by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/16/2026 6:38 PM
Two other points to note from events I observed today in the mainstream-media
Both details - completely disparate activities are referenced here by me.
Closing with that Retardoid Elon Musk and his role as clown because he could not even think up for himself what he entertained his Fanboys with today as they gush and blush over that lottery-winner.
I examine my original-work for a pattern that is easy to guess and I am pushing it out for one reason: to demonstrate my own point: that they jump on a pattern and they don't know there is another pattern associated with it.
First is about Donald J. Trump Chumps
Wondering why they are doing that up there on my tv screen
People lurking behind the scenes causing more work for me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer
Lawyer
From Wikipedia [retrieved 10/16/2026]
A lawyer is a person who is qualified to offer advice about the law, draft legal documents, and represent individuals in legal matters.
The exact nature of a lawyer's work varies depending on the legal jurisdiction and the legal system, as well as the lawyer's area of practice. In many jurisdictions, the legal profession is divided into various branches — including barristers, solicitors, conveyancers, notaries, canon lawyer — who perform different tasks related to the law.
Historically, the role of lawyers can be traced back to ancient civilizations such as Greece and Rome.
Depending on the country, the education required to become a lawyer can range from completing an undergraduate law degree to undergoing postgraduate education and professional training. In many jurisdictions, passing a bar examination is also necessary before one can practice law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_law
Reading law
From Wikipedia [retrieved 10/16/2026]
Reading law was the primary method used in common law countries, particularly the United States, for people to prepare for and enter the legal profession before the advent of law schools. In Commonwealth countries, becoming an articled clerk was a similar practice.
It consisted of an extended internship or apprenticeship under the tutelage or mentoring of an experienced lawyer. The practice largely died out in the early 20th century. A few U.S. states, namely California, Maine, New York, Vermont, Virginia and Washington, still permit people to become lawyers by reading law instead of attending some or all of law school, although the practice is uncommon.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article/katie-zacharia-out-as-white-house-press-secretary-after-5-days-on-the-job-reports-182158704.html
Yahoo News
Katie Zacharia out as White House press secretary after 5 days on the job: reports
President Trump said he told Zacharia to "reconsider" her role, adding "I don't think you could ever be happy in this job."
Updated Fri, October 16, 2026 at 1:22 PM PDT 8 min read
"I told her, 'I think you're better off being happy and I don't think you could ever be happy in this job,'" Trump said.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/09/2026 6:34 PM
There is a consistent fact there and those stories are variations - if so then probably created clandestinely. Most or all people whose names are published with those productions have no idea they were manipulated into manufacturing those stories with someone else's ulterior motive.
I do not know any of those people known for any of those productions. I do not speak for any of those people or any of those productions.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000121/bio/
IMDb
Phoebe Cates
Biography
Born July 16, 1963 New York City, New York, USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_(literature)
Identification (literature)
From Wikipedia
Identification refers to the automatic, subconscious psychological process in which an individual becomes like or closely associates themselves with another person by adopting one or more of the others' perceived personality traits, physical attributes, or some other aspect of their identity. The concept of identification was founded by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in the 1920’s, and has since been expanded on and applied in psychology, social studies, media studies, and literary and film criticism. In literature, identification most often refers to the audience identifying with a fictional character, however it can also be employed as a narrative device whereby one character identifies with another character within the text itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth
The Man from Earth
From Wikipedia
Release date November 13, 2007
The Man from Earth is a 2007 American science fiction drama film
John Oldman, a departing university professor, who puts forth the notion that he is more than 14,000 years old. The entire film is set in and around Oldman's house during his farewell party and consists almost entirely of dialogue. The plot advances through intellectual arguments between Oldman and his fellow faculty members.
The screenplay mirrors similar concepts of longevity introduced by Bixby in "Requiem for Methuselah", a Star Trek episode he wrote, which originally aired in 1969.
A direct sequel, The Man from Earth: Holocene, was released in 2017
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:
11/13/07 3:08 AM
There seems to be something important about a dream I had a few hours earlier. I can't remember all the details to it now but it seems that I was actually thinking while I was sleeping about the dream I had earlier as I was sleeping. That makes me think I wanted to remember the dream when I woke up. Not sure how that works. Anyway, the operative detail about the dream seems to be that I was leaving a hospital where I had been a patient but I can't remember any details about being in there as a patient, which is puzzling me for reasons I can't articulate. So I was leaving and there were 2 people with me that I guess were taking me out of there. There was a doctor talking to me and perhaps another person with him. I found myself thinking about that doctor giving me a folder, apparently with information relevant to me, and that doctor refered to me as doctor, in terms of that also being my title.
IMDb
The Man from Earth (2007)
Quotes
Dr. Will Gruber: When did you begin to believe you were Jesus?
John Oldman: When did you begin to believe you were a psychiatrist?
Dr. Will Gruber: Since I graduated from Harvard Medical School and finished my residency, I've had that feeling. Why I sometimes dream about it.
John Oldman: Have you acted upon this belief?
From 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) To 11/13/2007 ( ) is 541 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/27/1967 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th president of USA federal government 1963-1969: Remarks at the Dedication of the Crossland Vocational Center, Camp Springs, Maryland ) is 541 days
From 8/9/1949 ( first use of the US Navy ejector seat ) To 11/13/2007 ( ) is 21280 days
21280 = 10640 + 10640
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/1994 ( an aviator in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my US Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
From 2/19/1962 ( the US Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology was established ) To 3/1/2004 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: my lease expires at my Redmond apartment and I travel to and arrive at Spokane Valley for the Crossland ) is 15351 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/13/2007 ( ) is 15351 days
From 12/18/1990 ( ) To 11/13/2007 ( ) is 6174 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/28/1982 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Poetry professor Schulman finds Princeton environment stimulating ) is 6174 days
F-14 CREW EJECTS DURING CARRIER LAUNCH
DailyPress.com
Dec 18, 1990
The two-man crew of an F-14 Tomcat from a Oceana Naval Air Station squadron was forced to eject Monday night on takeoff from the Florida-based carrier USS Forrestal, Navy officials said.
The pilot and radar intercept officer, both assigned to Fighter Squadron 31 at Oceana, received minor injuries after parachuting down to the carrier, Navy officials said.
The men decided to eject when it looked like the jet was not going to be able to get up enough speed for takeoff and was headed instead over the side of the carrier, the Navy said.
The jet came to rest near the edge of the flight deck. Although the incident was under investigation, Navy officials said the jet apparently had become separated from the catapult during launch, the Navy said.
After ejecting, the pilot landed on the flight deck, suffering bruises and scrapes and possibly a sprained ankle, officials said.
The radar intercept officer was rescued from his parachute that snagged on the ship's superstructure, or island, above the flight deck. He received minor scrapes, Navy officials said.
Both men, whose names were not available late Tuesday, were treated by medical personnel aboard the carrier.
https://www.legion.org/stories/other/retreat-hell-we-just-got-here
The American Legion
"Retreat, hell! We just got here."
DEC 11, 2014
America entered World War I to reinforce the battered French and British troops waging a desperate fight against Germany. On June 2, 1918, a division of Marines was sent to support the French army at Belleau Wood. As the Marines arrived, they found French troops retreating through their lines. A French colonel, attempting to acquaint the Americans with the realities of the situation and not trusting his spoken English, scribbled a note to the officer in charge of the Americans ordering them to retreat. The Marine officer looked at the Frenchman coldly and said, Retreat, Hell! We just got here. That officer was Capt. Lloyd W. Williams, commanding the 51st Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment.
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2026/09/today-is-09062026_01500408289.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 1:46 PM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
If this is the first blog-post by me you're reading then you are galactically uninformed.
Sunday, September 06, 2026
Today is 09/06/2026
Admiral Vern Clark
Remarks
United States Naval Academy Commencement
Annapolis, Maryland
24 May 2002
ADMIRAL CLARK:
I have one last thing to say. Go write some history.
From 12/19/2000 ( premiere USA film "O Brother, Where Art Thou" ) To 10/16/2026 ( ) is 9432 days
9432 = 4716 + 4716
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/1/1978 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th president of USA federal government 1977-1981: Kennedy Space Center, Florida ; Remarks at the Congressional Space Medal of Honor Awards Ceremony ) is 4716 days
From 3/8/1976 ( Gerald Ford, 38th president of USA federal government 1974-1977: Remarks Announcing the Appointment of Jeanne Holm as Special Assistant to the President for Women ) To 10/16/2026 ( ) is 18484 days
18484 = 9242 + 9242
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/21/1991 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" ) is 9242 days
From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates - the world-famous actor and the Harvard University graduate medical doctor and spouse of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 6/28/2024 ( ) is 22263 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/16/2026 ( ) is 22263 days
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article/katie-zacharia-out-as-white-house-press-secretary-after-5-days-on-the-job-reports-182158704.html
Yahoo News
Katie Zacharia out as White House press secretary after 5 days on the job: reports
President Trump said he told Zacharia to "reconsider" her role, adding "I don't think you could ever be happy in this job."
Andrew Romano, Dylan Stableford
Updated Fri, October 16, 2026 at 1:22 PM PDT 8 min read
President Trump signaled on Friday that he might replace embattled new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia after less than one week on the job.
Around the same time, multiple outlets reported that Zacharia had already been let go. Citing "three people familiar with the matter," the New York Times reported on Friday afternoon that Trump had "fired" Zacharia. A senior White House official told Fox News that Zacharia is "transitioning out" of her role, and CBS News, Politico and the Washington Post published similar reports.
If confirmed, that would make Zacharia the shortest-tenured White House press secretary in U.S. history.
"We're talking about doing something," Trump told reporters outside the White House, adding that he told Zacharia to "reconsider" whether she "need[s] this."
"I told her, 'I think you're better off being happy and I don't think you could ever be happy in this job,'" Trump said.
Asked if he was planning to "fire" Zacharia, the president said no. But, he added, "I want her to have a good life. I don't want [her] to have a life like she's led in the last three days. She is being brutalized by the media."
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
(from internet transcript)
So where's all the money from the armored car job?
Never knocked over no armored car. Sent up for practicing law without a license.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 05/22/2026 5:43 PM
That so-called "instant acceleration" video, as seen this late afternoon on CBS Evening News tv of "UFO" must be driving those UFO-bunkers into frenzy again.
It is DEFILING! the laws of fizzicks, they must be screaming in their puerile rants on the internet. They don't know what "laws of physics" means but they hear it on The X-Files all the time so it must be something important.
Me, I am not so naive and gullible.
Clearly, someone at the Pentagon did that just to prove to the world my past comments: there are no frames in digital-video
If you don't understand that then you definitely should not be a UFO-bunker.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701191/
IMDb
The Simpsons
S2.E15
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Episode aired Feb 21, 1991
Homer meets his half-brother Herb Powell, an automobile tycoon who zealously bonds with the family and tasks Homer with designing a car for the average American.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/pope-leo-xiv/pope-leo-discharged-hospital-lung-cancer-surgery-rcna604005
NBC News
October 17, 2026, 3:30 AM PDT
By Freddie Clayton
Pope Leo XIV was discharged from the hospital on Saturday after undergoing surgery for lung cancer
Leo, who is a Chicago native
The Vatican on Friday released the first images of Leo since his surgery
The Simpsons
"Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
(from internet transcript)
When Homer is shown the plans for his car, he tears it up and draws his own. The moment has come for the grand unveiling...
Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed stockholders, members of the press, Your Holiness...
-- Herbert Powell, ``Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?''
Homer Simpson: (narrating) All my life, I have searched for a car that feels a certain way. Powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a Nerf ball. Now, at last, I have found it.
Illustrates significant and original modifications by me, Kerry Burgess, to their basic vehicle design in the game - the purpose of the game
by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/11/2020
The Simpsons
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Herbert Powell, CEO, Powell Motors: [incredulous] What does this monstrosity cost?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/tesla-elon-musk-roadster/689059/
October 17, 2026, 8 AM ET
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-roadster-dot-flying-car/
CBS News
We asked the DOT who would oversee a flying car like Tesla's Roadster. The answer isn't readily clear.
By Kris Van Cleave
Updated on: October 16, 2026 / 8:05 PM EDT / CBS News
Who has oversight of a car that flies, hovers or otherwise defies gravity? We asked Department of Transportation officials, and the answer isn't readily clear.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's new Roadster Rocket, which he called a "flying car"
https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/15/business/tesla-unveils-what-it-says-is-a-flying-car
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Thursday unveiled a car that he said will be able to fly
October 16, 2026
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/tesla-unveils-new-flying-car-model-271724101709
Tesla unveils new flying car model
It may be a giant leap forward in making flying cars a reality, or a fantastic publicity stunt. Elon Musk is showing off a new Tesla Roadster that can fly. NBC News’ Brian Cheung reports.
October 16, 2026
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6406985913112
Elon Musk unveils Tesla Roadster flying car prototype
October 16, 2026
From 8/29/1959 ( ) To 8/11/2020 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, illustrated ) is 22263 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/16/2026 ( ) is 22263 days
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-roadster-debut-elon-musk-flying-cars-are-real/
CBS News
With Tesla Roadster debut, Elon Musk shows "flying cars are real"
Updated on: October 16, 2026 / 8:07 PM EDT / CBS/AFP
Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled what he described as a "flying" car, equipped with thrusters, during a livestreamed event at his SpaceX rocket company's facility on Thursday.
previously referenced by me, Kerry Burgess:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram
From Wikipedia
Stephen Wolfram (born 29 August 1959) is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He is known for his work in computer science, mathematics, and in theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
As a businessman, he is the founder and CEO of the software company Wolfram Research where he worked as chief designer of Mathematica and the Wolfram Alpha answer engine. His recent work has been on knowledge-based programming, expanding and refining the programming language of Mathematica into what is now called the Wolfram Language.
Both Stephen Wolfram and Christopher Wolfram were involved in helping create the alien language for the film Arrival, for which they used the Wolfram Language.
https://www.the-independent.com/cars/electric-vehicles/tesla-roadster-launch-elon-musk-launch-live-texas-b3067690.html
INDEPENDENT
Tesla’s flying car is here. Here’s all you need to know about the Roadster
New electric sports car uses SpaceX rocket technology to flip through the air and reach 60mph in 0.81 seconds. Elon Musk promises it’ll ‘crush every track record that has ever existed’
Steve Fowler Electric Vehicles Editor
Friday 16 October 2026 10:54 EDT
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/10/16/tesla-roadster-2-flying-car-demonstration/9551792172909/
Tesla showcases 'flying' car in Roadster 2 demonstration
By Joe Fisher
October 16, 2026 / 2:24 PM
https://tech-insider.org/tesla-flying-roadster-facts-confirmed-unproven-2026/
excerpt
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/the-presidents-news-conference-991
The American Presidency Project
RONALD REAGAN
40th President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
The President's News Conference
October 01, 1981
Saudi Arabia and Iran
Q. Mr. President, you said a few minutes ago that you would not allow, you would not permit what happened in Iran several years ago to happen in Saudi Arabia. How would you prevent that? Would you take military intervention if that was necessary to prevent it?
The President. I'm not going to talk about the specifics of how we would do it, except to say that in Iran, I think the United States has to take some responsibility for what happened there with some very shortsighted policies that let a situation come to a boiling point, that there was no need to do that.
But in Saudi Arabia, I just would call to your attention that it's not only the United States, it's the whole Western World. There is no way, as long as Saudi Arabia and the OPEC nations there in the East and Saudi Arabia's the most important provide the bulk of the energy that is needed to turn the wheels of industry in the Western World, there's no way that we could stand by and see that taken over by anyone that would shut off that oil.
From 11/12/1981 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th president of USA federal government 1981-1989: Notice of the Continuation of the Iran Emergency ) To 10/15/2026 ( ) is 16408 days
16408 = 8204 + 8204
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/19/1988 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th president of USA federal government 1981-1989: Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate on the United States Military Strike in the Persian Gulf ) is 8204 days
From 11/12/1981 ( launched the second flight of USA space shuttle - STS-2 Columbia - the first space shuttle ) To 10/15/2026 ( ) is 16408 days
16408 = 8204 + 8204
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/19/1988 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th president of USA federal government 1981-1989: Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate on the United States Military Strike in the Persian Gulf ) is 8204 days
From 8/11/2020 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, illustrated above here ) To 10/15/2026 ( Thursday ) is 2256 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/6/1972 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork [the internet - to you dim-wits that do not know what AI actually means, among your blithering ignorance about anything]: The Kingdom of Bahrain granted the United States the use of a naval base in the Persian Gulf, over the objections of Iran ) is 2256 days
From 11/14/1981 ( the USA NASA STS-2 landing makes space shuttle Columbia a reusable spacecraft ) To 10/15/2026 ( ) is 16406 days
16406 = 8203 + 8203
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/18/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), from my official enlisted US Navy records: during USA Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will with my personal participation and commendation - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (expert technician for all maintenance and operations, down to printed-circuit-board component level diagnosis and repair, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - aboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 US Navy the United States Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8203 days
From 4/18/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), from my official enlisted US Navy records: during USA Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will with my personal participation and commendation - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (expert technician for all maintenance and operations, down to printed-circuit-board component level diagnosis and repair, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - aboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 US Navy the United States Operation Praying Mantis ) To 10/15/2026 ( ) is 14059 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/30/2004 ( ) is 14059 days
previously referenced by me, Kerry Burgess
The New York Times
THE GOOGLE I.P.O.: THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE; Adding Broad Technology Skills in an Informal Setting
By LAURIE J. FLYNN
Published: April 30, 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p5LxFdc-Qg
The Ramp | Roadster
Tesla
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
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."
Google Books
A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy
By Thomas Cutler
Up in CIC, Operations Specialist Second Class Tom Ross, who had been serving in Wainwright since 1985, heard the captain tell all to brace themselves and felt his heart thumping in his chest. He remembered that an earlier Iranian propaganda broadcast had warned that the Americans would "never leave the Persian Gulf alive."
Out on deck, Doug Brewer actually saw the Harpoon as it roared toward his ship. He fervently hoped the Harpoon's acquisition radar would prefer the fluttering chaff "tinfoil" to the ship beneath his feet.
From the starboard bridge wing, Jon Fischman watched as the missile grew larger at a very rapid rate. At less than one hundred feet, he could see the lettering on the its side, and he realized that he would not be seeing letters if the missile were coming straight at him.
Inside CIC, Tom Ross felt the bulkheads rattle as the Harpoon roared down the ship's starboard side, close aboard. It was a moment he was not likely ever to forget.
Brewster was most relieved where he saw the missile plunge into the sea astern of the ship, hitting just fifty to seventy-five yards from Wainwright. As Palmer later wrote, "In a literal sense, Wainwright had 'dodged a bullet.'"
With the roar of the missile still echoing in CIC, rapid but disciplined orders and reports filled the air: "Whiskey, this is Alfa Whiskey. Red and free!"
"Fire SWC!"
"Birds affirm."
"Birds away on hostile track 1077."
Again, the bulkheads rattled as several surface-to-surface missiles left Wainwright's rails in retaliation. The other ships in SAG Charlie - frigates Simpson and Bagley - opened fire as well.
The Kickflip | Roadster
Tesla
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
With this Mallek decided to act. If the Americans were going to attack him, he would not take the first hit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpoon_(missile)
Harpoon (missile)
From Wikipedia
The Harpoon is an all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile manufactured by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing Defense, Space & Security). The AGM-84E Standoff Land Attack Missile (SLAM) and later AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER (Standoff Land Attack Missile – Expanded Response) are cruise missile variants.
The regular Harpoon uses active radar homing and flies just above the water to evade defenses.
Specifications
Mass - 1,523 lb (691 kg) including booster
Length - 12.6 ft (3.8 m), air-launched; 15 ft (4.6 m), surface- and submarine-launched
Wingspan - 3 ft (0.91 m)
Warhead 488 pounds (221 kg)
Detonation mechanism - Impact fuze
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
With the primary mission accomplished, SAG Charlie patrolled the area. About three hours later, they detected the approach of an Iranian Kaman patrol boat, which the Bagley's LAMPS-I identified as the Joshan. As the patrol boat closed, the SAG commander repeatedly warned the Iranian that he was standing into danger and advised him to alter course and depart the area. When his direction was ignored, the U. S. commander requested and was granted "weapons free" by CJTFME. He then advised the Joshan:
"Stop your engines and abandon ship; I intend to sink you."
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)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-67_Standard
RIM-67 Standard
From Wikipedia
The RIM-67 Standard ER (SM-1ER/SM-2ER) is an extended range surface-to-air missile (SAM) with a secondary anti-ship capability, originally developed for the United States Navy (USN). The RIM-67 was developed as a replacement for the RIM-8 Talos, a 1950s system deployed on a variety of USN ships, and eventually replaced the RIM-2 Terrier as well, since it was of a similar size and fitted existing Terrier launchers and magazines.
The second generation of Standard missile, the Standard Missile 2, was developed for the Aegis Combat System, and the New Threat Upgrade (NTU) program that was planned for existing Terrier and Tartar ships. The destroyer USS Mahan served as the test platform for the development of the CG/SM-2 (ER) missile program project. The principal change over the Standard missile 1 is the introduction of inertial guidance for each phase of the missile's flight except the terminal phase where semi-active homing was retained. This design change was made so that missiles could time share illumination radars and enable equipped ships to defend against saturation missile attacks.
Terrier ships reequipped as part of the New Threat Upgrade were refit to operate the RIM-67B (SM-2ER Block II) missile.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 2:14 PM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 10/17/2026
