The space shuttle flight STS-54 reinforces my theory that I was aboard the HMS Sheffield when it was struck by an anti-ship missile on 5/4/82. One early clue I found is that the Sea Service field of my DD-214 contains a value that precisely covers the period 5/4/82 to 2/14/86. The value in the Sea Service field is 3 years, 9 months, 10 days. In my real life, I probably had a lot more Sea Service, but that was a clue that fit in to my cover identity, assuming that is what it means. The Sea Service field may actually represent my time as a pilot in the fleet and after I escaped from being a POW, I was disqualified from being a pilot in the U.S. Navy fleet. I assume I took command of a U.S. Navy SEAL platoon after I returned from Africa. Sometime after that, I have been thinking, I flew again with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, as well as flights related to the space program. But I don't remember any of that in the conventional sense.
The commander of the space shuttle flight STS-54 was born 7/9/43. From 7/9/43 to 5/4/82 was 14179 days. From 3/3/59 to 5/4/82 was 8463 days. Dividing 8463 by 14179 equals 0.59.
The date 5/4/82 is the day in the Falklands War that the HMS Sheffield was hit by anti-ship missile. The date 3/3/59 is, I think, my real birthday.
The pilot of the space shuttle flight STS-54 was born 5/14/52. The period from his birthday to 5/4/82 was 359 months, 3 days, inclusive.
STS-54
Crew
John H. Casper (2), Commander
Donald R. McMonagle (2), Pilot
John Howard Casper (born July 9, 1943) is an American astronaut.
Donald Ray McMonagle (b. May 14, 1952)
This announcement from President Reagan is dated 5/7/82, which was 3 days after the HMS Sheffield was hit. The person he nominates was born 9/13/30 from that day to 5/4/82 was 18861 days. I assume that President Reagan had evidence that I was being targeted because I had led that mission into Iraq on 6/7/81. I divided 18861 by 6781 and noted that the quotient was 0.359
Nomination of Peter E. Voss To Be a Governor of the United States Postal Service
May 7th, 1982
The President today announced his intention to nominate Peter E. Voss to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service for a term expiring December 8, 1990. He would succeed Hung Wai Ching.
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He was born September 13, 1930.
HMS Sheffield (D80) was the second Royal Navy ship to bear the name Sheffield, after the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire. She was a Type 42 Guided Missile Destroyer laid down by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering at Barrow-in-Furness on 15 January 1970, launched on 10 June 1971 and commissioned on 16 February 1975.
The ship was part of the Task Force sent to the Falkland Islands during the Falklands War. She was struck by an Exocet cruise missile fired by a French-made Dassault Super Étendard belonging to the Argentine Navy on 4 May 1982 and finally scuttled on the 10 May 1982.
Operation Opera (also known as Operation Babylon and Operation Ofra) is the Israeli Air Force designation used to describe an Israeli air strike against the Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor (French: Osirak; Iraqi: Tammuz 1) in 1981.
In the late 1970s, Iraq purchased an "Osiris class" nuclear reactor from France. Israeli military intelligence assumed this was for the purpose of plutonium production to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program. Israeli intelligence also believed that the summer of 1981 would be the last chance to destroy the reactor without exposing the Iraqi civilian population to nuclear fallout. After that point, the reactor would be loaded with nuclear fuel.
On June 7, 1981, a squadron of Israeli F-16A fighter aircraft, with an escort of F-15As, bombed and heavily damaged the Osirak reactor.
Another 5/7/82 announcement by President Reagan described 3 appointments he was making that day. The first appointment by President Reagan was born 11/20/44 and 13679 days later was 5/4/82. The number of days from my birth of 3/3/59 to 6/7/81, the day of the Iraq strike, was 8132. Dividing 8132 by 13679 equals 0.59
The second person in that announcement from President Reagan was born on 3/11/1929. That was 359 months, 3 weeks, inclusive, before 3/3/59. The third appointment in that 5/7/82 announcement was born 10/27/34 and turned 33 years old, 5.9 months after 5/1/67.
Appointment of Three Members of the President's Committee on the National Medal of Science, and Designation of Chairman
May 7th, 1982
The President today announced his intention to appoint the following individuals to be members of the President's Committee on the National Medal of Science for terms expiring December 31, 1984. The President also announced his intention to designate William L. Mills to be Chairman.
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...He was born November 20, 1944
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Perry Adkisson is serving as deputy chancellor for agriculture and distinguished professor of entomology, department of entomology, at Texas A&M University.
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...He was born March 11, 1929.
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Naomi J. McAfee is manager, design assurance and operations, Defense and Electronics Systems Center, at Westinghouse Electric Corp.
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...She was born October 27, 1934.
I haven’t driven a car since I became seriously homeless 632 days ago. I wonder which space shuttle flight that will be encoded into. Or the 300 days I spent in that homeless shelter in Seattle’s Pioneer Square.
To put that in perspective, I calculated that my mission to the outer solar system to blow up the comet was 530 days, covering the period 11/2/75 to 4/14/77.
About ten years later, my journey across the back country of Africa from 2/14/86 to 5/13/87 was 454 days.
