The detail I can visualize of driving that convertible Mustang is not of the front passenger leaning over. Rather, he was leaning forward with his head turned to look at me. What I think I am trying to remember is seeing the pilot in the F-14 to my starboard looking at me as I was approaching the aircraft carrier for a trap with the emergency barricade. The guy in the backseat was slumped over asleep the whole time I almost crashed because he represents the RIO that was killed from a close explosion of a missile on my F-14 Tomcat in May 1985. I believe that incident was incorporated into the "Cougar" character in the "Top Gun" movie a year later and then movie "Iron Eagle" in early 1986 where he flies the Cessna through something that looks like the emergency barricade.
From 3/3/1959 to 9/20/1997 is: 14081 days
From 7/16/1963 to 6/7/1976 is: 4710 days
4710 / 14081 = 0.334
http://www.navysite.de/ships/lhd5.htm
USS Bataan (LHD 5)
Commissioned: September 20, 1997
About the Ship’s Name, about the heroic Defense of the Bataan Peninsula:
Just ten short hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941, Japanese planes again surprised US forces with an attack on Clark Field, the main US air base on the Philippine island of Luzon. Subsequent Japanese landings on Luzon took place on December 10th and 12th, and on December 22, after two weeks of diversionary tactics, a large Japanese invasion force landed at Lingayen Gulf. Japanese General Masaharu Homma, with a contingent of 80 ships and 43,000 troops, waded ashore through both a typhoon and the resistance of US trained Philippine reservists. Homma landed tanks and artillery later that day and began advancing south toward Manila despite the valiant resistance of Major General Jonathan Wainwright's Philippine Scouts.
The USS Wainwright CG-28 that I “remember” being assigned to in my artificial and symbolic was not a namesake for the General Wainwright of that reference for the USS Bataan LHD-5, but it is curious to note the relationship with 4/14/1977:
1/8/1966
1966 January 8
6-6-1-8
http://www.navysite.de/cg/cg28.htm
USS Wainwright (CG 28)
Commissioned: January 8, 1966
I am personally going to arrest this guy with a federal warrant when it comes time to start arresting these national traitors. He admits not only revealing the identity of a covert federal agent but that he was going to ensure she could not re-establish another covert identity for a United States intelligence agency. I hope you and Guiliani enjoy each others company because you are both going to share the same cell in a federal prison for the rest of your life.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/19/278430.aspx
Novak justifies outing Plame & sources
Posted: Thursday, July 19, 2007 2:36 PM by Domenico Montanaro
Categories: Security
At a breakfast meeting with reporters, Bob Novak defended his decision to print Valerie Plame Wilson’s name in his column -- which sparked the CIA leak investigation. And he justified his outing of several once-anonymous sources in his new book, The Prince of Darkness.
Novak contends in his book that Plame Wilson was “not now and never would be again” a covert agent. But he admits that CIA spokesman Bill Harlow asked him “to keep Mrs. Wilson’s CIA connection out of my column” and that the “revelation of her name might cause unspecified ‘difficulties’ if she traveled abroad.” He inferred based on his “experience with CIA jargon” that Plame “at one time had been engaged in covert activities abroad but was not now and never would be again.” He says he “learned much later” she had already been outed by a Soviet spy, “which had ended her career as a covert agent long before I wrote about her.”
He also says in his book that if given the chance, he’d print her name again. “I broke no law and endangered no intelligence operation,” Novak writes. This morning, he added he felt “disappointed in the journalism profession” for its reaction to his printing Plame Wilson’s name. “I thought we stuck together in things like this. I guess that wasn’t the case.”
