Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Today is 04/16/2024, Post #3





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Not much left to the imagination here today

It's scientific!

All Ghouls. No Smoothies.

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From 1/4/1953 ( ***** NO MATCH FOUND ***** ) To 6/15/2011 ( "Leviathan Wakes" by James Corey, book 1 "The Expanse" ) is 21346 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/12/2024 ( Friday ) is 21346 days









https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271281/releaseinfo/

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The Catholic Hour

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by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: November 25 14:08:38 +0000 2018

"I regret to inform you that my report was not entirely accurate."

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Stargate SG-1 - "Children of the Gods" - tv series premiere Season 1 Episode 1 - 07/27/1997

(from internet transcript)

O'NEILL: Well, we sent a robot probe through after we got back, sir. It was flattened on the other end. Obviously, the Abydos Stargate had been buried in the rubble.

The guard on duty turns and swipes an access card, allowing the doors to slide open and admit the three men into the Gate room.

HAMMOND: Well, somehow it got unburied.

As they enter, O'Neill stops, shocked as he sees what's about to be sent up the ramp through the newly uncovered Stargate - another nuclear device.

O'NEILL: (under his breath) Oh my God.

One of the technicians prepping the device pushes in a locking clamp, and the timer lights up with red numbers: 00:40:20.

O'NEILL: Sending another bomb?

HAMMOND: Mark Five this time. If these creatures did reopen the Abydos Gate, we intend to reseal it for good.

O'NEILL: General, you can't do that.

HAMMOND: Countdown's already started. (steps away a few paces) Unless you have something to add.

O'Neill looks at him for a few moments, debating what to do, before coming to stand beside Hammond.

O'NEILL: General Hammond. Sir.

Hammond turns, looking at him expectantly.

O'NEILL: I regret to inform you that my report was not entirely accurate.



HAMMOND: You didn't detonate the bomb.

O'NEILL: Oh, I did detonate the bomb, sir. It was aboard Ra's spacecraft, so it did kill him and eliminate the risk to Earth.

SAMUELS: (coming up to them) However...

O'NEILL: However, Ra's ship was in orbit above the planet at the time. Neither the Gate nor anything else on the planet was destroyed. Daniel Jackson is alive and living with the people on Abydos.

HAMMOND: You violated direct orders! Why?

O'NEILL: Because the people of Abydos are no threat to us. They deserve to be left alone.

HAMMOND: That's not up to you.

O'NEILL: With all due respect, sir, if I'd come back here and reported the Gate on the other side was still intact, we would have sent another bomb just like you were about to. It wasn't necessary to let those people die. The threat from Ra was gone.

SAMUELS: What about the probe we sent through? It was crushed instantly.

O'NEILL: After we came home, Daniel buried the Gate in rocks, making my return or anybody else's impossible.

HAMMOND: Well, those four bodies lying in the infirmary say otherwise, Airman.

O'Neill looks down at the floor. Hammond hesitates, then turns to the technician.

HAMMOND: We'll send the bomb through on schedule.

O'NEILL: General, you can't do that!

HAMMOND: Oh, I can't?

O'NEILL: There are innocent people on that planet!

HAMMOND: There are innocent people here! I have my orders too, Colonel. I obey mine. (to soldiers) Take Colonel O'Neill to the holding room. Let's give him some time to think about things while I decide what to do with him.










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From 3/7/1915 ( premiere USA film "The Juggernaut" ) To 11/25/2018 ( ) is 37884 days

37884 = 18942 + 18942

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/12/2017 ( ordered - 150cm O-cup - Abbie {named by me} ) is 18942 days



From 7/27/1997 ( premiere USA TV series "Stargate SG-1"::series premiere episode "Children of the Gods" ) To 11/25/2018 ( ) is 7791 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/3/1987 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Nova"::"Confessions of a Weaponeer" ) is 7791 days



From 7/27/1997 ( premiere USA TV series "Stargate SG-1"::series premiere episode "Children of the Gods" ) To 11/25/2018 ( ) is 7791 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/3/1987 ( premiere USA TV series "Spies"::series premiere "The Game's Not Over, 'Til the Fat Lady Sings" ) is 7791 days



From 9/15/1963 ( premiere USA TV series "Arrest and Trial" ) To 11/25/2018 ( ) is 20160 days

20160 = 10080 + 10080

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 10080 days



From 1/7/2013 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Body Language Critical In Signaling Emotion ) To 11/25/2018 ( ) is 2148 days

2148 = 1074 + 1074

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/11/1968 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Wild Wild West"::"The Night of the Juggernaut" ) is 1074 days



From 1/7/2013 ( Barack Obama, 44th President of USA: Remarks on the Nominations of Charles T. Hagel to be Secretary of Defense and John O. Brennan to be Director of Central Intelligence ) To 11/25/2018 ( ) is 2148 days

2148 = 1074 + 1074

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/11/1968 ( disguised, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the US Navy Commander circa 1968 was United States Apollo 7 spacecraft US Navy astronaut entering orbit of the planet Earth ) is 1074 days



From 6/16/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess my official records United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital includes: Date of Admission, psychiatric unit ) To 11/25/2018 ( ) is 4910 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/13/1979 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork: The Voyager 1 space probe, launched from the U.S. by NASA in 1977, concluded its observations of the planet Jupiter, and its course was realigned by ground controllers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston ) is 4910 days



From 12/6/1979 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" ) To 11/25/2018 ( ) is 14234 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/22/2004 ( premiere USA film "The Machinist" ) is 14234 days



by me, Kerry Burgess, November 25, 2018

The Last Stargate

The STORIES of "Star Trek" and the others I have often referenced aren't anything I take literally. There's no literal meaning to me in those stories.

I do, however, take those stories SERIOUSLY.

And I have good reason for that. If you're paying attention here then that's OBVIOUS.

Literally, there is NOT a "stargate" out there somewhere from the 1994 film and it successive television stories. As with the Spokane Riverfront Park fountain, it's artwork for me to appreciate. And for me to decode, for a message created specifically for me personally. But none of it is a literal device.

I do, however, seriously believe that somehow there is some sort of technology beyond human comprehension that serves the same purpose. The purpose being to transfer matter, such as human beings, across vast distances in the Universe. Beyond human comprehension.

Now, I don't know who is reading my blog but I suspect there are some of you lurking out there who are saying that you too believe there is somewhere some sort of technology that is "Stargate" equivalent.

And so you're saying you believe that too.

And I'm thinking, you're saying that because of only one reason: you're a moron.

You're an ambitionless dimwit who never had the foresight to seek anything other than some meaningless and menial labor job and that you resent your employer for because you were too lazy to try to build a career that is anything other than menial labor. A meaningless job you have to work hard at and that you resent the low-pay for because you never had the foresight to understand that skills have value.

So you're saying you believe too there is some sort of "Stargate" technology because it is believable to you because you were always too lazy to take anything other than the easiest path.

And so your opinion about any of this pure MEANINGLESS.

Millions of you dullard dimwits out there claim to be science-fiction fans and not one of you has asked me anything anywhere remotely intelligent about the stuff I am reporting.

You're cattle, in my book. Cattle for some alien overlords that have yet to reveal themselves to this planet.

I'm taking seriously those "Star Trek" and "Stargate" stories because they represent something that has been known to key individuals for a very long time and that key knowledge exist in those stories.

The "Stargate" movie from 1994, I am imagining, that some previous version of myself did not create that story but in the past, as that past version of myself, would watch for stories that conveyed certain notions about my real activities, created by coincidence or by deliberate action, and I would manipulate those stories to create the pattern I wanted to make, so that someday in the future, as my present self, I would find that information.

Today I am thinking again about my reassessments of certain notions that appeared in my mind about my non-conventional past.

What is wrong with me today is not because of anything that happened to me at the VA hospital in 2005 and 2006. Rather, those activities were organized, I suspect with good reason, by a past version of me. The reason is "The Paradise Syndrome" theory, we could call it. In that story, Kirk, dazed and confused, has no memory of the past. Me, my memory of the past is systematized by those events in the hospital in 2005 and 2006.

Systematized.

Systematized.

Those are real memories in my mind.

AND THAT IS WHEN IT ALL STARTED.

There was nothing in my memory about any of this stuff before then. NOTHING!

So that becomes something of the anchor I used to write about back in those days a decade ago when I wrote about artificial memory and symbolic memory and details and anchors.

The subtlety of that day in May 2006 when it all started and when it all extended to here this present day.

[ends - by me, Kerry Burgess, November 25, 2018









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A Few Good Men (1992)

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Col. Jessep: You want answers?

Kaffee: I WANT THE TRUTH!

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The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed

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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 8:38 PM Pacific-time USA Tuesday 04/16/2024

Today is 04/16/2024, Post #2





by me, Kerry Burgess, 04/16/2024 7:58 PM

How is that my sleeping-mind could conjure up such a precise detail from a book of millions of words that mostly registered on my mind for only a brief moment?

There's nothing about that text that particularly resonated with me when I read it

I referenced it a few days ago, but still, it's just a few words among millions and that has no particular relevance to me

Until today. Just now.

A few hours ago, I was thinking again about a sleeping-dream from last night, among several

I have sleeping-dreams that RARELY feature that actor Julia Roberts from real life. In fact, I should create my own tag - !Julia - just for this occurrence and if it begins happening more often.

I've referenced countless times that instance from year 2006. But I can recall only one other time I saw her in a sleeping-dream. And I can't recall now enough specific words to quickly find it again

Today, I saw her in two different visions, hours apart.

Can't recall now the second instance.

In the first instance, I was sleeping in some small room. It looked more like a vestibule-sized room in an office building, consistent with the view outside. All windows around me, blankets on the smooth floor.

Stepped out of the room and Julia Roberts was there. I was left with a sense of affection that there is no reason for me to feel here in the real world

She gave me some sort of contraption

At first I thought of it as some sort of exercise equipment. No better gift than excellent physical condition.

All I can remember is sections of metal bars. After waking, I thought of the internal support structure of a TPE model

It was light. That's the important part.

I'm working up another post and looking for a word that the index doesn't contain and that's driving me nuts because I could have sworn I read that word in "Leviathan Wakes" a few days ago.

Only because it doesn't show up in the index, am I now reading the text and trying to find it again. That's why this text registers now on my conscious mind and makes me think of that sleeping-dream that I thought earlier today of writing about because I wondered (to use an analogy created just now by me) if there was some "protomolecule" reason I experienced it today

That next post is 100% finished, unless I think of more stuff to add, which I probably won't, and it's only this one reference that I am trying to find, which leads me to this note

Because it's weird.

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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 7:15 PM Pacific-time USA Tuesday 04/16/2024

Today is 04/16/2024, Post #1





Red Storm Rising (1986) - Tom Clancy

(from internet transcript)

excerpts, Chapter 20 – The Dance of the Vampires

Twenty miles off the North Russian coast, USS Narwhal hovered beneath the surface of a slate-gray sea. The quietest submarine in the U.S. fleet, she was a specialized intelligence-gathering platform that spent more time on the Soviet coast than did some ships in the Russian Navy. Her three thin ESM antennae were raised, as was a million-dollar search periscope. Technicians aboard listened in on low-power radio conversations between aircraft as they formed up. Three uniformed intelligence specialists and a civilian from the National Security Agency evaluated the strength of the raid and decided that it was large enough to risk a warning broadcast. An additional mast was raised and aimed at a communications satellite twenty-four thousand miles away. The burst transmission lasted less than a fifteenth of a second.

USS NIMITZ

The message was automatically relayed to four separate communications stations, and within thirty seconds was at SACLANT headquarters. Five minutes after that, Toland had the yellow message form in his hand. He walked immediately to Admiral Baker, and handed the message over: 0418Z REALTIME SENDS WARNING AIR RAID TAKE OFF 0400 HEADING WEST FROM KOLA ESTIMATE FIVE REGIMENT PLUS.

Baker checked his watch. "Fast work. CAG?"

The air group commander looked at the form and walked to a phone. "Shoot off the plus-fives, recall the patrol aircraft when they get to station, and set up two more Tomcats and a Hummer on plus-five. I want the returning aircraft turned around immediately. Reserve one catapult for tankers." He came back. "With your permission, sir, I propose to put another pair of F-14s and another Hummer up in an hour, and put all the fighters on plus-five. At 0600, the rest of the fighters go up, with tankers in support. We'll meet them with everything we have about two hundred miles out and kick their ass."









From 2/27/1933 ( the Reichstag fire in Berlin, Germany ) To 8/14/1991 ( "The Sum of All Fears" by Tom Clancy ) is 21352 days

From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 4/18/2024 ( next Thursday ) is 21352 days



From 10/10/1982 ( premiere USA TV series "Nature" ) To 4/18/2024 ( ) is 15166 days

15166 = 7583 + 7583

From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 8/7/1986 ( "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy ) is 7583 days



From 12/7/1941 ( the US Navy Pacific Fleet severely damaged in the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor Hawaii ) To 5/23/2000 ( premiere USA TV series episode "JAG"::"Surface Warfare" ) is 21352 days

From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 4/18/2024 ( ) is 21352 days



From 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) To 4/18/2024 ( ) is 9390 days

9390 = 4695 + 4695

From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 9/10/1978 ( premiere USA TV series pilot "Sword of Justice" ) is 4695 days



From 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) To 4/18/2024 ( ) is 9390 days

From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 7/19/1991 ( premiere USA film "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" ) is 9390 days









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

Reichstag fire

From Wikipedia

The Reichstag fire was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday, 27 February 1933

Political consequences

The Reichstag Fire Decree suspended most civil liberties in Germany, including habeas corpus, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the right of free association and public assembly, and the secrecy of the post and telephone. These rights were not reinstated during Nazi reign. The decree was used by the Nazis to ban publications not considered friendly to the Nazi cause.









https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-04-12-24/index.html

CNN

3:53 p.m. ET, April 12, 2024

Biden expects an attack from Iran will happen "sooner than later"

From CNN's Samantha Waldenberg

US President Joe Biden expects an attack from Iran will happen “sooner than later," he told reporters at the White House Friday.

“I don’t want to get into secure information but my expectation is sooner than later,” Biden said when asked how imminent an attack on Israel was. Asked what his message to Tehran is right now, the president said “Don’t.”









From 9/11/2001 ( ) To 4/12/2024 ( Friday ) is 8249 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/3/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), with my personal participation and commendation my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal 88Feb13 88Jun03, 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, Operation Earnest Will, Middle East Force, including Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8249 days









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11:10 a.m. ET, April 12, 2024

White House watching Iranian threat "very, very closely" and is in communication with Israel

From CNN's Kevin Liptak

There is a "very credible" threat of Iranian retaliatory strikes against Israel, the White House said Friday









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

The Sum of All Fears

From Wikipedia

The Sum of All Fears is a political thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on August 14, 1991, as the sequel to Clear and Present Danger (1989). Main character Jack Ryan, who is now the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, tries to stop a crisis concerning the Middle East peace process wherein Palestinian and former East German terrorists conspire to bring the United States and Soviet Union into nuclear war.

Plot

During the first day of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) prepares to conduct a tactical nuclear strike to stave off defeat. The necessity for the strike is averted, but an Israeli Mark 12 nuclear bomb is accidentally left on an A-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft flown by Captain Mutti Zadin; which is subsequently shot down over Syria, near Kafr Shams. The nuclear weapon is lost, buried in the field of a Druze farmer.









From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) To 8/14/1991 ( ) is 756 days

756 = 378 + 378

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/15/1966 ( the United States Gemini 12 spacecraft splashdown and my biological brother Thomas Reagan - disguised - the US Navy officer was United States Gemini 12 spacecraft US Navy astronaut returning from orbit of the planet Earth ) is 378 days









https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-irans-attacks-against-the-state-israel

The American Presidency Project

JOSEPH R. BIDEN

46th President of the United States: 2021 ‐ present [retrieved in year 2024]

Statement on Iran's Attacks Against the State of Israel

April 13, 2024

Earlier today, Iran—and its proxies operating out of Yemen, Syria and Iraq—launched an unprecedented air attack against military facilities in Israel. I condemn these attacks in the strongest possible terms.

At my direction, to support the defense of Israel, the U.S. military moved aircraft and ballistic missile defense destroyers to the region over the course of the past week. Thanks to these deployments and the extraordinary skill of our servicemembers, we helped Israel take down nearly all of the incoming drones and missiles.

I've just spoken with Prime Minister Netanyahu to reaffirm America's ironclad commitment to the security of Israel. I told him that Israel demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks – sending a clear message to its foes that they cannot effectively threaten the security of Israel.

Tomorrow, I will convene my fellow G7 leaders to coordinate a united diplomatic response to Iran's brazen attack. My team will engage with their counterparts across the region. And we will stay in close touch with Israel's leaders. And while we have not seen attacks on our forces or facilities today, we will remain vigilant to all threats and will not hesitate to take all necessary action to protect our people.









From 3/4/1933 ( ) To 8/14/1991 ( "The Sum of All Fears" by Tom Clancy ) is 21347 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/13/2024 ( ) is 21347 days



From 9/12/2008 ( {deserter-in-chief} George W. Bush, 43rd President of USA: Remarks on Arrival in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ) To 4/13/2024 ( ) is 5692 days

5692 = 2846 + 2846

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) is 2846 days



From 8/1/1980 ( premiere USA film "The Final Countdown" ) To 4/13/2024 ( ) is 15961 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/15/2009 ( ) is 15961 days










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https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/inaugural-address-8

The American Presidency Project

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

32nd President of the United States: 1933 ‐ 1945

Inaugural Address

March 04, 1933

I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our Nation impels. [ See APP note, below.] This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.










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The Final Countdown (1980)

USS Nimitz CVN-68 operations officer: Sir, I think you ought to see these aerial reconnaissance photographs of Pearl Harbor.

US Navy Commander Dan Thurman - USS Nimitz CVN-68 Executive Officer: It's not Pearl Harbor.

US Navy Captain Yelland - USS Nimitz CVN-68 Executive Officer: Sure as hell is.

USS Nimitz CVN-68 operations officer: Look at that old battlewagon.









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Oklahoma_(BB-37)

USS Oklahoma (BB-37)

From Wikipedia

USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada-class battleship built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation for the United States Navy, notable for being the first American class of oil-burning dreadnoughts. Commissioned in 1916, the ship served in World War I as a part of Battleship Division Six, protecting Allied convoys on their way across the Atlantic. After the war, she served in both the United States Battle Fleet and Scouting Fleet.

On 7 December 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, several torpedoes from torpedo bombers hit the Oklahoma's hull and the ship capsized.

The ship was salvaged in 1943. Unlike most of the other battleships that were recovered following Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma was too damaged to return to duty. Her wreck was eventually stripped of her remaining armament and superstructure before being sold for scrap in 1946. The hulk sank in a storm while being towed from Oahu, Hawaii, to a breakers yard in San Francisco Bay in 1947.









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

Surface warfare insignia

From Wikipedia

The surface warfare insignia is a military badge of the United States Navy which is issued to U.S. Navy personnel who are trained and qualified to perform duties aboard United States surface warships.









https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1989/may/surface-view-operation-praying-mantis

U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE

The Surface View: Operation Praying Mantis

By Captain J. B. Perkins III, U. S. Navy

May 1989 Proceedings Vol. 115/5/1,035

At the first muzzle flash from the Merrill's 5-inch mount 51, the Iranian 23-mm. gun mount opened up, getting the attention of the ship's bridge and topside watchstanders. The Merrill immediately silenced the Iranian gun with a direct hit, and encountered no further opposition. After about 50 rounds had exploded over the southern half of the GOSP, a large crowd of converted martyrs gathered at the northern end. At this point, we checked fire and permitted a tug to return and pick up what appeared to be the rest of the Sassan GOSP occupants.









"New Kids on the Blecch" [ The Simpsons ]

Original Airdate on FOX: 25-Feb-2001

(from internet transcript)

Cienega introduces what we're here to see: Party Posse's first music video, "Drop Da Bomb."

Posse: [singing] Oh, say can you ro-o-o-ck!

[the Posse members each fly in on a fighter jet]

Milhouse: There's trouble in a far-off nation,

Ralph: Time to get in love formation,

Bart: Your love's more deadly than Saddam,

Nelson: That's why I gotta drop da bomb!

[they do so. Bombs labeled "PP" drop toward a small group of Iraqi soldiers]

Commander: Party Posse!

[they are blown to smithereens]

[as the flash from the explosion dies down, we see trio of pretty belly-dancing girls]

Girls: [singing] Ee-van eht niojh. Ee-van eht niojh. Ee-van eht niojh -- eht niojh!

[cut back to living room]

Homer: [singing off-key] Ee-van eht niojh -- you gotta love that crazy chorus.

Lisa: What does it mean?

Homer: Ah, it doesn't mean anything. It's like, "rama-lama-ding-dong," or, "Give peace a chance."

[back to the video. The boys are parachuting to the earth. ]

Nelson: [singing] This party's happening; it's no mirage,

Bart: So, sing it again, ee-van eht niojh!

Girls: Ee-van eht niojh. Ee-van eht niojh. [the boys put up a tetherball pole, looking a little like the famous Iwo Jima Marines in the process. Party Posse and some women play a quick game of tetherball, and then race off into the desert on a dune buggy]









"New Kids on the Blecch" [ The Simpsons ]

Original Airdate on FOX: 25-Feb-2001

(from internet transcript)

Bart asks everyone to "ball-walk," and the audience does so. In Lt. Smash's mind the children, dancing in unison, turn into soldiers marching in formation. They do battle with hippies riding a giant praying mantis. The hippies, shouting anti-American slogans, fire flowers back at the soldiers. One man takes a hit.

One of Smash's superior officers jolts him back to reality.

Admiral: Lieutenant! Lt. Smash!

Smash: Oh, Admiral.

Admiral: That hippie fantasy again?

Smash: They're getting less frequent, sir.

Admiral: Excellent.









https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1989/may/surface-view-operation-praying-mantis

U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE

The Surface View: Operation Praying Mantis

By Captain J. B. Perkins III, U. S. Navy

May 1989 Proceedings Vol. 115/5/1,035

After thinking this communication over, the Joshan's CO apparently decided to go out firing and launched his only remaining Harpoon. The three SAG Charlie ships, now in a line abreast at 26,000 yards, and the Bagley's LAMPS simultaneously detected the launch and maneuvered and launched chaff. The Harpoon passed down the Wainwright's starboard side close aboard (the seeker may not have activated) and was answered by a volley of SM-1 missiles from the Simpson and the Wainwright. Four missiles fired; four hits. An additional SM-1 (a hit) and a Harpoon (a miss, probably resulting from the sinking Joshan's sudden lack of freeboard) were fired, and the patrol boat was eventually sunk with gunfire.

SAG Charlie had still more opportunities to modify the Iranian naval order of battle when an F-4 made a high-speed approach just prior to the sinking of the Joshan hulk (SAG Bravo also detected approaching F-4s, but those dove to the deck and departed as they reached SM-1 range). The Wainwright is SM-2 equipped. As the F-4 continued to close, ignoring warnings on both military and internal air defense circuits, the SAG Commander fired two missiles and hit the Iranian aircraft.









http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-04-19/news/8803100021_1_iranian-vessels-antiship-harpoon

Chicago Tribune

Navy Rises To Occasion In Duel At Sea

April 19, 1988 By David Evans, Chicago Tribune.

WASHINGTON — For the first time in more than 40 years, enemy warships have seriously challenged the U.S. Navy at sea. The Navy won - decisively.









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[The squad stands at attention as O'Neil inspects them. He looks at his watch.]

O'NEIL
If anyone has anything to say, now's the time to say it.










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Red Storm Rising (1986) - Tom Clancy

(from internet transcript)

excerpts, Chapter 33 – Contact

USS REUBEN JAMES

"Captain?"

Morris started at the hand on his shoulder. He'd just wanted to lie down in his stateroom for a few minutes after conducting helicopter night landing practice, and-he checked his watch. After midnight. His face was sweaty. The dream had just started again. He looked up at his executive officer.

"What is it, XO?"

"We got a request to check something out.



"Oh, I know what this place is! That's where the Andrea Doria sank. Probably somebody's got a MAD contact and didn't bother checking his chart."

"Don't think so." O'Malley emerged from the shadows. "A frigate heard something first. The winch on their tail was busted. They didn't want to lose it, so they were heading into Newport instead of New York because the harbors deeper. They say they copied a strange passive-sonar contact that faded out. They did a target-motion analysis and generated this position. Their helicopter made a few passes, and its magnetic anomaly detector registered right over the Doria, and that was that."

"How'd you find that out?"

O'Malley handed over a message form. "Came in right after the XO went to get you. They sent an Orion to check it. Same story. They heard something odd, and it faded out."

Morris frowned. They were chasing after a wild goose, but the orders came from Norfolk. That made it an official wild-goose chase.

"What's the helo status?"

"I can be up in ten minutes. One torpedo and an auxiliary fuel tank. All the gear's on line."

"Tell the bridge to take us there at twenty-five knots. Battleaxe know about this?" He got a nod. "Okay. Signal them what we're up to. Winch in the tail. Won't do us any good where we're going. O'Malley, we'll close to within fifteen miles of the contact and have you search for it. That puts you in the air about 0230. If you need me, I'll be in the wardroom." Morris decided to sample his new ship's "mid-rats." O'Malley was headed the same way.

"These ships are a little weird", the flyer said.

Morris grunted agreement. The main fore-and-aft passageway was on the port side instead of the centerline, for one thing. The "figs" broke a number of longstanding traditions in ship design.

O'Malley went down the ladder first and opened the wardroom door for the captain. They found two junior officers in front of the TV set, watching a taped movie that had mainly to do with fast cars and naked women. The tape machine, Morris had already learned, was run from the chiefs' quarters. One result of this was that a particularly attractive chest was instant replayed for all hands.



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 12:18 AM Pacific-time USA Tuesday 04/16/2024