Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR)

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MODEST MOUSE

"Satin In A Coffin"


Well you disappeared so often
like you dissolved into coffee.










From 6/24/1926 ( US Congress created the position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics to oversee the United States' naval aviation forces ) To 9/27/1984 ( from my official United States Navy documents: "UA from class from 0600-0800" ) is 21280 days

21280 = 10640 + 10640

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



From 3/1/1957 ( Dr. Suess "The Cat in the Hat" ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 13808 days

13808 = 6904 + 6904

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 9/27/1984 ( from my official United States Navy documents: "UA from class from 0600-0800" ) is 6904 days



From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 4/19/1988 ( Ronald Reagan - Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate on the United States Military Strike in the Persian Gulf ) is 10640 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 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record - for Kerry Burgess 1994-A another brutally violent end of the road ) is 10640 days










http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-21/news/mn-11473_1_bosnian-serb

Los Angeles Times


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.



http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-21/news/mn-11473_1_bosnian-serb/2

Los Angeles Times


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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.










Space: Above And Beyond

Dear Earth

03 March 1996

Episode 17 Season 1 DVD video:

00:08:16


US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel McQueen: Now, I've been getting an earful of bitching and moaning about pilots being deployed as ground pounders. Hear this, C.F.B. This is not the air force. This is the Corps - air-ground combat element of the 51st MEU - every Marine a rifleman. Therefore, you will fight on command - where needed, how needed. Do I make myself clear?

All: Yes, sir!










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: November 06, 2007

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 11/06/07 2:44 AM
When I wake up, as I have on many occasions, and realize I am holding a knife in my hand, which I was not holding when I went to sleep, I wonder what I was dreaming about.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 06 November 2007 excerpt ends]










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1926


June 1926

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The following events occurred in June 1926:

June 24, 1926 (Thursday)

U.S. Congress created the position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics to oversee the United States' naval aviation forces.



http://legisworks.org/congress/69/publaw-422.pdf

764 SIXTY-NINTH CONGRESS. SEss. I. CHs. 662, 663, 667, 668 . 1926.


June 24, 1926 .

[H. R . 9690 .]

[Public, No . 422 .]

CHAP. 668.-An Act To authorize the construction and procurement of
aircraft and aircraft equipment in the Navy and Marine Corps, and to adjust
and define the status of the operating personnel in connection therewith .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the- Aircraft, Navy .
construction of, etc ., United States o f America in Congress assembled, That, for the
authorized .

purpose of further developing and further increasing aeronautics
SIXTY-NINTH CONGRESS. SEss. I . Cir. 668 . 1926.

765

in the Navy, the President of the United States is hereby authorized
to undertake the construction and procurement of aircraft, spare
parts, and equipment for the Navy as enumerated below :

SECTION 3 (PERSONNEL)

PAR. 1. That hereafter when the term "naval aviator" is used
in this Act or any other Act it shall mean any commissioned officer
or warrant line officer in the Navy or Marine Corps who has successfully
completed the course prescribed by competent authority for
naval aviators and who has been or may hereafter be designated or
appointed a naval aviator by competent authority and who has flown
alone in a heavier-than-air craft not less than seventy-five hours
and who has flown in heavier-than-air craft a total of not less than
two hundred hours or who has been in the air, under training, in
rigid airships not less than one hundred and fifty hours and successfully
completed the course prescribed by competent authority


SECTION 4

Assistant Secretary of To aid the Secretary of the Navy in fostering naval aeronautics, the Navy . and to perform such functions as the Secretary may direct, there pointed 't aid ~nnaval
shall be an additional Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who shall aeronautics.
be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, and whose compensation shall be fixed in accordance
with the Classification Act of 1923 . He shall, under the direction of
the Secretary of the Navy, be charged with the supervision of naval
aeronautics and the coordination of its activities with other governmental
agencies and, in addition, such other duties as may be
personnel for his of- assigned to him by the Secretary of the Navy . There shall be floe . detailed to his office from the Bureau of Aeronautics such number


768

SIXTY-NINTH CONGRESS. SEss. I . CHs. 668, 669, 674 . 1926.

of officers and civilian employees as may be authorized by the
Secretary of the Navy .

Approved, June 24, 1926 .











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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=35502

The American Presidency Project

Ronald Reagan

XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Members of the City Club of Cleveland, Ohio

January 11, 1988

Thank you very much. And thank you, Vice President Akers, officers and members of the City Club, Mayor Voinovich. I thank you all very much. And a special hello to Clevelanders Herb and Jody Weinberg, who are the parents of my Assistant Press Secretary, Mark Weinberg. It's great to be in Cleveland today, home of the Browns. And congratulations on your big victory. When I was at Camp David on Saturday, I heard a lot of barking— [laughter] —and it wasn't coming from Nancy's dog. [Laughter]










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=35524

The American Presidency Project

Ronald Reagan

XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989

Remarks at the Dedication Ceremony for the Army and Navy Club

January 12, 1988

Well, reverend clergy, General Hittle, General Dawson, Charles Graham, and ladies and gentlemen: In the old days, I'm told, the Army and Navy Club often invited their neighbor, the President, to all their parties. I've also heard that Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland walked over for a toddy or two. Oh, for the good old days. [Laughter] If I'd known that the club was this beautiful, Nancy and I would have stopped by long ago, and we would even walk, if the Secret Service would let us.

Well, the word for today is: Congratulations! You've put together a beautiful building and an historic treasure. I'm amazed at your outstanding collection of art, particularly the De Welden sculptures. I've always wondered where old generals and admirals went when they "just faded away." And now I know.










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"Satin In A Coffin"

You were laying on the carpet
like you're satin in a coffin.
You said, "Do you believe what you're sayin'?"
Yeah right now, but not that often.

Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
God I sure hope you are dead.

Well you disappeared so often
like you dissolved into coffee.
Are you here right now
or are there probably fossils under your meat?

Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
God I sure hope you are dead.

Now the blow's been softened,
since the air we breathe's our coffin.
Well now the blow's been softened,
since the ocean is our coffin.
Often times you know our laughter
is your coffin ever after.
And you know the blow's been softened,
since the world is our coffin.
Well now the blow's been softened
since we are our own damn coffins.
Well everybody's talkin' about their short lists.
Everybody's talkin' about death.

You were laying on the carpet
like you're satin in a coffin.
You said, "Do you believe what you're sayin'?"
Yeah right now, but not that often.

Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
God, I sure hope you are dead.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 12:03 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 25 November 2016