Now, remember this. Prepared to be shocked and awed. I'm looking at you, Boston.

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES


Veterans Service Records


About Military Service Records and Official Military Personnel Files (OMPFs, DD Form 214)

If you've been discharged from military service, your personnel files are stored here at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). We are the official repository for records of military personnel who have been discharged from the U.S. Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Coast Guard.


Military personnel records are primarily administrative records and can contain information such as:

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and other personnel actions.










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=39938


The American Presidency Project

Ronald Reagan

XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989

Remarks at a White House Ceremony Marking the Beginning of the Summer Youth Employment Program

May 17, 1984

The President. Members of the Congress, Secretary Ray Donovan, our distinguished guests sharing the platform with me, and you ladies and gentlemen, good morning, and welcome to the White House.

I'm delighted to help kick off this 1984 summer youth employment program.


Let me close by asking America's business men and women two questions. Do you remember your first job? Do you remember the lucky break you received even though you were inexperienced and the only skills you had were enthusiasm and determination?










1980 film "The Final Countdown" DVD video:


Warren Lasky - United States Department of Defense civilian contractor employee from Tideman Industries: What sort of storm was that, Commander? Certainly nothing like I've ever seen.

US Navy Captain Matthew Yelland - USS Nimitz CVN 68 commanding officer: Nothing like any of us have ever seen.

Warren Lasky - United States Department of Defense civilian contractor employee from Tideman Industries: There are forces in the universe which we're only now just beginning to understand. I mean, understand through science, not superstition.










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Re: Journal June 7, 2006, Supplemental


Now I am thinking about how I graduated high school on a Friday and was in boot camp that following Monday.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 07 June 2006 excerpt ends]










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: posted by H.V.O.M at 7:36 AM Tuesday, July 17, 2007


The U.S. military DD-214 form that I received from the official personnel records center contains a primary speciality number of 1189


12. Record Of Service
a. Date Entered AD This Period: 84 May 15
b. Separation Date This Period: 90 May 14
c. Net Active Service This Period: 06 years 00 months 00 days
d. Total Prior Active Service: 02 years 00 months 00 days


The field 12.g. "Sea Service" contains a value of 03 years 09 months 10 days.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 17 July 2007 excerpt ends]










From 8/1/1980 ( premiere US film "The Final Countdown" ) To 5/11/1984 ( Ashdown Arkansas High School Class of 1984 graduation ceremony ) is 3 years 9 months 10 days










http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japanese-task-force-leaves-for-pearl-harbor



HISTORY

THIS DAY IN HISTORY


World War II

Nov 26, 1941:

Japanese task force leaves for Pearl Harbor

On this day in 1941, Adm. Chuichi Nagumo leads the Japanese First Air Fleet, an aircraft carrier strike force, toward Pearl Harbor, with the understanding that should "negotiations with the United States reach a successful conclusion, the task force will immediately put about and return to the homeland."

Negotiations had been ongoing for months. Japan wanted an end to U.S. economic sanctions. The Americans wanted Japan out of China and Southeast Asia-and to repudiate the Tripartite "Axis" Pact with Germany and Italy as conditions to be met before those sanctions could be lifted. Neither side was budging. President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull were anticipating a Japanese strike as retaliation—they just didn't know where. The Philippines, Wake Island, Midway—all were possibilities. American intelligence reports had sighted the Japanese fleet movement out from Formosa (Taiwan), apparently headed for Indochina. As a result of this "bad faith" action, President Roosevelt ordered that a conciliatory gesture of resuming monthly oil supplies for Japanese civilian needs canceled. Hull also rejected Tokyo's "Plan B," a temporary relaxation of the crisis, and of sanctions, but without any concessions on Japan's part. Prime Minister Tojo considered this an ultimatum, and more or less gave up on diplomatic channels as the means of resolving the impasse.

Nagumo had no experience with naval aviation, having never commanded a fleet of aircraft carriers in his life. This role was a reward for a lifetime of faithful service. Nagumo, while a man of action, did not like taking unnecessary risks—which he considered an attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor to be. But Chief of Staff Rear Adm. Isoruku Yamamoto thought differently; while also opposing war with the United States, he believed the only hope for a Japanese victory was a swift surprise attack, via carrier warfare, against the U.S. fleet. And as far as the Roosevelt War Department was concerned, if war was inevitable, it desired "that Japan commit the first overt act."










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/trivia

IMDb


The Final Countdown (1980)

Quotes


Lasky: [a captured Japanese prisoner is holding a captive and is demanding access to a radio] Why don't you tell him what's going on here, Commander? You're an expert on what's gonna happen tomorrow; tell him about it, for God's sakes. Go on, tell him! We got nothing to lose!

Captain Yelland: [Owens looks at Yelland, who nods] Go ahead, tell him.

Commander Richard Owens: [hesitates, then looks directly at the Japanese prisoner] 26 November, six carriers left the Kuril Isles north of Japan. The carriers were the Akagi, Kaga, Shokaku, Zuikaku, Hiryu, Soryu. Tomorrow at dawn, these carriers will send 353 planes to attack Pearl Harbor.

Senator Chapman: [staring, stunned] How in the hell do you know all that?

Commander Richard Owens: Your code is "Climb Mount Niitaka." Niitakayama nobore!










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NATIONAL ARCHIVES


Veterans Service Records


About Military Service Records and Official Military Personnel Files (OMPFs, DD Form 214)

If you've been discharged from military service, your personnel files are stored here at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). We are the official repository for records of military personnel who have been discharged from the U.S. Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Coast Guard.


In an effort to expand access to and ensure the preservation of the records, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) together with the Department of Defense (DOD) developed a schedule, signed July 8, 2004










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/trivia

IMDb


The Final Countdown (1980)

Quotes


Senator Chapman: How in the hell do you know all that?










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/trivia

IMDb


The Final Countdown (1980)

Quotes


Lasky: Think of the history of the next forty years...

Commander Richard Owens: I have a suspicion history will be a little more difficult to beat, than you imagine Mr. Lasky.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/trivia

IMDb


The Final Countdown (1980)

Quotes


[Trying to warn Pearl Harbor of the impending Japanese attack]

Senator Chapman: This is, uh, Senator Samuel S. Chapman, of the United States Senate on board the aircraft carrier Nimitz. Captain Yelland is here with me.

Pearl Harbor Radio Operator: You're on a what?

Senator Chapman: I repeat. I am Senator Samuel S. Chapman onboard the U.S.S. Nimitz.

Pearl Harbor Radio Operator: Alright, whoever the hell you are. Use of military frequencies by unauthorized personnel is a felony.

Senator Chapman: Now listen here, sir!

Pearl Harbor Radio Operator: As we have no aircraft carrier Nimitz and no Captain Yelland I suggest, asshole, that you stop impersonating some other asshole and get off the air! You're wasting our time!

Senator Chapman: How dare you talk to me that way!



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 6:25 PM Pacific Time Seattle USA Wednesday 08 May 2013