THE CRAP you people put on Twitter.
Don't you people have REAL PEOPLE to talk to? In person?
You're just spewing out crap to your imaginary friend, aren't you.
There's a reason they're *former* Marines. Too lazy and too weak to be anything other than a pathetic substance abuser, drug addict. Should've never been a Marine in the first place.
What a freaking moron. "Support and love". "Powerful support". Nothing but superstitious monkeys. That's all you hear. Cowards terrified of mortality. Morons trying to rationalize away their cowardice. Watching the news is so goddamned pointless. No intelligent life down here.
from my journal as Kerry Burgess
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 04:32 am (Pacific Time USA)
I wonder if that's the same day I remember graduating from United States Navy basic training in Orlando.
Must have been.
The uncertainty in my mind is because of vague memories I still have about those last days before we left.
I can still visualize that last day, had my seabag and sunglasses on and the company commander sending us off and I can visualize myself walking for the last time out the door of that barracks we had been in for 8 weeks.
I went across base to begin Basic Electricity and Electronics School for the Electronics Technician occupation rating, a rating I chose because it was one of only two ratings in the Advanced Electronics Field, along with Fire Controlman, and the ET rating required several more weeks of electronics training than FC and I found that appealing to me. Several weeks later, being completely unprepared for unhindered access to cheap alcohol, having been sheltered from alcohol and then on my own with no old woman screeching at me, with no closed door in her house I could ever escape to away from her, I let myself get kicked out of school and sent out to the fleet to work in the deck department as a non-rated sailor. Working my butt off, as since 14 years old, from my own personal initiative and with no personal role models in my past experience, I had become accustomed to regular employment, I was allowed to select a rating to aspire for and I chose the gun/missile Fire Controlman (FC) (in the last days of the Fire Control Technician Missiles (FTM) rating) and worked my way back up and my next fleet assignment was with a bunch of push-button technicians whose career track had been the same as my original aspirations with the ET rating. They went to school for several courses of instruction and were advanced to Petty Officer Third Class (E-4 paygrade after entering recruit training as E-3 paygrade) without ever working a day in the fleet. I had spent over a year - a total of 419 days to be exact - on a shakedown period for the USS Taylor FFG-50 where I had many responsibilities including being responsible for the boatswain locker, helmsman, lookout, repair locker personnel, damage control, others.
All I know for certain is my official military records tell me I was transferred from basic training by the United States Navy on Monday, July 16, 1984.
The previous Friday was the 13th.
The details I vaguely recall are about how my company, C155, finished the course of instruction several days before the other company's finished. The reason, I vaguely recall, is that several companies began the course of instruction during the same week but on different days of the week. So we started on a day before the others started and we finished a few days before the last company finished. If we started on a Monday then others started on Friday. So we finished on a Monday and they finished on a Friday. But we all graduated on the same day, which I believe was a Friday and I have reason to believe was the 13th. I can't imagine we were goofing off for over a week waiting for the other company to finish the course. K076 was the female company I remember starting with us on the same day and I think they were in the same large classroom with us for classroom instruction. I remember a vast number of sailors being on the field for graduation ceremony and my company was a large group of sailors.
The answer might be out there somewhere on the internet but I can't find it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/releaseinfo
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The Last Starfighter (1984)
Release Info
USA 13 July 1984
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The Last Starfighter (1984)
Full Cast & Crew
Lance Guest ... Alex Rogan / Beta Alex
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Around Space
28min Talk-Show TV Series (2001– )
15 episodes
Scientist Kent Miller hosts a show designed to get the public interested in space. Guests include: astronauts, scientists, astronomers, lobbyists, engineers, venture capitalists, government officials, activists and hobbyists.
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The Rear Gunner (1943)
Release Info
USA 10 April 1943
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The Rear Gunner (1943)
Full Cast & Crew
Ronald Reagan ... Lt. Ames (as Lieutenant Ronald Reagan)
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Around Space (TV Series)
Space Tourism (2001)
Release Info
USA 14 July 2001
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Around Space (2001– )
Space Tourism
28min Talk-Show Episode aired 14 July 2001
Season 1 Episode 1
Release Date: 14 July 2001 (USA)
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/30.htm
Catspaw [ Star Trek: The Original Series television episode ]
Stardate: 3018.2
Original Airdate: 27 Oct, 1967
SPOCK: Jim, all of these things that we've seen. To an Earthman like yourself, they must seem quite familiar.
Captain KIRK: Familiar. Startling. Not rational.
SPOCK: Precisely. I refer you to the psychological theory of the racial subconscious. The universal myths, symbols.
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Goodyear Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 16
Visit to a Small Planet
Aired Sunday 9:00 PM May 08, 1955 on NBC
Episode Summary
A Pennsylvania radio announcer discovers that a spaceship has landed on his farm. From it steps the dapper, clairvoyant Kreton, who's come to Earth to see how its 'savages' live. He's also prepared to give the lowly Earthmen a few hints on running their civilization.
AIRED: 5/8/55
http://messier.seds.org/xtra/Bios/marius.html
Simon Marius (January 20, 1573 - December 26, 1624)
Simon Mayr (Latinized Marius) was born in Gunzenhausen, Bavaria, on January 20, 1573. In 1586, he joined the Margrave of Ansbach's Capella and school. He was in the capella for three years, and in the school until 1801, when he was 26 years old. In the following, he went to Prague to join Tycho Brahe's establishment, and after Tycho's death, was enrolled in Padua University to study medicine. In 1605 he return to Ansbach without degree and became Mathematician and Physician to the new Margraves, Christian and Joachim Ernst, a position he held for the rest of his life. Marius died in Ansbach on December 26, 1624.
His earliest astronomical activities include observations of a comet in 1596 and of Kepler's supernova in 1604. In 1608 he learned of telescopes and started to acquire the skills of producing one (like Galileo). Apparently, he independently discovered Jupiter's Moons (despite Galileo's claim of a plagiary, which had some evidence because it seems that he had already helped Capra in Padua to plagiate Galileo's note describing the use of compass), and proposed the names they have since. His credibility is also not enhanced by the fact that he improved his funds from astrology.
Moreover, Marius found (independently rediscovered) the "Nebula in the Girdle of Andromeda", actually the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), on December 15, 1612, and was the first to observe it with a (very moderate) telescope; he described it as looking like a "flame seen through horn" (Marius 1614). He was not aware that this object had been seen previously by medieval Persian astronomers, and described by Al Sufi as early as 964 AD.
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The Andromeda Flame
On December 15, 1612, astronomer Simon Marius [Mayr or Mayer] became the first modern observer to locate and describe the Andromeda galaxy. Telescopy being in its infancy, however, he detailed how its shape to his eye appeared like that of a candle flame. The technology did not allow the optical resolution required to differentiate the blur he saw as individual stars.
Although he did not understand the workings of the solar system, Marius made some good observations for his day. He made many observations about the same time as Galileo who was convinced Marius was plagiarizing his work. More likely, given the era, they worked on observations available to them by the telescopy of the time. No Twitter or Facebook to announce to the world who had just made what observation.
However it happened, Jupiter’s four moons are known today as named by Marius – Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. He also recorded a more accurate period of revolution for each than Galileo.
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Messier 31
Observations and Descriptions
Known to Al-Sufi about AD 905 and depicted AD 964.
Reported on a Dutch starmap of 1500.
Independently found and first observed with a telescope by Simon Marius on December 15, 1612.
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/Stargate:_The_Movie_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
(from internet transcript)
EXT—GIZA, EGYPT, 1928, DAY
[A car drives quickly through the desert towards a busy and crowded archaeological site. In the car, a man drives an adult man and a girl, approximately twelve years of age. The car stops, and the driver honks his horn.]
[From inside a tent, a man who has been writing at a desk hurries out to greet the car.]
ARABIC INTERPRETER
Professor! Professor.
[He barely helps them out of the car before rushing ahead, trying to lead them to the center of the site. The girl and man, Catherine Langford and her father, hurry to catch up.]
ARABIC INTERPRETER
We found something beautiful! Very big surprise! Big big big surprise!
[He leads them over to a large round coverstone. One complete disk sits in the center, surrounded by a larger disk split into thirteen sections. Another man greets the professor and shakes his hand.]
FOREMAN TAYLOR
Dr. Langford, hello.
LANGFORD
What have we here?
FOREMAN TAYLOR
Cover stones.
LANGFORD
It's fantastic.
[Meanwhile, Catherine has started looking at some smaller artifacts being catalogued on one of the side tables. She's fascinated by a gold necklace, on its chain is a gold pendant with an intricate design, including the symbol for the eye of Ra.]
LANGFORD
Caterina, come.
[Catherine follows her father and the other men to another section of the site. Dozens of workers are using ropes to pull a large stone ring upright—the Stargate.]
LANGFORD
What in God's name is that?
FOREMAN TAYLOR
I wish I knew.
WORKMAN
Look at that. There is something buried underneath!
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Fronde
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fronde was a series of civil wars in France between 1648 and 1653, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635. King Louis XIV confronted the combined opposition of the princes, the nobility, the law courts (parlements), and most of the French people, and yet won out in the end.
First Fronde, the Fronde Parlementaire (1648–1649)
In May 1648 a tax levied on judicial officers of the Parlement of Paris provoked not merely a refusal to pay but also a condemnation of earlier financial edicts and a demand for the acceptance of a scheme of constitutional reforms framed by a united committee of the parlement (the Chambre Saint-Louis), composed of members of all the sovereign courts of Paris.
The military record of the first Fronde (the Fronde Parlementaire) is almost blank. In August 1648, feeling strengthened by the news of the Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé's victory at Lens (20 August 1648), Mazarin suddenly arrested the leaders of the parlement, whereupon Paris broke into insurrection and barricaded the streets.
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Louis XIV, Rebellion, Wars The Days of the Sun King (17th Century)
The Rebellion. Wars.
The reign of Louis XIV, a soldier-king and strong catholic, was marked by a number of wars, against foreign nations, including Spain, and civil wars on French territory against the nobles of the sword and the nobles of the gown.
However, by the end of his reign, he had secured unity within the kingdom.
The Rebellion (La Fronde) was a succession of periods of internal strife, civil wars which troubled the kingdom of France while Louis XIV was still under-age. They were the reaction of the opposition to the rise of monarchical power towards absolutism, which had begun under Henri IV and Louis XIII. A delicate financial and fiscal situation was necessary to feed the European Thirty Years War from 1618 to1648, and it aroused opposition from parliamentaries, the aristocracy and the people.
In 1648, the Parliament of Paris, made up of magistrates who were nominated for life, a sort of second nobility, the nobles of the gown, tried to limit royal power with the Declaration of the twenty-seven articles. The Parliament wanted a parliamentary monarchy, in the English style, with lessened power for the Great and the King. The arrest of the parliamentary Pierre Broussel, who was opposed to Mazarin’s new taxes, on August 26 1648, prompted the anger of Parisians and the Day of the Barricades took place
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/Stargate:_The_Movie_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
(from internet transcript)
EXT—MILITARY INSTALLATION, CREEK MOUNTAIN, COLORADO, DAY
[A government sedan approaches the guarded mountain entrance, the gates opening before it.]
INT—ELEVATOR
[Kawalski runs his ID card through a scanner in the elevator.]
FEMALE COMPUTER VOICE
Clear.
[Kawalski presses the elevator button for level 28 and smiles at Daniel, who smiles back before violently sneezing.]
MALE COMPUTER VOICE
Going to Level 28...4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10—
KAWALSKI
Cold?
MALE COMPUTER VOICE
15, 16, 17, 18, 19...
[Daniel pulls out a handkerchief and blows his nose. ]
DANIEL
Allergies. Always happens when I travel.
INT—LEVEL 28
[The elevator doors open and they both exit, Kawalski holding the door open.]
KAWALSKI
There you go.
[They pass other personnel entering the elevator.]
DANIEL
(nervously)
Hey, hi.
[Myers and Shore are in the corridor, carrying papers, they join Kawalski and Daniel.]
MYERS
Doctor Jackson?
DANIEL
Hello.
MYERS
Doctor Gary Myers, how are you.
DANIEL
What is this place?
SHORE
Nuclear missile silo. Now don't worry, it's been completely converted.
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Google Books
Surface warfare magazine, Volume 4
United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Chief of Naval Operations, 1979 - History
page 8
USS Biddle
The Action at Red Crown
on the night of July 19, 1972, when the ship fought off air attacks against Task Force 77 by five MiG's.
page 9
"About the time I got to CIC," said CAPT Carter, "we were picking up North Vietnamese MiG's" from two separate airfields. Enemy aircraft frequently launched, flew to the coastline, feigned attacked and turned back. This practice was known as "keeping their feet dry" - remaining over land. Biddle had picked up the MiG's on its air-search radar; presence of the MiG's was neither unusual nor cause for exceptional alarm - as long as planes remained "feet dry." But CAPT Carter had sounded GQ, based on reduced CAP status, and moments later the MiG's were "feet wet."
"There were three in a trail formation," said CAPT Carter. Fire control Systems Coordinator Chief James Caswell had the MiG's on his radar scope, awaiting an engagement order. With him was FTM1 (now FTMC) Lawrence Knight, the engagement controller. Under normal circumstances they would have been relieved by two of the ship's weapons officers; this time, however, the MiG's were coming in too fast, at an estimated 500 knots. Ship's doctrine dictated they remain on station through the first attack.
GM2 Dave Bayless in the Terrier missile house said he was not surprised when the order came to send missiles onto the launcher rails. He had done this several times in the past week and expected this to be another false alarm.
On the bridge was CDR Heckathorn. He said, "The commanding officer alerted us that we were going to go to high speed and we were going to do a lot of maneuvering."
"When we heard the first Terrier launched, you should have seen those eyes open! They were big and wide! God! Then the second one launched. And then the 3" started going off, and then the 5". All of a sudden it was a very serious business.
CIC had picked up the three MiG's. "We knew that they had launched three or four minutes before that. I fired a salvo of two missiles, just after they come across the coastline 'feet wet." We got a kill, a MiG-21 at 16 to 17 miles, roughly 35,000 yards."
USS Gray confirmed the kill by radio, as did topside personnel on the Biddle and the CAP overhead.
"That was my first time to ever watch a Terrier missile fired from a ship in anger at night," said CDR Heckathorn. "As they left the launcher the rocket motors ignited - and you weren't so sure it was our missile leaving or something coming in. There was just a big fireball over the deck.
"I'd gone up to 25 knots," said CAPT Carter, "and was skirting the maximum range of North Vietnamese shore batteries. The whole coast area was full of coastal artillery.
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The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
David Crist
Penguin, Jul 19, 2012 - History - 656 pages
This cat-and-mouse game repeated itself several times, but each time the Iranian pilots turned away or refused to leave the safety of the Iranian airspace.
Finally, one Iranian pilot decided to take his chances, and peeled off and headed out into the Gulf. Chandler made two attempts to warn it away, but as it continued to close on his ship, Chandler opened fire
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Google Books
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
David Crist
Penguin, Jul 19, 2012 - History - 656 pages
The Joshan's communication with Bandar Abbas was dutifully reported to the Wainwright's embarked intelligence detachment, whose officer in charge brought the flash message to Chandler in the CIC along with an intelligence packet about the Joshan, including a profile of her captain. Half an hour later, Chandler arrayed his three ships for the impending confrontation. He formed his flotilla in a line abreast with the Wainwright to the west, the Bagley in the center, and the Simpson to the east, each separated by three nautical miles - close enough to maintain visual contact with each other but still provide a broad enough electronic triangulation to better fix the Joshan's location. Heading northeast at twenty-five knots, the Wainwright began a broad weaving movement, zigzagging from side to side to make it harder to hit with an incoming missile. Chandler ordered both the Simpson and the Wainwright to put a surface-to-air missile, a Standard Missile 1, or SM-1, up on the missile rails, but set for surface-to-surface mode, The SM-1 did not pack a large warhead, but was a fast, accurate missile, capable of supersonic speeds. Chandler also sent a helicopter aloft to help locate the Joshan. About half an hour later, the helicopter found the missile boat forty miles from the three U.S. warships and closing fast.
He relayed this back to Less, requesting further guidance. Amazingly, he received an unusual order directing him to "warn the Joshan away." In an attempt to save Iranian lives, and perhaps unable to comprehend that any small patrol boat would single-handedly try to take on the full might of the U.S. Navy, Less directed Chandler to tell the Iranian patrol boat to keep her distance. He was caught in the strange condition of being between peace and war; this directive meant that he should try every means to warn the Joshan away. As Captain Chandler later said, "I would have shot him at thirty-five miles had I not been told to warn him away." The Wainwright raised the Iranian boat on the standard commercial frequency, and Captain Chandler grabbed the microphone: "Iranian patrol frigate," he began, giving the boat's location, direction, and speed, "this is United States Navy warship. Do not interfere with my actions. Remain clear or you will be destroyed."
Mallek responded in his heavily accented but adequate English. "I am doing my duty," he said, adding that he was in international waters and "would commit no provocative acts." All the while the two forces closed at fifty miles an hour.
Tensions mounted both on board the Wainwright and up the chain of command. The Wainwright's weapons officer, Marty Drake, could not understand why they did not fire. "Sir," he cautioned, "he's got the last remaining Harpoon." But Chandler still had it in his mind that he needed to warn her away, and he maintained this even when the Joshan locked on with its fire control radar. Listening in over the net back on the Coronado and in Tampa, Less and Crist grew increasingly concerned. Less liked the idea of giving the Iranians a warning in hopes of sparing lives, but after repeated warnings he wondered why Chandler had not opened fire. General Crist turned to a senior staff officer sitting next to him and asked apprehensively, "Why doesn't he just blow him out of the water?"
Finally, with only thirteen miles separating the two forces - close enough for the Joshan's captain to see the Wainwright's mast peeking just above the horizon - Chandler issued his fourth and final warning to the Joshan - "Stop and abandon ship. I intend to sink you."
With this Mallek decided to act. If the Americans were going to attack him, he would not take the first hit.
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 4:08 AM Monday, August 20, 2007
http://www.navybook.com/nohigherhonor/chapter1.shtml
It would take Rinn and his crew hours to add up all the clues, but the news they gathered early on wasn't good. The main engineroom and another capacious engineering space were inundated with oil-slicked water, and a third compartment was filling rapidly. Lose that one, and the frigate would likely plunge to the bottom of the Gulf.
The Samuel B. Roberts was flooding, on fire, surrounded by sharks and sea snakes, alone in a minefield in a sea at war.
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/Assets/1993/Navy/DN-SN-93-01438.JPEG
ID: DNSN9301438
Fireman James Seward sleeps on the forecastle of the guided missile frigate SAMUEL B. Roberts (FFG-58). Some of the crew are sleeping on the deck because of hull damage sustained when the ship struck a mine on April 14, 1988. The guided missile cruiser USS JOUETT (CG-29) is in the background.
Camera Operator: PH2 RUDY D. PAHOYO
Date Shot: 16 Apr 1988
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From: Kerry Burgess
04/28/2006 12:59 PM
To: Rudy Pahoyo
Subject: Re: Samuel B. Roberts
Thanks for the info Rudy.
https://garlanddavis.net/2017/04/19/operation-praying-mantis/
OPERATION PRAYING MANTIS
APRIL 19, 2017
Operation Praying Mantis
USS Wainwright CG-28
By Mark Bowen
A personal account of the USS Bagley’s Actions from Main control by Brian Smith MM1..
This is in response to a post this morning about the USS Wainwrights participation in Operation Praying Mantis. Not that I would ever doubt anything I read on the internet, including any official accounts of any action that involves sailors, but I can say without any hesitation at all “this is no Shit” and ” I was there and you wouldn’t believe what happened ”
I was an MM1 and LPO of M-div. I was also the EOOW for all special evolution’s such as Sea and Anchor, unrep and GQ . My ship The USS Bagley FF-1069 lost her Lamps helo in our 1988 Westpac. We transited the Straits of Hormuz and pulled into Bahrain to pick up our new one brought over from the states in a C5. We left the Persian Gulf headed to Mombasa for liberty (yea). Late that night we had to light off the second boiler turn around catch the oiler and unrep and head back to the Gulf to revenge the Roberts mining.
Now those of you that served on Knox class know we don’t go running around on 2 boilers unless its important. So we run on 2 boilers all night thru the Straits into the Gulf. The CO did let us in on what was going on telling us we were going to fire on an oil platform in retaliation for the Roberts. So I switched the Throttle Mens 1JV phone circuit to the amplified 2JV circuit so all the main spaces could hear what was going on topside, we would use the bitch boxes for engineering comms. So a little after 8 we hear the bridge tell the signal bridge to hoist the “Battle Ensign” shortly after that our 5 inch gun opens up. We evidently set the platform on fire after a few rounds and we stop firing.
A little while later we secure from GQ and the set modified Zebra. We got permission to secure Alfa boiler and bottom blow, it had its steaming hours. BTC Bodi comes down and offers to relief me, I had been on watch for about 12 hours or so, I told him go ahead and eat first then I would eat. Shortly after that the CO calls down on the bitch box and asks how long to put Alpha boiler back on line, I checked with the fireroom, the BTOW, BT2 Ely tells me 20 min. I tell the bridge, Co says make it happen. So here we are steaming about 5 knots in formation with the Wainwright and the FFG 56 Simpson.
I call the bridge and tell them we have both boilers on the line max speed available 29 knots. I didn’t have those words out of my mouth when they ring up flank bell, turns for 29 knots and sound GQ. I think the ship had GQ set in less than 2 minutes. So the chase is on, we can hear all the topsiders on the circuits. The Iranian ship Joshan fires a Harpoon at the Wainwright which does launch there chaff, which makes the missile miss. We can hear the lookout screaming Wainwrights got missile on the rail, missile away, another missile on the rail, missile away, heard this several times, also the Simpson got missiles away. Then you could here our asroc launcher alarms go off as it trained, then we fired our Harpoon missile.
Yes guys the Bagley fired the first shipboard Harpoon missile in combat, our harpoon passed right thru where the superstructure of the Joshon was seconds before the combined missiles from Wainwright and Sampson destroyed it, our harpoon detonated at that point. The Bagley then put 19 5 inch shells in the hulk sending it to the bottom. At the time all this is going on we are answering all kinds of crazy bells from 1/3 to flank and everything in between, the throttleman was answering them like his life depended on it and the fireroom kept up too no complaints and no smoke. After things eased up a little the BTC calls me on the 5JV and says “can we take it easy for awhile, we have shoring up against the air casing on Alpha boiler it was heaving and panting so bad. So eventually after a very hectic day including the report of 40 inbound Iraq planes, we secured from GQ and stayed at wartime steaming conditions, which meant in your Rack or on Watch nothing else.
Couple days later we finally unreped again we were down to 17 percent fuel. I have read many accounts of this day both official and unofficial and none of them match each other or the events I recounted here. Just remember I told you “no shit and you had to be there”
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Operation Praying Mantis
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Operation Praying Mantis was an attack on April 18, 1988, by U.S. naval forces within Iranian territorial waters in retaliation for the Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf during the Iran–Iraq war and the subsequent damage to an American warship.
This battle was the largest of the five major U.S. surface engagements since the Second World War, which also include the Battle of Chumonchin Chan during the Korean War, the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the Battle of Dong Hoi during the Vietnam War, and the Action in the Gulf of Sidra in 1986. It also marked the U.S. Navy's first exchange of anti-ship missiles by ships.
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Stargate: The Movie (1994)
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INT—LEVEL 28
[The elevator doors open and they both exit, Kawalski holding the door open.]
KAWALSKI
There you go.
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Belknap class cruiser
The Belknap class cruiser was a class of single-ended guided missile cruisers
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. The class used two twin 3"/50 caliber guns for AAW. During the NTU program in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the class had its Terrier systems upgraded to utilize standard missiles, the 3 inch guns were replaced with two Harpoon missile launchers, and two Phalanx CIWS systems were installed.
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UNIVAC 418
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The UNIVAC 418 was a transistorized, 18-bit word core memory machine made by Sperry Univac. The name came from its 4 microsecond memory cycle time and 18-bit word.
Architecture
Numbers were represented in ones' complement, single and double precision. The TRIM assembly source code used octal numbers as opposed to more common hexadecimal[citation needed] because the 18-bit words are evenly divisible by 3, but not by 4.
UNIVAC 418-II
The first UNIVAC 418-II was delivered in November 1964. It was available with 4,096 to 65,536 (18-bit) words of memory. Memory cycle time was reduced to 2 microseconds. The militarized version was called the UNIVAC 1219 (known as the "Mk 152 Fire Control Computer.") It was part of the Navy's Mk 76 missile fire control system, used to control the AN/SPG-55 radar system.
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USS Biddle (CG-34)
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USS Biddle (DLG-34/CG-34) was a Belknap-class guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy.
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Stargate SG-1 Season 2 Episode 15
The Fifth Race
NOTES
This episode marks the first direct reference to the Ancients, the builders of the Stargates, on the series. The Ancients created the Stargate system and were in an alliance of four great races: the Nox, the Furlings, the Asgard, and the Ancients. They once resided in the galaxy of Ida, (where the Asgard live), and our galaxy but moved on from these regions of space leaving an archive of their knowledge, The Place of Our Legacy, on P3R-272.
Stargate SG-1 - The Fifth Race - television series Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired Jan 22, 1999
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United States Air Force captain Samantha CARTER
Who are the Ancients?
Doctor Daniel Jackson
Well, I think they could be the teachers of roads. See, the Romans were the first real road builders. They spoke Latin and they learned to build roads from the gods, known as the Ancient ones.
CARTER I'm still not following you.
DANIEL Roads. Stargates. The Gate builders. What if these Ancients were the alien race who invented the Stargate?
CARTER You're still just speculating, right?
DANIEL Well, that would certainly explain why Jack knew about Stargates that the Goa'uld haven't even discovered yet.
CARTER I don't know, Daniel. Why would they invent a device that would do this?
DANIEL 'The place of our legacy'
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2.16 "The Fifth Race" Transcript
[Daniel and Carter are walking. Daniel has a very large, antique-looking book in his arm.]
DANIEL The language he's speaking has similar sounds to Medieval Latin but it's still quite different.
CARTER So he's in the infirmary now?
[They enter Daniel's office.]
DANIEL Yes, but before we took him there, he picked up a chalk and did this in about thirty seconds flat.
[He shows Carter a blackboard full of numbers and unfamiliar symbols.]
DANIEL Do you have any idea what this means?
[Carter stares at it.]
CARTER No. I mean, even the simple equations don't make any sense. No, this is like no math I've every seen.
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Stargate SG-1 - The Fifth Race - television series Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired Jan 22, 1999
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***
INT—SGC—CONTROL ROOM
[O'Neill is working on a computer. Cut to Teal'c leading the Hammond, Carter, Daniel and Fraiser down the stairs.]
HAMMOND
(To Teal'c)
What's he doing?
[They all cross the room to where O'Neill is busily typing away.]
TEAL'C
I do not know.
[Carter heads straight for a computer.]
HAMMOND
Captain Carter?
CARTER
Main system's down, Sir. I'm locked out.
HAMMOND
Colonel.
O'NEILL
(Typing)
Yes, Sir.
HAMMOND
What are you doing?
O'NEILL
I don't know, Sir. You know me and computers.
HAMMOND
Colonel, I'm ordering you to stop.
O'NEILL
I'd love to, Sir, but I can't.
HAMMOND
(To Teal'c)
Stop him.
[Teal'c pulls O'Neill away from the computer.]
O'NEILL
No! No, not yet! I'm not fargus!
DANIEL
Sir, I think he wants to finish what he's doing.
CARTER
I can't reboot, Sir.
[All the computers switch off.]
CARTER
Uh-oh.
HAMMOND
Captain?
[The numbers O'Neill entered come up on the computer screen.]
CARTER
Sir, this is machine code.
From 11/19/1955 ( C. Northcote Parkinson first propounds 'Parkinson's law' in The Economist ) To 1/22/1999 is 15770 days
15770 = 7885 + 7885
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From 12/25/1957 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Millionaire"::"The Regina Wainwright Story" ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) is 12134 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 1/22/1999 is 12134 days
From 5/13/1947 ( premiere US film "Sarge Goes to College" ) To 8/1/1980 ( premiere US film "The Final Countdown" ) is 12134 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 1/22/1999 is 12134 days
From 1/28/1955 ( premiere US film "Carolina Cannonball" ) To 4/18/1988 ( the United States Navy Operation Praying Mantis ) is 12134 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 1/22/1999 is 12134 days
From 1/28/1955 ( premiere US TV series episode "Dear Phoebe"::"Out of My Mind" ) To 4/18/1988 ( the United States Navy Operation Praying Mantis ) is 12134 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 1/22/1999 is 12134 days
From 10/5/1958 ( premiere US TV series "Lawman"::series premiere episode "The Deputy" ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 12134 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 1/22/1999 is 12134 days
From 10/31/1959 ( the first United States Air Force Atlas nuclear equipped intercontinental ballistic missile was placed on alert status ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 12134 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 1/22/1999 is 12134 days
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Stargate SG-1 Season 2 Episode 15 The Fifth Race
While on the planet P3R-272, SG-1 comes across an ancient device that downloads a vast amount of knowledge into Jack’s brain. Jack has the task of helping Daniel solve ancient mysteries while trying to save himself from braindeath due to the overwhelming stress.
AIRED: 1/22/99
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Stargate SG-1: Season 2, Episode 15
The Fifth Race (22 Jan. 1999)
Richard Dean Anderson ... Colonel Jack O'Neill
SG1 travels to a Stargate where O'Neill looks into a strange device that downloads information into his brain. Back on Earth, he starts to speak using a strange language. Carter and Teal'c try to find a solution and become trapped on a burning hot planet, when the Stargate fails to dial out. O'Neill solves the problem by designing a solution, but then he designs a device. But for what purpose?
Release Date: 22 January 1999 (USA)
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November 1955
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The following events occurred in November 1955:
November 19, 1955 (Saturday)
C. Northcote Parkinson first propounds 'Parkinson's law', in The Economist.
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Parkinson's Law
The report of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service was published on Thursday afternoon. Time has not permitted any comment in this week's issue of The Economist on the contents of the Report. But the startling discovery enunciated by a correspondent in the following article is certainly relevant to what should have been in it.
Nov 19th 1955 Online extra
IT is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Thus, an elderly lady of leisure can spend the entire day in writing and despatching a postcard to her niece at Bognor Regis. An hour will be spent in finding the postcard, another in hunting for spectacles, half-an-hour in a search for the address, an hour and a quarter in composition, and twenty minutes in deciding whether or not to take an umbrella when going to the pillar-box in the next street. The total effort which would occupy a busy man for three minutes all told may in this fashion leave another person prostrate after a day of doubt, anxiety and toil.
Granted that work (and especially paper work) is thus elastic in its demands on time, it is manifest that there need be little or no relationship between the work to be done and the size of the staff to which it may be assigned. Before the discovery of a new scientific law—herewith presented to the public for the first time, and to be called Parkinson's Law*—there has, however, been insufficient recognition of the implications of this fact in the field of public administration. Politicians and taxpayers have assumed (with occasional phases of doubt) that a rising total in the number of civil servants must reflect a growing volume of work to be done. Cynics, in questioning this belief, have imagined that the multiplication of officials must have left some of them idle or all of them able to work for shorter hours. But this is a matter in which faith and doubt seem equally misplaced. The fact is that the number of the officials and the quantity of the work to be done are not related to each other at all. The rise in the total of those employed is governed by Parkinson's Law, and would be much the same whether the volume of the work were to increase, diminish or even disappear. The importance of Parkinson's Law lies in the fact that it is a law of growth based upon an analysis of the factors by which that growth is controlled.
The validity of this recently discovered law must rest mainly on statistical proofs, which will follow. Of more interest to the general reader is the explanation of the factors that underlie the general tendency to which this law gives definition. Omitting technicalities (which are numerous) we may distinguish, at the outset, two motive forces. They can be represented for the present purpose by two almost axiomatic statements, thus:
Factor I.—An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals; and
Factor II.—Officials make work for each other.
We must now examine these motive forces in turn.
The Law of Multiplication of Subordinates
To comprehend Factor I, we must picture a civil servant called A who finds himself overworked. Whether this overwork is real or imaginary is immaterial; but we should observe, in passing, that A's sensation (or illusion) might easily result from his own decreasing energy—a normal symptom of middle-age. For this real or imagined overwork there are, broadly speaking, three possible remedies
(1) He may resign.
(2) He may ask to halve the work with a colleague called B.
(3) He may demand the assistance of two subordinates, to be called C and D.
There is probably no instance in civil service history of A choosing any but the third alternative. By resignation he would lose his pension rights. By having B appointed, on his own level in the hierarchy, he would merely bring in a rival for promotion to W's vacancy when W (at long last) retires. So A would rather have C and D, junior men, below him. They will add to his consequence; and, by dividing the work into two categories, as between C and D, he will have the merit of being the only man who comprehends them both.
It is essential to realise, at this point, that C and D are, as it were, inseparable. To appoint C alone would have been impossible. Why? Because C, if by himself, would divide the work with A and so assume almost the equal status which has been refused in the first instance to B; a status the more emphasised if C is A's only possible successor. Subordinates must thus number two or more, each being kept in order by fear of the other's promotion. When C complains in turn of being overworked (as he certainly will) A will, with the concurrence of C, advise the appointment of two assistants to help C. But he can then avert internal friction only by advising the appointment of two more assistants to help D, whose position is much the same. With this recruitment of E, F, G and H, the promotion of A is now practically certain.
The Law of Multiplication of Work
Seven officials are now doing what one did before. This is where Factor II comes into operation. For these seven make so much work for each other that all are fully occupied and A is actually working harder than ever. An incoming document may well come before each of them in turn. Official E decides that it falls within the province of F, who places a draft reply before C, who amends it drastically before consulting D, who asks G to deal with it. But G goes on leave at this point, handing the file over to H, who drafts a minute, which is signed by D and returned to C, who revises his draft accordingly and lays the new version before A.
What does A do? He would have every excuse for signing the thing unread, for he has many other matters on his mind. Knowing now that he is to succeed W next year, he has to decide whether C or D should succeed to his own office. He had to agree to G going on leave, although not yet strictly entitled to it. He is worried whether H should not have gone instead, for reasons of health. He has looked pale recently—partly but not solely because of his domestic troubles. Then there is the business of F's special increment of salary for the period of the conference, and E's application for transfer to the Ministry of Pensions. A has heard that D is in love with a married typist and that G and F are no longer on speaking terms—no one seems to know why. So A might be tempted to sign C's draft and have done with it.
But A is a conscientious man. Beset as he is with problems created by his colleagues for themselves and for him—created by the mere fact of these officials' existence—he is not the man to shirk his duty. He reads through the draft with care, deletes the fussy paragraphs added by C and H and restores the thing back to the form preferred in the first instance by the able (if quarrelsome) F. He corrects the English—none of these young men can write grammatically—and finally produces the same reply he would have written if officials C to H had never been born. Far more people have taken far longer to produce the same result. No one has been idle. All have done their best. And it is late in the evening before A finally quits his office and begins the return journey to Ealing. The last of the office lights are being turned off in the gathering dusk which marks the end of another day's administrative toil. Among the last to leave, A reflects, with bowed shoulders and a wry smile, that late hours, like grey hairs, are among the penalties of success.
The Scientific Proofs
From this description of the factors at work the student of political science will recognise that administrators are more or less bound to multiply. Nothing has yet been said, however, about the period of time likely to elapse between the date of A's appointment and the date from which we can calculate the pensionable service of H. Vast masses of statistical evidence have been collected and it is from a study of this data that Parkinson's Law has been deduced. Space will not allow of detailed analysis, but research began in the British Navy Estimates. These were chosen because the Admiralty's responsibilities are more easily measurable than those of (say) the Board of Trade.
The accompanying table is derived from Admiralty statistics for 1914 and 1928. The criticism voiced at the time centred on the comparison between the sharp fall in numbers of those available for fighting and the sharp rise in those available only for administration, the creation, it was said, of “a magnificent Navy on land.” But that comparison is not to the present purpose. What we have to note is that the 2,000 Admiralty officials of 1914 had become the 3,569 of 1928; and that this growth was unrelated to any possible increase in their work. The Navy during that period had diminished, in point of fact, by a third in men and two-thirds in ships. Nor, from 1922 onwards, was its strength even expected to increase, for its total of ships (unlike its total of officials) was limited by the Washington Naval Agreement of that year. Yet in these circumstances we had a 78.45 per cent increase in Admiralty officials over a period of fourteen years; an average increase of 5.6 per cent a year on the earlier total. In fact, as we shall see, the rate of increase was not as regular as that. All we have to consider, at this stage, is the percentage rise over a given period.
Can this rise in the total number of civil servants be accounted for except on the assumption that such a total must always rise by a law governing its growth? It might be urged, at this point, that the period under discussion was one of rapid development in naval technique. The use of the flying machine was no longer confined to the eccentric. Submarines were tolerated if not approved. Engineer officers were beginning to be regarded as almost human. In so revolutionary an age we might expect that storekeepers would have more elaborate inventories to compile. We might not wonder to see more draughtsmen on the pay-roll, more designers, more technicians and scientists. But these, the dockyard officials, increased only by 40 per cent in number, while the men of Whitehall increased by nearly 80 per cent. For every new foreman or electrical engineer at Portsmouth there had to be two more clerks at Charing Cross. From this we might be tempted to conclude, provisionally, that the rate of increase in administrative staff is likely to be double that of the technical staff at a time when the actually useful strength (in this case, of seamen) is being reduced by 31.5 per cent. It has been proved, however, statistically, that this last percentage is irrelevant. The officials would have multiplied at the same rate had there been no actual seamen at all.
It would be interesting to follow the further progress by which the 8,118 Admiralty staff of 1935 came to number 33,788 by 1954. But the staff of the Colonial Office affords a better field of study during a period of Imperial decline. The relevant statistics are set down below. Before showing what the rate of increase is, we must observe that the extent of this department's responsibilities was far from constant during these twenty years. The colonial territories were not much altered in area or population between 1935 and 1939. They were considerably diminished by 1943, certain areas being in enemy hands. They were increased again in 1947, but have since then shrunk steadily from year to year as successive colonies achieve self-government.
It would be rational, prior to the discovery of Parkinson's Law, to suppose that these changes in the scope of Empire would be reflected in the size of its central administration. But a glance at the figures shows that the staff totals represent automatic stages in an inevitable increase. And this increase, while related to that observed in other departments, has nothing to do with the size—or even the existence—of the Empire. What are the percentages of increase? We must ignore, for this purpose, the rapid increase in staff which accompanied the diminution of responsibility during World War II. We should note rather the peacetime rates of increase; over 5.24 per cent between 1935 and 1939, and 6.55 per cent between 1947 and 1954. This gives an average increase of 5.89 per cent each year, a percentage markedly similar to that already found in the Admiralty staff increase between 1914 and 1928.
Further and detailed statistical analysis of departmental staffs would be inappropriate in such an article as this. It is hoped, however, to reach a tentative conclusion regarding the time likely to elapse between a given official's first appointment and the later appointment of his two or more assistants. Dealing with the problem of pure staff accumulation, all the researches so far completed point to an average increase of about 5¾ per cent per year. This fact established, it now becomes possible to state Parkinson's Law in mathematical form, thus:
In any public administrative department not actually at war the staff increase may be expected to follow this formula:
Where k is the number of staff seeking promotion through the appointment of subordinates; p represents the difference between the ages of appointment and retirement; m is the number of man-hours devoted to answering minutes within the department; and n is the number of effective units being administered. Then x will be the number of new staff required each year.
Mathematicians will, of course, realise that to find the percentage increase they must multiply x by 100 and divide by the total of the previous year, thus:
where y represents the total original staff. And this figure will invariably prove to be between 5.17 per cent and 6.56 per cent, irrespective of any variation in the amount of work (if any) to be done.
The discovery of this formula and of the general principles upon which it is based has, of course, no emotive value. No attempt has been made to inquire whether departments ought to grow in size. Those who hold that this growth is essential to gain full employment are fully entitled to their opinion. Those who doubt the stability of an economy based upon reading each other's minutes are equally entitled to theirs. Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
Stargate SG-1 - The Fifth Race - television series Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired Jan 22, 1999
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***
DANIEL
Look, no one else believes that you have the knowledge of the original Gate builders in your head right now except me.
[O'Neill grabs some paper and drawing equipment and starts drawing. Daniel and Fraiser look on.]
FRAISER
What…What's he doing?
DANIEL
I don't know.
FRAISER
Do you think this is going to help?
DANIEL
I…I don't…I really don't…know.
[O'Neill writes something on a clipboard and moves it so that they can read it.]
DANIEL
(Reading O'Neill's note)
"Shut up and go away."
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To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
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CATHERINE
(into phone)
General West, Jackson has identified the seventh symbol.
INT—BRIEFING ROOM
[West, O'Neil, Kawalski, and the rest of the military brass are still watching from the briefing room window. West is on the phone.]
WEST
Go ahead.
INT—CONTROL ROOM
JENNY
Programming seventh symbol into computer. Chevron One is holding. Chevron One is locked in place.
MITCH
Power output at 23 percent.
JENNY
Chevron Two is holding.
FEMALE COMPUTER VOICE
Engaged.
JENNY
Chevron Two is locked in place.
MITCH
Holding at 35 percent.
INT—GATE ROOM
TECHNICIAN
All right, we've got a Condition Red at the Gate. Evacuate all personnel.
[The technicians hurry out of the room before the doors seal shut.]
INT—CONTROL ROOM
DANIEL
It was under the cover stones?
CATHERINE
Yes. My father found it. 1928. Made out of a mineral unlike any found on Earth.
JENNY
Chevron Five locked in place.
MITCH
79 percent.
[A shaking starts, rattling the coffee cups and equipment. They continue typing.]
JENNY
Chevron Six is holding. Chevron Six is locked in place.
CATHERINE
This is as far as we have ever been able to get.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 5:39 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 08 September 2018
