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Gulf War 20th: Apache Raid
By Clarence A. Robinson Jr. - February 2, 2011
Flying low to avoid detection, Apache attack helicopters launched missiles and rockets against Iraqi early warning sites deep in enemy territory. This intrepid night raid by U.S. Army and Air Force aircrews annihilated two separate enemy radar stations, signaling the beginning of Desert Storm. Minutes later, fixed-wing aircraft flying through this corridor headed for targets in Baghdad.
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Richard A. Cody led that tricky, low-altitude Apache assault. At 2:36 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1991, he was the commanding officer, 1st Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment. Within four minutes, the Apaches’ deadly weapons destroyed all of the radars and associated equipment, providing a 10-kilometer-wide path through which allied fighters and bombers could approach Iraqi targets undetected.
Soon after Iraq seized Kuwait, the 101st Airborne’s ready brigade was alerted to begin the process of deploying. The mission quickly changed from an infantry brigade with some Apache helicopters, to a full helicopter battalion for rapid build up of combat power, Gen. Cody said. Twelve Apaches with their aircrews from his battalion were split between two Air Force C-5 cargo aircraft as they took off for Saudi Arabia.
Initially assigned to King Faud Air Base as a covering force, Gen. Cody, then a lieutenant colonel, was told to see Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf’s Special Operations commander. He was given a top-secret briefing using high-resolution satellite imagery. “I was asked whether Apaches could take out certain types of ground control early warning facilities,” Gen. Cody explained. After looking at the photographs, the general determined that each early warning station was equipped with Soviet-built Flat Eye, Squat Eye and Spoon Rest intercept radars, along with tropospheric scatter, command and control vans and associated equipment.
“Apaches are designed to kill tanks and other armored vehicle targets with Hellfire missiles, but I responded that we could use the missiles, rockets, and 30mm chain guns against the targets. The question was asked again to determine whether mission success was probable. The Iraqi early warning sites were arranged like a picket fence between Kuwait and Jordan. The particular sites we were to go after were due north of a Saudi town called Arar, some 300 miles northwest of King Khalid Military City, and just under the tri-border area near Wadi Al-Batin,” the general said.
Soon after the special operations meeting, Gen. Cody’s Apache battalion was placed under operational control of Central Command’s Special Operations and began training with MH-53 Pave Low helicopters from the Air Force 20th Special Operations Squadron. Low-level, long-range infiltration tactics, techniques and procedures were flown during the training missions. Aircraft would fly to a known point, move into battle formation and practice engaging targets. By early November, targets were fabricated at a rear-area Saudi Arabia bombing range that resembled Iraqi early warning sites. “We flew there and practiced a complete mission rehearsal, replicating distances and flying conditions. We went in and ‘took down’ those practice targets, using onboard video recorders in the Apaches during the live fire training, Gen. Cody said.”
The videos were shown to Gen. Schwarzkopf, and by December it looked like Saddam Hussein would not withdraw his forces from Kuwait. Gen. Cody still had not revealed the nature of the mission to his aircrews. The Apache pilots were told the training was for a special mission, working with Air Force MH-53 Pave Lows, which were combat search and rescue helicopters. It was anticipated by early January that the Apaches would attack the radar sites. Destroying two of the sites would provide a sufficient gap “for F-15s and other ‘fast movers’ to go through undetected, without alerting Iraqi air force interceptor aircraft and other air defense weapons systems,” he said.
On January 14, Gen. Cody’s unit was ordered to deploy with nine Apaches and a Blackhawk support helicopter. The attacking unit flew from King Fahd Airbase to King Khalid Military City. After refueling, the raiders resumed their flight northwest at low altitude to a town called Al-Jawf, Arabic for “starting point.” This small airfield was approximately an hour’s flying time south of Arar. Each Apache was armed with eight Hellfire missiles, 19 Hydra 2.75-inch rockets and 800 to 1,000 rounds of 30-millimeter ammunition.
"The Army aviators were briefed “that we were going into Iraq to start the war.”
“On January 15, we went through what we call an air mission rehearsal, and this was the first time the target folders were laid out for the aircrews.” The Army aviators were briefed “that we were going into Iraq to start the war,” the general said. A complete weapons check of each aircraft was completed, and the raiders prepared for the mission.
The air war was scheduled to begin at 3:00 a.m., and destruction of the early warning sites had to be completed before that time. After an intelligence briefing and communications checks, the Apache and Pave Low aircraft lifted off at midnight from Al-Jawf. A group attacking each of the two early warning sites consisted of four Apaches and two Pave Lows. These sections flew nearly parallel routes at an altitude of 50 feet at a 120-knot airspeed. They split off to follow separate wadis to their targets.
At a distance from the targets of 12 to 14 kilometers, depending on the early warning sites, the Pave Low helicopters came to hover and deployed infrared chemical lights. The lights, which could not be seen with the naked eye, were only visible using night vision equipment. “The lights were used to mark Global Positioning System (GPS) inertial navigation system data points already programmed in the aircraft Doppler navigation systems. Because Pave Lows have extremely accurate navigation systems, this provided great accuracy by allowing us to fly right over the chemical lights, determine error rates from low-level flying, and correct them. The Pave Lows peeled off south to a holding area, and we pressed forward as soon as we popped up out of the wadi,” Gen. Cody recalled.
The entire Iraqi target area was visible through Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) sensors from a distance of about 12 kilometers. “We moved to within 5 kilometers in an echelon right formation, and the four Apaches at each site simultaneously began launching Hellfire missiles. The first missiles took out communications and tropospheric scatter systems, shutting off the possibility of sounding a warning to the Iraqi intelligence operations center in Baghdad, which links all of that country’s radar sites,” Gen. Cody said. “Then, we systematically began taking out the vans that controlled the Spoon Rest, Squat Eye and Flat Face radar systems.”
Hydra 70 flechette rockets and the 30-millimeter chain guns were used against anti-aircraft gun positions guarding the radar sites, as the Apaches moved to within 4,000 meters of the positions. The Apaches destroyed every piece of radar equipment at each site, shattering buildings and vans. Gen. Cody’s wingman took enemy fire, and with three bullet holes through the rotor blades continued to fly the aircraft.
Iraqi air defense forces also fired at least two heat-seeking missiles at the joint Army-Air Force helicopter formation, but the missiles were avoided through electronic countermeasures and evasive action. There were no aircrew casualties. As the Apaches headed south away from the havoc, they heard more than a hundred jet aircraft overhead, passing through the gap in the radar, bound for Baghdad.
As the air campaign against Iraq was mounted, Special Operations Forces emplaced radar beacons along the northern Saudi border. Coalition pilots used the beacons to confirm their position when entering and leaving Iraq and they aided in command and control of allied aircraft.
Soon after the raid, Gen. Cody’s battalion rejoined their parent 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) as it prepared for the coming large-scale ground war. His unit took part in air assaults into several forward-operating bases deep inside Iraq. The Apache battalion was soon engaging Iraqi SA-6s, other air defense missiles, and enemy armored vehicles, as it protected a brigade of infantry projected more than a hundred miles into enemy territory. No other Army in the world could have moved that rapidly in a deep vertical envelopment, Gen. Cody concluded. He added that the raid on early warning sites “was a great coming out party for the Apache.”
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Girly Edition
First aired on FOX: 19-Apr-1998
% While Bart sits in class, Willy's cabin fills up with creamed corn.
% He wakes up and sees the mess all around him.
% Willy takes big bites of corn, but the quantity (and taste) becomes too
% much for him. The cabin soon explodes in a storm of creamed corn,
% splattering all over the window Bart sits next to in class. Bart's skate-
% board, too, comes rolling his way. He picks it up from out the window.
% Willy, standing outside, laments his loss.
% Willy, injured, gets taken away on a stretcher by school staff. Bart
% laughs from his classroom, while Willy screams at him from outside.
Willy: You did this, Bart Simpson!
Bart: The man knows quality work.
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The Simpsons (TV Series)
My Fair Laddy (2006)
Release Info
USA 26 February 2006
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My Fair Laddy
Willie: (sings to the tune of "Wouldn’t It Be Lovely") "All I want is a place somewhere..."
Lisa: (pause) "And?"
Willie: "That's it."
Bart: "Maybe you should aim a little higher."
Willie: "Hmm...Let's see... (continues singing) Oh, to have me shack rebuilt
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Rollerball
How are you, Ella?
Nervous.
How are you?
I'm all right, I guess.
What are you doin'?
Looking at you.
Counting your scars.
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Crowds cheer Queen Elizabeth II on her 80th
Updated 4/21/2006 11:28 AM ET
On a visit to the British Broadcasting Corp. on Thursday, the queen was asked what she wanted for her birthday.
"A nice sunshiny day — that would be nice," she said.
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Rollerball
What are you doin'?
Looking at you.
Counting your scars.
Seeing how you've changed.
Oh, you mean that's how I've changed?
Just a little more beat-up.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073631/quotes
IMDb
Rollerball (1975)
Quotes
Bartholomew: You can be made to quit, you know. You can be forced.
Jonathan E.: You can't make me quit.
Bartholomew: Don't tell me I can't. Don't EVER say that. I can. YOU can be stopped.
[as Jonathan E. leaves the room, he turns up the volume of a TV set
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SGA 1.07 "Poisoning The Well" Transcript
INT—ATLANTIS BRIG
[The Wraith prisoner is inside the cell. Bates stands outside the bars, guarding him. Sheppard arrives.]
SHEPPARD
Anything I should know about, Sergeant?
BATES
No, sir. He's been quiet.
SHEPPARD
He's still trying to make you see things?
BATES
He's given up on that.
SHEPPARD
I didn't think he'd last this long.
[Sheppard approaches the cell.]
WRAITH
Hello again, Major Sheppard.
SHEPPARD
Sorry if I woke you. Just came by to see if there's anything you needed. Magazine, fresh towels…
WRAITH
You hide your fear poorly, Major.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073631/quotes
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Rollerball (1975)
Quotes
Cletus: Jonathan, there's one thing you ought to know, and nobody's said it, but I'm sure of it. They're afraid of you, Jonathan. All the way to the top, they are.
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The official website of The British Monarchy
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The Queen meets artist Tracey Emin in front of JMW Turner's "Crossing the Brook" painting during a visit to the Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate, Kent, 11 November 2011.
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Rollerball (1975)
Quotes
Crowd of spectators: JON-A-THAN. JON-A-THAN. JON-A-THAN. JON-A-THAN. JON...
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Beyonce Knowles Sighting In New York City
Photo 4 of 6
15 June 2006
Names: Beyoncé Knowles
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Rollerball
I think there's something goin' on.
Somebody's pushin' me.
Who? Bartholomew?
But you're Jonathan E. Everybody
knows you. You've got everything!
You know you'll be treated right.
You always have been.
Yeah. I don't know.
Well, I do know. We're livin' good.
You know we are.
I found this to wear.
Is it all right?
That's the uniform of the house.
I'm Daphne.
Yeah. That figures.
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Rollerball (1975)
Quotes
Daphne: Hi. I'm Daphne.
Jonathan E.: Yeah, that figures.
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Memorable quotes for
"Scooby Doo, Where Are You!" (1969)
[repeated line]
Assorted villains: ...and I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 14:24:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Kerry Burgess"
Subject: Re: Sleep journal 4/6/06
To: "Kerry Burgess"
Kerry Burgess wrote:
Details about my recent sleep are very fuzzy today. Can't remember for sure when I woke up. 3 am maybe. Or maybe shortly after midnight, can't really remember as I usually can. Remember dreaming something about driving my Jeep. Then I returned to it where it was parked in a parking lot after I was traveling through some passageways, hallways in a transit facility maybe. The only part I remember clearly is where a woman, I assume was my imaginary girlfriend asked me out for drinks or something. I told her we needed to keep it really casual though because all I had to wear was sweatpants. Kind of the downside to dating a homeless person I reflect now as I write this. She told me she would wear something with holes in it. I hope that was her in my dream, although the woman in the dream seemed to be someone unfamilar though. But I have noticed that happening with other people I know. They are represented, somehow, by a different person, but I think of them as someone specific. I feel like that is part of the manipulation. I have noticed something similar in real dreams, but I don't think it is the same here. I think they are disquising themselves in my dream for some reason.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 06 April 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 5:21 PM
I was just in the trailer house where we lived in De Queen, specifically in the year 1976 it seemed later, that was next to the drive-in theatre and the field I remember walking through with corn stalks that were much higher than my head
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 27 December 2012 excerpt ends]
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Prisoner of War (1954)
Quotes
Webb Sloane: Every man has his breaking point.
1971 film "The Omega Man" DVD video:
US Army Colonel Robert Neville: They sure don't make pictures like that anymore.
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The official website of The British Monarchy
Christmas Broadcast 2006
I have lived long enough to know that things never remain quite the same for very long. One of the things that has not changed all that much for me is the celebration of Christmas. It remains a time when I try to put aside the anxieties of the moment and remember that Christ was born to bring peace and tolerance to a troubled world.
The birth of Jesus naturally turns our thoughts to all new-born children and what the future holds for them.
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SGA 1.01 "Rising Parts 1 And 2" Transcript
INT—WRAITH DINING ROOM
WRAITH QUEEN
What do you call yourself?
SUMNER
(with bravado)
Colonel Marshall Sumner, United States Marine Corps.
WRAITH QUEEN
(amused)
So little fear. Is it valor…or ignorance?
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Rollerball
Good evening.
Welcome to Houston, the Energy City,
home ofthe defending
rollerball world champions.
This key international battle
pits divisional champions Madrid
against powerful Houston.
Here they come for a standing ovation.
On the track comes Houston!
Houston, led by captain Jonathan E,
again their leading scorer this year.
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Rollerball (1975)
Quotes
Ella: You still don't understand why I came here?
Jonathan E.: You're the only person I ever wanted. I wanted you on my side, that's all.
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Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
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Chapter 8
After a time he began to sidle near to the youth, and in a diffident way try to make him a friend. His voice was gentle as a girl's voice and his eyes were pleading. The youth saw with surprise that the soldier had two wounds, one in the head, bound with a blood-soaked rag, and the other in the arm, making that member dangle like a broken bough.
After they had walked together for some time the tattered man mustered sufficient courage to speak. "Was pretty good fight, wa'n't it?" he timidly said. The youth, deep in thought, glanced up at the bloody and grim figure with its lamblike eyes. "What?"
"Was pretty good fight, wa'n't it?"
"Yes," said the youth shortly. He quickened his pace.
But the other hobbled industriously after him. There was an air of apology in his manner, but he evidently thought that he needed only to talk for a time, and the youth would perceive that he was a good fellow.
"Was pretty good fight, wa'n't it?" he began in a small voice, and the he achieved the fortitude to continue. "Dern me if I ever see fellers fight so. Laws, how they did fight! I knowed th' boys 'd like it when they onct got square at it. Th' boys ain't had no fair chanct up t' now, but this time they showed what they was. I knowed it 'd turn out this way. Yeh can't lick them boys. No, sir! They 're fighters, they be."
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Rollerball (1975)
Quotes
Jonathan E.: Look, they want me to quit, Ella.
Ella: Then quit.
Jonathan E.: Just like that, huh?
Ella: But you've got to do it now. You've got to before it's too late, whether you want to or not. Look, Johnny... the next game there won't be any substitutions allowed... and no time limit. You'll die, Johnny. Everybody will die.
Jonathan E.: No time limit. They tell you that?
Ella: Yes.
Jonathan E.: They tell you to convince me to quit?
Ella: Yes, but that isn't why I came here. You have to get out for your own sake. Oh, please Johnny, please.
Jonathan E.: They tell you to stay if... ah... I did quit?
Jonathan E.: You my big reward?
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 12:37 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington State USA Wednesday 02 October 2013
