So here you go. This 1979 film has those guys sitting in chairs spinning around independently. That is a familiar characteristic to anyone who has seen the 1994 film "Star Trek Generations".
So they show in this 1979 film that the "Klingons" shoot their "torpedoes" out the front of their ships.
They're shooting from the beam so why are those guys spinning around?
They're not periscopes.
Every scene I have seen shows direct line of sight shots. Their "torpedoes" always travel in a straight line.
I hear all those "Trekkies" talking about how great they are and it's all humbug. They are rip-off artists. There's nothing original there.
Typical infiltration of the communists inside the United States ripping off people smarter than they are.
Clearly the Soviet Union infiltration of Univac and the United States Navy.
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http://www.azlyrics.com/d/donhenley.html
AZ
DON HENLEY
album: "The End Of The Innocence" (1989)
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/donhenley/thelastworthlessevening.html
AZ
DON HENLEY
"The Last Worthless Evening"
I know you broke up with him
And your heart's still on the shelf
It's been over two years for me
And I'm still not quite myself
You can't be with someone new
And you can't go back to him
You're beginning to realize
That it's sink or swim
I see you around sometimes
And my heart just melts
You're lookin' like if you had your wish
You'd be somewhere else
And it just breaks my heart
To see you here this way
Someday I'll get the nerve
To walk up to you and say
This is the last worthless evening
That you'll have to spend
See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/01/twelve-monkeys-1995.html
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Friday, October 19, 2007 Posted by H.V.O.M at 7:10 PM
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Friday, October 19, 2007 Posted by H.V.O.M at 7:10 PM
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/106767.html
Exit the King: Kevin Kline's Lear Closes March 25
The Public Theater's production of William Shakespeare's King Lear, starring Kevin Kline, closes March 25.
James Lapine directed the production, which began previews Feb. 9 and opened March 7.
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From 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts the Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system and diverts it away from the planet Earth ) To 10/6/1978 ( premiere US film "Midnight Express" ) is 824 days
824 = 412 + 412
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/19/1966 ( premiere US film "The Spy with a Cold Nose" ) is 412 days
From 1/21/1959 ( Carl Switzer killed by gunfire ) To 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) is 4721 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/6/1978 ( premiere US film "Midnight Express" ) is 4721 days
From 1/21/1959 ( Cecil B. DeMille dead ) To 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) is 4721 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/6/1978 ( premiere US film "Midnight Express" ) is 4721 days
From 8/17/1960 ( premiere US film "The Time Machine" ) To 10/6/1978 ( premiere US film "Midnight Express" ) is 6624 days
6624 = 3312 + 3312
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/27/1974 ( premiere US film "Blood for Dracula" ) is 3312 days
From 8/17/1960 ( the Soviet Union trial of the United States Central Intelligence Agency pilot Gary Powers begins in Moscow Russia Soviet Union ) To 10/6/1978 ( premiere US film "Midnight Express" ) is 6624 days
6624 = 3312 + 3312
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/27/1974 ( premiere US film "Blood for Dracula" ) is 3312 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077928/releaseinfo
IMDb
Midnight Express (1978)
Release Info
USA 6 October 1978
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077928/fullcredits
IMDb
Midnight Express (1978)
Full Cast & Crew
Brad Davis ... Billy Hayes
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IMDb
Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer
Biography
Date of Birth 7 August 1927 , Paris, Illinois, USA
Date of Death 21 January 1959 , Mission Hills, California, USA (homicide)
Birth Name Carl Dean Switzer
Shot to death by an acquaintance in Mission Hills, California, during an argument over $50 that Switzer felt the acquaintance owed him. The acquaintance pled self-defense, and the judge ruled the death "justifiable homicide."
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F17.html
Radioactive Man [ The Simpsons ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 24-Sep-95
Everyone around Springfield sets up banners to welcome the guys from Hollywood: "There's no $ like show $", "We [heart] phonies", "Welcome film bucks (will fawn over Hollywood types!)", and the like. The hospital erects a sign: "Our extra patients make patient extras".
Homer flips through the channels quickly, and each person he flips past says one syllable in the sentence, "Everyone is talking about Radioactive Man, y'all." At Moe's, Moe shows a Little Rascals poster to the bar denizens, with a young Morris Szyslak surrounded by the gang.
Barney: Whoa! You mean, you were one of the original Little Rascals?
Moe: Yeah.
Homer: Which one were you? The ugly one? [Moe glares] Were you the ugly one?
Moe: No, I was the tough kid, Smelly. My shtick was looking into an exhaust pipe and getting a faceful of soot. Nobody could do that better than me. Of course, it was kind of hard to think of _reasons_ for me to _look_ in that exhaust pipe every time, but, you know -- we had good writers. William Faulkner can write an exhaust pipe gag that would really make you think.
Barney: If you were such a big shot, why aren't you still making movies? Moe? Moe!
[Moe thinks back to an episode where the Little Rascals are playing marbles]
[he flicks one away; it bounces into an exhaust pipe]
Moe: Oh, no! My favorite aggie!
[Alfalfa runs off, looks in the exhaust pipe]
[the car starts and blows soot in his face]
Moe: [smashing Alfalfa's head into the ground] You stole my bit! That's my bit...ooh! Ooh! You stole my bit!
Man: Cut! Oh my God! He's killed the original Alfalfa.
Moe: [in the present] Yeah. Luckily, Alfalfa was an orphan owned by the studio.
Denizens: Oh! I see. That makes sense.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001124/bio
IMDb
Cecil B. DeMille
Biography
Date of Birth 12 August 1881, Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA
Date of Death 21 January 1959, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart ailment)
Birth Name Cecil Blount DeMille
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy-class_cruiser
Leahy-class cruiser
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leahy-class cruisers were a class of guided missile cruisers built for the United States Navy. They were originally designated as Destroyer Leaders (DLG), but in the 1975 cruiser realignment, they were reclassified as guided missile cruisers (CG).
They were a new "double-ender" class fitted with Terrier (later Standard ER) missile launchers fore and aft, and the first and only frigate class designed without a main gun battery for shore bombardment or ship-vs.-ship engagements—the gun armament was reduced in order to carry a larger missile load. One of the principal missions of these ships, like their predecessors the Farragut class, was to form part of the anti-air and antisubmarine screen for carrier task forces, while also controlling aircraft from the carrier by providing vectors to assigned targets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Leahy_(DLG-16)
USS Leahy (DLG-16)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Leahy (DLG/CG-16) was the lead ship of a new class of destroyer leaders in the United States Navy. Named for Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, she was commissioned on 4 August 1962
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy-class_cruiser
Leahy-class cruiser
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The ships carried over the propulsion plant of the Farragut class, fitted into a longer hull designed with a knuckled “hurricane” bow that reduced plunging in a rough sea, thus keeping the forecastle dry as needed to operate the forward missile launcher.
1980 film "The Final Countdown" DVD video:
USS Nimitz CVN 68 operations officer: Sir, I think you ought to see these aerial reconnaissance photographs of Pearl Harbor.
US Navy Captain Matthew Yelland - USS Nimitz CVN 68 Commanding Officer: Turn that off!
USS Nimitz CVN 68 operations officer: Yes, sir.
US Navy Captain Matthew Yelland - USS Nimitz CVN 68 Commanding Officer: That'll be all. You.
US Navy Commander Dan Thurman - USS Nimitz CVN 68 Executive Officer: It's not Pearl Harbor.
US Navy Captain Matthew Yelland - USS Nimitz CVN 68 Commanding Officer: Sure as hell is.
USS Nimitz CVN 68 operations officer: Look at that old battlewagon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belknap-class_cruiser
Belknap-class cruiser
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Belknap class cruiser was a class of single-ended guided missile cruisers (their missile armament was installed only forward, unlike "double-ended" missile cruisers with missile armament installed both forward and aft) built for the United States Navy during the 1960s. They were originally designated as DLG frigates (destroyer leaders; the USN use of the term frigate from 1950 to 1975 was intended to evoke the power of the sailing frigates of old), but in the 1975 fleet realignment, they were reclassified as guided missile cruisers (CG).
Description
When commissioned, the main armament of the Belknap class was a 5-inch/54-caliber Mk. 42 gun on the quarterdeck and a twin-rail RIM-2 Terrier Mk 10 Missile Launcher on the foredeck.
In the early 1980s, the Terrier missiles were replaced with RIM-67 Standard missiles
the class had its Standard SM-1 system upgraded to utilize SM-2ER Block II, the 3 inch guns were replaced with two 4 cell Harpoon Surface-to-surface missile launchers, and two Phalanx CIWS systems were installed.
http://destroyerhistory.org/coldwar/belknapclass/
DESTROYER HISTORY FOUNDATION
Belknap Class
The final DLG class, the Belknap, was an expanded version of the Leahy class with new radar, sonar and dynamic roll stabilization on a 547' hull, 23 feet longer than the Leahys. The design incorporated a hangars and flight deck for the new drone anti-submarine helicopters (DASH) and a single 5-inch/54 caliber gun mounted aft. ASROC were launched by the single Terrier missile battery forward. The Farragut propulsion machinery was retained.
Nine ships were built. Big and beautiful, they were the most seaworthy and successful of the DLGs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_controlman
Fire controlman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fire controlman (abbreviated as FC) is a United States Navy occupational rating.
Fire controlmen provide system employment recommendations; perform organizational and intermediate maintenance on digital computer equipment, subsystems, and systems; operate and maintain combat and weapons direction systems, surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missile systems, and gun fire control systems at the organizational and intermediate level; inspect, test, align, and repair micro/minicomputers and associated peripheral equipment, data conversion units, data display equipment, data link terminal equipment, print devices, and system related equipment; make analysis for detailed systems, computer programs, electronics, and electronic casualty control; and operate associated built-in and external test equipment; load, initialize, and run preprogrammed diagnostic, performance and testing routines for digital computer equipment, digital subsystems, digital systems, and overall combat systems.
Fire controlmen attend apprentice technical training and "A"-School at Naval Station Great Lakes; this course is roughly 8 months long followed then by a "C"-school
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http://aviationweek.com/awin/aegis-intercepts-first-ever-salvo-test-0
AVIATION WEEK
Aegis Intercepts In First-Ever Salvo Test
Sep 19, 2013 Amy Butler and _Michael Fabey AWIN First
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has achieved its first-ever salvo test of the SM-3 Block IB missile, and the intercept took place at the highest altitude for the system to date.
The first SM-3 IB that was launched successfully intercepted the target, a short-range ballistic missile described as the “one of the most complex targets that we have shot to date,” says Mitch Stevison, Raytheon’s SM-3 program manager. The target was an Aegis Readiness Assessment Vehicle-C, Developed by Kratos, Port Hueneme NSWC, MDA.
The second SM-3 IB was launched about 2 min. after the first in accordance with military doctrine for assured kill. The missile was set to intercept the target if the first SM-3 IB did not. Since the first missile executed the intercept, the second missile flew a profile through the debris field that it was preprogrammed to fly.
The target was detected by the Aegis system’s SPY-1 radar on the USS Lake Erie cruiser, which also fired the missiles. The ship employed the Aegis BMD 4.0 Weapon System; the SM-3 Block IB includes a two-color infrared seeker and more sophisticated divert-and-attitude-control system, improvements over the IA version.
The ship, equipped with the second-generation Aegis BMD weapon system, developed a fire control solution and launched two SM-3 Block IB guided missiles to engage the target. This latest version of the second-generation Aegis BMD Weapon System is capable of engaging longer range and more sophisticated ballistic missiles.
Program officials will assess and evaluate system performance based upon telemetry and other data obtained during the test, Navy officials say. Raytheon officials say that data collected and yet to be analyzed about the second SM-3 IB’s flight will provide info on how to conduct salvo operations.
“This was an operationally realistic test
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Relics [ Star Trek: The Next Generation ]
Stardate: 46125.3
Original Airdate: 12 Oct, 1992
[Transporter room]
RIKER: We should probably get you to Sickbay. Doctor Crusher will want to
SCOTT: You've changed the resonator array.
RIKER: Geordi, I think our guest is going to have a lot of engineering questions.
LAFORGE: Not to worry, Commander. I'll take care of him, sir.
(Worf and Riker leave)
SCOTT: What have you done with the duotronic enhancers?
LAFORGE: Those were replaced with isolinear chips about forty years ago. It's a lot more efficient now. That's an EPS power tap.
SCOTT: Ah.
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2013/september/130919-mst-lockheed-martin-second-generation-aegis-bmd-successfully-intercepts-most-sophisticated-target-to-date.html
LOCKHEED MARTIN
Lockheed Martin’s Second Generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System Successfully Intercepts Most Sophisticated Target To Date
KAUAI, Hawaii, Sept. 19, 2013 – The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy successfully demonstrated, on the first attempt, the second generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System’s capability to engage a sophisticated, separating short range ballistic missile target with two Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB guided missiles that were fired and guided to intercept nearly simultaneously.
The test, known as Flight Test - Standard Missile-21 (FTM-21), was an operational test for Aegis BMD and SM-3 Block IB guided missile to engage and defeat a ballistic missile threat. FTM-21 marked the tenth time the USS Lake Erie (CG 70) and crew have successfully performed in Navy and Missile Defense Agency at-sea test events against cruise and ballistic missile targets using the second generation of the Aegis BMD configuration.
“This latest test is the first time we have seen USS Lake Erie, sailors, and Aegis BMD Weapon System schedule, analyze, launch and control multiple missiles in flight through intercept at the same time,” said Nick Bucci, Director of BMD Development Programs at Lockheed Martin’s Mission Systems and Training business. “The Aegis BMD 4.0.2 configuration provides the Navy with the ability to respond to ever increasing and evolving ballistic missile threats around the world with persistent and reliable capabilities.”
http://www.google.co.in/patents/US7473876
Google Patents
Boost phase intercept missile fire control system architecture
US 7473876 B1
ABSTRACT
A fire control system for a boost phase threat missile includes sensors for generating target-missile representative signals, and a multi-hypothesis track filter, which estimates the states of various target hypotheses. The estimated states are typed to generate hypotheses and their likelihoods. The states, hypotheses and likelihoods are applied to a multihypothesis track filter, and the resulting propagated states are applied to an engagement planner, together with the hypotheses and likelihoods. The engagement planner initializes the interceptor(s). Interceptor guidance uses the initialization and the propagated states and typing information to command the interceptor.
Eventually, decision block 826 will find that LTI has been reached, the logic then leaves block 826 by the YES output and flows to a block 834, which represents the creation of an Engagement Opportunity List (EOL), including the FoMs for all intercept time and interceptor flyout strategy combinations. From block 834, the logic flows to a further block 836. Block 836 represents scheduling of the intercept. Scheduling of the intercept can be done within one asset or through communication among multiple assets. The information produced by logic 800 of FIG. 5 includes the desired interceptor launch time, the desired intercept time, and any other information, such as initialization information, which the specific interceptor andor weapon system may require.
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Clancy Tom, Red Storm Rising
Tom Clancy
Red Storm Rising
20 – The Dance of the Vampires
The Bear already had a clear picture of the American formations. The Russians could not determine ship type, but they could tell large from small, and identify the missile cruiser Ticonderoga by her distinctive radar emissions. The carriers would be close to her. The Bear relayed the information to her consorts. A minute later, the seventy Backfire bombers launched their hundred forty AS-6 Kingfish missiles and turned north at full military power. The Kingfish was nothing like the Kelt. Powered by a liquid-fuel rocket engine, it accelerated to nine hundred knots and began its descent, its radar-homing head tracking on a preprogrammed target area ten miles wide. Every ship in the center of the formation had several missiles assigned.
"Vampire, Vampire!" the CIC talker said aboard Ticonderoga. "We have numerous incoming missiles. Weapons free."
The group antiair warfare officer ordered the cruiser's Aegis weapons system into full automatic mode. Tico had been built with this exact situation in mind. Her powerful radar/computer system immediately identified the incoming missiles as hostile and assigned each a priority of destruction. The computer was completely on its own, free to fire on its electronic will at anything diagnosed as a threat. Numbers, symbols, and vectors paraded across the master tactical display. The fore and aft twin missile launchers trained out at the first targets and awaited the orders to fire. Aegis was state-of-the-art, the best SAM system yet devised, but it had one major weakness: Tico carried only ninety-six SM2 surface-to-air missiles; there were one hundred forty incoming Kingfish. The computer had not been programmed to think about that.
Aboard Nimitz, Toland could feel the carrier heeling into a radical turn, her engines advanced to flank speed, driving the massive warship at over thirty-five knots. Her nuclear-powered escorts, Virginia and California, were also tracking the Kingfish, their own missiles trained out on their launchers.
"Red Storm Rising"
The Kingfish were at eight thousand feet, one hundred miles out, covering a mile every four seconds. Each had now selected a target, choosing the largest within their fields of view. Nimitz was the nearest large ship, with her missile-ship escorts to her north.
Tico launched her first quartet of missiles as the targets reached a range of ninety-nine miles. The rockets exploded into the air, leaving a trail of pale gray smoke. They had barely cleared the launch rails when the mounts went vertical and swiveled to receive their reloads. The load-and-fire time was under eight seconds. The cruiser would average one missile fired every two seconds. Just over three minutes later, her missile magazines were empty. The cruiser emerged from the base of an enormous gray arch of smoke. Her only remaining defenses were her gun systems.
The SAMs raced in at their targets with a closing speed of over two thousand miles per hour, directed in by the reflected waves of the ship's own fire-control radars.
http://articles.latimes.com/1987-12-02/news/mn-17275_1_persian-gulf
Los Angeles Times
Navy Gets Kuwaiti OK to Operate Floating Base in Gulf
December 02, 1987 MELISSA HEALY Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — The government of Kuwait, setting aside its expressed concerns about American incursions on its sovereignty, has agreed to let the U.S. Navy operate a barge bristling with weapons inside Kuwaiti territorial waters, the Pentagon confirmed Tuesday.
Kuwait's change of heart comes after Iranian Silkworm missiles hit three tankers in that nation's waters in the last six weeks. Those attacks swayed Kuwaiti officials to reconsider earlier decisions to deny U.S. forces access to Kuwaiti bases or territory, Administration officials said.
The barge, about the size of a football field, will serve as a refueling, supply and staging center for Navy helicopters and patrol boats involved in the U.S. tanker escort effort in the Persian Gulf. The platform--joining two others in international waters in the gulf--will improve the reach and maneuverability of U.S. forces protecting U.S.-flag vessels against Iranian attacks, U.S. officials said. Eleven such vessels are Kuwaiti tankers re-registered under the American Flag.
The new station marks a significant expansion of the U.S. presence in the gulf by giving U.S. forces a floating base within 150 miles of the nearest land battlefield in the seven-year-old war between Iran and Iraq. At the same time, the agreement strengthens the symbolic ties between the United States and the tiny Arab nation, which has striven in the past to maintain an arm's length relationship to avoid antagonizing Iran, the Soviet Union and Shia Muslims in its own country.
The Kuwaitis, in an unprecedented move, have given Washington assurances that the barge will receive protection from Kuwaiti defenses, according to one knowledgeable official. Those defenses, which include U.S.-made Hawk anti-aircraft missiles, would be capable of intercepting Iranian Silkworm missiles that have been fired from mobile bases on the Faw Peninsula, Iraqi territory now occupied by Iran.
However, there are some reservations among U.S. officials about the barge because of its potential as a target of attack.
Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci, speaking to reporters last Friday en route to a meeting with European allies in Brussels, said that such a platform in Kuwaiti waters would be "vulnerable" and said of its military advantages: "It doesn't get you very much."
But several Pentagon sources said that the barge's own defensive systems, including Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, would afford substantial protection and that the base would be very useful.
"Attacking those sites would not be easy if they tried," said one Navy official. "And anyone who tried is not likely to get away with it."
The new barge is to be towed into the northern Persian Gulf under Navy escort once Washington and Kuwait work out the final details of the deployment. The barge's exact intended location could not be ascertained Tuesday, but about half of Kuwait's territorial water lies within the 50-mile range of Iranian Silkworm missiles.
Kuwait last summer requested the re-registration of its tankers under the U.S. flag to obtain American protection against attacks from Iran, which has preyed upon ships of nations, such as Kuwait, that do business with Iraq. But the tiny gulf nation outraged some U.S. officials in July by rejecting, out of fear of greater entanglements, a U.S. proposal to operate minesweeping helicopters from Kuwaiti territory.
That attitude began to change with the recent series of Iranian missile attacks aimed at targets in Kuwaiti waters. On Oct. 15, a Silkworm missile slammed into the U.S.-owned, Liberian-flagged tanker Sungari off the Kuwaiti coast.
The next day a Silkworm hit the U.S.-flagged Kuwaiti tanker Sea Isle City while the ship was in Kuwaiti anchorage. A Kuwaiti offshore loading facility, the Sea Island terminal, was heavily damaged by a missile Oct. 22.
From 12/7/1941 ( the United States Navy Pacific Fleet severely damaged in the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor Hawaii ) To 6/8/2007 is 23924 days
23924 = 11962 + 11962
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/3/1998 ( Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) is 11962 days
From 9/27/1984 ( from my official United States Navy documents: "UA from class from 0600-0800" ) To 6/8/2007 is 8289 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/13/1988 ( premiere US film "The Dead Pool" ) is 8289 days
From 2/17/1909 ( Geronimo deceased ) To 9/23/1950 ( the United States Internal Security Act enacted ) is 15193 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/8/2007 is 15193 days
From 1/7/1957 ( premiere US TV series "Men of Annapolis" ) To 6/8/2007 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 ) is 9207 days
From 1/7/1957 ( premiere US TV series "Men of Annapolis" ) To 6/8/2007 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9207 days
From 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) To 6/8/2007 is 12949 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/16/2001 ( premiere US TV series "Weakest Link" ) is 12949 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-date-which-will-live-in-infamy.html ]
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/06/20070608-15.html
THE WHITE HOUSE
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
June 8, 2007
Statement by the President
General Peter Pace has served our Nation with great distinction for forty years. He is an outstanding Marine -- and he made history as the first Marine to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Pete's job has been to help ensure that America's military forces are prepared to meet the threats of this new century. This is a difficult task in a time of peace. Pete Pace has done it in a time of war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruiser
Cruiser
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A cruiser is a type of warship. The term has been in use for several hundred years, and has had different meanings throughout this period. During the Age of Sail, the term cruising referred to certain kinds of missions – independent scouting, raiding or commerce protection – fulfilled by a frigate or sloop, which were the cruising warships of a fleet.
In the middle of the 19th century, cruiser came to be a classification for the ships intended for this kind of role, though cruisers came in a wide variety of sizes, from the small protected cruiser to armored cruisers that were as large (although not as powerful) as a battleship.
By the early 20th century, cruisers could be placed on a consistent scale of warship size, smaller than a battleship but larger than a destroyer.
In the later 20th century, the obsolescence of the battleship left the cruiser as the largest and most powerful surface combatant. The role of the cruiser varied according to ship and navy, often including air defense, commerce raiding, and shore bombardment. The U.S. Navy in the Cold War period built guided-missile cruisers primarily designed to provide air defense, while the navy of the USSR built battlecruisers with heavy anti-ship missiles designed to sink NATO carrier task forces.
Late 20th century
The United States Navy has centered on the aircraft carrier since World War II. The Ticonderoga-class cruisers, built in the 1980s, were originally designed and designated as a class of destroyer, intended to provide a very powerful air-defense in these carrier-centered fleets. The ships were later redesignated largely as a public relations move, in order to highlight the capability of the Aegis combat system the ships were designed around.[citation needed]
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/79701/Clancy_-_Red_Storm_Rising.txt
Tom Clancy
Red Storm Rising
40 – The Killing Ground
Again the Vampire call came in, and again Toland cringed. Twenty incoming missiles were plotted. The formation activated jammers and SAM systems, with a pair of Aegis cruisers on the threat axis. In seconds they were launching missiles, and the other SM2-equipped SAM ships added their own missiles to the "basket," allowing their birds to be guided by the Aegis computer systems. The twenty incoming missiles had ninety SM2s targeted on them. Only three got through the SAM cloud, and only one of them headed for a carrier. America's three point-defense guns tracked the AS-6 and destroyed it a thousand feet from the ship. The other two missiles both found the cruiser Wainwright and exploded her four miles from Independence.
"Damn." Jacobsen's face took a hard set. "I thought we had that one beat.
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Tom Clancy
Red Storm Rising
40 – The Killing Ground
Ten miles up, the Russian missiles switched on their radar seeker heads and found their target windows crammed with blips. Overloaded, they automatically scanned the largest for infrared signatures. Many of the blips gave off heat, and the missiles automatically selected the largest for their attention as they made their final Mach 3 dives. They had no way of knowing that they were attacking volcanic rocks. Thirty missiles got through the SAM defenses. Only five of them actually aimed themselves at ships.
Two of Nassau's R2D2s swiveled together and fired at a missile traveling too fast too see. The captain looked in the direction of the barrels just in time to see a white flash a thousand feet overhead. The sound that followed nearly deafened him, and he realized how foolish it was to be exposed when fragments dinged off the pilothouse next to him. Two more missiles fell into the town to his west. Then the sky cleared. A fireball to the west told him that at least one ship had been hit. But not mine!
"Son of a bitch." He lifted the phone to the Combat Information Center. "Combat, Bridge, two missiles fell into Stykkisholmur. Let's get a helo over there, there's gonna be some casualties."
As Toland watched, the tapes of the air engagement were replayed at fast speed. A computer tallied the kills. Everything was automated now.
"Wow," the intelligence officer said to himself
"Not like before, was it, son?" Jacobsen observed. "Spaulding, I want word on the 'phibs!"
"Just coming in now, sir. Charleston took a hit and broke in half. We have minor damage to Guam and Ponce--and that's it, Admiral!"
"Plus Wainwright." Jacobsen took a deep breath. Two valuable ships and fifteen hundred men were gone, yet he had to call it a success.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 9:23 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 23 May 2015
