Tuesday, May 05, 2009

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http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/090504-N-6538W-001.jpg

090504-N-6538W-001 PACIFIC OCEAN (May 4, 2009) Commanding Officer, Cmdr. Jeffrey Czerewko of the Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 146 is greeted by his plane captain Aviation Electrician's Mate 3rd Class Adedamola Durojaiye, from Baltimore, on the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) prior to an airborne change of command. Stennis and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9 are on a scheduled six-month deployment to the western Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Walter M. Wayman/Released


http://www.navy.mil/view_photos_top.asp

090504-N-6538W-001










From 7/30/1977 ( USS Indianapolis SSN 697 launched ) To 2/6/2004 ( my final day working at Microsoft Corporation with my official United States federal undercover identity ) is 9687 days










http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/SSN697.htm

INDIANAPOLIS (SSN 697)
SUBMARINE (NUCLEAR-POWERED)
Class: SSN 688
Launch Date: 07/30/1977





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(SSN-697)

USS Indianapolis (SSN-697)

The third USS Indianapolis (SSN-697), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Indianapolis, Indiana. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 24 January 1972 and her keel was laid down on 19 October 1974. She was launched on 30 July 1977 sponsored by Mrs. William G. Bray, and commissioned on 5 January 1980, with Commander Harry P. Salmon, Jr., in command.

When the submarine Indianapolis was commissioned, many survivors of the cruiser Indianapolis were present for the official ceremony.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_class_submarine

Los Angeles class submarine

The Los Angeles class, sometimes called the LA-class or the 688-class, is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines (SSN) that forms the backbone of the United States submarine fleet. With 46 submarines, this class has more boats than any other nuclear powered submarine class in the world.










From 4/14/1977 ( I returned to Earth after successfully diverting the comet in the outer solar system ) to 6/25/1986 ( U.S. President Ronald Wilson Reagan : Proclamation 5506—National Homelessness Awareness Week 1986 ) is: 3359 days

'33-59' ( my birth date US )



From 11/11/1966 ( I was Gemini 12 spacecraft astronaut in orbit of planet Earth ) to 6/25/1986 ( U.S. President Ronald Wilson Reagan : Proclamation 5506—National Homelessness Awareness Week 1986 ) is: 7166 days

7166 = 3583 + 3583

From 3/4/1959 ( my birth date UK ) to 12/24/1968 ( I was Apollo 8 astronaut in orbit of Earth's moon ) is: 3583 days


http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=37516&st=&st1=

Proclamation 5506—National Homelessness Awareness Week, 1986

June 25th, 1986

By the President of the United States
of America










http://www.cswap.com/1975/Jaws/cap/en/2_Parts/b/00_24

Jaws


:24:44
What is it?

:24:50
That's the U.S.S. Indianapolis.

:25:00
Y ou were on the Indianapolis?

:25:02
What happened?

:25:05
Japanese submarine slammed
two torpedoes into her side, Chief.

:25:10
I was comir back
from the island of Tinian to Leyte...

:25:14
...just delivered the bomb,
the Hiroshima bomb.

:25:20
1,100 men went into the water.

:25:23
Vessel went down in 12 minutes.

:25:27
Didrt see the first shark
for about half an hour.

:25:30
Tiger, 13-footer.










http://www.cswap.com/1975/Jaws/cap/en/2_Parts/b/00_27

Jaws


:27:04
Y ou know, by the end of that first dawn...

:27:08
...we lost 100 men.

:27:11
I don't know how many sharks.
Maybe 1,000.

:27:13
I don't know how many men,
they averaged six an hour.

:27:17
On Thursday mornir,
I bumped into a friend of mine...

:27:20
...Herbie Robinson, from Cleveland.

:27:23
Baseball player, bosurs mate.

:27:28
I thought he was asleep.

:27:30
Reached over to wake him up.

:27:33
He bobbed up and down
in the water just like a kind of top.

:27:38
Upended.

:27:43
He'd been bitten in half, below the waist.

:27:49
Noon the fifth day,
a Lockheed Ventura saw us.

:27:53
He swung in low and he saw us.
He was a young pilot.

:27:56
Y ounger than Mr. Hooper. He saw us...

:27:58
...and he came in low,
and three hours later...

:28:00
...a big fat PBy comes down
and starts to pick us up.

:28:04
That was the time I was most frightened.

:28:07
Waitir for my turn.

:28:10
I'll never put on a life jacket again.

:28:15
So, 1,100 men went into the water...

:28:17
...316 men come out.

:28:19
The sharks took the rest
June the 29th, 1945.

:28:26
Anyway, we delivered the bomb.