I don't know if his name would have actually been Randy Romine, but I bet that guy I "remember" as my step-father, the Vietnam Veteran, was actually an adult flight officer. He was probably the Radar Intercept Officer flying with me in an F-4 Phantom in the Vietnam War. He was my step-father in my artificial and symbolic memories because I was only 8 or 9 years old at the time - flying in combat in the Vietnam War. It doesn’t get much crazier than that. I’ll bet those guys were just all amazed that I could fly better than they could and at such a young age. That would probably explain how I stayed out there so long. I sure as hell wouldn’t let an 8 year fly in combat. I don’t care how good he was. I think it all came to an end - for a while - at least, when Lt. Lassen returned to the USS Jouett CG-29 with me. I tried to sneak by the ships officer’s but they stopped me and wanted to know what was going on as I was obviously out-of-place in that environment. I have some symbolic and artificial memories that I think reflect that experience in 1968.
The actress who portrayed Phoebe Cates mother in “Drop Dead Fred” also portrayed Clint Eastwood’s wife in “Heartbreak Ridge.” I think Clint Eastwood’s movie “Heartbreak Ridge” was timed to coincide with the funeral my family had for me on 11/25/1986. I am not certain if Phoebe and I were married at the time or we were just engaged but I am certain they gave her my U.S. Navy aviator wings; probably because she and I weren’t married and she didn’t get the U.S. flag at the funeral for me. I also want to say they gave her my U.S. Navy astronaut wings, but I am not certain if she even knew back then that I was an astronaut.
Marsha Mason
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Drop Dead Fred (1991) .... Polly Cronin
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Heartbreak Ridge (1986) .... Aggie
Heartbreak Ridge is a 1986 film, starring Clint Eastwood (who also produced and directed) and Mario Van Peebles, about the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada, West Indies.
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In addition to dealing with the unruly recruits, Highway also has more personal problems. Aggie (Marsha Mason), his ex-wife, is working as a waitress in a local bar and dating the owner, Roy Jennings (Bo Svenson), who hates Marines and views Highway's career as "bullshit heroics". Highway attempts to adapt his way of thinking enough to win Aggie back, even resorting to reading Cosmopolitan magazine to gain insights into the female mind. However, Aggie is still bitter over their marriage.
From 5/31/1930 to 11/25/1986 is: 20632 days
20632 * 0.359 = 7406
From 7/16/1963 to 10/25/1983 is: 7406 days
Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. on May 31, 1930) is an iconic American actor, composer, and Academy Award-winning film director and film producer. While his recent work as a director, on films like Million Dollar Baby and Letters from Iwo Jima, is consistently praised by critics, Eastwood is perhaps most famous for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles, including Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry series and the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns.
Release date(s) December 5, 1986
Heartbreak Ridge is a 1986 film, starring Clint Eastwood (who also produced and directed) and Mario Van Peebles, about the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada, West Indies. A portion of the movie was filmed on the island itself.
The title comes from the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge, fought during the Korean War in 1951 by soldiers of the U.S. Army's 2nd Infantry Division, along with those of the French Battalion, against the North Korean Army. The character played by Eastwood was awarded the Medal of Honor as a result of his heroic actions there, and later joins the United States Marine Corps. In the film, he is a tough, grizzled Marine Gunnery Sergeant, with several wars and many battles under his belt.
The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing was a major incident during the Lebanese Civil War. Two truck bombs struck buildings in Beirut housing U.S. and French members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon, killing hundreds of soldiers, the majority being U.S. Marines. The October 23, 1983, blasts led to the withdrawal of the international peacekeeping force from Lebanon, where they had been stationed since the Israeli 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
The Invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, was an invasion of the island nation of Grenada by the United States of America and several other nations in response to a coup d’état by Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard. From October 25, 1983, the United States, Barbados, Jamaica and members of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States landed ships on Grenada, defeated Grenadian and Cuban resistance and overthrew Coard's government. October 25 is a national holiday of Grenada, called Thanksgiving Day, to commemorate this event.
Froot Loops is a brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kelloggs and sold in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and Latin America as well as South Africa. The cereal pieces come in a variety of bright colors and a blend of artificial flavors. Kellogg's introduced Froot Loops in 1963.
Nation & World: Tuesday, June 21, 2005
NEW YORK — Saddam Hussein loves Doritos, hates Froot Loops, admires President Reagan, thinks President Clinton was "OK" and holds dim views of both Presidents Bush. The former dictator talks a lot, worries about germs and insists he is still president of Iraq.
Those and other details of the deposed Iraqi leader's life in U.S. military custody appear in the July issue of GQ magazine, based on interviews with five Pennsylvania National Guardsmen who went to Iraq in 2003 and were assigned to Saddam's guard detail for nearly 10 months.
The magazine, which reached newsstands yesterday, said the GIs could not tell their families what they were doing and signed pledges not to reveal the location or other details of the U.S.-run compound where Saddam was an HVD, or "high-value detainee."
Scaled Composites Model 316 SpaceShipOne completed the first privately funded human spaceflight on June 21, 2004.
SpaceShipOne was an experimental air-launched suborbital spaceplane that used a hybrid rocket motor. The design featured a unique "feathering" reentry system where the rear half of the wing and the twin tail booms folded upward along a hinge running the length of the wing; this increased drag while remaining stable. The achievements of SpaceShipOne are more comparable to the X-15 than orbiting spacecraft like the Space Shuttle. Accelerating a spacecraft to orbital speed requires more than 30 times as much energy as lifting it to 100 km[citation needed].
SpaceShipOne was developed by Scaled Composites, Burt Rutan's aviation company, in their Tier One program, without government funding. On June 21, 2004, it made the first privately funded human spaceflight, and on October 4, it won the $10-million Ansari X Prize, by reaching 100 kilometers in altitude twice in a two-week period with the equivalent of three people on board, with no more than ten percent of the non-fuel weight of the spacecraft replaced between flights. Development costs were estimated to be $25-million, funded completely by Paul Allen.
From 9/11/2001 to 6/21/2004 is: 33.333 months.
