"I've been thrilled at the prospect of meeting these famous men on my right, who have done so much to inspire all those who love our country and who have confidence in the future of human beings."

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/23/07 1:49 AM
I am still thinking I received 5 Medals Of Honor before 1998, but I am wondering about the time frames. I wonder if 2 of those was in Vietnam and then the other 3 was from the 80's. Or maybe I got all 5 after I entered the USNA. I think the STS-1 flight was the Congressional Space Medal Of Honor. From what I read, that can be worn on my uniform, but all my military decorations take precedence, so it doesn't really have any weight as the military decorations for heroism in combat. I think one of those Medal of Honor was for Iraq in 1981. Another for Libya in 1986. And then USS Roberts in 1988.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 23 March 2007 excerpt ends]










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Annapolis 2006

I wonder why I had that dream a while back where I was talking to Fleet Admiral Nimitz? I can't remember what we were talking about. I remember that I was still thinking of myself as a former PO2 back during the time of the dream. I wonder if it was a clue to get me thinking about the USS Ronald Reagan, which I think is a Nimitz-class. Maybe it means that I am on track to become a Fleet Admiral myself someday. Although, I don't know, I need to look this up, but I think they only award that 5th star for extraordinary circumstances. In my current memory, I know only of that one 5-star and that was because of WW2.


I had a dream last night about something but I can only remember one detail. There were 5 Medals of Honor hanging near me and someone said they were mine. That would be consistent with other thoughts I have had for a while and could be the 5 stars from that dream where I was talking to Nimitz. But I still don't actually remember any specific details. It's hard to say what I actually remember. I seem to remember something, but I don't consciously remember anything from my real life.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 2006 excerpt ends]










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


Suddenly, the lights began to go off. One of the pilots mused, "I think they know we are here." Thirty seconds prior, the Apache crews turned on their ranging lasers. At exactly 2:37:50 AM, White Team Apache pilot 2d Lt. Tom Drew keyed his radio and broadcast, "Party in ten." Precisely ten seconds later all crews began firing their Hellfire missiles. Twenty seconds later, the deadly weapons began to detonate against the structures. The generators were hit first, then the command bunkers, and finally, the radar dishes themselves. Several Iraqi enemy soldiers died in the barrage.


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. The Apaches had expended twenty-seven Hellfire missiles, 100 Hydra-70 rockets, and 4,000 rounds of 30 mm cannon fire. 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.





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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/148399/RADAR-RAVEN-MAY-GET-CREDIT-FOR-1ST-AIR-KILL-OF-THE-GULF-WAR.html


Deseret News


RADAR RAVEN MAY GET CREDIT FOR 1ST AIR KILL OF THE GULF WAR


Published: Friday, Feb. 22 1991 12:00 a.m. MST

The electronics-jamming EF-111A Raven is not a combat plane. But a Raven that lured an Iraqi fighter into a death trap may be credited with the first air kill of the war.

The U.S. Air Force is investigating whether the two-man crew of the EF-111A will go down in history for destroying an Iraqi F-1 Mirage minutes after the war began on Jan. 17.Capt. Brent D. Brandon, 30, of Houston, the plane's electronic warfare officer, said the Iraqi fighter rolled in a mile or so behind the EF-111A near an airfield in western Iraq and fired a missile directly at its clear canopy.

"I actually saw the missile snaking," Brandon said Thursday.

The American jet immediately dove to within a few hundred feet of the ground and released chaff and decoy flares to try to divert the heat-seeking missile from its engines.

At the same time, the pilot, Capt. Jim Denton, accelerated toward the speed of sound and made a hard right banking turn, Brandon said.

The Iraqi fighter couldn't match the maneuver.

"And that's when we see the fireball behind us ... as the guy hit the ground," Brandon said.


Those early morning hours of Jan. 17 are etched in Brandon's memory.


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http://www.online-literature.com/poe/335/

THE LITERATURE NETWORK


Literature Network > Edgar Allan Poe > The Raven


The Raven


"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting--
"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul has spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!--quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."





http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/1991/October%201991/1091apache.aspx


Air Force Magazine


October 1991

Apache Attack

By Richard Mackenzie

The helicopters would open the war. They had to take out Iraq's early warning net, and they had to get it all.

At ten seconds before 2:38 in a moonless sky over Iraq, eight US AH-64 Apache helicopters zeroed in on their targets. On their forward-looking infrared screens appeared the images of two Iraqi radar sites just north of Saudi Arabia, placed there to detect intruding fighters. They were linked to four Iraqi fighter bases and to the Intelligence Operations Center in Baghdad.

The unseen Apaches hovered low, four miles south of the radars. At the controls of Number 976, 1st Lt. Tom Drew broke radio silence.





http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108238/quotes

IMDb


Striking Distance (1993)

Quotes


Jimmy Detillo: Who's the best cop?

Tom Hardy: You Jimmy... always you










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Space_Medal_of_Honor


Congressional Space Medal of Honor

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Congressional Space Medal of Honor was authorized by the United States Congress in 1969 to recognize "any astronaut who in the performance of his duties has distinguished himself by exceptionally meritorious efforts and contributions to the welfare of the Nation and mankind." The highest award given by NASA, it is awarded by the President of the United States in Congress's name on recommendations from the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The award is a separate decoration from the Medal of Honor, which is a military award for extreme bravery and gallantry in combat.

Although the Congressional Space Medal of Honor is a civilian award of the United States government, it is authorized as a military decoration for display on U.S. military uniforms due to the prestige of the decoration. In such cases, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor is worn as a ribbon following all United States Armed Forces decorations.

To be awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, an astronaut must perform feats of extraordinary accomplishment while participating in space flight under the authority of NASA. Typically, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor is awarded for scientific discoveries or actions of tremendous benefit to mankind.










http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-49/mission-sts-49.html


STS-49 (47)

Endeavour (1)

Pad 39-B (19)

47th Shuttle Mission

1st Flight OV-105


Launch:

May 7, 1992, 7:40 p.m. EDT.


Landing:

May 16, 1992, 6:57:38 p.m. EDT










http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-58/mission-sts-58.html


STS-58 (58)

COLUMBIA (15)

Pad 39-B (27)

58th Shuttle Mission

15th Flight OV-102


Launch:

October 18, 1993 10:53 a.m. EDT.


Landing:

November 1, 1993.










http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-71/sts-71-day-01-highlights.html

STS-71 Day 1 Highlights


On Tuesday, June 27, 1995, 7 p.m. CDT, STS-71 MCC Status Report # 01 reports:

Atlantis first achieved an orbit with a high point of 158 nautical miles by 85 nautical miles, the lowest orbital altitude ever flown by a Space Shuttle, allowing the spacecraft to close the more than 7,000 nautical miles to Mir rapidly at first, at a rate of about 880 nautical miles per orbit. Three hours and thirty-nine minutes after launch, Atlantis fired both Orbital Maneuvering System engines for a little over two minutes to raise its orbit to an altitude of 210 nautical miles by 158 nautical miles, an engine firing called the NC-1 burn that has now slowed Atlantis' closing rate on the Mir.

The shuttle is now about 5,400 nautical miles from Mir, closing on the station by about 280 nautical miles with each one and a half-hour orbit of Earth. The next engine firing by Atlantis was not scheduled until early Wednesday morning, and all activities remain on target for a docking with Mir at about 8 a.m. Thursday.










http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-82.html

NASA


Space Shuttle

STS-82


Mission: Second HST Servicing

Space Shuttle: Discovery

Launch Pad: 39A

Launched: February 11, 1997 3:55:17 a.m. EST

Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Landing: February 21, 1997, 3:32 a.m. EST










From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 12/17/2004 is 16726 days

16726 = 8363 + 8363

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 9/25/1988 ( Billy Carter dead ) is 8363 days



From 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 12/17/2004 is 4741 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/26/1978 ( the United States Ethics in Government Act of 1978 ) is 4741 days



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http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/photo/Pegasus/HTML/EC89-0309-3.html

NASA

Dryden Home > Collections > Photo Home > Pegasus > Photo # EC89-0309-3

Pegasus Mated to B-52 Mothership - First Flight

Photo Number: EC89-0309-3

Photo Date: November 1989

Photo

Description: The Pegasus air-launched space booster is carried aloft under the right wing of NASA's B-52 carrier aircraft on its first captive flight from the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The first of two scheduled captive flights was completed on November 9, 1989. Pegasus is used to launch satellites into low-earth orbits cheaply. In 1997, a Pegasus rocket booster was also modified to test a hypersonic experiment (PHYSX). An experimental "glove," installed on a section of its wing, housed hundreds of temperature and pressure sensors that sent hypersonic flight data to ground tracking facilities during the experiment’s flight.

Project

Description: NASA B-52, Tail Number 008, was an air launch carrier aircraft, "mothership," as well as a research aircraft platform that had been used on a variety of research projects. The aircraft, a "B" model built in 1952 and first flown on June 11, 1955, was used on some of the most significant research projects in aerospace history. The aircraft was retired on December 17, 2004 in a ceremony at the Dryden Flight Research Center, after nearly 50 years of flight test and research. It was both the oldest B-52 still on flight status, and had the lowest flight time of any B-52.



http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2004_3827295

HOUSTON CHRONICLE ARCHIVES

Paper: HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Date: SAT 12/18/2004


Obama lands hefty sum for 3-book deal / For $1.9 million, senator-elect will write 2 for adults and 1 for children

By NICOLE ZIEGLER DIZON

Associated Press

CHICAGO - U.S. Sen.-elect Barack Obama, whose 1995 book jumped onto best-seller lists after his keynote address to the Democratic National Convention, has landed a three-book deal worth $1.9 million.

Crown Publishing Group and Random House Children's Books, divisions of Random House, announced Friday that Obama will write two books for adults and one for children.

He'll be paid an $850,000 advance for each adult book and $200,000 for the children's book, said Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs.



http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=63745

The American Presidency Project

George W. Bush

XLIII President of the United States: 2001 - 2009

Statement on Signing the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004

December 17, 2004

Today, I have signed into law S. 2845, the ''Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004'' (the ''Act''). The Act strengthens the intelligence and counterterrorism capabilities of the United States, including by appropriate implementation of the recommendations in the Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, often called the 9/11 Commission.

Many provisions of the Act deal with the conduct of United States intelligence activities



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