by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/06/2025 02:06 AM
"Fog of war"?
That guy can't see anything past his own hairspray.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Service_Ribbon
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/politics/us-military-second-strike-caribbean
US military carried out second strike killing survivors on a suspected drug boat that had already been attacked, sources say
By CNN Natasha Bertrand
Nov 29, 2025
The US military carried out a follow-up strike on a suspected drug vessel operating in the Caribbean on September 2 after an initial attack did not kill everyone on board, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
That September strike was the first in what became a regular series of attacks on alleged drug boats.
While the first strike appeared to disable the boat and cause deaths, the military assessed there were survivors, according to the sources. The second attack killed the remaining crew on board, bringing the total death toll to 11, and sunk the ship.
The Republican-led Senate and House armed services committees said they plan to conduct “vigorous oversight” on the follow-up strike.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_military_strikes_on_alleged_drug_traffickers
From 7/1/1987 ( first created - the Special Operations Service Ribbon service award of the United States Coast Guard ) To 9/1/2025 ( ) is 13942 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/4/2004 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Inside the Actors Studio"::"Russell Crowe" ) is 13942 days
From 7/1/1987 ( first created - the Special Operations Service Ribbon service award of the United States Coast Guard ) To 9/2/2025 ( ) is 13943 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/5/2004 ( premiere USA TV series "Miami Animal Police" ) is 13943 days
From 9/16/1984 ( premiere TV series "Miami Vice" ) To 9/2/2025 ( ) is 14961 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/19/2006 ( ) is 14961 days
From 1/11/1944 ( ) To 11/11/2003 ( ) is 21854 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/2/2025 ( ) is 21854 days
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: 10/19/2006 12:43 PM
My thoughts suggest that some micro-meteroids hit my ship
while I was outbound to intercept the comet that threatened the inner planets.
I lost a lot of oxygen before I got it fixed. Ground control told me to turn around and they had an alternate plan to try again. I rejected that plan because I was already out there and with that comet getting closer every day, there was no guarantee that a second attempt would fare any better. I might have told them that I was lucky to even have any oxygen left at that point and what if on the second trip, something even worse happens.
They brought in my family, to say goodbye and even to try to talk me into returning but I wasn't coming back. I have thoughts that I even disabled the electronics that would allow ground control to automatically control the ship.
https://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=AssignmentExt&ID=369511
Dr. Stephen Maturin: Oh, I see. I see. So, after all this time in your service, I must simply content myself to form part of this belligerent expedition. Hurry past inestimable wonders, bent solely on destruction. I shall say nothing of the corruption of power or its abuse...
Capt. Jack Aubrey: You forget yourself, Doctor.
Dr. Stephen Maturin: No, Jack. No. You've forgotten yourself. You see, for my part, I look upon a promise as binding.
Capt. Jack Aubrey: The promise was conditional.
Dr. Stephen Maturin: It never occurred to me...
Capt. Jack Aubrey: I command a king's ship, not a private yacht! WE DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR YOUR DAMNED HOBBIES, SIR!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037017/releaseinfo/
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Lifeboat
Release info
United States January 11, 1944 (New York City, New York, premiere)
Lifeboat
Quotes
Connie Porter: [speaking of the disaster] Reminds me of an air raid once that hit me in Chunking.
John Kovac: Reminds me of a slaughterhouse I once worked in in Chicago. Those Nazi buzzards - a tin fish ain't enough. They've got to shell us too!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311113/quotes/
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Quotes
[Toasting]
Capt. Jack Aubrey: To wives and sweethearts.
Officers: To wives and sweethearts.
Capt. Jack Aubrey: May they never meet.
From 6/7/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in deep space of the solar system in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the Saturn moon Phoebe, 27 days before his strike to divert comet nicknamed "Lucifer", threatening extinction by death and destruction to all life on this planet Earth ) To 11/11/2003 ( ) is 10018 days
10018 = 5009 + 5009
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/21/1979 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan and my sister-in-law Phoebe Cates are lawfully married in the state of Vermont ) is 5009 days
From 10/11/1976 ( United States of America Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States approved by 38th United States President Gerald Ford AND applies personally and professionally to my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) To 11/11/2003 ( ) is 9892 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/2/1992 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Princeton and love: Impossible combination? ) is 9892 days
From 5/16/1992 ( landing of the first flight of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 11/11/2003 ( ) is 4196 days
4196 = 2098 + 2098
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/1/1971 ( premiere USA film "The Omega Man" ) is 2098 days
From 12/25/1991 ( an aviator in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 11/11/2003 ( ) is 4339 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/19/1977 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: CIA financed secret research on Princeton campus in '50s ) is 4339 days
From 5/31/1955 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Halls of Ivy"::"Changing of Professors" ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 13888 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/11/2003 ( ) is 13888 days
From 6/12/1953 ( Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of USA: Exchange of Messages Between the President and Prime Minister Nehru of India on the Prisoner of War Agreement Reached at Panmunjom ) To 11/11/2003 ( ) 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 ( date of record of my US Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 9207 days
From 10/19/1929 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: CRISTIE CONVERTIBLE TANK: New Model Capable of 70 mph. Over Roads and 45 mph. Cross Country. ) To 10/28/1967 ( Julia Roberts ) is 13888 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/11/2003 ( ) is 13888 days
From 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) To 11/11/2003 ( ) is 6003 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/10/1982 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Son of Svengoolie"::"The Deadly Mantis" ) is 6003 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311113/releaseinfo/
IMDb
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Release info
United States November 11, 2003 (Hollywood, California, premiere)
Top Cast
Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415440/
IMDb
Nova
S30.E15
Wright Brothers' Flying Machine
Episode aired Nov 11, 2003
Nova looks at how the Wright brothers made their first powered flight
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19291019-02.2.5&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
IMDb
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Quotes
Mr. Allen, Master: In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than 100 sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Quotes
Dr. Stephen Maturin: By comparison, the Surprise is a somewhat aged man-o-war. Am I not correct?
Capt. Jack Aubrey: Would you call me an aged man-o-war, doctor? The Surprise is not old; no one would call her old. She has a bluff bow, lovely lines. She's a fine seabird: weatherly, stiff and fast... very fast, if she's well handled. No, she's not old; she's in her prime.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Quotes
Capt. Jack Aubrey: I never realized that the study of nature could advance the science of naval warfare.
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The Deadly Mantis (1957)
Quotes
Dr. Ned Jackson: In all the kingdom of the living, there is no more deadly or voracious creature than the Praying Mantis.
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The Deadly Mantis (1957)
Quotes
bus passenger: [Exiting bus in fog] You know, it's good to get home safely with all the strange things going on around here.
bus driver: Oh, there's nothing to worry about, ma'am. You just be careful out there in that fog!
bus passenger: [Uncertainly] Thank you.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 03:58 AM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 12/06/2025
