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Better Call Saul Season 1 Episode 4
Hero
Aired Monday 10:00 PM Feb 23, 2015 on AMC
AIRED: 2/23/15
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Better Call Saul
Hero
Ask yourself this who found you? - (Chuckles) - I don't see Howard Hamlin ruining his $300 Gucci loafers out here.
If you're with me, you're my number-one client.
Morning, noon, or night, you call me I'm there.
I would be singularly devoted to you.
(Chuckling) But why not? I'm sorry.
[ Betsy Kettleman: ] You're just
[ Jimmy McGill: ] Just I'm what?
[ Betsy Kettleman: ] You're the kind of lawyer guilty people hire.
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The Seattle Times
Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Ashcroft bows out of probe into leak of agent's name
By Seattle Times news services
WASHINGTON — Attorney General John Ashcroft yesterday bowed out of the politically charged investigation into who leaked the name of a covert CIA officer, an action that suggests the probe could touch people in the Bush administration who have ties to Ashcroft.
Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, was named as a special prosecutor to handle the investigation. Fitzgerald will report to Deputy Attorney General James Comey but was given "the power and authority to make whatever prosecutorial judgment he needs," Comey said.
"The attorney general, in an abundance of caution, believed that his recusal was appropriate based on the totality of the circumstances and the facts and evidence developed at this stage of the investigation," Comey said at a news conference yesterday.
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The Seattle Times
Wednesday, July 6, 2005
Reporter for New York Times sent to jail
By Pete Yost
The Associated Press
Prosecutor demands Time reporter testify
WASHINGTON — A federal judge today jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller for refusing to divulge her source to a grand jury investigating the Bush administration's leak of an undercover CIA operative's name.
"There is still a realistic possibility that confinement might cause her to testify," U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan said.
Miller stood up, hugged her lawyer and was escorted from the courtroom.
Earlier, Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper, in an about-face, told Hogan that he would now cooperate with a federal prosecutor's investigation into the leak of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame because his source gave him specific authority to discuss their conversation. "I am prepared to testify. I will comply" with the court's order, Cooper said.
Cooper took the podium in the court and told the judge, "Last night I hugged my son goodbye and told him it might be a long time before I see him again."
"I went to bed ready to accept the sanctions" for not testifying, Cooper said. But he told the judge that not long before his early afternoon appearance, he had received "in somewhat dramatic fashion" a direct personal communication from his source freeing him from his commitment to keep the source's identity secret.
As for Miller, unless she decides to talk, she will be held until the grand jury ends its work in October. The judge speculated that Miller's confinement might cause her source to give her a more specific waiver of confidentiality, as did Cooper's.
Cooper, talking to reporters afterward, called it "a sad time."
"My heart goes out to Judy. I told her as she left the court to stay strong," Cooper added. "I think this clearly points out the need for some kind of a national shield law. There is no federal shield law and that is why we find ourselves here today."
"Judy Miller made a commitment to her source and she's standing by it," New York Times executive editor Bill Keller told reporters.
"Judy Miller has not been accused of a crime or convicted of a crime," Abrams said. "She has been held in civil contempt of court."
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Nov. 10, 1975: Edmund Fitzgerald reported missing
Posted by: Ben Welter under Minnesota History, Disasters Updated: November 10, 2014 - 10:57 AM
Cargo ship, crew
Of 35 missing
in Lake Superior
By Harley Sorensen
Staff Writer
A cargo ship with 35 crew members was reported missing Monday night in treacherous waters in Lake Superior, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The 729-foot Edmund Fitzgerald was last heard from at about 7:30 p.m. about 15 miles north of Whitefish Point near Sault Ste. Marie off the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, officials said.
The ship radioed coast guard officials at Sault Ste. Marie that it was taking water. The coast guard asked another vessel, the Arthur M. Anderson, to follow the Fitzgerald.
A spokesman for the U.S. Steel Great Lakes fleet said he learned the Anderson was following the Fitzgerald at a distance of about five miles in an easterly direction toward Sault Ste. Marie. He said the Anderson, a U.S. Steel fleet vessel, reported that the Fitzgerald disappeared from sight and the radar scope at about the same time.
The Associated Press said the Fitzgerald departed Duluth-Superior at 1:15 p.m. Sunday with a cargo of 26,216 tons of taconite pellets loaded at the Burlington Northern docks in Superior.
However, a spokesman for Oglebay-Norton Co. Cleveland, the ship’s owner, said, that the Fitzgerald departed Silver Bay, Minn., Sunday bound for Great Lakes Steel Co. in Detroit.
Ed Schmid, assistant to the president of Reserve Mining Co., Silver Bay, said the Fitzgerald is the largest ship to come into Silver Bay. He said Silver Bay is its most frequent port of call.
The coast guard in Duluth said that a 180-foot seagoing buoy tender, the Woodrush, left Duluth last night to search for the Fitzgerald. He said a coast guard tugboat, the Nawgatuck, departed Sault Ste. Marie in the search. Also, he said, airplanes from an air force base in Michigan joined in the search. An Oglebay-Norton spokesman said shortly before midnight that “we haven’t given up hope yet.”
A coast guard spokesman said bad weather had plagued the search. “The seas are so bad,” he said, “it’s almost hazardous for a boat to go out tonight.”
Waves in the area were reported at 25 feet high. They were accompanied by winds gusting to 75 miles per hour, the coast guard said.
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Zhou Enlai
Premier of China
Zhou Enlai, Wade-Giles romanization Chou En-lai (born March 5, 1898, Huai’an, Jiangsu province, China—died Jan. 8, 1976, Beijing), leading figure in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and premier (1949–76) and foreign minister (1949–58) of the People’s Republic of China, who played a major role in the Chinese Revolution and later in the conduct of China’s foreign relations. He was an important member of the CCP from its beginnings in 1921 and became one of the great negotiators of the 20th century and a master of policy implementation, with infinite capacity for details. He survived internecine purges, always managing to retain his ... (100 of 1,404 words)
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The Final Countdown (1980)
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Mach Match
Did an XP-86 beat Yeager to the punch?
By Al Blackburn
AIR & SPACE MAGAZINE
JANUARY 1999
Editors’ note: October 14, 1947, was a day of undercover celebration at the Muroc Army Air Field in California’s Mojave Desert. Captain Chuck Yeager had broken the so-called sound barrier in the experimental Bell XS-1, and the news was immediately locked away in the vaults of the newly independent U.S. Air Force and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Although the X-1 program was classified and there were no independent observers, Yeager was able to claim an official record because all airspeed, Mach number, pressure, and temperature data from test flights were tracked, recorded, and documented. Such documentation, like that produced by the Wright brothers, who painstakingly recorded all details of their flights, ensures an unassailable place in history
But there was another high-speed experimental aircraft flying over the desert that autumn. And although claims that the North American XP-86 achieved Mach 1 are merely anecdotal, Al Blackburn, a former North American test pilot, interviewed eyewitnesses, researched historical accounts, and reconstructed the events of those memorable months in the 1998 book Aces Wild: The Race for Mach 1, from which this excerpt has been adapted.
Going supersonic for the first time is clearly a historic aeronautical event, just as the Wright brothers’ first flights are. But I can never remember which brother did it first. They did it on the same day, and whether it was Wilbur, then Orville, or Orville, then Wilbur, doesn’t seem to matter much. In the supersonic event, was it George Welch, then Chuck Yeager, or Yeager, then Welch? Looking at the record, it could have been Welch by a fortnight or Yeager by four weeks.
The fall of 1947 in California’s Mojave Desert was an incandescent time to be alive—for the crazy-ass pilots who were testing myriad new aircraft and for the lovely, loving, hopeful ladies who attended their safe return. So soon after the war, the prevailing mood was akin to the euphoria of victory but blessed with much smaller casualty lists. Much of the exhilaration centered on a little orange rocketship being sent aloft from Muroc Army Air Field with growing frequency, attched to a B-29 mothership. Everyone knew that this represented a substantial national effort, bringing together the resources of the U.S. Army Air Forces (soon to be renamed the US Air Force), the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and the Bell Aircraft Company to launch the first manned aircraft design solely to fly faster than sound.
The word from the X-1 camp at Muroc was that Army Air Forces Captain Chuck Yeager had come very close to going supersonic on September 12. Surely on the next flight he would push it through. But then the X-1 flights were postponed. Rumors of a seirous pitch control problem drifted out of the Bell camp. There was evidence of a lot of scrambling. Yeager was pressing fellow pilot and engineer Jack Ridley, the one man on the X-1 team in whose hands he’d entrust his life. He wanted Ridley’s assurances that the changes would work—he wanted no more running out of pitch control at Mach .94.
North American test pilot George Welch could only smile as these tales leaked out of traded confiences. His money was on another contender. The first XP-86 aircraft, Army Air Forces serial number PU597, was rolled out of his company’s plant in Los Angeles on August 8. The more involved Welch had gotten in the development of the Sabre, the more he was convinced that he could capture the laurels of the first supersonic flight for North American Aviation.
Welch had joined North American in the middle of 1944, at the height of the war and the peak of demand for North American’s prime product, the P-51 Mustang. He’d been there only a month or two when Fred Borsodi visited from Wright Field and showed his film of shock waves on a Mustang’s wings as it dove at max power straight down from 40,000 feet. Theodore von Kármán, the legendary aerodynamicist from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, was at that screening, and observed that when an entire aircraft, not just the air accelerating over the thickest part of the wing, went supersonic, shock waves would be sent to the ground. He theorized that people nearby would hear and feel the passing of that pressure pulse. Listening intently to all this were Ed Horkey, a former student of von Kármán’s and Harrison Storms and Larry Greene, who were leaders in the aerodynamics section of North American’s advance design group. Another observer was George Welch.
Over the next three years, Welch stayed in touch with Horkey, Storms, and Greene as they created the XP-86. And he spent time with Walt Spivak, who had cut out the pieces and put them together on the shop floor. Welch also spent a lot of time in the Sabre’s cockpit at Muroc and observed the flight test crew as they checked out all the systems and instrumentation for this sleek new fighter.
Welch knew that the engineers had carefully reviewed the analytical data and wind tunnel test results the Germans had obtained from their swept-wing designs, and that North American had also run its own wind tunnel tests. Storms told him that they were almost certain that top speed at altitude would be better than Mach 0.9 in level flight. He explained to Welch that at that Mach number, the center of lift would start to move aft on the wing and that he would have to pull back on the stick and start trimming…but very carefully. Changing the angle of the whole stabilizer at that speed and a changing Mach number could get pretty tricky.
“So I’m doing nine-tenths at, say, 35,000 feet and push the nose over into a 25- to 30-degree dive. What then?” Welch asked the designers.
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Greene couldn’t contain himself. “By 30,000 feet you’re supersonic.”
“What’s the risk?”
Greene shook his head. “We really don’t know. Our best guess is that it’s not very great.”
“My guess is virtually zero,” Welch said. He described a recent visit to New Mexico, where he’d spent the night just south of the Army’s White Sands Missile Test Range. Another group of experimenters there were launching V-2 missiles brought from Germany. Welch talked to several men who had witnessed some launches, and they told him about the blasts of shock waves that hit the mountain top about 30 seconds after each V-2 had taken off. “A big ba-boom just like von Kármán predicted,” Welch said. “Hell, that V-2 is bigger than the Sabre, or the X-1 for that matter, and it slides through the so-called sonic wall like a surfer riding a big wave.” Welch thought that too big a deal was being made over faster-than-sound flights, a theory he intended to test.
Welch came to Muroc in September and stayed at his usual hangout, Pancho Barnes’ Fly Inn, later to be named the Happy Bottom Riding Club. It comprised some 400 acres bordering Muroc Field on the south. In addition to rooms, there were suites, a restaurant, a bar, a swimming pool, riding stables, and airsrip. Many of the North American crew would show up—flight test supervisor Roy Ferren and flight test mechanic Bob Cadick—as well as members of the X-1 team: NACA leader Walt Williams, Jack Ridley, Chuck Yeager, and Bell project engineer Dick Frost. The usual bevy of Pancho’d down-on-their-luck ladies added their own leaven of lust and luster in more or less equal measure. Pancho herself was unique. Born wealthy of distinguished forebears, she chose what might be called today an alternative lifestyle. Her friends included Jimmy Doolittle, Chuck Yeager, Buzz Aldrin, and many of the Hollywood set, for whom she had done stunt flying in the early days of aviation films. Her conversation was punctuated with obscenities that would make a boatswain’s mate blush.
Among the ladies at Pancho’s, Welch had formed a special relationship with one Millie Palmer. Palmer was quieter and more serious than most of the other girls. When Welch and Palmer had dinner together at Pancho’s, he drank less and got to bed earlier.
On Monday evening, September 29, after some XP-86 taxi tests, Welch was at Pancho’s having dinner with Palmer. He was quietly pleased at how well the first outing had gone. He noted that the X-1 crowd looked pretty glum. The little rocketship hadn’t flown in more than two weeks. Palmer reported the rumor that Ridley was working on giving Yeager more pitch control through the trim mechanism. “It looks as though Wednesday is my big chance,” Welch told Palmer. “A supersonic dive is for sure not on the flight card for the first flight, so I’ll have to do it without recording data. It’s agreed that I’ll pull up the landing gear, just to get a feel for how it flies in the clean condition. Without making a record in the usual way, you’ll have to be my data bank. If on Wednesday morning you hear a sharp boom like a clap of thunder, be sure and write it down—what it sounded like, what time, reaction from others, stuff like that.”
The first flight of the XP-86 did indeed take place on Wednesday, October 1. Welch climbed with full power to 10,000 feet above sea level, which was 7,700 feet above the Mojave Desert floor. On his wing was North American engineering test pilot Bob Chilton in a P-82 Twin Mustang. The right cockpit of the dual-fuselage fighter was occupied by a cameraman.
In a little more than 10 minutes, Welch had reach 35,000 feet. Leveling out, he watch the indicated airspeed climb to 320 knots. He estimated that should be Mach 0.90. He had been heading east and was just passing over the El Mirage dry lake. Rolling into a 40-degree dive, he turned to the west. His aircraft was pointing at Pancho’s hacienda, several miles south of Rogers Dry Lake. The airspeed indicator seemed to be stuck at about 350 knots, but the Sabre was behaving just fine. At 29,000 feet there was a little wing roll. Correcting the roll, Welch pushed into a steeper dive. The airspeed indicator suddenly jumped to 410 knots and continued to rise. At 25,000 feet he brought the Sabre back to level flight and reduced power. The wing rocked again and the airspeed jumped from nearly 450 back to 390. Welch pulled up into a barrel roll to the left followed by one to the right, not unlike the victory rolls used in the recent war by returned fighter pilots to let their crews know they had bagged an enemy aircraft.
Before he left for Los Angeles to brief the Sabre project people, Welch called Palmer, who reported that a big ba-boom had nearly bounced her out of bed. She added that Pancho, a big Yeager supporter, had heard it too but attributed it to some mining operation up in the hills.
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(Bell program manager Dick Frost recalled the first boom laid down on the dry lake in February 1947 as Bell pilot Slick Goodlin did his crack-the-whip maneuver in the X-1 model with the thicker wing, pulling 8.7 Gs at Mach 0.80 and snapping back abruptly, to negative Gs. It was a sharp crack, not the ba-boom that would later become so familiar over the Mojave.
After the first flight of the XP-86, Welch dropped into Horkey’s office at the Inglewood plant in Los Angeles to talk about some “funny” readings on the airspeed indicator. He explained the “stuck” phenomenon he encountered at 350 knots while accelerating downhill, then the sudden jump to 410 knots, then the drop back to 350 knots as he leveled out at 25,000 feet. Horkey asked if the flight recorder showed anything odd. Welch confessed that the dive wasn’t on the flight card. “I was just feeling it out, so I wasn’t running the camera,” he told Horkey. “You know how brassed off the instrumentation guys get when I run out of film for the landing. Anyway, they said there wasn’t anything wrong with the airspeed system. They checked it out after I landed.”
Horkey thought Welch may have run into some Mach effects and told him to take another look next time he was up at altitude. (Down the road, before Mach indicators became standard equipment, the only signal to the pilot that the aircraft was going supersonic was the hangup on the airspeed indicator as the shock wave passed over the indicator’s static source, followed by the hump in the indicated airspeed. This occurred at various airspeeds, depending on the altitude and temperature at which Mach 1 was exceeded.)
“Meanwhile, I’ll see about getting NACA to help us out,” Horkey said. “They have that fancy new radar theodolite at Muroc that can tell us how fast, how high, and where you are within a gnat’s ass. But we have to get on their schedule.”
Welch knew that the new NACA equipment was being used to track Yeager’s lights in the X-1. He also knew that North American didn’t have a prayer of getting on the theodolite until Yeager had done his thing. Welch was on his own.
On October 9, Welch’s wife delivered a baby boy. When she called her mother to announce the birth, she also dropped the news of another blessed event. The new dad had days earlier made aviation history by becoming the first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound. She made her mother promise not to tell anyone, explaining that it wasn’t just a family confidence, but a military secret.
One week after Welch had pushed the XP-86 over into what he believed was a Mach 1 dive, the X-1 flew at Mach 0.925, faster than the Mach 0.92 achieved on October 10. Yeager was sure he had done it. Ridley had worked his magic on the horizontal stabilizer trim mechanism and Yeager was certain he had popped through. The entire X-1 flight test team was at Pancho’s that Friday evening waiting for the data reduction people to show up with the official figures. Yeager and Pancho were huddled in a corner. The X-1 pilot had a furrowed brow. He was trying to explain to Pancho that he might not have been pointing toward the Fly Inn when he finally pushed through the big barrier. That might explain the absence of a boom earlier in the day, when he was virtually certain he had finally made the first supersonic flight. When Pancho pointed out that Welch had sure made one hell of a boom more than a week ago, Yeager insisted that it was just a fluke. Pancho arched her eyebrows and noted that it had heated up a stable full of fillies at her hacienda.
Then the data sifters showed up, half elated, half despondent. Yeager had gone a lot faster than ever before. He had come as close as you can get and still had not made the ultimate penetration. The most careful analysis showed that on the morning flight, the X-1 had attained Mach 0.997. Another pint of rocket fuel and it would have slid through.
On October 13, Welch called Ferren to check on the status of the Sabre, which Ferren reported would be ready first thing next morning. “By the way, L.A. is insisting that like the last two flights, the next one be made with the gear down, ” he added.
“We can focus on gear-down tests on the next two flights, but I want the option to retract the gear if I need to,” Welch replied, his mind working at warp speed. Why were they doing this? Was the Air Force making sure there would be no more surprise, albeit unofficial, booms?
Early Tuesday morning, October 14, Welch taxied the company Navion onto the ramp of North American’s hangar at Muroc’s North Base. The XP-86 had already been rolled out. Also on the ramp was the P-82 chase plane. Fellow test pilot Bob Chilton would be flying chase again.
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“The Air Force is kinda looking down our throats on this flight, aren’t they?” said Chilton. He also knew that Yeager might bust Mach 1 that morning, and, knowing what Welch was up to, noted that there might be an awkward 15 minutes between Welch’s reported performance of test card maneuvers and his eventual return to base. He suggested that Welch stretch out the test card, letting the narration over the radio trail the actual performance of the maneuvers. That way, when people on the ground heard a boom, they might think it was Yeager.
Welch climbed to the 10,000 feet and ran through the lateral and directional stability checks on the test card, but he reported the results via radio to the North American flight test engineer at Muroc on only half of them. He retracted the landing gear and waited for Chilton to slide underneath to check on his gear doors. Chilton gave him a thumbs-up and Welch advanced the throttle to full military power. During his climb to 37,000 feet, he kept reading out the results of the tests not yet reported. As he reached his altitude goal, 2,000 feet above the starting point for his successful sound barrier penetration of nearly two weeks earlier, he once more rolled into a dive of at least 40 degrees and headed westward with the nose of his Sabre pointing directly at Pancho’s. On the way down, he called out the results of the next to last test point on the card.
Once again he experience some wing roll as his airspeed indicator hung up, then popped through to greater readings. Because he had started at a higher altitude, the Mach-related transients were less pronounced than they had been on the first flight. Instead of a gentle, throttle-back recovery like he’d flown on that first outing, Welch left full power on and performed a four-G pull-up, little realizing that this would greatly increase the impact of the shock wave aimed at Pancho’s place. He carefully throttled back and called off his last point on the test card as though he had just completed it.
Welch had shut down and dismounted and was heading for the locker room to drop his parachute and helmet before debriefing with the flight-test engineers when he heard a distant but distinct ba-boom. His watch read 10:30.
A security clamp was immediately placed on Yeager’s penetration of the sound barrier. Consequently, a celebration at Pancho’s was out of the question. Instead the X-1 team started their whoop-de-do at Yeager’s house, and later, when Yeager ran out of booze, they adjourned to Dick Frost’s. It’s not that Pancho’s closed down for the evening. The North American crew showed up, if only to get a reading from their own highly sensitized boom detectors at Pancho’s. Welch and North American pilot Bud Poage were making careful mental notations while ascribing all credit to Yeager and the X-1. Both Millie Palmer and Mona (soon to be Poage’s bride) were on hand to provide authentication, especially of the first boom, which cracked a couple of windows in two of the rooms facing east. Major General Joe Swing, a Pancho’s regular, found it strange that there were two ba-booms some 20 minutes apart. Didn’t it take at least two days to get the X-1 ready to fly again? With only four minutes of fuel at best, it certainly couldn’t make two ba-booms in such a short interval. Welch shrugged and suggested with a straight face that maybe a V-2 had flown off course out of White Sands.
Welch flew the Sabre the next morning. The following week he made four flights and the subsequent Monday, October 27, he flew four flights in one day. He then surrendered the Sabre to Bob Chilton for a couple of familiarization flights. Chilton was no shrinking violet. It is entirely possibly he laid a boom or two on his own. On November 3, Welch commenced a series of high-Mach dive flights, so labeled in his flight log.
This persistent barrage of ba-booms at the Air Force test base finally precipitated permission to use the high-precision radar theodolite facility that had confirmed Yeager’s climb to immortality. Welch’s dives in the Sabre were measured during two flights on November 13. His first dive was clocked at Mach 1.02, the second at 1.04. The ba-booms were finally officially acknowledged, but only under tight security. The North American flight test reports are asterisked with a notation that data concerning speeds in excess of Mach 0.90 have been detailed in an amplifying document under higher security. This amplifying data could not be found in the North American archives. In Welch’s handwritten flight log, these flights are variously classified as “Hi Mach No. Dive” or simply “Hi Mach.” Between November 3, 1947, and the end of February 1948, Welch flew 23 flights in the XP-86 that are so characterized. Almost certainly each flight included at least one incursion into the realm of the supersonic. More likely two or three were made per flight. By way of comparison, during the same four-month period, the X-1 made seven flights, attaining supersonic speed on three of them, but no more than once per flight.
The Air Force’s Wright Field XP-86 project officer, Major Ken Chilstrom, gave a glowing report on the aircraft while flying it to a maximum altitude of 45,000 feet and a Mach number of 0.90 during Phase II evaluation in early December 1947. Why didn’t Chilstrom push the Sabre through the sound barrier? Probably because he was Colonel Boyd’s chief of fighter test. Al Boyd kept a tight reign on Air Force Flight test operations. He had just carefully nursed Yeager through Mach 1 after 28 flights spread over a year and a half. He no doubt had difficulty even conceiving that a prototype fighter only two months past its first flight could be ready to explore the supersonic realm. He was a great friend of Pancho’s and had no doubt heard the rumors that floated out of her hacienda of Sabre ba-booms. But the fall of 1947 was an era in which the sonic boom phenomenon was not yet broadly understood, even by technically very sophisticated people. Pancho had assembled some very nice young ladies, but none were CalTech graduates. Moreover, such knowledge as might have surfaced as a consequence of Yeager’s flight was still highly classified. Similar restrictions were applied to details of the Sabre dances.
Boyd was keenly aware of his route to stardom. He knew the X-1 program has special protection from high places. Being first to go supersonic was important to the Air Force. For the Bell Aircraft Company, it was absolutely vital. The X-1’s sole purpose was to pave a way through the sound barrier. Millions of taxpayer dollars had been spent to make that happen. Now it had been done. For North American Aviation to come along and say “Hey, what’s the big deal? Our new fighter does it as an incidental piece of cake” certainly wasn’t going to be helpful. Boyd could see that it was in the Air Force’s best interests that the X-1 be clearly first by a considerable margin and that the Sabre rattling be quelled as long as it might take to keep the press away.
The Air Force wanted Yeager to push the mark a little higher. On November 6, Yeager raised the mark to Mach 1.35 at 48,600 feet. When the number two X-1 was ready for NACA, the Langley leadership wanted to make sure one of their pilots—Herb Hoover—became the first civilian to break the sound barrier. On March 10, 1948, Hoover flew the NACA X-1 to Mach 1.065. At that point, North American Aviation and the Air Force deemed it acceptable to announce that the Sabre had indeed gone supersonic as of April 26, a month a half after Hoover managed to struggle through.
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We know for certain that the number one XP-86 Sabre prototype did fly faster than the speed of sound, to Mach 1.02 and 1.04, as measured on the Muroc radar theodolite, on the two flights of November 13, 1947. Anecdotally, we know Welch was taking the Sabre supersonic as early as November 3, according to his logbook. But the reason for conducting those high-Mach exploratory flights in the first place was that Welch had complained to Ed Horkey about funny jumps in his airspeed indicator before any “Hi-Mach No.” flights were scheduled. That would mean that on one or more of the Sabre flights in October, a supersonic excursion took place. For those who insist “Welch did it first,” this would have had to have been on October 1, or on the fourth flight, prior to 10:30 a.m. Pacific time on October 14. Supporting the notion that Welch did in fact become the first Mach buster on October 1 is Jan Welch’s call to her mother on October 10 or 11 to report the birth of a son on the 9th, and incidentally to announce the hush-hush fact that Welch had gone supersonic. Jimmy Williams, Jan’s younger brother remembered the call: His mother couldn’t tell whether Jan was more pleased with the new baby or Welch’s latest aerial exploit. Also attesting to the belief that Welch did it before Yeager are the affirmation of Bud Poage, Bob Cadick, Joe Swing, several of Pancho’s girls, and scores of others.
Could anyone believe that in the supersonic sweepstakes a competent but wholly apolitical company could mount a meaningful challenge to the massively supported--both technically and politically—orange rocketship? What could be worse form than to rain on their parade, to cop their prize with a loud ba-boom, and then to shrug it all off as just another of the incidental challenges that must be met and mastered en route to building better fighters? For the truly dedicated, it’s not so hard to say “Leave the laurels to those who need and want them most, we have a job to do,” then laugh all the way to Pancho’s to needle the old gal about betting on the wrong contender.
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George Welch (pilot)
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George Welch (May 10, 1918 – October 12, 1954) was a World War II flying ace, a Medal of Honor nominee, and an experimental aircraft pilot after the war. Welch is best known for being one of the few United States Army Air Corps fighter pilots able to get airborne to engage Japanese forces in the attack on Pearl Harbor and for his work as a test pilot.
Welch retired from the United States Army Air Forces as a major in 1944, and became a test pilot for North American Aviation, receiving some notoriety for reportedly being the first pilot to exceed Mach 1 in the prototype XP-86 Sabre (two weeks before Chuck Yeager's record flight). Controversy exists as to the actual details of the flight and if this flight took place, it is generally not recognized as a record because of a lack of verifiable speed measurement and because the aircraft's highest speeds were attained while diving. In 1954, Welch died following a crash in a test flight in a North American F-100 Super Sabre.
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Why Delaware World War II hero won't get Medal of Honor
Harry Themal 5:52 p.m. EST December 7, 2014
Delaware hero George Welch will never get the Medal of Honor.
That became clear as Sen. Tom Carper's office spelled out the futile efforts 10 years ago to get the military and the president to correct an oversight to fully honor the first American hero of World War II.
A 1973 fire that destroyed military records and an adamant attitude by the military must be blamed for the refusal to reconsider what was an erroneous decision. Once the military has made up its mind, it almost never changes it, as witnessed by the failed campaign to restore the reputation of Admiral Husband Kimmel, commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
In last week's column urging a new effort for the Wilmington native to be considered for the honor, we outlined how Welch and fellow pilot Ken Taylor raced to man their P-40s when they realized the Japanese were attacking Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941. Welch's downing of a dive-bomber was probably the first American success. Both pilots' planes were damaged by enemy fire, but Welch was able to take off a second time with new ammunition and down at least two more planes.
Gen. Henry H. (Hap) Arnold, chief of the Army Air Corps, thought Welch and Taylor should receive the Medal of Honor. He was apparently rejected for an outrageous reason, that the men acted without direct orders. You might think the pilots could find a chain of command in those hectic minutes for "permission" to engage the enemy.
Welch and Taylor won the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC), the highest award after the Medal of Honor. The DSC citation describes Welch's courage in terms that should have made him eligible for the Medal of Honor: "[H]eroism in action over the island of Oahu when his initiative, presence of mind, coolness under fire against overwhelming odds in his first battle, expert maneuvering of his plane and determined action, contributed to a large extent toward driving off this sudden, unexpected enemy air attack."
Carper's office researched for me the failed efforts in 2004 by the senator and many others to properly honor Welch. In asking the Army to reconsider, "we understand that the integrity and high honor of the Medal of Honor application process must be maintained [but] it certainly must not be a hindrance to those who deserve this nation's highest award," the office said.
Supporting information was gathered from the Army, Air Force, Delaware Historical and Cultural Affairs and much published material. The key potential source, the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, turned out to be a stumbling block because in July 1973, fire destroyed up to 18 million Army and Air Force early records of many discharged personnel. They included Welch's files, apparently including the original recommendation packet. No duplicates existed of those files.
Other evidence came from a video interview with Taylor, by then a general, and a copy of Welch's interview for the DSC. In 2007, Carper made a personal request to Preston (Pete) Geren, secretary of the Army, but the recommendation was denied. Additional congressional pressure came from Sen. James Imhofe, R-Oklahoma, on behalf of Welch and native Oklahoman Taylor.
The request was submitted three times to the Army and then to the Air Force, which became its own branch of the service in 1947. The Air Force passed the buck back to the Army.
Here's the official explanation of why consideration was not given: The Army would need a copy of the original recommendation to determine if the original board made an error in its decision. Once a decision was made to award the DSC instead of the Medal of Honor, it was considered an "administrative finality." Despite extensive search, no one has found the original recommendation or a copy.
George Schwartz Welch is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Delaware honors him with a portrait by Peter Hurd in Legislative Hall and with an elementary school named for him in Dover Air Force Base housing. He still deserves that highest military honor our country can award.
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Maj George S Welch
Birth: May 10, 1918
Death: Oct. 12, 1954
World War II Military Figure, Test Pilot. He served as a Major in the United States Army Air Force with the 47th Fighter Squadron, 18th Fighter Group. When Pearl Harbor was attacked on the morning of December 7, 1941, he and his wingman, then 2Lt Kenneth M Taylor flew their P-40 Kittyhawk aircraft out of Haleiwa field and shot down six Japanese aircraft between them. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor but was rejected because he acted without orders to take off. Their heroics were portrayed in the motion pictures "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and "Pearl Harbor". He died of injuries from a plane crash, sustained during a test flight of the F-100.
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North American F-100F Super Sabre (S/N 58-1232)
Posted on December 09, 2013
By Ray Panko ray@panko.com Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor
Introduction
The North American Aviation F-100 Super Sabre was the bridge between the subsonic and supersonic ages. It set the last subsonic speed record and the first supersonic speed record [Gunston]. It became the first supersonic production aircraft, and it was the first aircraft from which a pilot ejected at supersonic speed [Chant and Taylor]. Like the other early 100 series fighters, it pioneered the aerodynamics of supersonic flight and the complex control limits of thin supersonic wings, tails, and rudders. Also like all of the early 100 series fighters, it was only marginally supersonic. In military power, it often had difficulty pulling up rapidly when it had to, and the powerful afterburner was off or completely on. Test pilot George Welch described the effect of turning on the afterburner as being like “a kick from a well-fed mule [Winchester]
Although the Hun was limited, it pioneered the design of operational supersonic aircraft. It made extensive use of heat-resistant titanium, its fuselage was ultra-streamlined, it had very thin control surfaces, and it had a thin intake duct in its nose [Boeing]. It was also the first U.S. aircraft with the horizontal tail positioned at the bottom of the fuselage [Boeing]. The layout of its cockpit controls was ergonomically and functionally sophisticated and yet simple [Boeing].
After deeply troubled early development, the “Hun” (short for Hundred) seemed destined for a very limited service life. However, when war began in Southeast Asia, the Air Force had F-100s in large numbers and rushed them to Vietnam and Thailand. It was the first U.S. fighter/bomber to reach Vietnam, flying its first combat mission on June 7, 1964 [Davies and Menard]. The Super Sabre was used primarily as a fighter/bomber in South Vietnam [Spick], interdicting Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troop movements and providing close air support to U.S. and South Vietnamese troops in contact with the enemy. Two-seat F-100Fs were the first anti-SAM Wild Weasel aircraft and flew as fast forward air controllers north of the Demilitarized Zone, where losses by piston engine FACs were too high. The Museum’s F-100F was a fast FAC aircraft in Vietnam.
Huns flew 250,000 sorties during the war [Davies and Menard]—more than any other fixed wing aircraft in Vietnam [Bachelor and Lowe]. In fact, this was even more sorties than North American P-51 Mustangs flew in all of World War II [Crosby, Bachelor and Lowe]. Huns began fighting in Vietnam in 1965 [Gardner] and continued to fight there until 1971 [Matricardi, Spick].
Design
The Super Sabre design began as a successor to the legendary F-86 Sabre. Like the F-86, the F-100 would be a day fighter; it would not have the long-range radar an interceptor needed, and it could not fight at night or in bad weather. However, unlike the F-86, the F-100 would be supersonic in level flight. This heritage led to its official name, Super Sabre. North American initially called the F-100 the Sabre 45 because the new aircraft would need a 45 degree wing sweep to fly supersonically [MilitaryFactory.com].
Development
The F-100A Day Fighter
On the YF-100’s first two test flights on May 25, 1953, Pearl Harbor hero and chief NAA test pilot George Welch took the prototype supersonic both times
Air Force test pilots, including Chuck Yeager, soon began to complain about the aircraft’s poor directional stability—particularly when gas tanks were carried under the wings [Davies and Menard]. When Col. F. K. “Pete” Everest set a speed record of 755 miles per hour in October 1953, he reported serious directional stability problems [Boeing]. Pilots in the first operational squadron to use the F-100A, the 436th Fighter Day Squadron, soon reported that the plane was acting uncontrollably and that their helmets were leaving marks on the canopy [Davies and Menard]. Things came to a head on October 12, 1954, when George Welch was putting an F-100A through a series of extreme tests. [Gunston] The aircraft lost directional control. Pitch, roll, and yaw combined through inertial coupling. The aircraft broke apart, killing Welch.
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Kermit Roosevelt (1889-1943) was the precocious second son of Theodore and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. Kermit married Belle Wyatt Willard, the daughter of Joseph E. Willard, the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, on June 10, 1914, in a civil ceremony in Madrid. The couple had four children together, Kermit Jr. (Kim), Joseph Willard, Belle “Clochette” Wyatt, and Dirck.
As a child, Kermit attended public schools at Oyster Bay and Washington, D.C., until he was old enough to enroll in the Groton School in Massachusetts. In 1909, Kermit, who shared TR’s passion for adventure, requested permission to join his father on the planned African safari. His father eventually consented to Kermit’s request, but only after challenging his son to demonstrate his appreciation of the opportunity by working all the harder in college after his return. Kermit honored this promise by completing Harvard’s course of study in less than three years. The pair set out again in 1913, this time in search of the source of the Amazon’s Rio da Dúvida (River of Doubt), later renamed Rio Roosevelt.
Kermit shared his father’s wit, mastery of language, and passion for outdoor activities and exploration. Unlike his father, however, Kermit was easily depressed. Like his Uncle Elliott before him, Kermit was afflicted with a tendency to drink excessively. Adding to the parents’ concern was the knowledge that Edith’s father had also been an alcoholic.
Kermit traveled extensively to Asia, Alaska, the Galapagos Islands, the Himalayas, and the East and West Indies. Not surprisingly, Kermit’s frequent travels enhanced his mastery of foreign languages. He could read or speak Greek, French, Portuguese, Swahili, Arabic, Hindustani, Urdu, and Romany, the language of the Gypsies.
A prolific writer, Kermit authored a score of books related to hunting and exploration, including two on which he collaborated with his oldest brother, Ted. Kermit also assisted his mother with publication of Cleared for Strange Ports (1927) and American Backlogs (1928). Kermit’s book, War in the Garden of Eden (1920), recounted his service with the British forces during World War I.*
From June 1914 through 1916, Kermit worked as the Assistant Manager of the Buenos Aires branch of the First City Bank. Returning to the United States in 1916, ostensibly to prepare for an upcoming transfer to Russia, Kermit managed instead to secure command of a British light-armored motor battery in Iraq. This later earned him the British War Cross for gallantry. In 1918, after the American Expeditionary Force arrived in Europe, Kermit joined their ranks as a Captain in the Seventh Field Artillery of the First Division. Unlike his three brothers, Captain Kermit Roosevelt emerged from World War I without serious injury.
Kermit next established the Roosevelt Steamship Company. Later, with the assistance of business partners, he played a critical role in the development of the United States Merchant Marine.
Although Kermit traveled extensively to remote outposts around the globe (including a well-documented Chinese expedition with Ted) and befriended the likes of Gertrude Stein and William Butler Yeats, the Great Depression hit him hard financially. To make matters worse, his heavy drinking and romantic diversions with his mistress, Carla Peters, took a toll on his family life.
Following the outbreak of war in September 1939, Kermit secured an officer’s commission in Britain’s Middlesex Regiment. After assisting Finnish refugees and participating in an ill-fated Norwegian expedition, he was deployed to Egypt until he received a medical discharge in May 1941.
Following Kermit’s return to the United States, Archie Roosevelt encouraged his brother to seek treatment for his alcoholism. Archie and Kermit's wife Belle, believing that military service would help ensure Kermit’s sobriety, lobbied President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to find a place for Kermit. After refusing a stateside post as an information officer, Major Kermit Roosevelt accepted an assignment to Fort Richardson, Alaska, where he helped organize a territorial militia to fight Japanese forces in the Aleutian Islands.
Unable to control his drinking, Kermit was medically discharged in early 1943. After learning that Kermit was traveling the country with his mistress, Belle requested that he be returned to active duty at once. By May Kermit was back at Fort Richardson. Physically unfit for duty, a despondent Kermit committed suicide at Fort Richardson on June 4, 1943.
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Today in History: Jackie Cochran Breaks the Sound Barrier
Pilot Jackie Cochran, who became the first woman to break the sound barrier 57 years ago today—owes some of her breakthrough success in the sky to an ironic source: cosmetics.The Florida native had made a name for herself in New York City, putting charm and good looks to the task of landing a posi...
By Erica R. Hendry
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May 18, 2010
Pilot Jackie Cochran, who became the first woman to break the sound barrier 57 years ago today—owes some of her breakthrough success in the sky to an ironic source: cosmetics.
The Florida native had made a name for herself in New York City, putting charm and good looks to the task of landing a position at the famous Saks Fifth Avenue salon. There, she met wealthy businessman Floyd Bostwick Odlum (the pair would marry in 1936.) Odlum offered to help her launch a makeup line, but also suggested she try flying.
Though she was approaching 30 when she began to fly, she quickly made up for lost time, earning her license in 1932, after only three weeks of lessons.
Cochran went on to become not only one of the country's most skilled female pilots, but one of the most deft and agile pilots of all time. Today, she still holds more speed and distance record than any pilot—male or female; dead or alive. (Even after not flying for 30 years; she died in 1980.)
On May 18, 1953, Cochran took off from Rogers Dry Lake, California, accompanied by Air Force Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager, who six years earlier had been the first man to break the sound barrier. In an F-86 Sabre plane, borrowed from the Royal Canadian Air Force, Cochran surpassed Mach 1; over the course of her flight, she averaged speeds of 652.337 miles per hour.
Celebrate Cochran's achievements -- which, to name a few, include being the first woman to reach Mach 2, the first woman to take off from an aircraft carrier
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[Phoenix cockpit]
LAFORGE: Plasma injectors are on-line. Everything's looking good. I think we're ready.
RIKER: They should be out there right now. We better break the warp barrier in the next five minutes if we're going to get their attention.
LAFORGE: Main cells are charged and ready.
RIKER: Let's do it.
COCHRANE: Engage.
LAFORGE: Warp field is looking good. Structural integrity is holding.
RIKER: Speed, twenty thousand kilometres per second.
COCHRANE: Sweet Jesus!
(Cochrane has spotted the Enterprise in orbit)
RIKER: Relax, Doctor. I'm sure they're just here to give us a send-off.
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German-American physicist
Albert Einstein, (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany—died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.), German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century.
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Carter Announces Bosnia Cease-Fire Agreement : Balkans: Truce begins Friday, he says after shaky start with rebel Serbs. Diplomats remain skeptical.
December 21, 1994 DEAN E. MURPHY TIMES STAFF WRITER
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The Bosnian Serbs and the Muslim-led Bosnian government have agreed to begin a cease-fire on Friday as a small first step toward ending the 32-month civil war, former President Jimmy Carter announced Tuesday.
The modest agreement--one of many proposed cease-fires over the course of the war--came after an unscheduled second round of meetings between Carter and the Bosnian Serb leadership in nearby Pale. Carter called the extra session after conflicting claims about the results of their high-profile talks on Monday threatened to sink his entire peace mission.
Carter announced Monday that Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had agreed to an immediate cease-fire, but Karadzic backed away from the claim a few hours later.
The Bosnian government was so angered by the theatrics that President Alija Izetbegovic refused to meet with Carter when he returned to Sarajevo late Monday, choosing to make the former U.S. President wait until morning, sources said.
"We have had this character 2 1/2 years, and he lies every day," said Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic, referring to Karadzic. "Make sure that you know with whom you deal."
Carter, said to be alarmed and betrayed by Karadzic's antics on Monday, made Tuesday's cease-fire announcement in Pale standing shoulder to shoulder with him.
After driving the mountainous road to Sarajevo, Carter repeated the announcement at the airport en route to Belgrade, where he plans to hold talks with Serbian leaders.
"There will be a complete cease-fire in all of Bosnia-Herzegovina, including Bihac, to go into effect at noon on Dec. 23," Carter said. "This cease-fire is to be completely monitored, without interference, by UNPROFOR (U.N. Protection Force) troops, interposing themselves between the opposing military units wherever necessary."
In The Hague on Tuesday, a two-day informal meeting of defense chiefs from 28 countries agreed on measures aimed at strengthening the U.N. force. At a news conference after the meeting, Lt. Gen. H.G.B. van den Breemen, chief of the Dutch Defense Staff, declined to give details on the measures.
It seemed clear the proposals carried at least the potential to make the U.N. force stronger and more effective, but they must still be studied by national governments and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and then approved by the United Nations, which so far has been extremely reluctant to employ force.
Van den Breemen said the chiefs had discussed, and apparently recommended to their governments, the use of aircraft and more firepower to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians trapped by the war.
"We talked about helicopters and armed escort helicopters," he said.
Such escort aircraft would probably be provided by NATO countries.
The tenor of Van den Breemen's remarks hinted strongly that the military chiefs recommended helicoptering supplies over roadblocks and permitting armed escort aircraft to attack anyone attempting to interfere.
The Dutch general also said the agreed proposals would mean adding to the U.N. force's troop strength.
According to Carter's announcement, the cease-fire would last until Jan. 1, during which time the warring sides would negotiate the details of a proposed four-month cessation of hostilities. If the two sides agree to that temporary peace, they will then turn their attention toward transforming the agreement into a permanent end of the war.
"We don't need more negotiations; we need results," one unimpressed Western diplomat said. "One has to be very doubtful this will go anyplace."
The diplomat and others described the process set up by Carter as fragile and ridden with potential pitfalls, especially since the former President failed to resolve what has been the most intractable obstacle to peace: the Bosnian Serb refusal to accept the Contact Group peace plan.
"In that key and critical area, I think they are still 180 degrees apart," a U.N. official said. "The whole basis of negotiations is still in dispute."
The Contact Group plan, drawn up by the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Russia, calls for dividing Bosnia about in half between the Muslim-Croat federation and the Bosnian Serbs.
The Bosnian government and neighboring Serbia have agreed to the international plan, but the Bosnian Serbs, who would have to give up one-third of the territory they now control, have repeatedly rejected it.
The United States and other backers of the Contact Group plan have described it as a take-it-or-leave-it proposal that must be accepted by all sides before any of it can be revised or amended. The Bosnian Serbs have said they would consider the plan only if it could be renegotiated.
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Carter Announces Bosnia Cease-Fire Agreement : Balkans: Truce begins Friday, he says after shaky start with rebel Serbs. Diplomats remain skeptical.
December 21, 1994 DEAN E. MURPHY TIMES STAFF WRITER
Unable to reach consensus, Carter included the language from both sides in a written summary of agreements reached during his two-day visit but said he could not "detect any significant difference" between them.
"That is a difference in semantics that I have not been able to overcome," he said, adding after reading a note passed to him by his wife, "and I am obviously not taking sides as to whose language is best."
Carter's admission that he could not distinguish between the two positions sent chills through Bosnian government offices here.
Since Carter announced that he would visit their country, Bosnian officials have openly questioned whether his presence would be used by the Bosnian Serbs to undermine the Contact Group plan.
A U.N. official said that even if Carter secures a cease-fire Friday, it will have come at a high price.
"We're going to wait for the next two days" to see if there is a cease-fire, the official said. "Maybe it holds out a very slim chance of forward momentum, but it comes at the great cost of handing Karadzic a propaganda coup and muddying the international community's stance on Bosnia."
A cease-fire could significantly benefit the people of the Muslim enclave of Bihac in northwest Bosnia, which came under heavy shelling again Tuesday. Unconfirmed reports said there were many casualties in the area, including a 10-year-old boy who was killed.
But for a longer truce to take hold, Carter's deal requires the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers between the two warring sides.
U.N. officials said Tuesday that there are few available soldiers, and NATO military chiefs meeting in the Netherlands did not seem inclined to send additional peacekeepers.
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Los Angeles Times
Windows95 Debut Delayed Again
December 21, 1994 From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday that it will delay introduction of its latest Windows software until August of next year, sending its stock price sliding and disappointing analysts who hope the Windows95 software will give the whole industry a boost.
The Redmond, Wash., software giant said it wants to be sure it has worked out most of the bugs in the product--a highly sensitive issue in the computer industry right now in light of Intel's problems with its Pentium microprocessor. Microsoft appeared to be trying to show that it understands consumer requirements and won't fall into the same trap as Intel.
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Jimmy Carter
President of United States
Jimmy Carter, in full James Earl Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924, Plains, Georgia, U.S.), 39th president of the United States (1977–81), who served as the nation’s chief executive during a time of serious problems at home and abroad. His perceived inability to deal successfully with those problems led to an overwhelming defeat in his bid for reelection. After leaving office he embarked on a career of diplomacy and advocacy, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2002. (For a discussion of the history and nature of the presidency, see presidency of the United States of America ... (101 of 3,275 words)
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION
France and China joined the nuclear club in the 1960s. The first French nuclear explosion, "Gerboise Bleue," was an unusually large first test: 60-70 kilotons. It was detonated at Reggane, Algeria, on February 13, 1960. France tested a thermonuclear weapon on the Pacific atoll of Fangatuafa on August 24, 1968.
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Los Angeles Times
Journalist Jailed for Not Revealing Source to Court
A New York Times reporter may face four months. Time magazine writer says he'll testify.
July 07, 2005 Richard B. Schmitt Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — A New York Times reporter was jailed Wednesday for refusing to submit to questioning by a special prosecutor investigating possible wrongdoing by the Bush administration, but a Time magazine reporter avoided jail at the last minute by agreeing to cooperate with the government.
U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan ordered Judith Miller, 57, imprisoned until she agreed to testify in an investigation into the naming of a CIA operative, declaring that the rights of journalists to gather news and protect confidential sources must occasionally yield to the power of prosecutors to demand testimony and investigate suspected crimes.
In the test of press freedoms, Miller's lawyers had contended that the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter should not be sent to jail because she was exercising her 1st Amendment rights. But Hogan said journalists had no greater rights than other citizens when called upon to testify in federal proceedings.
The judge's order was the culmination of an emotional court hearing in which the fates of the two journalists took dramatically different turns. While Miller braced for jail, Time reporter Matthew Cooper surprised the court by announcing that he would agree to testify in the case.
Both had been held in civil contempt of court by Hogan for their refusal to identify sources in their investigations of the possibly illegal disclosure of the identity of a CIA agent by a Bush administration official.
Cooper said a source in the CIA leak investigation had phoned him Wednesday morning to release him from his pledge of confidentiality and had encouraged him to testify. That source has not been identified.
White House political strategist Karl Rove has acknowledged speaking with Cooper in the past, but has denied unmasking the CIA agent. Asked whether Rove was the source who called the Time reporter to waive his confidentiality, his lawyer, Robert Luskin, said Wednesday night that the strategist had "not contacted Cooper about this matter," but declined to comment further.
"I have a person in front of me who is defying the law and may be obstructing justice," Hogan said in pronouncing judgment on Miller. "The court has to take action." He said he feared that letting Miller avoid testifying would put the judicial system "on a slippery slope to anarchy."
Miller was escorted from the courtroom by U.S. marshals. Hogan said she would be confined in the Washington area. She reportedly was seen entering an Alexandria, Va., detention center.
Unless she agrees to talk, Miller will be imprisoned for the duration of the term of the federal grand jury investigating the leak case, about four months. But Hogan raised the possibility that she might be held in criminal contempt if she continued to defy the order to testify, which could add months to her sentence.
The jailing drew widespread criticism from media groups, which said it would make it harder for journalists to do their jobs and to cultivate confidential sources willing to share secrets about government misconduct. They said it would also embolden prosecutors to use the power of the courts to coerce journalists to share their reporting with investigators to help them do their jobs.
Editors at the New York Times supported their reporter, saying she had made a brave and principled choice.
"There are times when the greater good of our democracy demands an act of conscience," Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said in a written statement. "Judy has chosen such an act in honoring her promise of confidentiality to her sources."
Although the jailing of reporters is rare, Hogan's order exposed Miller to what may be one of the longest jail terms that a journalist has faced for refusing to reveal confidential sources.
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Los Angeles Times
Lil' Kim gets year in prison, fine for lying
July 07, 2005 From Associated Press
Grammy-winning rapper Lil' Kim was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in prison and fined $50,000 for lying to a federal grand jury to protect friends involved in a 2001 shootout outside a Manhattan radio station.
It was far less than the 20-year maximum she could have gotten and the nearly three-year sentence prosecutors had sought.
U.S. District Judge Gerard Lynch said he had considered the public perception of sending a young black entertainer to prison far longer than Martha Stewart, who spent five months in prison and remains under house arrest.
While many rappers have served time in prison, Lil' Kim (real name Kimberly Jones), who was convicted in March, is the first big-name female artist.
Before the sentence was handed down, the 29-year-old performer spoke briefly, her voice breaking. She admitted lying to the grand jury and at her trial. "At the time I thought it was the right thing to do but I now know it was wrong," she said.
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Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (1932)
Release Info
USA 22 April 1932
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Chapter 8
OSS in Action: The Mediterranean and European Theaters
page 369
Most of the members of the American and British missions, whether captured at Velny Bok or earlier, were taken 200 miles west to Mauthausen, near Linz, Austria, one of the infamous Nazi concentration and death camps. (The downed airmen, except for Lane Miller of the OSS mission, were taken to regular POW camps, and liberated at the end of the war.) The group from Velny Bok arrived on 7 January 1945, and Berlin sent special SS and Gestapo officers to interrogate them. Under the personal supervision of the camp commandant, SS Colonel Franz Ziereis, most of the British and American captives were tortured while being interrogated. The commanding officers were apparently tortured first. Captain Edward V. Baranski had his hands tied behind his back, his wrists attached to a chain hanging from a beam above, then he was hoisted upwards so that his whole weight pulled on his backward bent arms. He writhed in pain while being interrogated. Lieutenant Holt Green was put in a crouching position, his hands bound beneath his thighs, behind his knees. An interrogator struck him with a heavy whip across the face and back until they were bloody. The English major was tortured with what was called the “Tibetan prayer mill,” three or four wooden rings, which when strongly pressed together, crushed the victim’s fingers. The torture for these and other captives went on for two weeks. Berlin ordered them executed as spies, despite the fact that the military members had remained in uniform during the entire mission.
Beginning on the morning of January 24, 1945, the American and British prisoners—all of them that day or over the next three months, accounts differ—were taken one at a time to a windowless, underground bunker and shot in the back with a pistol by the camp commandant himself. The dead included British Major John Sehmer and several members of his SOE mission, among them a 30-year-old Slovak-American woman, Margita Kocková, a teacher who had returned to Slovakia and been assigned by the headquarters of the 1st Czechoslovak Army to be an interpreter for the British SOE team. The members of the American mission who were executed at Mauthausen included Captain Baranski, Lieutenants Green, Gaul, Keszthelyi, Miller, Perry, Sergeants Horvath and Mican; radio operators Brown and Heller; Navy photographer Paris; and AP correspondent Joe Morton, who had joined to report the story of the Dawes Mission.
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GULF NEWS
Nazi war crimes suspect freed
A court ordered an 86-year-old man accused of Nazi war crimes in Slovakia freed from custody yesterday after a key witness said he could no longer clearly remember what happened.
PUBLISHED: 00:00 OCTOBER 16, 2004
AP
A court ordered an 86-year-old man accused of Nazi war crimes in Slovakia freed from custody yesterday after a key witness said he could no longer clearly remember what happened.
Former Capt Ladislav Niznansky remains charged with 164 counts of murder in massacres of civilians in three villages in early 1945.
But presiding Judge Manfred Goetzl said that "urgent suspicion can no longer be assumed" following testimony earlier this week by the witness, Jan Repasky.
"This means that you will be freed today," Goetzl told Niznansky, who then embraced his wife.
Though the trial will continue, Niznansky's lawyer Steffen Ufer said the decision indicated he is likely to be acquitted.
Prosecutor Konstantin Kuchenbauer countered that the ruling was only a "snapshot," noting that further witnesses and evidence must still be heard. The trial could last into next year, he said.
When Niznansky was sentenced to death in absentia by communist Czechoslovakia in 1962, Repasky's testimony help-ed convict him. By that time, Niznansky had fled to Germany and was working for Radio Free Europe in Munich.
The US-financed station broadcast Western programming to the communist bloc during the Cold War.
Munich prosecutors began investigating Niznansky in 2001 after being approached by the Slovak government, and he was arrested at his Munich home last January.
Niznansky went on trial again last month. He is accused of heading the Slovak section of a Nazi unit code-named Edelweiss, which hunted resistance fighters and Jews after the Germans crushed an uprising against Slovakia's Nazi puppet government.
According to prosecutors, in 1945 Niznansky personally shot at least 20 people, and formed a shooting squad to kill 18 Jewish civilians discovered hiding in underground bunkers.
Repasky, who served under Niznansky in Edelweiss and admitted to shooting people himself, testified in the 1962 trial that Niznansky ordered that no one be allowed to escape from Ostry Grun and the nearby village of Klak.
But in testimony Monday, Repasky, 79, frequently mixed up events, names and dates at one point claiming that it was Niznansky's predecessor who was at the scene of the massacres and said his memories were hazy.
"I can't remember," Repasky said. "I cannot assert that he shot anyone."
Officials also believe Niznansky led the December 1944 capture of a group of US and British agents on a top-secret mission to assist the Slovak revolt, although that is not among the charges in his trial.
The captives included 13 intelligence officers with the US Office of Strategic Services and Associated Press correspondent Joseph Morton.
They were deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Mauthausen, Austria, where they were executed on January 24, 1945.
Morton, a native of St Joseph, Missouri, is the only war correspondent known to have been executed by any side during World War II.
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The Washington Post
Bush Commutes Libby's Prison Sentence
By Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
President Bush commuted the sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby yesterday, sparing Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff 2 1/2 years in prison after a federal appeals court had refused to let Libby remain free while he appeals his conviction for lying to federal investigators.
Bush, who for months had sidestepped calls from conservatives to come to Libby's aid, broke his silence early yesterday evening, touching off an immediate uproar from Democrats who accused the White House of circumventing the rule of law to protect one of its own.
The president announced his decision in a written statement that laid out the factors he had weighed. Bush said he decided to "respect" the jury's verdict that Libby was guilty of four felonies for lying about his role in the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity. But the president said Libby's "exceptional public service" and prior lack of a criminal record led him to conclude that the 30-month sentence handed down by a judge last month was "excessive."
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The New York Times
Review: Judith Miller’s ‘The Story: A Reporter’s Journey’
APRIL 7, 2015
In late 2002 and through 2003, Judith Miller, an investigative reporter at The New York Times, wrote a series of articles about the presumed presence of chemical and biological weapons and possible nuclear matériel in Iraq. Critics thought the articles too bellicose and in lock step with the George W. Bush administration’s march to war. They all included careful qualifiers, but their overwhelming message was that Saddam Hussein posed a threat.
Ms. Miller’s defense of her work then was straightforward: She reported what her sources told her. She has now written a book-length elaboration of that defense, “The Story: A Reporter’s Journey.” The defense is no better now than it was then.
“The Story,” as anodyne a title as one could imagine, briefly sketches Ms. Miller’s early life before devoting itself to a more detailed description of her career. She came from a troubled home in Nevada and grew into an intrepid young woman who, she writes, liked adventure, sex and martinis.
With very little experience, she joined the Washington bureau of The Times in 1977 as a reporter, a prized assignment, largely because the newspaper was facing a lawsuit accusing it of sex discrimination, she writes. The chapter describing this is titled “The New York Times, the Token.” She was very raw and her early work showed it. An editor told her she was sloppy and unprofessional. She learned professionalism fast enough that in 1983 she was posted to Cairo, one of the first women to head an international bureau for The Times.
Correspondents in Cairo are typically charged with covering the whole of the Arab world, from West Africa to Iraq. Sometimes, non-Arab Iran is thrown in just for fun. This is an impossible if enthralling job and, in Ms. Miller’s telling, she fell hard for it. It was “thrilling” and “exhilarating,” she writes.
Ms. Miller recounts longstanding friendships with, among others, King Hussein of Jordan, who failed in an attempt to teach her water-skiing.
She was one of the earliest mainstream journalists to report on growing radicalization within Islam. She was also one of the earliest to report on the difficulties that could be imagined when the new radicals crossed paths with another emerging problem — the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. This became a subject she would return to throughout her career.
Ms. Miller devotes several chapters, by far the most given to any subject, to her coverage of Iraq. She had missed the first Persian Gulf war, she writes, stranded in Saudi Arabia. She fought hard to be included in coverage of the next one. The string of exclusive articles she produced before the Iraq war had the effect of buttressing the Bush administration’s case for invasion.
She had built her career on access. She describes finding, cultivating and tending to powerfully situated sources. She writes that she did not, as some critics of her prewar reporting supposed, sit in her office and wait for the phone to ring. She pounded the pavement. And an ambitious reporter with the power, prestige and resources of a large news organization behind her can cover a lot of road.
Opponents of the Iraq invasion and media critics of her reporting accused her of being a secret neoconservative thirsting for war. Whatever her actual politics, though, the agenda that comes through most strongly here is a desire to land on the front page. She rarely mentions an article she wrote without noting that it appeared on the front page or complaining that it did not.
During the war, she writes, she was the sole reporter embedded with the military team charged with finding Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. It failed, meaning so had she. Ms. Miller concedes that the Bush administration’s case for war was built largely on Iraq’s presumably ambitious weapons program. In describing what went wrong with one particular claim, she offers a defense that is repeated throughout the book: “The earlier stories had been wrong because the initial intelligence assessments we reported were themselves mistaken — not lies or exaggerations.”
Ms. Miller’s main defense is that the experts she relied upon — intelligence officials, weapons experts, members of the Bush administration and others — were wrong about Mr. Hussein’s weapons. She acknowledges being wrong but not making any mistakes. She quotes herself telling another reporter: “If your sources were wrong, you are wrong.” This is where she gets stuck.
Journalists, especially those who have a talent for investigative work, are taught early to write big, to push the story as far as possible. Be careful; nail the facts; be fair, but push hard. Nobody pushed harder than Ms. Miller. In this case, she wound up implicitly pushing for war.
A deeper critique of her own reporting, and through that example a critique of the entire enterprise of investigative reporting, would examine its inherently prosecutorial nature. Investigators — journalistic or otherwise — are constantly trying to build a case, to make things fit even when they don’t obviously do so. In the process, the rough edges of the world can be whittled away, nuance can become muddled in the reporter’s head, in the writing, or in the editing.
The final section of “The Story” deals with Ms. Miller’s role in the Valerie Plame affair, her refusal to identify a source (for an article she never wrote), her jailing because of that refusal, and finally her forced resignation from The Times in 2005. As she describes it, she wasn’t simply abandoned but thrown overboard. This seems partly because of politics and institutional embarrassment, but also partly because of her personality. Almost every investigative reporter is in some way difficult to deal with. Ms. Miller was no exception. She offended colleagues on the way up, she says, and they delighted in her failure when she fell down.
To Ms. Miller’s credit, this is not a score-settling book, although Bill Keller, the executive editor who she says forced her out of The Times, gets walked around the block naked a couple of times and competing reporters receive just-for-old-times’-sake elbows to their rib cages.
That doesn’t mean she has made peace with the end of her career at The Times. It was a devastating exile for a proud and influential reporter. Cast out of the journalistic temple, she says she felt “stateless,” and from the evidence here she remains a bit lost. This sad and flawed book won’t help her be found.
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Lowell Thomas
American journalist
Lowell Thomas, (born April 6, 1892, Woodington, Ohio, U.S.—died Aug. 29, 1981, Pawling, N.Y.), preeminent American radio commentator, and an explorer, lecturer, author, and journalist. He is especially remembered for his association with T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia).
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Nation & World: Wednesday, November 08, 2006
By The Associated Press
Bush seemed stoic about the election, proclaiming: "This isn't my first rodeo."
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A Few Good Men
They ran around
looking for something white to wave.
Some of them surrendered
to a crew from CNN.
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MIKOYAN-GUREVICH MIG-29A
Posted 4/18/2014
The MiG-29 was designed in response to a new generation of American fighters, which included the F-15 and F-16. Designed as an air defense fighter, this dual-purpose aircraft also possessed a ground attack capability. The task of producing a "frontal" or tactical fighter for the Frontal Aviation Regiments of the Soviet Air Force went to the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau (MiG OKB). Employing all the technical data available about the most advanced Western aircraft, the MiG designers started working on the MiG-29 in the early 1970s, and the first prototype made its first flight on Oct. 6, 1977. U.S. reconnaissance satellites detected the new fighter in November 1977, and NATO gave it the designation "Fulcrum."
Production started in 1982, and deliveries to Frontal Aviation units started in 1983. By comparison, the USAF's first operational F-15As arrived seven years earlier in 1976, and its F-16As entered operational service four years earlier in 1979.
Although newer, the MiG-29 still lagged behind the most modern Western fighters in several important areas. For instance, the aircraft designers had little experience in either fly-by-wire controls or lightweight composite materials for airframe construction, and the first MiG-29 versions used a conventional hydraulic flight control system and an aluminum alloy fuselage. Over time, MiG designers addressed these deficiencies, and later variants of the MiG-29 incorporated some fly-by-wire controls and composite materials.
Nevertheless, the MiG-29 presented a formidable threat to Western pilots. The radars used on earlier Soviet fighters had been unable to distinguish aircraft flying below them from ground clutter, and low-flying aircraft could avoid detection. With the Phazotron NIIR N019 Doppler radar (NATO designation "Slot Back") capable of detecting a target more than 60 miles away, infrared tracking sensors, and a laser rangefinder carried on the MiG-29, a pilot could track and shoot at aircraft flying below him. Also, the pilot's Shchel-3UM-1 helmet-mounted aiming device turned the MiG-29 into a very dangerous threat once opponents came within visual range. No longer did a pilot have to turn his aircraft toward a target and wait for his missiles' sensors to "lock-on" before firing. Now, the pilot simply turned his head toward a target, and the helmet aimed the missile's sensors toward the target. This "off boresight" procedure gave the MiG-29 pilot a great advantage at close range.
The aircraft on display was an early model Soviet Air Force MiG-29A (S/N 2960516761) assigned to the 234th Gvardeiskii Istrebitelnii Aviatsionnii Polk (234th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment) stationed at Kubinka Air Base near Moscow. It was one of the six MiG-29s that made a good will visit to Kuoppio-Rissala, Finland, in July 1986. This event marked the first public display of the MiG-29.
TECHNICAL NOTES:
Armament: One 30mm GSh-301 cannon; six air-to-air missiles (mixture of medium-range, radar-guided AA-10 "Alamo-A;" or close-range, infrared-guided AA-11 "Archer;" and/or close-range, infrared-guided AA-8 "Aphid" missiles); able to carry bombs and 57mm, 80mm and 240mm rockets in attack role.
Engines: Two Isotov RD-33 turbofans of approx. 18,300 lbs. thrust each with afterburner
Maximum speed: Approx. Mach 2.3
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Firebirds
and this gunship is agile,
mobile, and hostile.
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The New York Times
February 18, 1909
OBITUARY
Old Apache Chief Geronimo Is Dead
Special to The New York Times
LAWTON, Okla., Feb. 17.--Geronimo, the Apache Indian chief, died of pneumonia to-day in the hospital at Fort Sill. He was nearly 90 years of age, and had been held at the Fort as a prisoner of war for many years. He will be buried in the Indian Cemetery tomorrow by the missionaries, the old chief having professed religion three years ago.
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Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Prisoners of War Medal
June 24, 1988
Well, thank you all very much. Secretary [of Defense] Carlucci, and members of the Congress who are here, and honored guests, thank you all. I've often noted that, in my lifetime, America has fought four wars: the First World War, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. You, the men here today, are the Americans who fought those wars. You survived the battles, you survived captivity, and you came home. I salute your valor, and I thank you for being here today as we present a new medal that honors those who served honorably as prisoners of war.
You symbolize the sacrifice that our nation has made, and you can be proud of what you helped achieve—a Western Europe that is strong and free, a democratic and prosperous Japan that is our critical ally in the Pacific, a South Korea whose remarkable economic and political achievements have become a model for building freedom in the developing world. And in Vietnam, you fought a noble battle for freedom. On the battlefield you knew only victory, only to have your victory lost by a failure of political will.
Nonetheless, you did honor to America. Your resistance to the evil of communism foreshadowed the growing movement toward democracy that we see today around the world. With your blood and valor, you won time for the rest of Southeast Asia and for the rest of humanity. You sustained the dream of freedom and leave as your legacy the free and vibrant nations of that region and the recognition that only free nations can prosper for their peoples. You, all of our former POW's, embody America's indomitable will to be free. Through your heroism, you have woven your lives into the fabric of American history and bound your flesh and spirit into our 200-year unbroken chain of freedom. Through your courage, you have demonstrated to the world that the American people shall always do that which is necessary to remain free. And for this the people of our nation and free people everywhere are in your debt.
In 10 days, it will be the Fourth of July, Independence Day. There'll be parades and fireworks. Americans will display the flag. And some children may ask, "Well, what are we celebrating? What does independence mean?" And all of you, better than most, know what independence means. You know the price at which it was won. As former prisoners of war, you know what it is to lose your freedom and to recover it. You know that freedom has its enemies, you've stared them in the eye, and you've suffered at their hands. You've seen that those who hate America hate us not for our flaws but for our strengths. You know what it means to be Americans, and in fact to be punished for it by those who despise what our country stands for. A former Vietnam POW, Captain Larry Chesley, tells of one instance when a fellow prisoner was taken from his cell—this was after the systematic torture had ceased—and he was savagely beaten as an example to the others. His crime was that there in the prison camp, he had made an American flag. The same flag too many of us will take for granted this Fourth of July.
I recall that returning prisoners of war said there were three things that helped them survive captivity and return with honor: faith in God, faith in their fellow prisoners, and faith in their country. As prisoners, many of you were subjected to terrible hardship and pain, which you resisted to the limits of your endurance, showing extraordinary courage time after time. You gained strength from each other and found it deep within yourselves.
Admiral James Stockdale, a long-term guest at the Hanoi Hilton, told of the time that he was left exposed outdoors for 3 days and nights in leg irons and handcuffs. He was periodically beaten and prevented from sleeping. As he grew weak, two fellow prisoners, despite the close watch of guards, spoke short words of encouragement that helped to sustain him. And another POW sent him a message in code by snapping a towel. The message was "God bless you." Yes, when things seemed most hopeless, you spoke words of prayer. In your time of greatest suffering, your faith did not falter but instead grew stronger. And in the face of evil, you put your trust in God and praised His name.
You also kept faith with America. And who can love this country more than the men and women who've been prisoners of a foreign power? When survivors of the Bataan Death March—World War II—being held in a POW camp, learned of the end of the war and their impending liberation, instead of taking vengeance on the prison guards there in their place of pain and torment, they said a prayer of thanksgiving and then sang "God Bless America." In the words of the song, America's soldiers "stood beside her," and we must stand beside them. Our country has not forgotten your former comrades who are still missing, those who fought in Korea and Vietnam and who have not returned home or been accounted for. We must keep faith with them and their families and demand the fullest possible accounting of the fate of the Americans who are missing in action. I know that the "River Rats" have a scholarship fund for the MIA children, and many of you've supported our efforts to learn the fate of their fathers. And let me say, we write no final chapter here. If there are living Americans being held against their will, we must bring them home.
America must also remain strong and vigilant, so that we can prevent war. A strong defense is one of our most basic human needs because it's the price of maintaining peace. And the same is true of supporting our allies and friends. Those resisting tyranny and aggression today in Nicaragua, in Afghanistan, in Cambodia, in Angola, and elsewhere, these fighters for freedom are part of the age-old tradition of human courage in the face of oppression. All of our efforts in Central America, particularly our support for the Nicaraguan freedom fighters, are designed to help those people secure their own freedom, so that we will never have to go to war to defend that critical region. And who can know better than you, how much better it is to deter a war than to fight one.
I know I've spoken before and told of when the Vietnam POW's returned home. I was Governor of California then, and Nancy and I were fortunate enough to have several hundred of them, in a number of groups, in our home. And we heard such stories and saw such courage. And one night afterward, when they'd gone, I said to Nancy, "Where did we find such men?" And the answer came almost as quickly as I'd asked it. We found them where we've always found them—on the farms, in the shops, in the offices and stores, on the streets, in the towns and cities of America. They're just the product of the greatest, freest system man has ever known.
Speaking for Nancy and myself, you and all those others will forever be in our prayers. I thank you, and God bless you. And God bless America!
And now, it's my honor to present the POW Medal to Americans representing World War II, the Korean conflict, and the Vietnam war.
Note: The President spoke at 2:01 p.m. at the South Portico at the White House. Recipients of the Prisoners of War Medal included: Sgt. Albert J. Bland, USAF, Pacific Theater, World War II; Lt. Gen. Charles M. Williams, USAF, European Theater, World War II; Cpl. Charles A. Burton, USA, Korean war; Col. Jesse "Davy" Booker, USMC, Korean war; Col Floyd James 'Jim" Thompson, USA, Vietnam war; and Comdr. Everett Alvarez, USN, Vietnam war.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/AH-64D_Apache_Longbow.jpg
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/04.21.html
The New York Times
Who Is Rosie Ruiz?
By NEIL AMDUR
April 21,1980 BOSTON - Exclaiming "today my body was whipped," Bill Rodgers became the first runner in 56 years to capture three consecutive Boston Marathon titles when he won with a time of 2 hours 12 minutes 11 seconds. But while Rodgers's fourth Boston crown over all was expected in the field of 5,364 starters, the 84th race produced a stunning development when an unheralded 26-year-old runner from New York City, Rosie Ruiz, crossed the finish line ahead of 448 other women entries.
Running in only her second marathon and unnoticed by rival women, race statisticians or television cameras for almost all of the 26-mile-385-yard race, Miss Ruiz, wearing No. W50, staggered past the tape at the Prudential Center in 2:31.56. Her time was 147th over all and third-fastest in a marathon by a woman, surpassed only by the 2:27.33 turned in by Grete Waitz of Norway in last year's New York Marathon, and the 2:32.23 by Joan Benoit earlier this year.
Miss Ruiz, an administrative assistant for Metal Trading Inc. in Manhattan, received the traditional laurel wreath, a medal and a silver bowl for her victory. But as late as three hours after she had been interviewed by newsmen and photographed with Rodgers, Will Cloney, the race director, acknowledged that "there is an obvious problem with the determination of the women's winner."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_AH-64_Apache
Boeing AH-64 Apache
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Boeing AH-64 Apache is a four-blade, twin-engine attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement, and a tandem cockpit for a two-man crew. It features a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night vision systems. It is armed with a 30 mm (1.18 in) M230 chain gun carried between the main landing gear, under the aircraft's forward fuselage. It has four hardpoints mounted on stub-wing pylons, typically carrying a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and Hydra 70 rocket pods. The AH-64 has a large amount of systems redundancy to improve combat survivability.
The Apache originally started as the Model 77 developed by Hughes Helicopters for the United States Army's Advanced Attack Helicopter program to replace the AH-1 Cobra. The prototype YAH-64 was first flown on 30 September 1975. The U.S. Army selected the YAH-64 over the Bell YAH-63 in 1976, and later approved full production in 1982. After purchasing Hughes Helicopters in 1984, McDonnell Douglas continued AH-64 production and development. The helicopter was introduced to U.S. Army service in April 1986. The first production AH-64D Apache Longbow, an upgraded Apache variant, was delivered to the Army in March 1997. Production has been continued by Boeing Defense, Space & Security; over 2,000 AH-64s have been produced to date.
The U.S. Army is the primary operator of the AH-64
Design
Overview
The AH-64 Apache has a four-blade main rotor and a four-blade tail rotor. The crew sits in tandem, with the pilot sitting behind and above the copilot/gunner. Both crew members are capable of flying the aircraft and performing methods of weapon engagements independently.
http://www.tv.com/shows/ncis/no-good-deed-3071838/
tv.com
NCIS Season 12 Episode 20
No Good Deed
Aired Tuesday 8:00 PM Apr 07, 2015 on CBS
AIRED: 4/7/15
http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=193&t=17665
F.D. » Transcripts » N-R » NCIS
12x20 - No Good Deed
What'd she say?
(mouthing)
Bishop and Abby: Help me.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Flying+the+first+mission+of+dessert+storm.-a0286971012
THE FREE LIBRARY
The Free Library > Science and Technology > Military and naval science > Air Power History > March 22, 2012
The White Team Apaches were led by Lt. Col. Dick Cody.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/26/08 7:15 AM
The notion in the dream was as though I overheard one person comment "And who could ever forget that backflip?" to another person, in regards to a backflip I did one time. There were other details in the dream but most are not very clear in terms of what they could mean. There was a football aspect to it though but I don't think that was the backflip the person was refering to.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 26 March 2008 excerpt ends]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/fogofwar/index/crusade.htm
Washington Post
Crusade
The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War
By Rick Atkinson
Houghton Mifflin Company, 520pp. $16
Chapter One: First Night
U.S.S. Wisconsin, Persian Gulf
Dark tubes of water peeled back from the battleship's prow, curling along her hull before fanning symmetrically east and west toward the horizons. Watchstanders on the bridge peered fore and aft, checking the navigation lights of the other warships sailing with her at six-mile separations: red to port, green to starboard. Overhead, stars jammed the moonless sky with such intensity that they seemed to hang just beyond the upper poke of Wisconsin's superstructure.
The crew stood at general quarters. Earlier in the day -- Wednesday, January 16, 1991 -- they had scrubbed the teak deck, scoured the gutters, polished the brass fittings, and swept the corridors. Under Condition Zebra, all watertight doors were latched shut. In the officers' mess, seamen had lifted the ship's silver punch bowl from a glass display case and stowed it in a wooden crate. Even the trash was collected, the bags then punched with holes -- so that they would sink and not be mistaken for mines -- and heaved overboard. Over the public address system, the Roman Catholic chaplain absolved the crew of sin, then hurried to his office for a box of plastic rosaries and a flask of oil to use in anointing the dying. Now Wisconsin waited for war with dreadnought forbearance, silent except for the throb of her four great screws turning beneath the fantail.
Below decks, in the soft blue light of the ship's Strike Warfare Center, thirty men prepared the battleship for combat. In contrast to the tranquillity above, tension filled the crowded room. Electronic warfare specialists listened on their headsets for the telltale emissions of attacking enemy aircraft or missiles. Other sailors manned the radios, the computer consoles controlling Wisconsin's Harpoon antiship missiles, and a dozen other battle stations. A large video screen overhead displayed the radar blips of vessels crossing the central gulf; a smaller screen showed the charted positions of Wisconsin and her sister ships, plotted and replotted by a navigation team.
In the center of Strike the battleship's skipper, Captain David S. Bill, perched in his high-backed padded chair. Although he occasionally glanced at the screens above, the captain's attention was largely fixed on the men clustered around four computers lining the far bulkhead. Something had gone awry with the ship's Tomahawk missile system.
Lieutenant Guy Zanti, Wisconsin's missile officer, leaned over a crewman sitting at one of the consoles. "The launch side still won't accept the data," the sailor said glumly. He tapped his keyboard and pointed to the green message that popped onto the monitor. "See, it says `inventory error.'" Zanti nodded, his forehead furrowed in concentration. Now not only Captain Bill but everyone else in Strike turned to watch the lieutenant and his missile crew.
For nearly six months, Wisconsin had prepared for this moment. Five days after the invasion of Kuwait, she had weighed anchor from Norfolk, Virginia, quickly steaming through the Straits of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal to arrive on station off the Saudi coast on August 24. As Gulf Papa, the coordinator of Tomahawk launches from the Persian Gulf, Wisconsin was responsible for the seven warships that would shoot an initial salvo of four dozen missiles from the gulf. The targets and their ten-digit authorization codes had arrived with a tinkling of teletype bells just after sunset on January 16. A half-dozen officers and crewmen spent the evening drafting instructions for the other shooters, carefully choreographing their movements so that each ship would steam into the proper launch basket at the correct time. Wisconsin would fire first in half an hour; her initial Tomahawk was scheduled to rocket from the gray launcher box at 1:37 Thursday morning for the ninety-minute flight to Baghdad.
But now Gulf Papa faced imminent failure. For reasons no one in Strike could fathom, the Tomahawk computers seemed confused, refusing to transfer the necessary commands from the engagement planning console to the launch console. The resulting impasse -- "casualty," in Navy jargon -- meant the missiles could not be fired.
Again the missile crew ran through the launch procedures. All switches were properly flattened, all electrical connections secure. The console operator reloaded the software program and tried once more. Again the infuriating message popped onto the screen: "Inventory error." Still the captain seemed unfazed, as though this was just another repeat of Nemean Lion, the Tomahawk launch exercises -- named for the mythical beast slain by Hercules as the first of his twelve labors -- that the Navy had practiced before the war. But disquiet spread through the crowded room; one officer's jerky motions and rising voice grew agitated. "Keep your head together," Lieutenant Zanti snapped. "Let's think the problem through."
Failure here, they all knew, would be very bad, not only for the war plan but for the Navy. Skepticism about the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, or TLAM, was rampant in the military, even among some naval officers. Although more than a hundred missiles had been fired in exercises -- including one recently shot from the Pacific at a target in Nevada -- none had flown in combat. The closest a Tomahawk had come to being fired in anger was in August 1989, when the United States edged to within hours of attacking Hezbollah camps in Lebanon after the kidnapers of Joseph Cicippio threatened to execute the hostage.
Perhaps the greatest -- certainly the ranking -- skeptic was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Alternately fascinated by and distrustful of the weapon, General Colin Powell in October had warned Norman Schwarzkopf's chief targeteer, "I don't give a damn if you shoot every TLAM, the Navy's got, they're still not worth a shit. Any target you intend to destroy with the TLAM, put a fighter on it to make sure the target's destroyed." Tomahawk's role in the attack planning had grown and diminished along with prevailing military confidence in the weapon. The Navy had finally pulled together eight years of test data, sketched a diagram of a baseball diamond, and vowed that if the target was the pitching rubber, the overwhelming majority of warheads would detonate within the perimeter of the base paths, even after a five-hundred-mile journey.
Yet other complications persisted. The gray steel boxes housing the missiles topside contained secrets to which few men were privy. One secret -- which would remain classified even after the war -- was the route the Tomahawks would fly to Baghdad. The missile's navigation over land was determined by terrain-contour matching, a technique by which readings from a radar altimeter were continuously compared with land elevations on a digitized map drawn from satellite images and stored in the missile's computer. Broken country -- mountains, valleys, bluffs -- was required for the missile to read its position and avoid "clobbering," plowing into the ground.
For shooters from the Red Sea, the high desert of western Iraq was sufficiently rugged. But for Wisconsin and other ships firing from the Persian Gulf, most of southeastern Iraq and Kuwait was hopelessly flat. After weeks of study, only one suitable route was found for Tomahawks from the gulf: up the rugged mountains of western Iran, followed by a left turn across the border and into the Iraqi capital. Navy missile planners in Hawaii and Virginia mapped the routes and programmed the weapons. They also seeded the missiles' software with a "friendly virus" that scrambled much of the sensitive computer coding during flight in case a clobbered Tomahawk fell into unfriendly hands. A third set of Tomahawks, carried aboard ships in the Mediterranean, were assigned routes across the mountains of Turkey and eastern Syria.
Not until a few days before the war was to begin, however, had the White House and National Security Council suddenly realized that war plans called for dozens and perhaps hundreds of missiles to fly over Turkey, Syria, and Iran, the last a nation chronically hostile to the United States. President Bush's advisers had been flabbergasted. ("Look," Powell declared during one White House meeting, "I've been showing you the flight lines for weeks. We didn't have them going over white paper!") After contemplating the alternative-scrubbing the Tomahawks and attacking their well-guarded targets with piloted aircraft -- Bush assented to the Iranian overflight. Tehran would not be told of the intrusion. But on Sunday night, January 13, Bush prohibited Tomahawk launches from the eastern Mediterranean; neither the Turks nor the Syrians had agreed to American overflights, and the president considered Turkey in particular too vital an ally to risk offending.
Now it was the Navy's turn to be surprised. Again communications broke down: planners on the Navy flagship U.S.S. Blue Ridge learned of the White House prohibition less than four hours before the first launch was to take place. With frantic haste the Blue Ridge planners cut new orders, redistributing the Mediterranean shooters' targets to ships in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, thus increasing the workload of each task force by a third.
On Wisconsin, where the scheduled launch time was now just moments away, the men in Strike were running out of solutions. "All right," Lieutenant Zanti announced, "we'll start from the beginning." The data for the eight Wisconsin shots -- three pages of detailed coding for each missile -- would be retyped into the computer. The task was tedious and time-consuming. He turned to Captain Bill and the ship's weapons officer.
"Sir, we need to ask for more time," Zanti told Bill. "If we don't get an extension, we can't shoot."
The captain agreed. As the request flashed up the chain of command to Blue Ridge, an excited voice from one of Gulf Papa's nearby shooters crackled through Strike over the radio intercom: "Alpha, alpha. This is the Paul F. Foster. Happy trails."
Happy trails: the code phrase for missile away. The war had begun without Wisconsin. Deep within the battleship the missilemen labored over their keyboards, clicking furiously.
Ar Ar, Saudi Arabia
Barely seventy-five feet above the dark Nafud, one of Saudi Arabia's three great deserts, the helicopters pushed toward the border in a line as straight as monks filing to vespers. A gap precisely five rotor discs' wide separated each aircraft from the next. Two Air Force Pave Lows stuffed with sophisticated navigation gear led as pathfinders, followed by four Army Apaches, laden with rockets and missiles and extra fuel tanks.
Frigid night air gushed into the lead Apache. The pilot, Warrant Officer Thomas R. (Tip) O'Neal, fumbled with the heating controls. The flapper valves on the helicopter's filtration system seemed to be wedged open, apparently jammed with sand. As O'Neal pressed a gloved hand against the vent, his co-pilot, Warrant Officer David A. Jones, came on the intercom from the back seat. "Tip, you see that glow off to the north? That might be it."
O'Neal scanned the horizon through his night-vision goggles. The headset had two protruding lenses that amplified the ambient starlight to give even the darkest landscape a crepuscular definition. He saw it now, a hazy splotch far ahead. But they were still twelve miles south of the border -- they'd just skirted the Saudi town of Ar Ar -- and the target lay another thirty miles into Iraq.
Abruptly O'Neal's goggles flushed with light, like small starbursts blooming around the helicopter. "What the fuck is that?" he called.
Jones, now concentrating on the Apache's infrared scope, which registered heat emanations rather than visible light, saw nothing. "What? What?"
"That!" O'Neal insisted. "Down there! God!" He pushed the goggles up, his naked eyes straining through the darkness. Machine gun fire poured from the Pave Low just in front of them. Two streams of bullets slanted down and beneath the Apache. "Don't worry about it, Dave," he said with relief. "It's just the Pave Low clearing its guns."
Three helicopters back, in the trail Apache dubbed Rigor Mortis, Lieutenant Colonel Dick Cody knew better. He had clearly seen the first burst of fire from below, followed by a missile streaking just abeam of the line of aircraft. "Jeez, Brian," Cody called to his co-pilot, "did you see that?" The gunfire had come either from nervous Saudis or, more likely, an Iraqi commando patrol aiming at the rotor noise. After the brief retaliatory burst from the Pave Low, the shooting stopped. The helicopters pressed on at 120 knots.
Cody was not by nature a reflective man. Commander of the 101st Airborne Division's attack helicopter battalion, he was a creature of action and instinct, an aggressive pilot with fifteen years' flying experience. But he had occasionally wondered in the past four months whether he had oversold himself for this operation.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: January 14, 2008
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/14/08 1:04 AM
I'm not certain when I fell asleep, several hours ago, before getting up just now. I had several dreams but I remember only one part of one of those dreams. The setting of the dream is very vague but as I review in my mind the details I still remember, I seem to have been getting out of the back of a pickup truck and I was walking off the highway. I don't remember anything other than that scene. I do remember that I was carrying a hunting rifle. I had that 35 caliber Marlin lever-action that I remember well from my artificial memory. Also something odd about that dream is that I remember well the trigger on that rifle. I remember that I threw the lever and chambered a round in the rifle and I don't remember where I went after that. But I remember clearly that my finger was on the trigger and I was very aware of the trigger for some reason.
After I woke up, or perhaps these were thoughts as I was just about to wake up, I was thinking of other times I have dreamed and had a firearm in that dream.
The only time I can remember is that dream I wrote of several years ago where I was fighting some kind alien creature that had invaded a subway system. I was wearing the battle-dress uniform of a USN SEAL and I had lost my rifle somewhere during the battle. I was exhausted from constant fighting. I can still remember that in the dream, I visualized a pack I was wearing that was full of 7.62 mm rifle ammunition but I didn't have a rifle. I eventually found an armory and was issued another rifle and I went back to the subway to continue the battle. I also wrote how I had walked past a coffee kiosk during the early part of that dream and the woman making coffee had dried blood on her hands. There was also that part where the woman drove up in a car and asked me if I was who she thought I was and then, oddly, she was in the ground and only her talking face was exposed above the ground. I have been thinking ever since, for some reason, that woman was Condoleeza Rice. I don't know what that means, other than the obvious of how she is a national traitor, and she is against the USA.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 14 January 2008 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 2:12 AM
They don't torture you with primarily physical pain, such as beatings, etc. Physical torture is easy to resist. For a while at least. If you are good, you can resist it for a long time. Depends on how far they take it though. But the real bastards look to get in your head and really screw with you. And they have weeks and months and years to just screw with your head and screw with your head because they are lunatics and this doesn't come goddamned close to describing how bad it was.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 8:55 AM
I woke up this time thinking, partially visualizing, flying an F-14 Tomcat over the ocean somewhere. I can almost visualize another F-14 flying on my wing. Suddenly, the other F-14 exploded but I can't actually visualize that part. I think both people parachuted out of that aircraft. Apparently another missile hit my aircraft, blew off the canopy, and knocked me unconscious. Then I can almost see us traveling straight down towards the ocean surface and the RIO in the seat behind me was yelling at me to wake up. I pulled up and engaged the two aircraft that fired at us. One was hit by my Sparrow but the other Sparrow missed. I went in and finished off the other one up close. I returned to the carrier and landed safely, and then passed out from a moderate concussion with blood running out from underneath my cracked helmet.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 9:00 AM
Or the RIO had been knocked out to from the explosion that tore off the canopy. What I was hearing was someone on the carrier yelling at me over the radio to pull up before I crashed into the ocean. The RIO woke up and I asked him if he was ok or he asked me if I was ok.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 17 March 2007 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 3:06 AM Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Also, "Salesman." I saw that in a dream while sleeping recently. I saw myself going through an induction process in the United States Marine Corps and I woke up understanding that I was dreaming of my actual experience in 1990. I saw a document that indicated I was being inducted to the United States Marine Corps with the officer grade of Chief Warrant Officer 2. I saw in the dream another document associated with my induction and that document indicated I had been assigned the informal name "Salesman."
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 10 January 2012 excerpt ends]
http://www.militarydesktop.com/mig-29-11027-wallpaper.html
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 4:42 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 26, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I remember one time, with my red Ford, driving to the junior prom. I had a problem with the shifting rods that I never got fixed. It was a 3-speed manual with the shifter on the column. Sometimes the shifting rod linkage under the hood got stuck and I couldn't shift gears. This one day, I was standing there in the middle of town at a busy intersection in my white tux with the hood up to get the linkage unstuck.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 26 May 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 04/04/11 3:48 AM
I don't know. Maybe this all this power does that I have.
It is not as easy to use as a toaster.
I can't just think of something to put into the toaster, flip a lever and then wait for the toast to pop up.
I have to figure out how to make this think work for me so I can get out of here.
04/04/11 3:49 AM
Also, maybe it deliberately lies to me.
It lies to me about stuff that is going to happen.
But there is no disputing I possess some kind of formidable power.
I just have to figure out how to use it so I can get out of this miserable place.
04/04/11 4:01 AM
I just synchronized the clock on my internet computer with the Microsoft time server and my desk clock radio time is forty seconds ahead of my internet computer time.
04/04/11 4:02 AM
I just manually sychronized this offline computer with my internet computer so I'll have to remember to look at this computer time instead of the clock radio on my desk.
04/04/11 4:10 AM
I am now at 108 hours, or 6480 minutes, after 4:10 PM 30 March 2011.
about 15 seconds after 4:10 AM the FM 102.5 KZOK radio station started playing Journey "Don't Stop Believin'."
04/04/11 4:13 AM
That is from their 1981 album "Escape."
04/04/11 4:17 AM
About thirty seconds into 4:17 AM the song "Major Tom" is now playing on FM 102.5 KZOK radio.
04/04/10 4:20 AM
At 4:47 AM that will be 6517 minutes after 4:10 PM 30 April 2011.
From 7/16/1963 ( ) To 5/19/1981 ( ) is 6517 days
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=43837
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks at a White House Luncheon Honoring the Astronauts of the Space Shuttle Columbia
May 19, 1981
Mr. Young. It's a great honor for Bob and I to be here today. And we'd also like to make a presentation to the President that tells, for all of you who contributed so much to this program, just exactly what it's all about. Could you unveil that, please?
[A plaque detailing the history of the space shuttle program was unveiled.]
It's always significant to me that the United States flag is the biggest thing on there. Let's never forget that.
The President. You won't mind if I only wear this within Earth's atmosphere. [Laughter] But, thank you all very much. And now, I think there's two individuals here that you'd like to meet also, because I think they have to be just as courageous or even more so than those who make the flight. I think you'd like to see Mrs. Young and Mrs. Crippen. Would you stand, please?
And we're back at ground zero; we have landed successfully. Thank you.
04/04/11 4:30 AM
From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 5/19/1981 ( ) is 5677 days
From 3/3/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birthdate US ) To 9/17/1974 ( the United States Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jet aircraft enters active service in the United States Navy fleet and I am the first United States Navy F-14 Tomcat Commander Air Group as United States Navy Commander Thomas Reagan ) is 5677 days
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=43837
Remarks at a White House Luncheon Honoring the Astronauts of the Space Shuttle Columbia
May 19, 1981
The President. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. And before we say anything at all or I make any remarks—because there are many here who probably don't know that in addition to the men we're honoring today, that there are in our midst, as a great part of this audience, many who have been those pioneers out into space, our astronauts going back to the very beginning of the program. Could I ask that all of you who fit that description, all of you, to please stand up?
Well, we're in very distinguished company, believe me. Commander Young and Captain Crippen, all the world held its breath in the silent moments of your reentry, and when we finally heard your voices again, all the world knew America had begun a new age.
A few moments ago, I had the privilege of decorating Commander Young and Captain Crippen for their personal courage and the honor they have brought to our nation, and also honored Dr. Alan Lovelace, who is here with us today, but more about that later. I presented to John Young the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, our highest award for achievements in space, and to both him and Bob Crippen, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, the highest award the space agency can bestow.
These men have traveled across the country since their shuttle flight, and I think they now must be conscious of and realize that to all America they have now become John and Bob. The American people have welcomed them with tremendous affection, and no wonder. Through them, we've all been part of a greatness pushing wider the boundaries of our freedom. As I told them before they took off, through them we all felt as giants once again. And once again, we felt the surge of pride that comes from knowing that we're the first and we're the best—and we are so because we're free.
The space shuttle is the world's first true space transportation system. It will be the space workhorse for many years to come, and soon we'll have the operational capability that will place cargo in orbit for a variety of users. Because we lead the world in science and space travel, we're on the cutting edge of technology and discovery. The shuttle will affect American life in both subtle and dramatic ways, bringing energy and excitement into our national renewal.
The flight of the Columbia was a victory for the American spirit. John Young and Bob Crippen both made us very proud. Their deeds reminded us that we, as a free people, can accomplish whatever we set out to do. Nothing binds our abilities except our expectations, and given that, the farthest star is within our reach.
To paraphrase John Greenleaf Whittier: We are the people who have thrown the windows of our souls wide open to the sun. We will follow as we can where our hearts have long since gone, and progress will be ours for all mankind to share. Americans have shown the world that we not only dream great dreams, we dare to live those great dreams.
And now, I would like to introduce a man whose leadership and high standards have made the success of the Columbia possible. Ladies and gentlemen, the acting director of NASA, Dr. Alan M. Lovelace.
Dr. Lovelace. I'd like to ask John and Bob to join me.
Mr. President, I'd like to just say one brief remark—and I know I speak for myself, I think I speak for everybody in NASA—and that is, we thank you for the opportunity to serve the country, and we are prepared to continue to do that.
I would like now to present to you, Mr. President, your flag that was flown on the first flight of the Columbia.
The President. Thank you very much.
Mr. Young. It's a great honor for Bob and I to be here today. And we'd also like to make a presentation to the President that tells, for all of you who contributed so much to this program, just exactly what it's all about. Could you unveil that, please?
[A plaque detailing the history of the space shuttle program was unveiled.]
It's always significant to me that the United States flag is the biggest thing on there. Let's never forget that.
The President. You won't mind if I only wear this within Earth's atmosphere. [Laughter] But, thank you all very much. And now, I think there's two individuals here that you'd like to meet also, because I think they have to be just as courageous or even more so than those who make the flight. I think you'd like to see Mrs. Young and Mrs. Crippen. Would you stand, please?
And we're back at ground zero; we have landed successfully. Thank you.
Note: The President spoke at 1:30 p.m. in a tent constructed for the luncheon in the Rose Garden at the White House.
In an Oval Office ceremony prior to the luncheon, the President presented the NASA Distinguished Service Medal to John W. Young and Capt. Robert L. Crippen, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Mr. Young for his 16-year service in the space program, and the Presidential Citizens Medal to Dr. Alan M. Lovelace, Acting Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
04/04/11 4:42 AM
The Fabulous Thunderbirds and "Ain't That Tough Enough" has started playing on FM 102.5 KZOK radio.
04/04/11 4:45 AM
A commercial break FM 102.5 KZOK radio has started at just about the top of the minute of 4:45 AM
04/04/11 4:47 AM
At just about precisely 4:47 AM "Woman From Tokyo" starts playing on FM 102.5 KZOK.
fly into the rising run
talk about her like a queen
she makes me feel like a river that takes me away
shining like a crazy moon
yeah, she turns me on like a fire
I get high
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Do_We_Think_We_Are
Who Do We Think We Are
Who Do We Think We Are! is the seventh studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple.
Track listing
1. "Woman from Tokyo"
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 04/04/11 2:14 AM
I don't remember if I noted why specifically I thought the time was set for 5 AM, or even who was setting the time, but I think I noted some thoughts about that. As I think back - ah yes, wasn't it 108 hours?
from 4:10 PM 30 March 2011 to 5 AM 4 April 2011 is 108 hours 50 minutes.
04/04/11 2:17 AM
Well, that will be 8 AM on the east coast.
04/04/11 2:57 AM
Just now I refreshed the msnbc.msn.com webpage and at the top it has "BREAKING NEWS: President Barack Obama announces 2012 re-election bid"
04/04/11 2:58 AM
for more than one hour and more in my mind has been lurking that ominous series of scenes from the 1997 film "Contact" where it seems the scene is established so the point of view is from the perspective of the alien radio signal as it approaches the planet Earth. I even looked up that specific dialog surrounding that scene on cswap.com a while ago. I probably looked that up more than a half-hour ago, at the very least.
04/04/11 3:03 AM
I just realized that Tom Petty's "Free Falling" is playing on FM 102.5 KZOK. It might have started when I was writing that last entry and I wasn't really paying attention to the radio.
But I think it must have started after I finished the entry because it had not been playing for at least three minutes when I first noticed it was playing.
04/04/11 3:23 AM
I just noted that 108 hours is 6480 minutes
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) To 4/12/1981 ( I was the commander aboard the United States STS-1 Columbia spacecraft as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) is 6480 days
04/04/11 3:24 AM
1982 film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" DVD video:
01:25:05
Linda Barrett
Attending college
in Riverside.
Now living with her
Abnormal Psych Professor.
From 3/4/1959 ( my birth date UK ) to 4/12/1981 ( I was the commander aboard the United States STS-1 Columbia spacecraft as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) is 8075 days
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04/04/11 3:28 AM
Well, that makes sense if my thoughts are true that I materialized onboard the space shuttle Columbia on 4/12/1981 after the external fuel tank ripped a hole in the shield as it was separating after launch.
I just ran these numbers and I have been thinking for a while, but only fairly recently, that I materialized on the space shuttle, Robert Crippen then made an orbital parachute return to the surface of the Earth and then I transported Tom Reagan back to the planet Earth just as the space shuttle was destroyed during atmospheric reentry.
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) To 4/14/1981 ( ) is 6482 days
6482 = 3241 + 3241
From 11/2/1965 ( the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 9/17/1974 ( the United States Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jet aircraft enters active service in the United States Navy fleet and I am the first United States Navy F-14 Tomcat Commander Air Group as United States Navy Commander Thomas Reagan ) is 3241 days
04/04/11 3:32 AM
Now the song on FM 102.5 KZOK radio just started playing after I finished that last entry:
I am a traveler of time and space
all will be revealed
04/04/11 3:38 AM
If I have this figured out correctly then from 4:10 PM 30 March 2011 to 5 AM 4 April 2011 is 6530 minutes
From 3/4/1959 ( ) To 1/18/1977 ( the first successful flight test of the United States Navy Trident submarine launched nuclear warhead capable ballistic missile ) is 6530 days
That is consistent with a dream I woke up from recently. I think yesterday. I was looking up 'UHF' in my notes a short while ago trying to find something that I remember vaguely from the dream.
04/04/11 3:42 AM
http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=26142
NAVY.mil
Official Website of the UNITED STATES NAVY
Image: 050713-N-0000X-001.jpg
Description: Navy Special Warfare Trident insignia worn by qualified U.S. Navy SEALs.
050713-N-0000X-001 Navy File Photo: Navy Special Warfare Trident insignia worn by qualified U.S. Navy SEALs. Navy SEALs are named after the environment in which they operate, the Sea, Air, and Land, and are the foundation of Naval Special Warfare combat forces. They are organized, trained and equipped to conduct a variety of Special Operations missions in all operational environments. Today’s SEALs trace their history from the elite frogmen of World War II. Training is extremely demanding, both mentally and physically, and produces the world’s best maritime warriors. U.S. Navy photo (RELEASED)
04/04/11 3:43 AM
Just now this minute started to play on FM 102.5 KZOK and after I finished my last entry:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pinkfloyd/goodbyebluesky.html
PINK FLOYD LYRICS
"Goodbye Blue Sky"
[Childs voice:]
Look, Mummy. There's an airplane up in the sky.
Oooooooo ooo ooo ooooh
Did you see the frightened ones
Did you hear the falling bombs
Did you ever wonder
Why we had to run for shelter
When the promise of a brave new world
Unfurled beneath a clear blue sky
Oooooooo ooo ooooo oooh
Did you see the frightened ones
Did you hear the falling bombs
The flames are all long gone
But the pain lingers on
Goodbye blue sky
Goodbye blue sky
Goodbye
Goodbye
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 04 April 2011 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: April 04 2011
04/04/11 12:09 AM
Seventy two more hours. In seventy two hours I will know if this is a blow out or not.
But why am I still feeling strongly compelled to make no more posts in my blog at http://hvom.blogspot.com?
What am I supposed to do on 7 April 2011?
There must be a reason I was feeling strongly compelled to stop posting on Wednesday, 30 March 2011, which is seven days before 7 April 2011.
Sometime recently, a few hours ago I think, I started thinking that maybe I am just being driven around in circles. I don't know why. They compell to do the stuff I do and I have no idea why I have to do it.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 04 April 2011 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 04/02/11 4:14 AM
from 4:10 PM 30 March 2011 to 4:10 AM 4 April 2011 is 108 hours.
That seems important after I just made that calculation. The figure '108' is familiar in terms of that television series "Lost" and I guess that is why it is familiar.
Details I read yesterday seem to indicate that after the series had evolved for a while, during a time I wasn't watching it very much, that "Desmond" thinks there is a quarantine outside his bunker and he has to keep pushing that button ever 108 minutes.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 02 April 2011 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 1:20 AM Tuesday, April 05, 2011
I AM A TIME TRAVELER!!!!!
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 04/04/11 6:50 PM
Back in 2006, I wrote that I woke up *about* 10:30 PM and was very agitated because of the noise that woke me up. I did not record the specific time I woke up. There is the possibility I could have woke up at 10:13 PM but the reason that the calculation about 10:13 PM today is important, and more important than if I really did wake up at 10:13 PM back in 2006, is for reasons that I thought about as I was about to fall asleep today. I was thinking that what I have stumbled on to is possibly, instead of time travel communications, a genuinely sinister plan by the corrupted mainstream media of this city to steal my private property using the means I have described in the past day or two, specifically.
To make relevant observations about 10:13 PM is, while still possible, less likely an intentional hostile activity and premeditated criminal event scheduled by FM 102.5 KZOK. I have not looked up any of the details on the internet associated with the details I think I might observe on both 10:13 PM and 10:30 PM this evening, which is still a few hours away. This computer remains offline from the internet and does not even have wireless network hardware capability.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 04/04/11 7:46 PM
Okay, okay, so maybe that is what I was trying to think up early this morning.
Since the premise is that human beings are not capable of generating a paradox by being time travelers then whatever I write is what must be.
Conversely, what ever I write is what I have already written and therefore I cannot write here today anything that I did not already write in another instance of this present day.
So, I have to make sense of something random. If I can write something logical and something that likely is not predictable by the criminal elements that are working to destroy my private property then I will make a good case that this information was taken back to the past with me and that, as I write this, I am communicating information as a time traveler.
But I am going to wait until after 11 PM or so to start trying to establish the plausibility of my premise through practical application.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 04/04/11 7:52 PM
A good example will be for a song to match, in a significant aspect, to whatever event I try to associate with a specific time of day.
So if an event happens x number of minutes before a song plays on the radio and there is a significant level of detail that associates the song with the event then my premise is plausible that this file and the information in it becomes an item I take with me when I time travel to the past and people in the past have read the information in this file. Since I did time travel, from their perspective, then the file and information I give to them must be a precise representation of the information I created while I existed in their distant future and where the future is relative to their present day at the time those people read the information I took with me as a time traveler to the past.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 4 April 2011 excerpt ends]
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 05 April 2011 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 4:10 PM Wednesday, March 30, 2011
http://www.filmquipsonline.com/astronautswife.html
THE ASTRONAUT'S WIFE
Released 8/27/99
After a mission which almost killed astronauts Spencer Armacost (Depp) and Alex Streck (Nick Cassavetes) during a routine extravehicular activity, NASA declares the two men "heroes" and throws a big party for them.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 30 March 2011 excerpt ends]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/17/newsid_2530000/2530375.stm
BBC
ON THIS DAY 17 January
1991: 'Mother of all Battles' begins
In Baghdad, Saddam Hussein remained defiant. He said the "Mother of all Battles had begun".
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Flying+the+first+mission+of+dessert+storm.-a0286971012
THE FREE LIBRARY
The Free Library > Science and Technology > Military and naval science > Air Power History > March 22, 2012
Once all the Hellfires had been expended, the helicopters flew toward the sites and ripple-fired their rockets. Two thousand meters from the sites, they opened up with their 30 mm chain guns and riddled what remained of the compounds with every bullet they had. Four minutes after it started, it was over.
They turned south, rejoined with the Pave Lows, and headed home. En route, Captain Martin's crew observed what appeared to be the launch of two SA-7 missiles. They utilized their on-board defensive systems and some aggressive maneuvering to escape the missiles.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092099/quotes
IMDb
Top Gun (1986)
Quotes
Wolfman: Thirty seconds. We went like this, he went like that. I said to Hollywood, "Where'd he go?" Hollywood says, "Where'd who go?"
Hollywood: Yeah, and he's laughing at us, right on the radio, he's laughing at us.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192578/releaseinfo
IMDb
Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights (1994 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 3 September 1994
http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Getting-Shot-by-a-Police-Officer
How to Avoid Getting Shot by a Police Officer
Whether or not you have done something wrong, there is no reason to be shot by a police officer -- that is, unless you give them one.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 05:01 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 08 April 2015
