Hostile Visit

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SPACE:AAB FANFIC FLIGHTDECK


HOSTILE VISIT


The Saratoga and the alien ship hang in space.

Cut to the command centre which is lit by red light.

ROSS: Hand crank the forward batteries.

GATES: Targeting computer is still down.

ROSS: Then sight down the barrels.

GATES: Fire mission. Fire mission. Forward adkem battery. Tango-one-niner.

ROSS: How long till back up is on-line, Mr. Klein?

Klein checks his screen.

ROSS: Mr. Klein?

KLEIN: Ten seconds, sir.

Klein checks a digital clock.

KLEIN: Four. Three. Two.

There's a noise and the lights go back on.

MALE VOICE: Weapon system functional, sir.

ROSS: Take that out of my sky.

GATES: Yes, sir.

McQUEEN: No!

ROSS: Colonel?

McQUEEN: It's harmless, {they} would have killed us by now. This has never happened in this war, sir. A wounded enemy bird. We shouldn't waste the opportunity.

ROSS: Opportunity?

McQUEEN: To have a look.

Cut to the 58th's quarters. They are being briefed by three crew members who are wearing bulletproof vest type jackets. The 58th are dressed in some sort of battle armour.

KRANTZ: Here's what we know. The hull is a cermet composite impregnated with graphite, titanium, aluminum trihydrate and molybdenum.

STROUD: The spectral scope indicates ... What the hell smells so rank?

Wang, sitting on his bunk, smells his 'BEARS' t-shirt.

WANG: Rank, ma'am? It's the aroma of good luck.

VANSEN: We always come back when he wears it.

STROUD: I could see if it was a Detroit Lions shirt.

WEST: How do we get in?

KRANTZ: M. R. scope indicates a chamber located just behind the two vents on her forward structure.

VANSEN: What do you mean by chamber?

KRANTZ: Don't know. Three metres behind it is another area.

HAWKES: For what?

KRANTZ: Don't know. Bio-sensors indicated a slight reading in the second area.

DAMPHOUSSE: What do you mean by slight?

Krantz sighs.

WANG: You don't know.

McQueen enters. Wang stands.

McQUEEN: (to Stroud) Thank you, Lieutenant.

STROUD: Sir, we haven't finished with our briefing.

McQUEEN: Yes you have.

STROUD: Sir, they need all the available data.

McQUEEN: No they don't.

Stroud looks at the two other crew members and the three of them leave.










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U.S. AIR FORCE


LIEUTENANT GENERAL SUSAN J. HELMS

Retired April 01,2014

Lt. Gen. Susan J. Helms is Commander, 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic), Air Force Space Command; and Commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Space, U.S. Strategic Command, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. As the U.S. Air Force's operational space component to USSTRATCOM, General Helms leads more than 20,500 personnel responsible for providing missile warning, space superiority, space situational awareness, satellite operations, space launch and range operations. As Commander, JFCC SPACE, she directs all assigned and attached USSTRATCOM space forces providing tailored, responsive, local and global space effects in support of national, USSTRATCOM and combatant commander objectives.

General Helms was commissioned from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1980. She has served as an F-15 and F-16 weapons separation engineer and a flight test engineer. As a flight test engineer, General Helms has flown in 30 types of U.S. and Canadian military aircraft. She has also served as project officer on the CF-18 aircraft as a U.S. Air Force Exchange Officer to the Canadian Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment.

Selected by NASA in January 1990, General Helms became an astronaut in July 1991. On Jan. 13, 1993, then an Air Force major and a member of the space shuttle Endeavour crew, she became the first U.S. military woman in space.










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SPACE:AAB FANFIC FLIGHTDECK


HOSTILE VISIT


Cut to briefing room.

HAWKES: Grrrr, I haven't had to read this much since Bogus made us read that nude dead people book.

STROUD: You wouldn't, by any stretch of the imagination, mean The Naked and the Dead?

WEST: Hawkes is right, enough reading.

HAWKES: You never did tell me what frug meant.

WANG: (to Stroud) Did you like that book?

STROUD: Yes and no. John Fante is my favourite 20th century author.

WANG: Ask the Dust is one of my favourites. No one's ever heard of him.

WEST: I hate to break up the book sale but can we get to flying this thing.

VANSEN: How?

Damphousse works a hand-held computer.

DAMPHOUSSE: No wonder. This ... it's missing. Mass ratio equals empty ship plus fuel mass over ship mass, right? Okay. But then it jumps to this equation, which determines velocity increments.

HAWKES: Oh!

DAMPHOUSSE: Points B and C are missing.

McQueen takes Damphousse's hand-held.

DAMPHOUSSE: Something's been omitted.

McQUEEN: I want that little geek.

DAMPHOUSSE: Sir, those Aerotech guys are taking off about right now.

McQUEEN: I'll get him myself.

Cut to transport departure area.

SEWELL: (into a personal phone) No it's alright, sir. Military types like to do that sort of thing. ... Yes. ... No. It doesn't matter. I got everything we need. Yes, sir that ... Yes, sir that's correct. I'm on my way.

Sewell terminates the call and heads for the transport as McQueen continues to make his way there through the ship.

CREWMAN: (to Sewell) We're ready for you, sir.

Crewman and Sewell board the transport. The transport door is closed. The door between the waiting area and the loading bay is closed and locked.

CREWMAN: (in waiting area) Stand clear.

McQueen arrives in waiting area too late to stop Sewell leaving.

Cut to outside view of the transport.

FEMALE VOICE: Shuttle four-three-seven you are cleared for departure.

MALE VOICE: Shuttle four-three-seven, bravo, thank you.

The transport departs.

Cut back to the briefing room.

STROUD: Colonel, look at this.

Stroud hands McQueen a hand-held and inserts a card. It beeps at them.

McQUEEN: Sewell wiped the numbers we need to fly the bomber. We'll have to get them ourselves.










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McQUEEN: It was for us, the military, we're the ones who'll use the information.

ROSS: Aerotech can break down the ship and analyse ...

McQUEEN: You can't let them break it down.

ROSS: At ease, Colonel. ... in half the time it would take us.

Cut to Wang and Hawkes as they approach a technical station.

HAWKES: Hey, what does this do?

Hawkes pushes buttons on a console.

TECHNICIAN: Hey, don't touch that. What are you doing?

While the technician is distracted by Hawkes, Wang steals a piece of equipment from the station.

HAWKES: What about when you do this?

Hawkes pushes more buttons.

TECHNICIAN: Get away from here. Guard!

HAWKES: What about all these?

TECHNICIAN: Guard! Guard! Guard!

Wang and Hawkes withdraw.

Cut back to McQueen and Ross.

ROSS: McQueen, you've had an ulterior motive from the moment you said go get it. What are you thinking?

Wang and Hawkes approach.

WANG: Sir, they've reversed the ship's navigational computer. It came from a planetary body in the Cerus region.

McQUEEN: That was what I was thinking. For six months we've been on the defensive. We haven't been able to even mount an offensive because until this moment we had no idea where they were based. Now we know where they're from, let's pay them a hostile visit.










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HOSTILE VISIT


WANG: We've got bandits.

McQUEEN: They've spiked us. We are a target.

VANSEN: Lock them.

McQUEEN: No. ... It's a recognition code. Send it back.

WANG: Roger that. Sending it back. ... It worked, sir, they think we're one of them.

HAWKES: Phew.

McQUEEN: We've got a long way to fly.

Time passes.

WANG: I'm reading a satellite in our ball park.

McQUEEN: It's a sentry.

WEST: If we take the ship much closer we might as well just ring the chigs doorbell.

WANG: It'll let us pass. It worked before. ... I'm sending it the recognition code.

VANSEN: It's locked on.

McQUEEN: Return the favour.

WANG: Locked.

VANSEN: Should be send them another recognition code?

WANG: To hell with it, they're going to find out we're here sooner or later. ... This is Lieutenant Nathan West, 58th Squadron, U.S. Marine Corps, Planet Earth, open wide!

They take out the sentry in orbit. Cheering.

WEST: Get that cluster missile ready, weapons.

McQUEEN: Get us a target, pilots.

WANG: We're entering their atmosphere. We're spiked. We've got missiles off the rails. Six o'clock. Eight o'clock. Five o'clock.

As they search for a target on the planet they experience a great deal of flak from the ground.

McQUEEN: Lock on! Lock on! Hold it steady. Steady, damn it.

HAWKES: What? You want steady or a missile up our pipes?

McQUEEN: We can't lock on. Steady out.

VANSEN: We're losing her.

WANG: I've got us a target.

WEST: Lock on! Lock on!

WANG: Target is locked.

HAWKES:{Let's} smoke their Chig [asses].

WEST: Remember the Tellus colony.

WANG: Fire.

A missile is fired but lands short.

McQUEEN: Missed. We missed.

WANG: How could we miss?

McQUEEN: Break right, break right. Missiles on our six, break right.

HAWKES: Eight-fox-three, our six, closing fast.

McQUEEN: Juke damn it, juke.

HAWKES: We are juking.

DAMPHOUSSE: This ship ... it's dying.

A panel in the wall lights up.

WEST: That tile, Shane, hit it, hit it. Colonel, Wang, get up here. We've found an escape pod.

They all leave their stations and make their way to the escape pod. Just after the pod is jettisoned from the ship, the ship explodes.

Cut to the Saratoga. We see a transport coming in to land.

FEMALE VOICE: Four-three-seven starboard loading port, cleared for arrival.

MALE VOICE: Roger, thank you.

The transport lands.

Cut to the command centre.

ROSS: Report, Connor.

CONNOR: No radio contact since transmission was broken off at 11.23 hours.

ROSS: I want to see a bomber on that lidar screen, Mr. Klein.

KLEIN: I'd like nothing better, Sir.










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Space: Above and Beyond Season 1 Episode 9

Hostile Visit (1)

Aired Sunday 7:00 PM Nov 19, 1995 on FOX

Quotes


Sewell: (when McQueen suggests using the captured Chig ship as a Trojan Horse) You'd risk the destruction of this invaluable piece of technology?

Col McQueen: I would risk the lives of invaluable men and women, if it meant finally put it down their throats!











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McQUEEN: Time to go. ... Wang? ... That's all right. ... It's a good day to die.

The 58th head towards the alien ship. The Saratoga's crew watch them.

McQUEEN'S VOICE: The dim glow falling upon the dried blood of union brothers in the Manassas eve, still guides our path. Constellations, hidden by fierce Pacific storms in the Bataan sky, remain obscured by rain.

CREWMAN: Good luck, guys.

McQUEEN: The stars, a billion for every life laid down in Vietnam, still shine on us and will guide those who follow.

HAWKES: What dead guy wrote that?

McQUEEN: I wrote it.

Ross joins them.

ROSS: Attention. Stand at ease.

WEST: Sir, should we not return may we ask that you attend to these remains.

West offers a matchbox full of nail clippings to Ross. At this moment Wang arrives and takes the box and puts the clippings in a box he's brought. Wang then gives the box to Ross.

WANG: This is how we go ... live or die.

McQUEEN: Let's make it happen.

VANSEN: Wang, did you wear the shirt?

WANG: No, I ... I kinda got lucky without it.

STROUD: Lieutenant, ... I got you a present. It's yours when you get back.










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STS-54

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Start of mission

Launch date 13 January 1993, 13:59:30 UTC

Launch site Kennedy LC-39B

End of mission

Landing date 19 January 1993, 13:37:47 UTC

Landing site Kennedy SLF Runway 33

STS-54 was a Space Transportation System (NASA Space Shuttle) mission using orbiter Endeavour. This was the third flight for Endeavour, and launched 13 January 1993.


Crew

Position Astronaut

Commander John H. Casper

Second spaceflight

Pilot Donald R. McMonagle

Second spaceflight

Mission Specialist 1 Mario Runco, Jr.

Second spaceflight

Mission Specialist 2 Gregory J. Harbaugh

Second spaceflight

Mission Specialist 3 Susan J. Helms

First spaceflight










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Apollo 13 (1995)

Quotes


William 'Bill' Pogue, CAPCOM: When I go up there on 19, I'm gonna take my entire collection of Johnny Cash










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The Seattle Times


Tuesday, January 19, 1993

Nation

Nation -- News In Brief

Times News Services

SHUTTLE LANDS AFTER COMPLETING 6-DAY MISSION

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Endeavour and its five astronauts returned to Earth today after a six-day shuttle mission that helped lay the groundwork for the space station.

The spaceship sailed through a hazy sky and landed at Kennedy Space Center.

Fog at Kennedy prevented Endeavour from landing at sunrise as planned and almost forced a detour to the backup site at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

NASA's first shuttle flight of 1993 included a 4 1/2-hour spacewalk to gain practice for the building of the space station in 1996, the release of a satellite to link spacecraft and Earth, and a demonstration for schoolchildren of how toys behave in weightlessness.

The astronauts accomplished the main goal of their mission - releasing a $200 million tracking satellite - a few hours after liftoff. A network of such satellites allows spacecraft such as the shuttle to remain in almost constant contact with Earth.

Columbia is scheduled to make the next shuttle flight in late February - a scientific-research mission with two German astronauts in its crew of seven. Endeavour is not scheduled to fly again until late April.










Space: Above and Beyond

Choice or Chance - Part 2

Sunday 26 November 1995

Episode 9 Season 1 DVD video:

00:43:32


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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=54956

The American Presidency Project

William J. Clinton

XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001

Remarks on Presenting the Congressional Gold Medal to President Nelson Mandela of South Africa

September 23, 1998










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National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center

Houston, Texas 77058

Biographical Data

SUSAN J. HELMS (LIEUTENANT GENERAL, USAF)

NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)

PERSONAL DATA: Born February 26, 1958, in Charlotte, North Carolina, but considers Portland, Oregon, to be her hometown. She enjoys piano and other musical activities, jogging, traveling, reading, computers and cooking.

EDUCATION: Graduated from Parkrose Senior High School, Portland, Oregon, in 1976; received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1980 and a Master of Science degree in Aeronautics/Astronautics from Stanford University in 1985.

ORGANIZATIONS: Women Military Aviators, U.S. Air Force Academy Association of Graduates, Stanford Alumni Association, Association of Space Explorers, Sea/Space Symposium, Chi Omega Alumni.

SPECIAL HONORS: Distinguished Superior Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Legion of Merit with three oak leaf clusters, Defense Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Meritorious Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, Air Force Commendation Medal, NASA Distinguished Service Medal, NASA Space Flight Medals and the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal. Named the Air Force Armament Laboratory Junior Engineer of the Year in 1983. A Distinguished Graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School and recipient of the R.L. Jones Award for Outstanding Flight Test Engineer, Class 88A. In 1990, she received the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment Commanding Officer's Commendation, a special award that is unique to the Canadian Forces. In 2008, she received both the Thomas D. White Award for Outstanding Contributions to Space and the Dr. Kurt H. Debus Award for Aerospace Achievements and Contributions in Florida. She was awarded the Russian Medal of Merit for Space Exploration in 2012 for her great contribution in the development of international cooperation in human space exploration. Helms was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2011.

EXPERIENCE: Helms graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1980. She received her commission and was assigned to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, as an F-16 Weapons Separation Engineer with the Air Force Armament Laboratory. In 1982, she became the lead engineer for F-15 weapons separation. In 1984, she was selected to attend graduate school. She received her degree from Stanford University in 1985 and was assigned as an assistant professor of aeronautics at the U.S. Air Force Academy. In 1987, she attended the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California. After completing one year of training as a Flight Test Engineer, Helms was assigned as a U.S. Air Force Exchange Officer to the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment, Canadian Forces Base, Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, where she worked as a Flight Test Engineer and project officer on the CF-18 aircraft. She was managing the development of a CF-18 Flight Control System Simulation for the Canadian Forces when selected for the astronaut program. As a Flight Test Engineer, Helms flew in 30 different types of U.S. and Canadian military aircraft.

After a 12-year NASA career that included 211 days in space, Helms returned to the U.S. Air Force in July 2002 to take a position at Headquarters U.S. Air Force Space Command. In June of 2006, she was appointed a Brigadier General and became Commander of the 45th Space Wing and Director, Eastern Range, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida. As the 45th Space Wing Commander, she was responsible for the processing and launch of U.S. Government and commercial satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. From November 2006 to January 2011 she served as the Director of Plans and Policy for the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, where she earned the rank of Major General. In 2011, she was appointed to the rank of Lieutenant General and became Commander, 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic), Air Force Space Command and Commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Space (JFCC SPACE), USSTRATCOM, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. As the Commander of 14th Air Force, General Helms leads more than 20,500 personnel, who are responsible for providing missile warning, space superiority, space situational awareness, satellite operations, space launch and range operations. As Commander, JFCC SPACE, she directs all assigned and attached USSTRACOM forces in providing tailored, responsive, local and global space effects in support of national, USSTRATCOM and combatant commander objectives.

NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in January 1990, Helms became an astronaut in July 1991. She flew on STS-54 (1993), STS-64 (1994), STS-78 (1996), STS-101 (2000) and served aboard the International Space Station as a member of the Expedition 2 crew (2001). A veteran of five spaceflights, Helms has logged 5,064 hours in space, including a spacewalk of 8 hours and 56 minutes (world record).

SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: STS-54 Endeavour, January 13 to January 19, 1993. The primary objective of this mission was the deploy of a $200 million NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-F). A Diffuse X-Ray Spectrometer (DXS) that was carried in the payload bay collected more than 80,000 seconds of quality X-ray data that will enable investigators to answer questions about the origin of the Milky Way galaxy. The crew demonstrated the physics principles of everyday toys to an interactive audience of elementary school students across the United States. A highly successful spacewalk resulted in many lessons learned that benefitted the assembly of the International Space Station. Mission duration was 5 days, 23 hours, 38 minutes and 17 seconds.

STS-64 Discovery, September 9 to September 20, 1994. On this flight, Helms served as the flight engineer for orbiter operations and the primary Remote Manipulator System (RMS) operator aboard the space shuttle. The major objective of this flight was to validate the design and operating characteristics of the Lidar in Space Technology Experiment (LITE) by gathering data about the Earth's troposphere and stratosphere. Additional objectives included the deploy and retrieval of SPARTAN-201, a free-flying satellite that investigated the physics of the solar corona and the testing of a new spacewalk maneuvering device. The Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight Experiment (SPIFEX) was used to collect extensive data on the effects of jet thruster impingement in preparation for proximity tasks, such as space station docking. Mission duration was 10 days, 22 hours and 51 minutes.

STS-78 Columbia, June 20 to July 7, 1996. Helms was the payload commander and flight engineer aboard Columbia on the longest space shuttle mission at that time. The mission included studies sponsored by 10 nations and five space agencies and was the first mission to combine both a full microgravity studies agenda and a comprehensive life science investigation. The Life and Microgravity Spacelab mission served as a model for future studies onboard the International Space Station. Mission duration was 16 days, 21 hours and 48 minutes.

STS-101 Atlantis, May 19 to May 29, 2000. This mission was dedicated to the delivery and repair of critical hardware for the International Space Station. Helms' prime responsibilities during this mission were to perform critical repairs to extend the life of the Functional Cargo Block (FGB). In addition, she had prime responsibility of the onboard computer network and served as the mission specialist for rendezvous with the station. Mission duration was 9 days, 20 hours and 9 minutes.

Helms lived and worked aboard the International Space Station as a member of the second crew to inhabit International Space Station Alpha. The Expedition 2 crew (two American astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut) launched on March 8, 2001 aboard STS-102 Discovery and successfully docked with the station on March 9, 2001. The Expedition 2 crew installed and conducted tests on the Canadian-built Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) arm and conducted internal and external maintenance tasks (Russian and American) in addition to medical and science experiments. During her stay onboard the station, Helms installed the airlock (transported on the STS-104 mission) using the SSRMS. She and her crewmates also performed a fly-around of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and welcomed the visiting Soyuz crew, which included the first space tourist. On March 11, she performed a world record 8 hour and 56 minute spacewalk to install hardware to the external body of the laboratory module. Helms spent a total of 163 days aboard the space station. She returned to Earth with the STS-105 crew aboard Discovery on August 22, 2001.










From 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 who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/18/1999 is 2524 days

2524 = 1262 + 1262

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 4/17/1969 ( premiere US film "Salesman" ) is 1262 days



From 3/31/1928 ( premiere US film "Earl Burtnett and His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra" ) To 12/18/1999 is 26194 days

26194 = 13097 + 13097

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 9/11/2001 ( the scheduled terrorist attack by force of violence to destroy the New York City World Trade Center and the Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense "The Pentagon" by Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal with massive fatalities and destruction ) is 13097 days



From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 12/18/1999 is 1877 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 12/23/1970 ( the "topping out" ceremony for the North Tower World Trade Center New York City ) is 1877 days



From 1/16/1925 ( Jesse Junior Taylor ) To 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) is 12464 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 12/18/1999 is 12464 days



From 9/27/1984 ( "UA from class from 0600-0800" ) To 12/18/1999 is 5560 days

5560 = 2780 + 2780

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 6/13/1973 ( premiere US TV series "Thicker Than Water" ) is 2780 days



From 2/8/1968 ( premiere US film "Planet of the Apes" ) To 12/18/1999 is 11636 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 9/11/1997 ( premiere US TV series "Between Brothers" ) is 11636 days



From 9/13/1941 ( premiere US film "Navy Blues" ) To 12/18/1999 is 21280 days

21280 = 10640 + 10640

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 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days



From 10/18/1922 ( the BBC is founded ) To 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 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 24928 days

24928 = 12464 + 12464

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 12/18/1999 is 12464 days



From 10/18/1922 ( the BBC is founded ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 24928 days

24928 = 12464 + 12464

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 12/18/1999 is 12464 days



From 5/25/1990 ( premiere US film "Fire Birds" ) To 12/18/1999 is 3494 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 5/28/1975 ( premiere US TV movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" ) is 3494 days



From 9/4/1987 ( premiere US film "Penitentiary III" ) To 12/18/1999 is 4488 days

4488 = 2244 + 2244

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 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) is 2244 days



[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/08/to-find-freedom-on-our-shores.html ]


http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=57098

The American Presidency Project

William J. Clinton

XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001

The President's Radio Address

December 18, 1999

Good morning. The holiday season is a time when America's remarkable religious diversity shines brightest in so many homes and different places of worship and schools. Today I want to talk to you about the role of faith in our lives, in all of our religious diversity, and, particularly, in the education of our children.

America's Founders were men and women of faith, many of whom fled oppression overseas to find freedom on our shores.










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-64


STS-64

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

STS-64 was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission to perform multiple experiment packages. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 9 September 1994.


Crew

Position Astronaut

Commander Richard N. Richards

Fourth spaceflight

Pilot L. Blaine Hammond, Jr.

Second spaceflight

Mission Specialist 1 Jerry M. Linenger

First spaceflight

Mission Specialist 2 Susan J. Helms

Second spaceflight

Mission Specialist 3 Carl J. Meade

Third spaceflight

Mission Specialist 4 Mark C. Lee

Third spaceflight

Spacewalks

Lee and Meade – EVA 1

EVA 1 Start: 16 September 1994 – 14:42 UTC

EVA 1 End: 16 September 1994 - 21:33 UTC

Duration: 6 hours, 51 minutes










http://movie.subtitlr.com/subtitle/show/34409


Flatliners (1990)


- Hoka hey. - What did you say?
Hoka hey. It's the war cry of the Sioux Indians.










http://fanficflightdeck.space-readyroom.de/

SPACE:AAB FANFIC FLIGHTDECK


HOSTILE VISIT


STROUD: Lieutenant, ... I got you a present. It's yours when you get back.

The 58th board the alien ship.

Cut to an outside view of the Saratoga where the alien ship will be launched from.

WEST'S VOICE: Homebase, homebase. This is King of Hearts. We're in the slot.

Cut to command centre.

ROSS: You are good to go King of Hearts. Expect vector two-three-five, five mikes after departure.

The alien ship leaves the Saratoga.

WEST'S VOICE: Roger that. Two-niner-six-niner-seven-zero in five mikes.

Cut to command centre.

ROSS: Switch frequency to three-two-three point one. Squawk is five-one-five-four.

Cut to alien ship.

WEST: Roger, five-one-five-four. See you in a few hours.

Cut to command centre.

ROSS: Godspeed, wild cards.

Cut to alien ship.

McQUEEN: Wang, man the bombardier station.

McQueen belts Wang in.

McQUEEN: All right, look alive. We're across the Von Braun line. This is behind enemy lines.

McQueen sits and belts himself in. Three alien ships approach them.

WANG: We've got bandits.

McQUEEN: They've spiked us. We are a target.

VANSEN: Lock them.

McQUEEN: No. ... It's a recognition code. Send it back.

WANG: Roger that. Sending it back. ... It worked, sir, they think we're one of them.

HAWKES: Phew.

McQUEEN: We've got a long way to fly.

Time passes.

WANG: I'm reading a satellite in our ball park.

McQUEEN: It's a sentry.

WEST: If we take the ship much closer we might as well just ring the chigs doorbell.











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http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season4/galactica-404.htm

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

4X04 - ESCAPE VELOCITY

ORIGINAL AIRDATE (SciFi): 25-APR-2008


Chief: I don't even know what I am anymore. I don't know which of my memories are real. I don't know that I've had one action in my life that isn't programmed.

Tory, kneeling: Galen, you're perfect. You don't need guilt. We were made to be perfect.

Tigh: What is that? More of Baltar's crap?

(Tory stands up again.)

Chief: So... You just live without guilt?

Tory: Just ... shut it down.

Chief: No, that wasn't the deal. Colonel, you said it yourself. "Be the man you want to be till the day you die." We're still the same people, aren't we?

Tigh: Of course we are. (To Tory) You shut up.

Tory: That is not the same as human. Like, we're stronger. Right?

Tigh: Chief, what you're feeling is what a man feels when this happens. It's normal, and it's human. And it's not gonna end anytime soon. It'll be there every day. You'll see her every day. You'll see her...

(Chief looks at Tigh, worried, and Tigh snaps out of it, looking from one to the other.)

Tigh: Be a man, Chief. Feel what you gotta feel. But don't risk us. Come on, Tory.

Tory: Just think about it. Think about what we are. What we can do.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:23 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 06 December 2014