From 8/7/1989 ( Federal Express Corporation merges with Flying Tiger Line airline ) To 5/14/1990 ( departing as United States Navy Fire Controlman Second Class Petty Officer the honorable discharge from United States Navy active service of Kerry Wayne Burgess and the transfer to non-obligated United States Navy reserve service and the eventual enlisted rank beginning in 1993 of United States Navy Fire Controlman Chief Petty Officer ) is 280 days
From 5/14/1990 ( departing as United States Navy Fire Controlman Second Class Petty Officer the honorable discharge from United States Navy active service of Kerry Wayne Burgess and the transfer to non-obligated United States Navy reserve service and the eventual enlisted rank beginning in 1993 of United States Navy Fire Controlman Chief Petty Officer ) To 2/18/1991 ( the Bill Gates-Microsoft-Nazi-George Bush attack on the US Navy warship USS Princeton CG 59 as another attempt to murder Tom Reagan the US Navy SEAL and Kerry Burgess the active duty reservist and Fire Controlman First Class Petty Officer who were both serving the US Navy presence in the Persian Gulf again at the same time ) is 280 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Princeton_(CG-59)
USS Princeton (CG-59)
USS Princeton (CG-59) is a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser serving in the United States Navy. Armed with naval guns and anti-air, anti-surface, and anti-submarine missiles, plus other weapons, she is equipped for surface-to-air, surface-to-surface, and anti-submarine warfare. She also is the home of two Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters. This warship is named for the Revolutionary War victories over the British by George Washington in and around the town of Princeton, New Jersey.
On the morning of 18 February 1991, during Operation Desert Storm, Princeton was patrolling an operating area 28 nautical miles (52 km) off Failaka Island in the Persian Gulf, on the west side of the decoy U.S. Marine and naval invasion forces afloat. Two Italian-made MN103 Manta bottom-mounted influence mines detonated, one just under the port rudder and the other just forward of the starboard bow, most likely a sympathetic detonation caused by the first explosion. The blasts cracked the superstructure, buckled three lines in the hull, jammed the port rudder, flooded the #3 switchboard room through chilled water pipe cracks, and damaged the starboard propeller shaft. Two crew members were seriously injured, and another sustained minor injuries. Despite the severe damage, the forward weapons and the AEGIS combat system were back online within 15 minutes.
At great peril, the Canadian warship HMCS Athabaskan moved north through the minefield to deliver damage-control supplies to the severely damaged Princeton, which remained on station for 30 hours until she was relieved. The crippled ship, with a locked starboard propeller shaft and a locked port rudder, was guided from the minefield by the minesweeper USS Adroit. Temporary repairs were conducted first in Bahrain, and then in the port of Jebel Ali near Dubai by the duty destroyer tender USS Acadia, and finally in a Dubai drydock. After eight weeks, the Princeton returned to the United States under the ship's own power for additional repairs. The ship and her crew were awarded the Combat Action Ribbon.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JIW/is_1_61/ai_n25149608/pg_3/
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Mines and underwater IEDS in U.S. ports and waterways: context, threats, challenges, and solutions
Naval War College Review, Wntr, 2008 by Scott C. Truver
On 18 February 1991, in the same waters, the helicopter assault ship USS Tripoli encountered an Iraqi contact mine, which blew a hole twenty-three feet by twenty-five in its starboard side. Four hours later, the Aegis guided-missile cruiser Princeton was almost broken in half by an Italian-made Manta bottom mine in approximately sixty- five feet of water. Princeton had to be taken out of the war, and the total cost to repair came to more than $110 million--all from a single mine costing about fifteen thousand dollars.
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Evans, Frank. "Princeton Leaves the War." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 117 July 1991): 70-72. Account of Princeton striking an Iraqi mine on 18 February 1991, based on commanding officer's recollection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989
1989
August 7 – Federal Express purchases Flying Tiger Line
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/06/business/a-fragile-air-freight-strategy.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
A Fragile Air Freight Strategy
By KEITH BRADSHER
Published: Wednesday, September 6, 1989
The Federal Express Corporation is learning to greet customers in many different languages around the world, but some replies have been unfriendly.
The company acquired the Flying Tiger Line for $880 million in February, and merged with the 44-year-old carrier on Aug. 7.
