JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 05/09/08 9:57 PM
When I was asleep a few hours ago for a nap, just before I awoke, I clearly saw a tsunami rising above Seattle as I was riding as a passenger in that burgundy Buick car I used to have.
It remained high above the city as it progressed well into the city, meaning that it was going to travel very far inland.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 05/09/08 10/06 PM
It seemed to be on the wrong side of the city though. I feel certain I was on the Alaskan Way viaduct and the tsunami seemed to rise from the east side of the city.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 09/04/09 4:03 PM
There were a lot of details in the dream but on detail seemed to be of one A-7 Corsair II flying within inches of a river surface. I vaguely recall there were other aircraft with the A-7 but I can only visualize the one A-7.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFA-195
VFA-195
Strike Fighter Squadron 195 (VFA-195), also known as the "Dambusters", is a United States Navy F/A-18C Hornet fighter squadron stationed at Naval Air Facility Atsugi. They are a part of Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5) and their tail code is NF.
In the spring of 1970 VA-195 passed another milestone, transitioning to the A-7E Corsair II.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 09/04/09 4:06 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFA-195
VFA-195
Strike Fighter Squadron 195 (VFA-195), also known as the "Dambusters", is a United States Navy F/A-18C Hornet fighter squadron stationed at Naval Air Facility Atsugi. They are a part of Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5) and their tail code is NF.
The squadron, originally known as the Tigers, had its first insignia approved by CNO on 4 March 1944, consisting of a lion cub riding a torpedo. Bob Burns gave the squadron a lion cub. On the patch the cub is holding the musical "bazooka" that Burns used in his act, while riding a torpedo. The lion went to the Los Angeles Zoo. A new design replaced the cub with a tiger and parrot on the torpedo, and was approved on 18 April 1949.
Sometime in the 1950s, the squadron adopted a shield insignia that featured an eagle's head and a torpedo. On 1 May 1951, squadron aircraft destroyed the heavily defended Hwa Chon Dam in North Korea earning them the nickname Dambusters, echoing the original Dam Busters of No. 617 Squadron RAF. Destruction of the dam had been previously attempted by other units many times.
In August 1985, the squadron adopted the stylized eagle on green background insignia in use today.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 09/04/09 4:08 PM
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pinkfloyd/braindamage.html
PINK FLOYD LYRICS
"Brain Damage"
The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me.
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 09/04/09 4:10 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFA-195
VFA-195
Strike Fighter Squadron 195 (VFA-195), also known as the "Dambusters", is a United States Navy F/A-18C Hornet fighter squadron stationed at Naval Air Facility Atsugi. They are a part of Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5) and their tail code is NF.
In the spring of 1970 VA-195 passed another milestone, transitioning to the A-7E Corsair II. As a unit of Carrier Air Wing 11 on USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), the squadron deployed in the fall of 1970, marking its fourth consecutive decade of involvement in foreign conflicts. In May 1972, Dambusters participated in the mining of North Vietnamese harbours and Linebacker I operations, concentrated air strikes against targets in North Vietnam above the 20th parallel. On July 19, 1972 the squadron delivered the first data link version of the television guided Walleye Glide Bomb down the throat of a cave storage area causing its complete destruction. Later the same day, they destroyed the Ninh Binh railroad bridge, also with a single weapon.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 09/04/09 4:11 PM
The dream seemed to set in that area of the mountains where I was sleeping in my Jeep outside Shelton for a couple weeks. But the visualizations in the dream are a lot different and there were a lot of details in the dream that did not even come close to that area along with all the people that were there. But there was that scene towards the ending of the dream that was somewhat similar to that area near the bridge where I left the tent on the edge of the creek. I remember thinking to myself there were fewer people at that point and it seemed the setting had been along a river and I was walking down the river and what I guess was a road, which is too vague to remember but just now as I write this I also think of walking along the Burke-Gilman Trail not long after I was in the mountains. So the part towards the end of the dream was that I was looking at a dirt path that went down and embankment and I going down to I guess the edge of the river although its presence is very vague in my memory other than I feel certain I was next to a river. The scene with the A-7 Corsair II and the other aircraft seemed to happen at some distance earlier in the dream.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 09/04/09 4:18 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dam_Busters_(film)
The Dam Busters (film)
Release date(s) 24 May 1955
The Dam Busters is a 1955 British war film, set during the Second World War, and based on the true story of the RAF's 617 Squadron, the development of the "bouncing bomb", and Operation Chastise, the attack on the Ruhr dams in Germany. It stars Michael Redgrave as Barnes Wallis and Richard Todd as Wing Commander Guy Gibson and was directed by Michael Anderson.
The film falls into two parts. The first part involves Wallis struggling to develop a means of attacking Germany's dams in the hope of crippling German heavy industry. Working for the Ministry of Aircraft Production, as well as doing his own job at Vickers, he works feverishly to make practical his theory of a bouncing bomb which would skip over the water to avoid protective torpedo nets. When it came into contact with the dam, it would sink before exploding, making it much more destructive. Wallis calculates that the aircraft will have to fly extremely low (150 ft) to enable the bombs to skip over the water correctly, but when he takes his conclusions to the Ministry he is told that lack of production capacity means they cannot go ahead with his proposals.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 09/04/09 4:24 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
Operation Chastise
Operation Chastise was the official name for the attacks on German dams on 16/17 May 1943 in the Second World War using a specially developed "bouncing bomb". The attack was carried out by Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, subsequently known as the Dambusters. The Möhne and Eder dams were breached in these attacks, causing a catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr valley, while the Sorpe dam sustained only minor damage.
Bombing from 60 ft (18 m) at 240 mph (390 km/h), at a very precise distance from the target, required expert crews, intensive night and low-altitude flight training, and the solutions to two technical problems. The first was to know when the aircraft was the correct distance from the target. The two key dams at Möhne and Eder had a tower at each end. A special aiming device (a device with two prongs making the same angle as the two towers at the correct distance from the dam) showed when to release the bomb. The second problem was to measure the aircraft's altitude (the usual barometric altimeters lacked sufficient accuracy). Two spotlights were mounted, one under the nose and another under the fuselage, such that at the correct height their light beams would converge on the surface of the water.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 11:45 PM Friday, June 03, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachutist_Badge_(United_States)
Parachutist Badge (United States)
The Parachutist Badge, also commonly referred to as "Jump Wings" or "Snow Cone", is a military badge of the United States Armed Forces awarded to members of the United States Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy.
Navy and Marine Corps
The United States Navy and Marine Corps issue parachutist insignia in two degrees: Basic Parachustist Insignia and Navy and Marine Corps Parachutist Insignia. Parachutist insignia is available to personnel who perform jumps as a:
Static-Line Parachute Jumper,
Military Free-Fall Parachute Jumper, and
High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) Parachute Jumper (used for premeditated personnel parachute (P3) operations).
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 09/04/09 4:01 PM
As I trail along on this, it reminds me of a recent dream. I think that dream was from early this morning.
http://www.army.mil/-images/2009/09/04/49802/
Monument honors forgotten Korean War heroes
Sep 04
Photo Credit: Pfc. Kim Jun-sub, 8th U.S. Army Public Affairs
A monument is unveiled to honor the Korean Labor Organization at the Hwachon Dam, Sept. 2.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 09/04/09 4:02 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_in_aviation
1951 in aviation
May 1 - US Navy A-1 Skyraiders and F4U Corsairs from USS Princeton attack the Hwachon Dam, flooding the Pukhan River
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 09/04/09 4:03 PM
There were a lot of details in the dream but on detail seemed to be of one A-7 Corsair II flying within inches of a river surface. I vaguely recall there were other aircraft with the A-7 but I can only visualize the one A-7.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFA-195
VFA-195
Strike Fighter Squadron 195 (VFA-195), also known as the "Dambusters", is a United States Navy F/A-18C Hornet fighter squadron stationed at Naval Air Facility Atsugi. They are a part of Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5) and their tail code is NF.
In the spring of 1970 VA-195 passed another milestone, transitioning to the A-7E Corsair II.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 09/04/09 4:06 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFA-195
VFA-195
Strike Fighter Squadron 195 (VFA-195), also known as the "Dambusters", is a United States Navy F/A-18C Hornet fighter squadron stationed at Naval Air Facility Atsugi. They are a part of Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5) and their tail code is NF.
The squadron, originally known as the Tigers, had its first insignia approved by CNO on 4 March 1944, consisting of a lion cub riding a torpedo. Bob Burns gave the squadron a lion cub. On the patch the cub is holding the musical "bazooka" that Burns used in his act, while riding a torpedo. The lion went to the Los Angeles Zoo. A new design replaced the cub with a tiger and parrot on the torpedo, and was approved on 18 April 1949.
Sometime in the 1950s, the squadron adopted a shield insignia that featured an eagle's head and a torpedo. On 1 May 1951, squadron aircraft destroyed the heavily defended Hwa Chon Dam in North Korea earning them the nickname Dambusters, echoing the original Dam Busters of No. 617 Squadron RAF. Destruction of the dam had been previously attempted by other units many times.
In August 1985, the squadron adopted the stylized eagle on green background insignia in use today.
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