate defense came at a terrible price: eight Americans were killed, and 27 were wounded.
As many as 150 enemy fighters were killed.
Overnight, Bravo Troop, 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment became one of the most decorated units of the war in Afghanistan. The fighting resulted in two Medals of Honor, as well as 27 Purple Hearts, 37 Army Commendation Medals and 18 Bronze Stars for valor, and nine Silver Stars, according to Military.com.
The Outpost, an upcoming film based on CNN anchor Jake Tapper's best-selling book of the same name, aims to tell that story.
"It should be a day that every American knows," The Outpost's director, Rod Lurie, says in a new behind-the-scenes trailer. "It should be part of American history."
"The story of The Outpost is important because it actually happened. American service members were placed in the worst tactical position possible," Ty Carter, who along with Clint Romesha received the Medal of Honor for their actions that day, says in the promo.
The new trailer from Millennium Media lays out how the film intends to tell the story of one of the most desperate battles of America's recent wars: First, by having veterans on and off the set.
"I needed veterans in this film," Lurie says in the clip. "I needed veterans to play the soldiers."
"It was like walking into a memory, you know?" Henry Hughes, an Army veteran and co-producer of The Outpost said in the trailer.
Based on the trailer it certainly appears to be a military-heavy film, with Carter, Hughes, and numerous other vets on hand as producers, advisers, and even in front of the camera playing themselves.
The Outpost also has a few high-profile actors, with Orlando Bloom as 1st Lt Benjamin Keating, and Scott Eastwood as Romesha, and Caleb Landry Jones as Carter.
For the decisive battle, many of the scenes will be shot in single takes as a way to maintain the frenetic pacing.
"I decided to do something risky in this film, and that was that I was going to try to shoot as many scenes as possible — especially in the battle — in one shot," Lurie said in the trailer.
If you've seen Sam Mendes' recent WWI drama, 1917, you're familiar with the effect this can have when done right: You never lose sight of the action, and those caught in the middle of it.
The Outpost will have its world premiere this March at this year's South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
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From the archives…I think a lot of you will recognize friends in these clips
thanks to Doctor Rich
yes, Smoke at 4:55, followed by Jerry Norris - Dutch
Thanks to Mike …
Some of you will recognize yourselves, and others 'way back when', in this video…
Rattler … isn't that Boomer at 4:55
Rich
F-14 TOMCAT AIR COMBAT - TOP GUN MIRAMAR NAVAL AIR STATION 22334
Made by Grumman to promote the new F-14 Tomcat, this film takes place at Miramar, California and Fighter Town USA.
At mark 0:33, Fighter Town USA is seen with various front line Naval aircraft including F-4 Phantoms. Here, pilots are now using lessons from the war in S.E. Asia in developing F-14 combat maneuvering syllabus, using the variable wing at different speed ranges, and getting use to the plane's sophisticated electronic packages. The multiple weapon systems include Phoenix missiles which can be launched simultaneously at targets more than 15 miles away. A two man crew divides responsibilities that range from visual tracking and navigation to kill assessment in a tough ECM environment. At mark 3:57, we have all the crews learning about the F-14 and how to use it to their advantage. This is a full time job for them. Every working day a routine of debriefings and flying, flying and debriefings. Beginnings before dawn and also at nights. Soon enough its time to fight, at mark 4:18, we see pilots preparing for fight against Top Gun fighters. Each plane has its special abilities. At mark 5:08, F-15 versus T-38 Talon, a lesson in defensive maneuvering. The T-38 Is one of the tightest turning aircraft in the inventory. We have the instructor teaching the pilots on how to defend and maneuver. He sets up the rule of engagement and recognize when they should make their move and engage. He teaches them how to counter when locked on the weapon system. From the class room to the real world and back to the classroom. Here at mark 7:57, we have the instructor who flew the T-38 conducting the debriefing. Briefing them on his turnings and maneuverings on the air. At mark 9:10, we also have the F-14 flying crew preparing against the A-4 Skyhawk, another good turning low wing craft. The tag team instructor also instruct on the defense. Again the F-14 is on the defensive, the A-4 rolling into a good gun position. The instructor at mark 9:40 instructs on maneuvering and how he will counter attacks on the engagement to make the kill. At mark 10:35, both crews return to the class for debriefing. This is to remind the F-14 pilots of the capabilities of their aircraft and that it will respond after been pushed beyond the limits of other aircrafts and to instill confidence in them. The instructor gave them instructions on their aircraft and its maneuvering capabilities. At mark 12:40, we have the F-4 Phantom opposing the F-14. Both are high thrust away fighters. Unlike the F-14 however, the Phantom has divided high speed to be effective and thus is vulnerable to the tight turning Tomcat. Both will use radar to find one another then engage. The F-14 is the aggressive. At mark 13:22, the instructor gives the crew some ideas. Having heard it from the class room of course is a lot easier from been there. We have both aircrafts on the air maneuvering and trying to engage attacks. At mark 14:20, we see them briefing each other in the class about their engagement and maneuvering after the air flight. At mark 15:17, pilots have been impressed about the F-14 after putting its capabilities to test and using it to their advantage. The different pilots tried the F-14 to check its amazing capabilities. With the confidence the pilots have, they can now translate F-14 real capabilities into real performance. The F-14 can also stand on its tail. The aircraft performance, flexibility and wide varieties of weapons can be adapted to any foreseeable threat and take the fight to the enemy and to win. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example like: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com
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Battered' Harrison Ford survives crash landing
One of our great aviation advocates -
In a 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR
'Battered' Harrison Ford survives crash landing on southern California golf course
Published March 06, 2015
Thanks to Marathon
Dutch, I'm sure we're all taking a pilot's eye view of this crash. 3000' 1/2 mi West of the field, doesn't add up, he should of been able to almost hit a "low key" for r/w 21 or a high final for 3. The impact at the golf course and the damage to the nose looks "lawn dart" maybe due to stall at a low altitude, of course hitting trees on the way down may have lead to that. I really like Harrison Ford and met him once when I was waiting to do a trip out of Santa Monica, very nice man, so glad he survived this one. He owns and flies a Citation Sovereign like the one I fly for Netjets, Marathon
On Mar 6, 2015, at 4:43 AM, Dutch <flynavy@cox.net> wrote:
One of our great aviation advocates -
In a 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR
'Battered' Harrison Ford survives crash landing on southern California golf course
Published March 06, 2015.
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Harrison Ford reportedly injured in Calif. plane crash
Actor Harrison Ford was in fair-to-moderate condition late Thursday after his two-seater plane crash-landed on a golf course in Venice, Calif. shortly after he reported engine failure and told air-traffic controllers he was returning to the airport.
His representative said in a statement to FoxNews.com late Thursday that Ford "had no other choice but to make an emergency landing, which he did safely." Ina Treciokas added that the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" star was "banged up" and receiving treatment, but that his injuries were not life-threatening and he is "expected to make a full recovery."
The Associated Press reported that Ford was in fair-to-moderate condition late Thursday, while Ford's son Ben tweeted Thursday afternoon that his father was doing fine.
Ford took off from Santa Monica Municipal Airport at around 2 p.m. Pacific Time. About 20 minutes later, Ford, 72, told the airport's tower that he was having engine failure and was making an "immediate return." The plane crashed at Penmar Golf Course, about a quarter-mile short of the airport runway, soon afterwards.
Ford was about a half-mile west of the airport and flying at 3,000 feet when he told air traffic controllers that his engine failed, interim Santa Monica City Manager Elaine Polachek said in an email to city officials. She also said that some witnesses reported that the plane hit a tree on its way down.
"Immediately you could see the engine started to sputter and just cut out, and he banked sharply to the left," said Jeff Kuprycz, who was golfing when he saw the plane taking off. "He ended up crashing around the eighth hole."
Kuprycz estimated the plane was about 200 feet overhead when it plunged to the ground.
"There was no explosion or anything. It just sounded like a car hitting the ground or a tree or something. Like that one little bang, and that was it," Kuprycz said.
Charlie Thomson, a flight instructor at the airport who saw Ford take off, said engine failure like Ford's does not make the plane harder to maneuver. "It just means you have to go down," he said.
Gloria Dedios, 43, lives across street from the golf course. She was making juice in her kitchen when she heard the plane crash and the ground shook.
On the golf course, she saw four or five people helping Ford. Paramedics arrived and asked him to move his head and his arms, which he did. He also was able to move his legs.
Los Angeles fire officials said that Ford was initially aided by two doctors who happened to be playing golf nearby. Bystanders helped pull Ford clear from the wreckage out of fear that the plane would exploded or catch fire.
Ford had a cut to his forehead and scraped arms, but it wasn't clear what internal injuries he may have had, Los Angeles Fire Chief Patrick Butler said. "He wasn't a bloody mess. He was alert. He had good vitals," Butler said.
The plane, a yellow 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR with stars on its wings, was upright and mostly intact after the crash. No one on the ground was hurt.
"I would say that this is an absolutely beautifully executed -- what we would call -- a forced or emergency landing, by an unbelievably well-trained pilot," said Christian Fry of the Santa Monica Airport Association.
The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash in a process that could take up to a year before a final report. NTSB investigator Patrick Jones said "we're going to look at everything: weather, man, the machine."
The airport's single runway sits amid residential neighborhoods in the city of more than 90,000 on the Pacific Ocean. City leaders and many residents advocate closing the airport, citing noise and safety concerns. Other airplanes taking off or landing there have crashed into homes, and in September 2013 four people died when their small jet veered into a hangar and caught fire.
Ford is cast to play the swashbuckling Han Solo in his fourth "Star Wars" movie, set for release in December. The original "Star Wars" in 1977 made Ford an overnight star who later played whip-slinging archaeologist Indiana Jones in four hugely popular movies.
Shooting on "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" was shut down for several weeks last July after Ford broke his leg during filming at the Pinewood Studios outside London. The accident involved the spacecraft door of the Millennium Falcon, which makes a return in the highly anticipated film.
Ford got his pilot's license in the late 1980s and has served as a spokesman to various airline associations. In 2009, he stepped down as chairman of a youth program for the Experimental Aircraft Association.
His flying made headlines in 2001 when he rescued a missing Boy Scout on his helicopter.
Nearly a year before, he rescued an ailing mountain climber in Jackson, Wyoming. He has also volunteered his services during forest-fire season, when rescue helicopter are busy fighting blazes.
The actor has said his rescues "had nothing to do with heroism."
"It had to do with flying a helicopter. That's all," he said.
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This Day in U S Military History
March 7
1774 – The British close the port of Boston to all commerce. The Boston Port Bill was intended to close down completely the Port of Boston until the East India Company was paid for their tea lost in the Boston Tea Party and Parliament was paid the tax due on the tea.
1774 – A 2nd Boston tea party was held.
1776 – Lead by General William Howe, the British evacuate Boston. Howe's army and a group of 1000 loyalists will set sail for Halifax, Nova Scotia on 17 March.
1778 – Capt. James Cook 1st sighted the Oregon coast at Yaquina Bay.
1847 – U.S. General Scott occupied Veracruz, Mexico. Pres. Polk decided to attack the heart of Mexico. He sent Gen. Winfield Scott, who landed at Veracruz and with his troops hacked their way to Mexico City.
1918 – President Wilson authorized the Army's Distinguished Service Medal. The Distinguished Service Medal is awarded to any person who while serving in any capacity with the U.S. Army, has distinguished himself or herself by exceptionally meritorious service to the Government in a duty of great responsibility. The performance must be such as to merit recognition for service which is clearly exceptional. Exceptional performance of normal duty will not alone justify an award of this decoration. For service not related to actual war, the term "duty of great responsibility" applies to a narrower range of positions than in time of war and requires evidence of conspicuously significant achievement. However, justification of the award may accrue by virtue of exceptionally meritorious service in a succession of high positions of great importance. Awards may be made to persons other than members of the Armed Forces of the United States for wartime services only, and then only under exceptional circumstances with the express approval of the President in each case.
1974 – The Civil War ironclad ship, Monitor, which sank in 1862, is discovered off the coast of Hatteras, North Carolina. For more than a century, the Monitor's resting place in the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" remained a mystery, despite numerous searches. In 1973, an interdisciplinary team of scientists led by John G. Newton of the Duke University Marine Laboratory located the Monitor while testing geological survey equipment for underwater archaeological survey and assessment. Newton's team determined the search area by replotting the track of the USS Rhode Island, a paddlewheel steamer that was towing the Monitor when she sank on New Year's Eve, 1862. The Rhode Island's logbook recorded events and times as the two ships rounded treacherous Diamond Shoals off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. An 1857 coast survey chart helped refine the plotting of the search area. The scientists also developed sonar and visual configurations for the wreck with specific points of identification: the ship's turret, armor belt, and nearly flat bottom. On August 27, 1973, after identifying twenty-one possible contacts, side-searching sonar found a long, amorphous echo. The first pass of the television camera revealed iron plates; a virtually flat, unobstructed surface (the bottom of the hull); a thick waist (the armor belt); and a circular structure (the turret). With each successive series of camera passes, evidence mounted that the wreck was that of the Monitor, but it would take an intensive study of the visual evidence over the next five months to confirm it. A second visit to the site in April 1974 will positively identify the Monitor, lying in approximately 230 feet of water about 16 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras.
1979 – Voyager 1 reached Jupiter.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
CARR, EUGENE A.
Rank and organization: Colonel, 3d Illinois Cavalry. Place and date: At Pea Ridge, Ark., 7 March 1862. Entered service at: Hamburg, Erie County, N.Y. Born: 10 March 1830, Boston Corner, Erie County, N.Y. Date of issue: 16 January 1894. Citation: Directed the deployment of his command and held his ground, under a brisk fire of shot and shell in which he was several times wounded.
POWER, ALBERT
Rank and organization: Private, Company A, 3d lowa Cavalry. Place and date: At Pea Ridge, Ark., 7 March 1862. Entered service at: Davis County, lowa. Birth: Guernsey County, Ohio. Date of issue: 6 March 1899. Citation: Under a heavy fire and at great personal risk went to the aid of a dismounted comrade who was surrounded by the enemy, took him up on his own horse, and carried him to a place of safety.
DANIELS, JAMES T.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company L, 4th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: Arizona, 7 March 1890. Entered service at: ——. Birth: Richland County, 111. Date of issue: 15 May 1890. Citation: Untirlng energy and cool gallantry under fire in an engagement with Apache Indians.
McBRYAR, WILLIAM
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company K, 1 0th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: Arizona, 7 March 1890. Entered service at: New York, N.Y. Birth: 14 February 1861, Elizabethtown, N.C. Date of issue: 15 May 1890. Citation: Distinguished himself for coolness, bravery and marksmanship while his troop was in pursuit of hostile Apache Indians.
CECIL, JOSEPHUS S.
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, 19th U.S. Infantry. Place and date: At Bud-Dajo, Jolo, Philippine Islands, 7 March 1906. Entered service at: New River, Tenn. Birth: New River, Tenn. Date of issue: Unknown. Citation: While at the head of the column about to assault the first cotta under a superior fire at short range personally carried to a sheltered position a wounded man and the body of one who was killed beside him.
JOHNSTON, GORDON
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, U.S. Signal Corps. Place and date: At Mount Bud Dajo, Jolo, Philippine Islands, 7 March 1906. Entered service at: Birmingham, Ala. Born: 25 May 1874, Charlotte, N.C. Date of issue: 7 November 1910. G.O. No.: 207. Citation: Voluntarily took part in and was dangerously wounded during an assault on the enemy's works.
LEIMS, JOHN HAROLD
Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, U.S. marine Corps Reserve, Company B, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 3d Marine Division. Place and date: Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 7 march 1945. Entered service at: Chicago, Ill. Born: 8 June 1921, Chicago, Ill. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as commanding officer of Company B, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 3d Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands, 7 march 1945. Launching a surprise attack against the rock-imbedded fortification of a dominating Japanese hill position, 2d Lt. Leims spurred his company forward with indomitable determination and, skillfully directing his assault platoons against the cave-emplaced enemy troops and heavily fortified pillboxes, succeeded in capturing the objective in later afternoon. When it became apparent that his assault platoons were cut off in this newly won position, approximately 400 yards forward of adjacent units and lacked all communication with the command post, he personally advanced and laid telephone lines across the isolating expanse of open fire-swept terrain. Ordered to withdraw his command after he had joined his forward platoons, he immediately complied, adroitly effecting the withdrawal of his troops without incident. Upon arriving at the rear, he was informed that several casualties had been left at the abandoned ridge position beyond the frontlines. Although suffering acutely from the strain and exhausting of battle, he instantly went forward despite darkness and the slashing fury of hostile machinegun fire, located and carried to safety 1 seriously wounded marine and then, running the gauntlet of enemy fire for the third time that night, again made his tortuous way into the bullet-riddled deathtrap and rescued another of his wounded men. A dauntless leader, concerned at all time for the welfare of his men, 2d Lt. Leims soundly maintained the coordinated strength of his battle-wearied company under extremely difficult conditions and, by his bold tactics, sustained aggressiveness, and heroic disregard for all personal danger, contributed essentially to the success of his division's operations against this vital Japanese base. His valiant conduct in the face of fanatic opposition sustains and enhances the highest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.
*BRITTIN, NELSON V.
Rank and organization: Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, Company I, 19th Infantry Regiment. Place and date: Vicinity of Yonggong-ni, Korea, 7 March 1951. Entered service at: Audubon, N.J. Birth: Audubon, N.J. G.O. No.: 12, 1 February 1952. Citation: Sfc. Brittin, a member of Company I, distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action. Volunteering to lead his squad up a hill, with meager cover against murderous fire from the enemy, he ordered his squad to give him support and, in the face of withering fire and bursting shells, he tossed a grenade at the nearest enemy position. On returning to his squad, he was knocked down and wounded by an enemy grenade. Refusing medical attention, he replenished his supply of grenades and returned, hurling grenades into hostile positions and shooting the enemy as they fled. When his weapon jammed, he leaped without hesitation into a foxhole and killed the occupants with his bayonet and the butt of his rifle. He continued to wipe out foxholes and, noting that his squad had been pinned down, he rushed to the rear of a machine gun position, threw a grenade into the nest, and ran around to its front, where he killed all 3 occupants with his rifle. Less than 100 yards up the hill, his squad again came under vicious fire from another camouflaged, sandbagged, machine gun nest well-flanked by supporting riflemen. Sfc. Brittin again charged this new position in an aggressive endeavor to silence this remaining obstacle and ran direct into a burst of automatic fire which killed him instantly. In his sustained and driving action, he had killed 20 enemy soldiers and destroyed 4 automatic weapons. The conspicuous courage, consummate valor, and noble self-sacrifice displayed by Sfc. Brittin enabled his inspired company to attain its objective and reflect the highest glory on himself and the heroic traditions of the military service.
KRAVITZ, LEONARD M.
Rank and Organization: Private First Class. U.S. Army. Company M, 3d Battalion. 5th Regiment. Place and Date: March 6-7, 1951, Yangpyong, Korea. Born: 1931, Brooklyn, NY . Departed: Yes (03/07/1951). Entered Service At: New York. G.O. Number: . Date of Issue: 03/18/2014. Accredited To: . Citation: Kravitz is being recognized for his actions in Yangpyong, Korea, March 6-7, 1951. While occupying defensive positions, Kravitz's unit was overrun by enemy combatants and forced to withdraw. Kravitz voluntarily remained at a machine-gun position to provide suppressive fire for the retreating troops. This forced the enemy to concentrate their attack on his own position. Kravitz ultimately did not survive the attack, but his actions saved his entire platoon.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for March 7, 2021 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
7 March
1911: At Palm Beach, Fla., Percy G. B. Morris and John A. "Douglas" McCurdy demonstrated a new airplane radio that employed a small Marconi transmitter and a loop antenna. This replaced the hanging antenna. (24)
1919: Lt (JG) F. M. Johnson launched an N-9 landplane from a sea sled traveling at 60 MPH at Hampton Roads, Va. (24)
1-9 March
During this week, US Army Air Corps Lt. Burnie Dallas and Beckwith Havens fly a Loening Amphibian on the first transcontinental amphibious airplane flight. Total flight time is 32 hours and 45 minutes. First flown in 1923, the aircraft was a high-performance amphibian with a large single hull and stabilizing floats fitted underneath each lower wing.
1924: Lt Eugene Hoy Barksdale and his navigator, Lt Bradley Jones, flew a DH-4B, powered by 400 horsepower Liberty engine from McCook Field to Mitchel Field using instruments only. (24)
1954: Northwest Orient Airlines set a transpacific speed record for commercial aircraft by flying 5,000 miles from Tokyo to Seattle in 16 hours 18 minutes. (24)
1958: The US Navy commissioned the USS Grayback at Mare Island, Calif. It was the first US submarine built from the keel up with a guided cruise missile launch capability.
1961: Major Robert M. White pilots the North American X-15 hypersonic research airplane to a speed of 2,905 miles per hour. In accomplishing this, White becomes the first man to exceed Mach 4 during this mission. In July the following year, White will become the first to fly into space under the aircraft's own power and return to the Earth to a safe landing. (USAF Art Program)
1961: SAC declared the B-52's GAM-72A Quail missile system operational. (12) Maj Robert M. White flew the X-15A-2, with the XLR99 57,000-pound thrust engine, on its first Mach 4 flight. (3)
1962: NASA launched its first second-generation satellite, a 450-pound Orbiting Solar Observatory from Cape Canaveral. (24)
1965: Qantas Airlines completed the first nonstop commercial flight across the Pacific by flying a Boeing 707 from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia, in 14 hours 33 minutes. (5)
1967: EXERCISE SIYASAT. This 14-day Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) air-landsea exercise in the Philippines climaxed on 21 March with a massive firepower demonstration at Fort Magsaysay. Observers from six SEATO nations attended the event. F-102s from the 405 FW participated. (17)
1977 A MAC C-130 airlifted approximately 6.6 tons of medical supplies from Ramstein AB to Bucharest, Romania, after an earthquake. (18)
1983: In the largest B-52 mining exercise to date, 10 B-52D/Gs dropped mines off the South Korean coast in "Team Spirit 83." This exercise included US Navy and Marine minelayers and fighters, SAC and Navy tankers, and South Korean fighters. (1)
1986: The Air Force conducted its 11th flight test for the Peacekeeper (M-X) missile in the third launch from a modified Minuteman silo at Vandenberg AFB. The missile carried eight unarmed MK-21 reentry vehicles to the planned target area, 4,100 miles away at the Kwajalein Missile Test Range. Contractor crews conducted all previous launches; however, the 11th flight used two Air Force launch control officers with contractor support. (5) An F-16 conducted a successful separation control test of the Advanced Medium Range Air-toAir Missile. (11)
1990: Rockwell's Missile Systems Division received a $125,200,000 contract to build 4,864 AGM-114 Hellfire missiles for the Army. (8: May 90)
2003: President George W. Bush issued an ultimatum giving Saddam Hussein and his sons 48 hours to leave Iraq. (32)
2007: Operation Deep Freeze. Ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules and C-17 Globemaster IIIs redeployed from Christchurch, New Zealand, to end the 2006-2007 season of support to the National Science Foundation and US Antarctic Program. In this period, the LC-130s flew 430 missions to move nearly 11 million pounds of cargo and 1,000 passengers throughout Antarctica, while the C-17s flew 57 missions to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, from Christchurch carrying more than 3 million pounds of cargo and 2,700 passengers to McMurdo, and more than 720,000 pounds of cargo and 2,600 passengers to Christchurch from McMurdo. The LC-130s came from the 109th Airlift Wing, New York Air National Guard, while the C-17s came from the 62nd and 446th Airlift Wings, McChord Air Force Base, Wash. (AFNEWS, "Operation Deep Freeze Ends Record-Setting Year," 7 Mar 2007.)
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