To All
Good Saturday Morning March 21, 2026.
Another clear and hot day climbing to 86 by 2. ..
A sad day with the loss of Chuck Norris. As a martial artist myself for over 70 years I was always amazed at his control of the back spinning kicks he could throw and he made it look so easy and I can tell you it is not that easy. See the end for some more entertainment from Chuck
Warm Regards,
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HAGD
.I have made contact with YP
I received a note that basically summarized the last day or so when a nurse who specialized in Hospice care and was friend to the family came up to the house for about 3 hours and brought meds and other stuff and is going to change the meds for pain. A 200$ bottle of scotch was a big help. His smiling picture tells a lot.
I will send more later
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I also have a way to get in touch with TR through his son and he is doing fine.. Apparently his new I phone is a challenge but the front desk works fine.
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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 94 H-Grams
Here is a link to the NHHC website: https://www.history.navy.mil/
March 21
1804 The brig USS Syren (Siren), commanded by Lt. Charles Stewart, captures the Tripolitan brig Transfer off the coast of Tripoli, renaming it Scourge after being taken into US Navy service.
1903 The Honduras Expedition, made up with USS Marietta, USS Olympia, USS Panther, USS Raleigh, and USS San Francisco, embark and operate in Honduran waters during a period of civil strife.
1917 Loretta Walsh becomes the first woman Navy petty officer when sworn in as chief yeoman.
1943 USS Herring (SS 233) sinks the German submarine U 163 off the Bay of Biscay. The sub was responsible for sinking USS Erie (PG 50) on Nov. 14, 1942.
1945 USS Baya (SS 318) sinks the auxiliary netlayer Kainan Maru off Cam Ranh Bay.
1952 During the Korean War, USS Osprey (AMS 28) comes under fire by enemy shore batteries while sweeping the shoreline at Wonsan. Osprey silences the three batteries in a counter-battery engagement.
1957 An A3D-1 Skywarrior aircraft piloted by Cmdr. Dale W. Cox, Jr., breaks two transcontinental records, one for the Los Angeles to New York flight in nine hours and 21 minutes, 35.4 seconds and the other for the return back east to west flight in five hours and 13 minutes, 49 seconds.
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This date in World history
March 21
630 Heraclius restores the True Cross, which he has recaptured from the Persians.
1556 Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is burned at the stake at Oxford after retracting the last of seven recantations that same day.
1617 Pocahontas (Rebecca Rolfe) dies of either small pox or pneumonia while in England with her husband, John Rolfe.
1788 Almost the entire city of New Orleans, Louisiana, is destroyed by fire.
1806 Lewis and Clark begin their trip home after an 8,000 mile trek of the Mississippi basin and the Pacific Coast.
1865 The Battle of Bentonville, N.C. ends, marking the last Confederate attempt to stop Union General William Sherman.
1851 Emperor Tu Duc orders that Christian priests are to put to death.
1858 British forces in India lift the siege of Lucknow, ending the Indian Mutiny.
1906 Ohio passes a law that prohibits hazing by fraternities.
1908 Frenchman Henri Farman carries a passenger in a bi-plane for the first time.
1910 The U.S. Senate grants ex-President Teddy Roosevelt an annual pension of $10,000.
1918 The Germans launch the 'Michael' offensive, better remembered as the First Battle of the Somme.
1928 President Calvin Coolidge presents the Congressional Medal of Honor to Charles Lindbergh, a captain in the US Army Air Corps Reserve, for making the first solo trans-Atlantic flight. On June 11, 1927, Lindbergh had received the first Distinguished Flying Cross ever awarded.
1939 Singer Kate Smith records "God Bless America" for Victor Records.
1941 The last Italian post in East Libya, North Africa, falls to the British.
1951 Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall reports that the U.S. military has doubled to 2.9 million since the start of the Korean War.
1963 Alcatraz Island, the federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, California, closes.
1965 The United States launches Ranger 9, last in a series of unmanned lunar explorations.
1971 Two U.S. platoons in Vietnam refuse their orders to advance.
1975 As North Vietnamese forces advance, Hue and other northern towns in South Vietnam are evacuated.
1980 President Jimmy Carter announces to the U.S. Olympic Team that they will not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
1984 A Soviet submarine crashes into the USS Kitty Hawk off the coast of Japan.
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From Vietnam Air Losses site for ..March 21 . .
March 21: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1668
Vietnam Air Losses
Access Chris Hobson and Dave Lovelady's work at: https://www.VietnamAirLosses.com.
This is a list of all Helicopter Pilots Who Died in the Vietnam War . Listed by last name and has other info https://www.vhpa.org/KIA/KIAINDEX.HTM
MOAA - Wall of Faces Now Includes Photos of All Service members Killed in the Vietnam War
The site works, find anyone you knew in "search" feature. https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/ )
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A Few New Tidbits ...
Still trying to get my head around the fact that 'Take Out' can mean food, dating, or murder.
Threw out my back sleeping and tweaked my neck sneezing so I'm probably just one strong fart away from complete paralysis.
Being popular on Facebook is like sitting at the 'cool table' in the cafeteria of a mental hospital.
I too was once a male trapped in a female body…but then my mother gave birth.
If only vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
When I lost the fingers on my right hand in a freak accident, I asked the doctor if I would still be able to write with it. He said, "Probably, but I wouldn't count on it."
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise. But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
Anyone who says their wedding was the best day of their life has clearly never had two candy bars fall down at once from a vending machine.
When a kid says "Daddy, I want mommy" that's the kid version of "I'd like to speak to your supervisor".
It's weird being the same age as old people.
Last night the internet stopped working so I spent a few hours with my family. They seem like good people.
If Adam and Eve were Cajuns, they would have eaten the snake instead of the apple and saved us all a lot of trouble.
We celebrated last night with a couple of adult beverages …… Metamucil and Ensure.
Weight loss goal: To be able to clip my toenails and breathe at the same time.
Some of my friends exercise every day. Meanwhile I am watching a show I don't like because the remote fell on the floor.
I just got a present labeled, 'From Mom and Dad', and I know darn well Dad has no idea what's inside.
Someone said, "Nothing rhymes with orange." I said, "No, it doesn't."
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The realist adjusts his sails.
There's a fine line between a numerator and a denominator. Only a fraction of people will find this funny.
I have many hidden talents. I just wish I could remember where I hid them.
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. . Thanks to Interesting Facts
This is from the archives. I noticed when I got my first Smart watch that I started looking at my sleep stats in the morning. I like it when I can get 8 hours. I do not get that much because sometimes I wake up and my brain will not shut off and I know I am toast so I get up rather that fight it for a couple hours so when the list comes out real early like this morning you know that is that happened to me. Last night I got 6 of mostly light sleep and 1:24 of REM in that. ( read below about REM sleep I am still confused) The Body Battery thing is another mystery If I get a bunch and do not use it all I feel pretty good but when I am out doing leaves and weeds and start running out of gas I notice that I have usually used up my battery. I wish I could plug myself in like I do with the big batteries that I use in my weed whacker and My leaf blower to get some more energy.
"That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep," the British writer Aldous Huxley once observed.
Huxley, who died in 1963, had no idea what temptations would get in the way of our sleep in the digital age. About 35% of American adults get less than seven hours of sleep a night, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which isn't enough. Often we either can't get to sleep, or we think of sleep as wasted time. What actually goes on while we're lying there? Why are we designed to do nothing for a third of our lifetimes?
The answer is that our bodies are doing necessary work to keep us going when we're awake. But scientists still have plenty to learn about how.
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What Is REM Sleep, Really?
In 1951, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Eugene Aserinsky, hooked up his 8-year-old son, Armond, to a device that tracked eye movements and brain waves. After Armond fell asleep, Aserinsky noticed from another room that the eye-tracking "pens" were swinging back and forth. Thinking Armond must be awake and looking around, Aserinsky went to investigate and found the boy sleeping deeply, his eyes closed. Aserinsky's paper, published in 1953, was the first time REM sleep had been described; before that, scientists had believed that the sleeping brain was more or less turned off.
We now know that not just humans but all land mammals and many birds undergo spells of REM, or Rapid Eye Movement, sleep. In those spells, the heart rate speeds up, breathing becomes irregular, and brain waves are more variable. Major muscles that we normally control can't move.
REM sleep first occurs about an hour to 90 minutes after falling asleep. As we age, we get less REM sleep, and its function is still not entirely clear. It's thought to be key to memory formation, but people who take antidepressants spend far less time in REM sleep, and that doesn't seem to consistently affect their memory. Also, it's a myth that we only dream during REM sleep. Our most vivid dreams occur during REM sleep, but dreaming can occur at any stage of sleep.
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What Is Sleep Paralysis?
Sleep paralysis is an inability to move that happens sometimes for a short period as you're falling asleep or waking up. The mind is awake, but the body lags behind for a minute or two.
Although the feeling is bizarre and can be scary, sleep paralysis isn't rare or dangerous. It occurs most often in young people, beginning in the teens, and in people with other sleep issues, including narcolepsy, sleep apnea, and nighttime leg cramps. It is also more common in people with post-traumatic stress or panic disorder. In those moments of paralysis, some people feel that they are falling, floating, or having an "out-of-body experience." Others hallucinate a presence in the room, hovering nearby, and may conclude they have been abducted by aliens or visited by ghosts. According to one theory, people who feel outside of their own bodies or sense ghostly presences might be experiencing a glitch in their mirror neurons, the part of the brain that fires when we observe activity in other people.
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It's a Myth That Many Adults Only Need Five Hours of Sleep or Less
We've all heard people boasting that they're perfectly functional on five hours of sleep or less. Adults do vary in their sleep needs, but the number who are at their best with such little sleep is vanishingly small. Long-term sleep deprivation is linked to obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and traffic accidents.
So why do people say they're fine on a sleep-deprived schedule? A rush of cortisol, the hormone that revs us up to manage stress, can create the sensation of alertness. It's an illusion; the sleep-deprived still do poorly on objective tests of their short-term memory and motor skills.
For optimal functioning, seniors usually need seven to eight hours, and other adults need seven to nine. Teens need eight to 10 hours and younger children need even more. People who are getting enough sleep take at least 15 minutes to fall asleep when they get into bed.
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But an All-Nighter Might Be Good for Your Mental Health
Although losing an entire night's sleep zombifies most of us, there are exceptions: Some people feel much happier or calmer after an all-nighter.
That's probably because the jolt is a reset for their body clocks, which were out of whack, an idea first described in an 1818 German psychiatric textbook.
Depression or bipolar disorder almost always involves a disruption in sleep, which may be a symptom or a trigger. According to British psychiatrist David Veale, staying up for 36 hours relieves mood symptoms in about half of these patients. To maintain this state, he prescribes a sleep schedule that requires waking up in the wee hours for the next several days. After that, they may be able to stay in a more standard sleep schedule, supported by light therapy. Our body clocks are set by light: Veale prescribes exposure to intense white light in the morning for six months to a year.
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Medieval Peasants Slept Better Than We Do
Artificial light has made sleep far less pleasant. We get too little sunlight and too much light when we need darkness.
In medieval Europe, there were no glowing smartphones or bedside lamps. At sundown, families blew out a candle and retreated to soft heaps of rags in one room. After about four hours of sleep, at midnight, adults awoke for a blissful hour or two of prayer, sex, reading, writing, or chatting, before they dozed off and awoke at dawn.
That's apparently the natural rhythm. In an experiment in the 1990s, in which participants lived away from artificial light, after three weeks they gradually drifted into the pre-artificial light pattern of waking in the middle of the night. Tests of their blood in the interlude showed that even without sex, they were awash in prolactin, a hormone released after orgasm that gives us the "afterglow."
Eight hours seems to be the key, but ideally, we'd all have a sweet interlude. Just don't turn on your lights or use your laptop or phone.
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. Thanks to Mugs….You really do need to watch this one….AGAIN
Afghan withdrawal testimony - - from the heart!
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Churchill certainly had a way with the language
1."Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
2."Action is the foundational key to all success."
3."If you're going through hell, keep going."
4."You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
5."Never, never, never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense."
6. "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
7."To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
8."History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
9."Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
10."Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision."
11."Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
12. "The price of greatness is responsibility."
13. "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
14. "Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
15."The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
16. "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
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This Day in U S Military History
March 21
1851 – Yosemite Valley was discovered (by non-natives) in California. The 58 men of the Mariposa Battalion under Major James D. Savage were the first whites to enter Yosemite Valley. Their first view of the valley was from the plateau later named Mount Beatitude. They expelled Chief Tenaya and his band of Ahwahneechee Indians. Dr. Bunnell, a physician in the battalion, named the valley Yosemite to honor the local Indians. He did not realize that the word "yohemeti" meant "some of them are killers" and was an insult against the valley people.
1945 – US Task Force 58 (Admiral Mitscher) is replenishing in preparation for operations around Okinawa. The Japanese 5th Air Force deploys the first Ohka piloted rocket bombs, slung under Misubishi bombers, against the American fleet. The flight of 18 aircraft is intercepted by carrier aircraft and all but one are shot down. Admiral Spruance, command the US 5th Fleet, is present for the operations.
1953 – U.S. Air Force Captains Manuel J. Fernandez, Jr., 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, and Harold Fischer, 51st Fighter-Interceptor Wing, qualified as the fourth and fifth "double aces" of the war. An ace has shot down five enemy aircraft; a double ace, 10.
1980 – President Jimmy Carter informs a group of U.S. athletes that, in response to the December 1979 Soviet incursion into Afghanistan, the United States will boycott the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. It marked the first and only time that the United States has boycotted the Olympics. After the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan in December 1979 to prop up an unstable pro-Soviet government, the United States reacted quickly and sharply. It suspended arms negotiations with the Soviets, condemned the Russian action in the United Nations, and threatened to boycott the Olympics to be held in Moscow in 1980. When the Soviets refused to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan, President Carter finalized his decision to boycott the games. On March 21, 1980, he met with approximately 150 U.S. athletes and coaches to explain his decision. He told the crowd, "I understand how you feel," and recognized their intense disappointment. However, Carter defended his action, stating, "What we are doing is preserving the principles and the quality of the Olympics, not destroying it." Many of the athletes were devastated by the news. As one stated, "As citizens, it is an easy decision to make-support the president. As athletes, it is a difficult decision." Others declared that the president was politicizing the Olympics. Most of the athletes only reluctantly supported Carter's decision. The U.S. decision to boycott the 1980 Olympic games had no impact on Soviet policy in Afghanistan (Russian troops did not withdraw until nearly a decade later), but it did tarnish the prestige of the games in Moscow. It was not the first time that Cold War diplomacy insinuated itself into international sports. The Soviet Union had refused to play Chile in World Cup soccer in 1973 because of the overthrow and death of Chile's leftist president earlier that year. Even the playing field was not immune from Cold War tensions
1984 – A Soviet submarine crashed into the USS Kitty Hawk off the coast of Japan.
1991 – Two US Navy anti-submarine planes collided and 27 were lost at sea.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
*HOSKING, CHARLES ERNEST, JR.
Rank and organization: Master Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company A, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces. Place and date: Phuoc Long Province, Republic of Vietnam, 21 March 1967. Entered service at: Fort Dix, N.J. Born: 12 May 1924, Ramsey, N.J. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. M/Sgt. Hosking (then Sfc.), Detachment A-302, Company A, greatly distinguished himself while serving as company advisor in the III Corps Civilian Irregular Defense Group Reaction Battalion during combat operations in Don Luan District. A Viet Cong suspect was apprehended and subsequently identified as a Viet Cong sniper. While M/Sgt. Hosking was preparing the enemy for movement back to the base camp, the prisoner suddenly grabbed a hand grenade from M/Sgt. Hosking's belt, armed the grenade, and started running towards the company command group which consisted of 2 Americans and 2 Vietnamese who were standing a few feet away. Instantly realizing that the enemy intended to kill the other men, M/Sgt. Hosking immediately leaped upon the Viet Cong's back. With utter disregard for his personal safety, he grasped the Viet Cong in a "Bear Hug" forcing the grenade against the enemy soldier's chest. He then wrestled the Viet Cong to the ground and covered the enemy's body with his body until the grenade detonated. The blast instantly killed both M/Sgt. Hosking and the Viet Cong. By absorbing the full force of the exploding grenade with his body and that of the enemy, he saved the other members of his command group from death or serious injury. M/Sgt. Hosking's risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty are in the highest tradition of the U.S. Army and reflect great credit upon himself and the Armed Forces of his country.
*JOHNSTON, DONALD R.
Rank and organization: Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army, Company D, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division. Place and date: Tay Ninh Province, Republic of Vietnam, 21 March 1969. Entered service at: Columbus, Ga. Born: 19 November 1947, Columbus, Ga. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sp4c. Johnston distinguished himself while serving as a mortarman with Company D, at a fire support base in Tay Ninh Province. Sp4c. Johnston's company was in defensive positions when it came under a devastating rocket and mortar attack. Under cover of the bombardment, enemy sappers broke through the defensive perimeter and began hurling explosive charges into the main defensive bunkers. Sp4c. Johnston and 6 of his comrades had moved from their exposed positions to 1 of the bunkers to continue their fight against the enemy attackers. As they were firing from the bunker, an enemy soldier threw 3 explosive charges into their position. Sensing the danger to his comrades, Sp4c. Johnston, with complete disregard for his safety, hurled himself onto the explosive charges, smothering the detonations with his body and shielding his fellow soldiers from the blast. His heroic action saved the lives of 6 of his comrades. Sp4c. Johnston's concern for his fellow men at the cost of his life were in the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for March 21, FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
21 March
1912: Lt Frank P. Lahm flew a Wright B airplane, Signal Corps No. 7, at Fort William McKinley, Philippines. Thus, Lahm completed the first flight of American airplane overseas. (21)
1916: The French Air Department authorized Escadrille Americaine, or Nieuport 124, for American volunteer pilots. It later became the Lafayette Escadrille. (5) (20)
1932: The Boeing XP-936, later XP-26, flew for the first time piloted by Boeing test pilot Les Tower. It was the first all-metal monoplane purchased by the Air Corps. The P-26 Peashooter is the last Army pursuit plane to feature an open cockpit, nonretractable landing gear, and external wire bracing for its wings. All these high-drag features adversely affected the Pea Shooter's performance.
1939: Col Hugo E. Pitz, Lt Col Joseph T. McNarney, and Maj Karl S. Axtator and Maj George C. Kenney selected sites for permanent air base and auxiliary landing fields in Puerto Rico. (24)
1945: A massive four-day assault involving 42,000 sorties against the Luftwaffe started over German airspace. It effectively ended German air activities in World War II. (4)
1950: SECDEF Louis A. Johnson approved JCS recommendations on missiles to give: (1) the Army and Navy responsibility for surface-to-air missiles with a range more than antiaircraft artillery and short-range surface-to-surface missiles used in place of artillery and naval guns; (2) the USAF and Navy responsibility for air-launched and surface-to-air missiles for interceptor aircraft; (3) the Navy responsibility for surface-to-surface missiles that replaced naval aircraft; (4) the Army and USAF responsibility for surface-to-surface missiles that replaced close support aircraft, and (5) the USAF responsibility for surface-to-surface missiles that replaced strategic aircraft. (6)
1957: Cmdr Dale W. Cox, Jr., flew an A3D-1 Skywarrior to two FAI cross county records: New York to Los Angeles in 5 hours 12 minutes 39 seconds at 469 MPH; and a round trip in 9 hours 31 minutes 35 seconds at 513 MPH. (9) Presque Isle AFB selected as the first Snark base. (6)
1958: Holloman high-speed test track established new speed record of 2,704 MPH for rocket-propelled monorail sleds. (5)
1962: A black bear named "Yogi" became the first living creature ejected from a supersonic aircraft when the USAF tested the B-58's escape capsule. Ejected at 35,000 feet from a B-58 flying at 870 MPH, the bear landed unharmed 7 minutes 49 seconds later. (16) (24)
1965: Ranger IX, a 10-foot, an 800-pound spacecraft and the last of the series, launched from Cape Kennedy and impacted within 4 miles of the target area on the moon in the crater Alphonsus on 24 March. It sent back the first TV pictures from the moon and took 5,814 photos of the moon's surface. This flight ended a program that began in 1961. Ranger VI was the first to hit the moon, but its TV cameras failed. Rangers VII, VIII, and IX sent 17,167 good photos back to earth. (5)
1973: Two Libyan Mirage aircraft intercepted and fired upon an unarmed C-130 Hercules from Rhein Main AB. The C-130, reportedly on a reconnaissance mission over the Mediterranean, successfully evaded its attackers and recovered safely at Athenai Airport, Greece. (16) (26)
1975: Following the crash of a C-141 (64-0641) into Mt. Constance in the Olympic Mountains near Seattle, Wash., ARRS personnel assisted in the recovery of 10 crewmen and 6 passengers and equipment from the wreckage through June. (26)
1989: NASA ended the Mission Adaptive Wing test program and retired the special F-111 to the Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards AFB. In its 144.9 test hours and 59 sorties, the F-111 showed a 25 percent increase in range, an 18 percent increase in G-loading, and a 71 percent increase in its ability to pull up and clear an obstacle. (20)
1997: Lt Col Marcelyn A. Atwood became the first woman to command a flying training squadron and the first USAF officer to command a Navy squadron at Pensacola, Fla. Her unit trained Air Force and Navy pilots. (21)
2007: A KC-135 flew from Bagram AB, Afghanistan, on the first non-stop medical evacuation flight of non-critical patients to Ramstein AB, Germany. Previously, C-130s transported these noncritical patients without life-threatening injuries to a classified airfield in the US Central Command's area of responsibility (AOR), where they typically waited a day or two for a medical evacuation to Ramstein by C-17. This policy change enabled in-theater C-17s to continue delivering cargo and equipment to airfields in the AOR without interrupting the airflow. By early 2007, security at the classified staging base allowed KC-135s to land and take off for "frequency" aeromedical evacuation missions. The new policy transformed a former aeromedical evacuation "spoke" activity performed by C-130s and C-17s into a "hub" system supported by KC-135 operating in an aeromedical evacuation role. (AMC Historical Highlights, 2007)
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Good morning. It's Saturday, March 21, and in this weekend edition, we're covering the passing of a martial arts grandmaster, .
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One Big Headline
Action Hero Gone
Martial arts legend and action star Chuck Norris died at age 86, his family announced yesterday. The news came a day after he was reportedly hospitalized in Hawaii for a medical emergency. The cause of death was not released.
Born Carlos Ray Norris in Oklahoma in 1940, he discovered martial arts while serving in the US Air Force in South Korea, where he studied Tang Soo Do—a Korean martial art akin to karate and known for fast, spinning kicks. Norris became a dominant karate champion, securing multiple black belts and world titles. He also created a blended martial arts style, Chun Kuk Do ("the universal way" or "the way of 1,000 lands").
His big break came opposite Bruce Lee (watch iconic fight scene) in 1972's "The Way of the Dragon," launching a long career in films like "Missing in Action" and "The Delta Force." He became a household name as the star of "Walker, Texas Ranger," which ran for nine seasons and solidified his image as a tough, moral hero. Browse photos.
In the mid-2000s, "Chuck Norris Facts"—one-liners presenting him as an unstoppable force—became internet memes. See the best one-liners here.
Lee (watch iconic fight scene)
. See the best one-liners here.
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