Well, I guess it's possible Jeff Leaverton, or "Doc" as we all called him back then on the Wainwright CG-28, went from "C" school straight to the Wainwright as I did.
As petty officers in the United States Navy we were peers in the military requirements of the rank. As petty officers in the occupation rating of Fire Controlmen we were also peers in terms of the knowledge required to pass the advancement exams.
In our day to day routine in the fleet though we were not peers. We worked in different workcenters that required specialized knowledge.
Jeff Leaverton was a technician and petty officer in the 55-Bravo radar center.
The reason I am writing this is because of the vague notion I have that he reported to the Wainwright after I reported to the Wainwright.
The photo I found on his Facebook page indicates he graduated FT school (soon restored to the abbreviation FC for Fire Controlman) on 25 October 1985.
He indicates he graduated from Le Mars High School Iowa in the year 1984. I graduated Ashdown Arkansas High School also in the year 1984 so that means we are probably the same age.
My military records indicate I graduated FC-A school on 04 November 1986, which was either our graduation date or our transfer date. Could have been both. I can still visualize both occurrences but I cannot specifically recall if that was the same day.
If I am reading correctly my military records I read that I arrived Naval Guided Missile School Dam Neck Virginia 07 December 1986 and the next date on that line item is 25 January 1987. That is consistent with my recollection. The way I remember it I graduated FC-A in Great Lakes, said good-bye to Diane from Arlington Heights, and drove back to Hicks Road for 30 days leave, calling her a few weeks later when Micheal died. So the records indicate I returned to the Navy on 07 December 1986 and I was on temporary duty until my class started in late January. I remember that because they had me and another FC standing at the door entrance of building checking identification. So then according to those records I must have attended the MK 152 digital computer school from 25 January 1987 to 05 June 1987. That period is 2 days short of 19 weeks.
My records indicate I was transferred from Dam Neck on 05 June 1987 and I reported to USS Wainwright CG 28 on 09 July 1987.
So the notion here is that I have the vague memory that Jeff Leaverton reported to the Wainwright after I did and that means sometime in the second half of 1987 because he has photos of us going to the Persian Gulf in early 1988.
The improbable part of that notion is that he graduated FC-A school, according to his photo, 622 days before I reported to the Wainwright on 09 July 1987.
That's 1 year 8 months 2 weeks.
I don't know how long was his FC-C school was for the AN/SPG-55B radar. I would guess it was longer than the 4 months 1 week 4 days listed in my records for my FC-C school for the MK 152 guided missile fire control complex. I mean, the 55-B workcenter had a heck of a lot more moving parts than did my workcenter. Same goes for the FC's responsible for that huge 5-inch gun turret on the stern of the ship. Sure was glad I didn't have to maintain that analog computer system. My FC peers Randy Walters and George Campbell in the search radar workcenter had that humongous radar antenna high above the ship's main deck constantly rotating.
The 55-B tech's had those huge antennas to maintain and while my workcenter was responsible for antennas those were phased array antennas and very small. Secondly, those were Larry's antennas. His NEC equipment shows up on my performance reviews and I have wondered about that since I got the records. I am trying to recall if as workcenter supervisor I was actually responsible for the maintenance scheduling for his NEC equipment. We shared the same workcenter space and I wonder if I was responsible for it when I was WCS, as though we were a combined workcenter, or if the chiefs, or who ever wrote the performance reviews, someone with no specialized knowledge of our equipment, did not understand the distinction, as we had some similar equipment.
Well, whatever it was, I did often work with Larry helping him out with his maintenance on tape drives and antennas. I was either responsible for it or I was going to be offered Aegis training at reenlistment, which I read on the internet is what Larry went on to after the Wainwright. Larry Smith or Larry Johnson. I never can remember anymore. I think I have written both before referring to him.
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http://www.divxmoviesenglishsubtitles.com/H/Hunt_For_Red_October_CD1.html
Hunt For Red October
Tommy, I miss something on the boards?
Sub plant hasn't said anything about it.
Hmm.
All right.
How many typhoons we got in the computer?
Six, sir.
OK. Call this guy Typhoon Seven.
Start a tape on him.
See if we can work in a little closer.
Yes, sir.
Won't he hear us?
Not if we stay in his baffles, Seaman Beaumont.
Not if we stay in his baffles.
Come in behind his propeller,
and he's deaf as a post.
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http://www.divxmoviesenglishsubtitles.com/P/Planet_of_the_Apes_1968.html
Planet of the Apes
That Bright Eyes is remarkable.|He keeps trying to form words.
You know what they say.|Human see, human do.
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Hunt For Red October
All right, Tommy. Get the hook on his cable.
On his cable. Now, watch it.
Don't touch him. OK, here he comes.
Oh, no!
It would be easier without that bloody crosswind.
Where is he? I can't see him.
Don't touch him!
Jack! Jack! Jack!
This is never going to work.
OK, reel him back in.
Tony, what's going on back...
What happened? Dallas, have you got a swimmer standing?
Emergency stop! Man overboard!
Port side! Send out the diver!
Very well, Dallas. We are history.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 6:20 PM Pacific Time Seattle USA Thursday 11 July 2013 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/07/uss-wainwright-cg-28-mediterranean-1989.html
USS Wainwright CG 28 - Mediterranean 1989
Recently I thought to purchase a copy of the cruise book for the USS Wainwright CG 28 of the ship's deployment to the Med in 1989 and 1990.
A cruise book is sort of similar to a high school class book in its format. There are photos of the people and the places.
The cruise book was easy to order from the USS Wainwright Veterans website. Presumably anybody can order a copy of it.
Today I got in the mail a CD-ROM that is the images of the pages from that actual cruise book from 1989 and 1990. I am referencing it now as a source for reports I intend to publish now and future.
Looking through it today on my computer I couldn't believe it. There is actually a photo of me in the cruise book. I had heard of them before but I never had a cruise book before.
The part that seems incredible looking at it now is that I just do not recall us having our photos taken for that book.
I guess it's possible, it's very possible that I simply do not now recall such a trivial detail. Another possibility is I was on the security drug during that time.
All the people in the CF Division are familiar, looking there at all our photos on page 24 of the cruise book. The CD-ROM application indicates page 22 but the image indicates page 24.
The faces are familiar but the names I had mostly forgotten.
Ensign Stephens. I remember him. He was an LDO, a former enlisted sailor as I recall. There's Senior Chief Boon.
FC1 Leaverton was nicknamed Doc. Every time I watch the DVD for the 1980 film "The Final Countdown" and there is that enlisted sailor on the radar scope who says "I lost the helo" I think of how his appearance is similar to Leaverton. I don't recall Leaverton's first name. As best I recall he reported on board the ship after I did. I vaguely recall seeing him sitting in his work space in the fire control radar and sitting in front of the radar screen.
In the opening pages of the cruise book is a summary of activity for the ship in previous years and I am referencing the timeframe I was serving onboard. The Wainwright returned 9 July 1988 to Charleston from Persian Gulf deployment. We deployed from Charleston to the Persian Gulf on 11 January 1988. We left for the Mediterranean Sea deployment on 12 October 1989.
Page 67 of the cruise book image has a two-page spread of the USS Wainwright CG-28 Inport Schedule for that Med cruise that began 12 October 1989. There are other listings after Monaco but I have not transcribed them here because Monaco is where I remember leaving the ship to fly back to the United States. So according to that list the ship left Monaco on 04 March 1990. The ship arrived in Monaco on 26 February 1990. I do not recall the day I left the ship but I guess I left on the 28th.
Post update: Something seems wrong with that list. The first listing makes no sense because that is the day the ship deployed. I remember distinctly that Barcelona was our first port call and I remember that because I thought we were going to arrive on the 2nd of November. Not sure of the accuracy of the other listings. Monaco must be accurate, as best I recall, but I don't know.
Oct 12: Barcelona
Nov 03-08 Rota SP
16-20 Toulon
Dec 01-04 Presidential Summit
04-07 Naples
09-12 Palma SP
December 20-08 Palma SP
Jan 12-16 Anchor Agusta Bay
24-28 Valencia
Feb 03-08 Naples IT
10-21 Naples IT
26-04 Monaco
Page 94 and page 95 of the cruise book indicate that helo crash was December 2, 1989.
There's a candid shot of me on page 106 of the cruise book. Can't really tell what I am doing. My sleeves are rolled up. I think I'm holding a screwdriver. I seem to be about to unbolt a deckplate. There seems to be some words painted on the deck but the photo is too small for me to read it. The caption on the photo reads: "FC2 BURGESS, THIS LOOKS SERIOUS?"
I am thinking about all this because I am trying to regain my mind, I would have been much different at that point. That was several months after July 1989.
Oh, the words on the deck seem to be "DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE"
I am kneeling on the deck and holding a tool that isn't a screwdriver but another kind of tool and I cannot recall what that tool is called. Sort of like a Philips head but that isn't it. It's not a flathead. I don't recognize the location. There is some kind of electrical or electronic panel next to me that I don't recognize. I am posing in the photo just as I am holding that tool above the words that indicate the dangerous presence of high voltage. That photo seemed vaguely familiar when I first saw it but nothing else has come to mind.
What I have been thinking lately is that my brother's wife (Why are you wearing the white dress uniform of an enlisted US Navy sailor, Thomas?) told me to play dumb when I returned to the real world. I am wondering if I posed for that photograph for a specific reason, since, presumably, I couldn't talk to anybody about anything.
This is the first time I have ever seen this cruise book, as far as I know. I left the ship before the cruise ended and I don't recall ever getting an actual copy of the book.
William A. Weronko, Commander US Navy, was Executive Officer of USS Wainwright CG 28 since 6 June 1989.
Page 5 indicates that Captain Arthur W. Newlon reported as commanding officer of USS Wainwright CG-28 in April 1989. Page 5 also indicates he was born 7 November 1942.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 11 July 2013 excerpt ends]
From 11/7/1942 To 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates the wife of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) is 7556 days
7556 = 3778 + 3778
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/7/1976 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Six Million Dollar Man"::"Big Brother" ) is 3778 days
From 11/7/1942 To 1/18/1980 ( premiere US film "Gizmo!" ) is 13586 days
13586 = 6793 + 6793
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/8/1984 ( premiere US film "Gremlins" ) is 6793 days
From 2/21/1919 ( first flight Boeing's Thomas-Morse MB-3 ) To 11/7/1942 is 8660 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash ) is 8660 days
From 11/7/1942 To 2/8/1968 ( premiere US film "Planet of the Apes" ) is 9224 days
9224 = 4612 + 4612
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/19/1978 ( the debut of "Garfield" ) is 4612 days
http://garfield.com/jim-davis
Garfield
The strip debuted on June 19, 1978 in 41 U.S. newspapers.
From 10/14/1912 ( Theodore Roosevelt wounded by gunfire from attempted assassin ) To 11/7/1942 is 10981 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/26/1995 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" & premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Choice or Chance" ) is 10981 days
From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 ) To 11/26/1995 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" & premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Choice or Chance" ) is 1774 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/11/1970 ( premiere US film "Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?" ) is 1774 days
From 6/22/1941 ( Germany invades Russia ) To 11/26/1995 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" & premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Choice or Chance" ) is 19880 days
19880 = 9940 + 9940
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice ) is 9940 days
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/sideshow-bobs-last-gleaming-1422/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 9
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Nov 26, 1995 on FOX
AIRED: 11/26/95
http://www.tv.com/shows/space-above-and-beyond/choice-or-chance-2-72598/trivia/
tv.com
Space: Above and Beyond Season 1 Episode 10
Choice or Chance (2)
Aired Sunday 7:00 PM Nov 26, 1995 on FOX
Quotes
Hawkes: Most tanks sat out the AI war. Why would you give your life for a human?
McQueen: I did it... I do it for every InVitro who has ever been called a tank or a nipple neck. I do it so no one, human or InVitro, will ever be able to say that all InVitros are lazy, or cowards, or don't stand for anything.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-speech-that-saved-teddy-roosevelts-life-83479091/
Smithsonian
The Speech That Saved Teddy Roosevelt’s Life
Campaigning for president, Roosevelt was spared almost certain death when 50 pieces of paper slowed an assailant’s bullet headed for his chest
By Patricia O'Toole
Smithsonian Magazine
November 2012
On October 14, 1912, just after eight o’clock in the evening, Theodore Roosevelt stepped out of the Hotel Gilpatrick in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and into an open car waiting to take him to an auditorium where he would deliver a campaign speech. Although he was worn out and his voice nearly gone, he was still pushing hard to win an unprecedented third term in the White House. He had left politics in 1909, when his presidency ended. But his disappointment in the performance of William Howard Taft, his chosen successor, was so great that in 1912 he formed the National Progressive Party (better known as the Bull Moose Party). He was running against Taft and the Republicans, the Democrats’ Woodrow Wilson and the Socialist ticket headed by Eugene Debs.
The Bull Moose himself campaigned in more states (38) than any of his opponents. On October 14, he began his day in Chicago, and headed to Racine, Wisconsin, before pressing on to Milwaukee.
When Roosevelt departed the Gilpatrick, he was wearing his Army overcoat and carrying a 50-page speech—folded double to fit into the breast pocket where he had also tucked his metal spectacles case. A stretch of sidewalk had been cleared to speed his walk to the car. As Roosevelt was settling into the back seat, a roar went up from the crowd when they saw him. At the moment he stood to wave his hat in thanks, a man four or five feet away fired a Colt .38 revolver at Roosevelt’s chest.
The assailant, John Schrank, an unemployed saloonkeeper, was tackled and quickly taken away. TR asked the driver to head for the auditorium. His companions protested, but Roosevelt held firm. “I am going to drive to the hall and deliver my speech,” he said.
Having handled guns as a hunter, a cowboy and an officer during the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt knew enough to put a finger to his lips to see if he was bleeding from the mouth. When he saw that he was not, he concluded that the bullet had not entered his lung.
An examination by three doctors backstage at the auditorium revealed that the bullet had been slowed by the thick manuscript and the spectacles case. But there was a dime-size hole in his chest, below his right nipple, and a fist-size stain on his shirt. He requested a clean handkerchief to cover the wound and headed for the stage, where one of his bodyguards attempted to explain the situation to the audience. When someone shouted, “Fake!” Roosevelt stepped forward to show the crowd his shirt and the bullet holes in the manuscript. “Friends,” he said, “I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot—but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
Pale and not entirely steady on his feet, Roosevelt spoke slowly but with conviction. Roosevelt warned that if government neglected the well-being of all its citizens, violence of the sort that had just befallen him would become commonplace. “The poor man as such will be swayed by his sense of injury against the men who try to hold what they have improperly won” and “the most awful passions will be let loose.”
As he continued, TR followed his practice of dropping each page when he finished reading it. Journalists often took a leaf or two as souvenirs; on this occasion, Samuel Marrs, a Chicago photographer, scooped up the bullet-pierced page seen here. (The Smithsonian National Museum of American History acquired it in 1974 from his nephew.)
Half an hour into the speech, Roosevelt’s campaign manager walked to his side and put a hand on his arm. Roosevelt looked at him sternly and told the crowd, “My friends are a little more nervous than I am.” He went on for another 50 minutes. Once offstage, Roosevelt agreed to go to the hospital, where X-rays determined that the bullet had lodged in a rib. It would remain there for the rest of his life.
Roosevelt was well enough to resume his campaign one week before Election Day, but on November 5, voters handed the victory to Wilson.
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F08.html
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
Original airdate in N.A.: 26-Nov-95
Bob: By the way, I'm aware of the irony of appearing on TV in order to decry it. So don't bother pointing that out.
The TV clicks off again. The crowd begins to run away as an air raid siren sounds.
Marge: [panicking] Kids! Everything's gonna be OK! Don't panic! Just don't panic!
Lisa: Mom. Mom! You're stepping on my heels and knocking my shoes off!
Marge: We can always get more shoes! Move! Move! Move!
The crowd runs past the entry gate.
Guard: Stamp your hand for reentry.
[the crowd runs past in a panic]
Bart: Hey! Cool! I want to be around when those guns start going off.
He tuns back in. Lisa sees him and calls after him, "Bart, no!" She runs in after him as the gate closes.
Marge: Wait! Wait, my children are in there!
Guard: You must be very proud, Ma'am.
Cut to an underground bunker where the city leaders are meeting.
Quimby: Our city will _not_ negotiate with terrorists! Is there a city nearby that will?
Hapablap: No need, sir. We'll find that headcase faster than Garfield finds lasagna. [Quimby looks at him] Oh. Sorry, my wife thought that was gangbusters.
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/thismonth/this_month_feb09.html
NASA
This Month in Exploration - February 02.02.09
February 21, 1919: The prototype of Boeing's Thomas-Morse MB-3, the first US-designed fighter to enter large-scale production, made its maiden flight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas-Morse_MB-3
Thomas-Morse MB-3
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Role Fighter
Manufacturer Thomas-Morse Aircraft & Boeing
Designer B. Douglas Thomas
First flight 21 February 1919
The Thomas-Morse MB-3 was an open-cockpit biplane fighter primarily manufactured by the Boeing Company for the U.S. Army Air Service in 1922. The MB-3A was the mainstay fighter for the Air Service between 1922 and 1925.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_in_aviation
1919 in aviation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1919:
First flights
February 21 – Thomas-Morse MB-3 Tommy, first effective U.S.-built fighter
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F08.html
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
Original airdate in N.A.: 26-Nov-95
Cut to Sideshow Bob and Bart in the plane.
Bob: Aah, for the days when aviation was a gentleman's pursuit -- back before every Joe Sweatsock could wedge himself behind a lunch tray and jet off to Raleigh-Durham.
Bart: [spitting] Are you getting lots of bugs in your mouth too?
Bob: [pause] Yes. [spits]
Two jets speed in.
Intercom: Prepare to engage enemy. [the jets speed past] Bogey's air speed not sufficient for intercept. Suggest we get out and walk.
The two pilots do just that. Homer drives behind the plane. "Jump, Boy! I've got you!" he cries. "I'm coming!" yells Bart. He breaks away from Sideshow Bob. He throws his backpack to Homer, which falls beneath the car's wheels and then explodes.
Homer: Now you Boy!
Bart: [scared] Oh. [plane approaches cops standing on their cars] You can't escape Bob. If the tennis rackets don't get you, the pool skimmers will.
Bob: Ooh, I never planned to escape. You see, this is a kamikaze mission! You and I are going to kill Krusty the Clown! Hah hah hah!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087363/quotes
IMDb
Gremlins (1984)
Quotes
Randall Peltzer: Well, that's the story. So if your air conditioner goes on the fritz or your washing machine blows up or your video recorder conks out; before you call the repairman turn on all the lights, check all the closets and cupboards, look under all the beds, 'cause you never can tell there just might be a gremlin in your house.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 6:37 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 20 July 2014
