by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/26/2025 3:00 PM
Just noticed that episode 5 (of nine) of Plur1bus is available for streaming, I am using Amazon Prime Video with the AppleTV addon subscription
Viewing it later this evening
I am hoping that season 2 will reveal all episodes on the same day
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/26/2025 6:45 PM
Beginning episode 5
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/26/2025 6:50 PM
excerpt
"Under the Dome" by Stephen King, author
(from internet transcript)
The people who had lived here weren't tweekers; tweekers wouldn't be able to keep a house like this for long, they'd freebase the mortgage. But Jack and Myra Evans had enjoyed a little wacky tobacky from time to time, and Phil Bushey had been happy to supply it. They were nice people, and Phil had treated them nice. Back in those days he'd still been capable of treating people nice.
Myra gave them iced coffee. Sammy had been seven or so months gone with Little Walter then, showing plenty, and Myra had asked her if she wanted a boy or a girl. Not looking down her nose a bit.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/26/2025 7:20 PM
From 10/2/1959 ( premiere USA TV series "The Twilight Zone"::series premiere "Where Is Everybody?" ) To 10/26/2019 ( ) is 21939 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/26/2025 ( ) is 21939 days
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/26/2025 8:34 PM
From 8/3/1941 ( Martha Stewart ) To 11/26/2025 ( ) is 30796 days
30796 = 15398 + 15398
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/30/2007 ( ) is 15398 days
by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/30/07 8:52 PM
from 11/26/1976 to that date is my age on 1/4/1989.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Sidra_incident_%281989%29
At the request of the National Air and Space Museum, the Navy provided BUNO 159610 to its Udvar-Hazy location near Dulles International Airport [1]. Although Tomcat BUNO 159610 downed the Libyan MiG-23 as a VF-32 F-14A model Tomcat, it returned from that deployment and was entered into the F-14D remanufacture program and served later in a precision strike role as a VF-31 F-14D(R). On September 30, 2006, it was formally unveiled to the public with now retired CAPTS Connelly and Enwright on the podium as honored guests.
12/30/07 8:56 PM
From 11/26/1976 ( my first landing Jupiter moon Callisto ) to 9/30/2006 ( F-14 Tomcat involved in second Gulf of Sidra incident unveiled on display ) is 10900 days
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 1/4/1989 ( the 2nd Gulf of Sidra incident ) is 10900 days
12/30/07 8:59 PM
http://www.nasm.si.edu/events/eventDetail.cfm?eventID=548
Tomcat Sunset Saturday
Celebrate the Retirement of the F-14 Tomcat
Saturday, September 30, 2006
10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Throughout the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Admission: Free, Tickets Required for Movie
Celebrate the retirement of the jet that made Navy fighter pilots famous!
From 1/17/1990 ( United States NASA announces the selection of the Group 13 Astronauts ) To 11/26/2025 ( ) is 13097 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/11/2001 ( ) is 13097 days
From 6/28/1975 ( biographical - Rod Serling dead ) To 11/26/2025 ( ) is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( ) is 9207 days
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. "Party in ten," he said. On cue, ten seconds later, the helicopters unleashed a salvo of laser-guided Hellfire missiles. "This one's for you, Saddam ," muttered CW03 Dave Jones, the pilot of another Apache.
The shots, fired in the predawn hours of January 17, 1991, marked the start of Operation Desert Storm and were among the most critical of the war, blinding Iraq's early warning net at a key moment. US Central Command relied entirely on the Apaches and USAF special operations helicopters to do the job. "If something had happened and we didn't do 100 percent [destruction]," said one gunner, CW04 Lou Hall, "a lot of people were going to get hurt."
The Apaches did achieve 100 percent destruction, or close to it. Eyewitnesses report that, when the Hellfires hit the targets, the radar bases evaporated in clouds of smoke and flame. In the four and a half minutes it took to complete the task, the Apaches had, in the words of Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, "plucked out the eyes" of Iraq's Soviet-supplied air defenses.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 7:43 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal June 20, 2006, Supplemental
I wonder if I was the first American to strike Saddam.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 05/14/07 9:12 AM
but I think what this all represents is me flying into Iraq, running out of fuel because I engaged enemy fighters, and then having to land and find fuel. I also found myself reading that book by Claire and having a hard time to believe we didn't get swarmed by enemy fighters.
by me, Kerry Burgess, December 08, 2006
so I broke off from my formation of the 3 other F-16's and broke up the incoming Iraqi formation to draw them off my formation who didn't have enough fuel for a dog-fight.
by me, Kerry Burgess, December 13, 2006
I believe that time period represents how the Osirak strike was in the summer of 1981 and I graduated from USNA that next summer, meaning that I went to Iraq around the end of the equivalent of my junior year at the USNA.
A few months ago, I read that the Israeli's who flew the F-16's into Iraq to strike the Osirak facility in 1981 had trained in their new F-16's at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. That gave me a lot of details to ponder.
IMDb
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Quotes
Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: That's bull-shit MacCawley... but it's very, very good bull-shit.
references from the internet and from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/30/07 9:03 PM
http://www.topedge.com/panels/aircraft/sites/mats/combat.htm#vf32
Libya II: VF-32 Swordsmen kill two Libyan MiG-23 Floggers in 1989
The day is January 4, 1989. The airspace close to the Libyan coast. Two VF-32 F-14As from USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) fly a mission as Combat Air Patrol when a pair of Libyan Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 Floggers were detected. The MiG-23s had taken off from Al Bumbaw Airfield near Tobruk and they continued their flight towards the US fighters, even though the F-14s radar had locked on the bogeys. It's a common procedure under such circumstances to lock the powerful AWG-9 radar on the incoming Libyan fighters, to give them the possibility to turn around and head back home. Usually this procedure was impressive enough to drive the Libyans back since the radar warning tone resulting from an armed F-14's radar was fearsome enough. But this time it did not work. For the second time US Navy F-14s were engaged by Libyan fighter aircraft under hostile conditions. During the 8 minutes engagement, the MiGs kept turning in on the Tomcats to maintain a firing solution for their Soviet built air-to-air missiles. As later examination of F-14 still photography resolved, the MiG-23s were armed with AA-7 Apex missiles. After several evasive maneuvers by the Tomcats and aggressive maneuvers by the Floggers, the incoming pair of MiG-23s were declared hostile and the F-14 crews were cleared to engage. The crew of the lead F-14A, AC202 fired an unsuccessful AIM-7 Sparrow missile, while the second F-14As, AC207 AIM-7 found its target and destroyed one MiG-23. Thereafter, the lead F-14 closed in on the remaining MiG-23 and launched an AIM-9 Sidewinder heat-seaking missile. The missile exploded in the tailpipe of the fleeing Flogger. The pilot of this MiG-23 also managed to eject from his destroyed aircraft. Both pilots were seen with good chutes. After this engagement, the victorious Tomcats headed north for the carrier.
"Navy Four, Libya Zero"
by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/30/07 9:07 PM
http://www.military.com/Opinions/0,,Carroll_081005,00.html
Ward Carroll: Sunset Glows on the Tomcat
August 10, 2005
He salutes. We both lean forward slightly. (No self-respecting Tomcat crew would take a cat shot with their heads against the headrest, not to mention that would be a good way to get your bell rung because of the way the airplane surges down before it starts moving forward.) A couple of potatoes later we're off. Airborne.
And for the next hours we stand ready to bring this machine, this manifestation of American know-how, to bear however it might be required. Or maybe today isn't our day to save the world, so we accommodate one of the small boy's requests for a fly-by or break the sound barrier just because we can (and we're far enough above our fuel ladder to get away with it).
We're flying a Tomcat. And we're getting paid to do it.
Alas, I speak of days gone by. What remains of what once gave my working life purpose will soon only be found in front of main gates, aviation museums, and VFW halls around the country. In the blink of an eye I have become the guy with the ill-fitting ball cap and the weathered flight jacket who bores young ensigns (and anyone else who happens to make eye contact) with his tales of derring-do. VF, dang it! I rail. Those were real fighter squadrons. And they were. Swordsmen, Pukin' Dogs, Grim Reapers, Diamondbacks mascots of an adventure. At the center of it all was the airplane itself, and when an airplane has so much heart, personality, and character it ceases to be inanimate to those who climb into it on a regular basis.
So it's goodbye, dear friend. Forgive my depression. I've heard the promises of a brighter future, but my time in the arena was with you. I watch you zorch into the sunset and wonder how it all could have passed so quickly. It doesn't seem like that long ago when we were together, inextricably linked, one defining the other. Ours was a world of unlimited possibilities and missions accomplished. Ours was a world of victory.
So goodbye, Big Fighter, blessed protector of the American way and our hides. We who knew you well will miss your class, your swagger, your raw power. Even in the face of technological advances you bowed to no other. Thanks for the memories. They are indeed the stuff of novels.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/30/07 9:26 PM
From 7/21/1969 ( I am one of the Apollo 11 astronauts walking on the Moon ) to 4/16/1987 ( The United States Special Operations Command ) is: 6478 days
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 11/26/1976 ( my first landing Jupiter moon Callisto ) is: 6478 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Special_Operations_Command
The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM or USSOC) is the Unified Combatant Command charged with overseeing the various Special Operations Commands (SOC or SOCOM) of each branch of the U.S. military. The command is part of the U.S. Department of Defense. When Special Operations Forces (SOF) of different branches are used for the same operation, USSOCOM acts as the Joint Command Center (JCC) of all the forces used in the operation. USSOCOM is headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. SOCOM is a separate brand of the armed forces, with 44,000 special operations commandos from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and Marine Corps.
The Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 would eventually lead to the establishment of USSOCOM on April 16, 1987.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/26/2025 9:01 PM
Sure, it seems to be an obvious reference
For reasons completely non-obvious from my any of my previous blog-posts, I am thinking of another reason, not explained here and probably never will here
The progress of the content on this page represents the cognitive process in my mind as I view this newest episode today
It causes me think this stuff and then examine with my original-work process
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLwZvg46jms
Life During Wartime (2003 Remaster)
Talking Heads {from YouTube}
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 9:35 PM Pacific-timezone USA Wednesday 11/26/2025
