http://www.imef.marines.mil/Leaders/Article/633255/sergeant-major-bradley-kasal/
Marines
Official website of the United States Marine Corps
United States of America
I Marine Expeditionary Force
Sergeant Major Bradley Kasal
Sergeant Major Brad A Kasal is a native of Marengo, Iowa. He enlisted in February 1984 and went to Boot Camp at MCRD San Diego in January of 1985.
http://www.tv.com/shows/space-above-and-beyond/the-farthest-man-from-home-36846/
tv.com
Space: Above and Beyond Season 1 Episode 3
The Farthest Man from Home
Aired Sunday 7:00 PM Oct 01, 1995 on FOX
AIRED: 10/1/95
From 10/1/1995 ( premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"The Farthest Man from Home" ) To 5/28/2018 is 8275 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/29/1988 ( United States Supreme Court decides Morrison v. Olson ) is 8275 days
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23466 = 11733 + 11733
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bradley-kasal-marine-immortalized-in-powerful-photo-retires-after-34-years/
CBS News
By DAVID MARTIN CBS NEWS May 28, 2018, 6:58 PM
Bradley Kasal, Marine immortalized in powerful photo, retires after 34 years
WASHINGTON -- A single picture can capture the brotherhood of arms amid the agony of combat. It shows two young Marines, holding up their badly wounded first sergeant, still clutching his weapon, during brutal house to house fighting in the 2004 battle for Fallujah.
"I received seven gunshot wounds and then grenade shrapnel, fragmentation all over the entire body from a grenade," said Sgt. Bradley Kasal.
He charged into a building because he heard other Marines were trapped inside.
Sgt. Bradley Kasal retired after nearly 34 years CBS NEWS
"There was about a dozen other Marines that all rushed to that building," Kasal said.
He won't talk about he did in there, but the citation for the Navy Cross he received says he threw himself on top of another Marine to absorb the blast of a grenade.
"For the almost two hours that I was inside of that room I knew without a doubt that somehow I would make it out," Kasal said. "I had that much trust and confidence in those other Marines that were around me that served with me."
"If you're in it for the right reason, it's always going to be difficult to say goodbye," Kasal said.
The hallmark of a great picture is that in the instant it was taken it tells you everything you need to know about what happened.
"There are exceptional young men and women in this country who are willing to serve, who are willing to make sacrifices and who are willing to defend this great nation," Kasal said.
Kasal bet his life on those words. Fourteen years ago in Fallujah, having lost half his blood from his wounds, he refused medical attention until all the other wounded Marines were treated first.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/releaseinfo
IMDb
Wag the Dog (1997)
Release Info
USA 17 December 1997 (Century City, California) (premiere)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046804/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)
Release Info
USA 27 February 1954
http://www.tv.com/shows/medallion-theatre/homestead-209870/
tv.com
Medallion Theatre Season 2 Episode 25
Homestead
Aired Saturday 10:00 PM Feb 27, 1954 on CBS
AIRED: 2/27/54
https://books.google.com/books?id=_h97tuO2xJQC
Google Books
Biographical Directory of the United States Executive Branch, 1774-1989
Robert Sobel
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1990 - History - 567 pages
google-books_biogr-directory.jpg
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1586223/releaseinfo
IMDb
Top Secret Missions of the CIA (TV Mini-Series)
The Cloak-and-Dagger Diplomat (1999)
Release Info
USA 15 November 1999
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1586223/
IMDb
Top Secret Missions of the CIA (1999– )
The Cloak-and-Dagger Diplomat
Documentary Episode aired 15 November 1999
Season 1 Episode 1
Release Date: 15 November 1999 (USA)
From 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 11/13/2004 is 3616 days
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From 12/28/1914 ( the Military Cross decoration for commissioned British officers below the rank of captain was established ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 28512 days
28512 = 14256 + 14256
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http://www.imef.marines.mil/Leaders/Article/633255/sergeant-major-bradley-kasal/
Marines
Official website of the United States Marine Corps
United States of America
I Marine Expeditionary Force
Sergeant Major Bradley Kasal
On November 13th 2004, 1st Sgt Kasal was wounded
Sergeant Major Kasal has received the Navy Cross
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1914
December 1914
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following events occurred in December 1914:
December 28, 1914 (Monday)
The Military Cross decoration for commissioned British officers below the rank of captain was established.
Royal Warrant: "No. 29024". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1914. p. 7.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29024/supplement/7
The Gazette
Official Public Record
The London Gazette
Publication date:29 December 1914 Supplement:29024 Page:7
ROYAL WARRANT instituting a new Decoration, entitled " The. Military Cross.-"
GEORGE, R.I.
GEORGE THE FIFTH by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting; Whereas We have taken into Our Royal consideration the distinguished services in time of War of Officers of certain ranks in Our Army; And whereas We are desirous of signifying Our appreciation of such services by a mark of Our Royal favour We do by these Presents for Us Our heirs and successors institute and create a Cross to be awarded to Officers whose distinguished and meritorious services have been brought to Our notice.
Firstly: It is ordained that'the Cross shall be designated " The Military Cross."
Given at Our Court at St. James's, this 28th day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, in the Fifth year of Our Reign.
By His Majesty's Command.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060507160745im_/http://marinecorpsmoms.com/new_images/kasalthen.jpg
See also other public post by me on this topic: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2017/01/for-people.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5441380/releaseinfo
IMDb
60 Minutes Wednesday (TV Series)
For the Record (2004)
Release Info
USA 8 September 2004
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5441380/
IMDb
60 Minutes Wednesday: Season 6, Episode 44
For the Record (8 Sep. 2004)
"60 Minutes II" For the Record (original title)
TV Episode 60 min Documentary, News
Release Date: 8 September 2004 (USA)
https://web.archive.org/web/20060507160745/http://marinecorpsmoms.com/archives/cat_news_from_the_front.html
May 02, 2006
Sgt. Major Brad Kasal - An American Hero
On November 13, 2004, (then) 1st Sgt. Brad Kasal led his 3/1 Marines into a Fallujah firefight. Before it was over, he would receive 47 wounds and lose sixty percent of his blood supply. 40 of those wounds were from shrapnel - he shielded a wounded Marine, LCpl Nicoll from a grenade with his own body - and the other 7 were from enemy bullets. And he walked out of the fight, pistol in hand.
Yesterday, he received the Navy Cross - this nation's second highest award for valor and bravery - in a ceremony held at Camp Pendleton. He was also promoted to Sgt. Major - his career goal.
Space Above And Beyond
The Farthest Man From Home
October 01, 1995
Television series Season 1 Episode 3
(from internet transcript)
No one could survive this.
That's the tail section.
[Man] Come on.
Take a look at this.
[Man #2] Okay.
[Clattering] [Yells, Grunts] Stop him! Hold him! Hold him! [Indistinct Shouting] Cut him off! Cut him off!
Whoa, whoa!
Wa-Wait! Wa-Wa-Wait!
I- I-I'm the farthest man from home, okay? - I-I-I'm the farthest man from home.
Okay, easy, sir. I'm Captain Joyner, United States Army Special Forces. We're here to help you get home.
Look at there. Right there. Up there.
See? Twelve billion people. Twelve billion lives. And then there's me, okay? Twelve billion lives, and then just me!
Incoming!
Just me! You can't get me home. See these people? They can go. I - I told them they could go. But not me! Not me! They can go, but not me.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/quotes
IMDb
Wag the Dog (1997)
Quotes
Winifred Ames: Why Albania?
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: Why not?
Winifred Ames: What have they done to us?
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: What have they done FOR us? What do you know about them?
Winifred Ames: Nothing.
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: See? They keep to themselves. Shifty. Untrustable.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070311124808/http://www.sftt.us/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=DefenseWatch%202005.db&command=viewone&id=55
DefenseWatch
02-03-2005
From an Iowa Town to Marine Corps Legend
By Nathaniel R. Helms
U.S. Marine Corps First Sergeant Brad Kasal is an American hero. His story is a remarkable tale of bravery, sacrifice and savagery that adds another page to the great book of American military lore.
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-06-30/news/mn-7822_1_independent-counsel
Los Angeles Times
Supreme Court Allows Independent Counsels : Ruling Covers Iran-Contra, Other Cases
June 30, 1988 DAVID G. SAVAGE Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — In a sharp setback for the Reagan White House, the Supreme Court Wednesday upheld the power of Congress to establish a system of independent counsels to investigate and prosecute corruption in the executive branch.
In a 7-1 opinion written by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the high court flatly rejected the Administration's argument that these independent prosecutors infringe on the constitutional powers of the President.
Does Not Undermine Powers
The independent counsel law does not "impermissibly undermine the powers of the executive branch" nor does it "disrupt the proper balance" of power between Congress and the White House, Rehnquist said.
The decision clears away a legal cloud over the prosecution of Lt. Col. Oliver L. North and former National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter in the Iran-Contra case and the convictions of former Reagan aides Michael K. Deaver and Lyn Nofziger. Lawyers for all four men had said that their clients' cases should be dismissed because their prosecution by an independent counsel was unconstitutional.
A Justice Department spokesman said that the department was disappointed with the independent counsel ruling. The White House also issued a statement saying that the decision changes nothing because, despite its "doubts about the constitutionality of the Independent Counsel Act, the Administration has faithfully and consistently complied with all of the act's requirements."
Walsh Applauds Ruling
Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh applauded the ruling. The independent counsel law "provides a workable solution to a difficult problem. We are gratified that the Supreme Court has upheld (its) constitutionality," Walsh said.
The independent counsel provision, part of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, grew out of the Watergate scandal. Five years earlier, President Richard M. Nixon had suddenly fired special prosecutor Archibald Cox because Cox had sought tapes of White House conversations incriminating Nixon.
To prevent future presidents from interfering in criminal investigations of top executive branch officials, Congress set up a system whereby a special three-judge panel could appoint an independent counsel to investigate and prosecute alleged crimes by Administration officials. The attorney general retains the power to trigger these independent investigations, but he and the President can fire the counsel only for "good cause."
Critics of the law, including President Reagan and Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese III, attacked the law on two main grounds. First, they said that it violated the clear language of the Constitution which gives the President authority to appoint "all other officers of the United States." This includes all federal prosecutors, they said. Second, they argued, it violates the general principle of the separation of powers because it takes away from the President a core executive power, the authority to prosecute crimes.
Chief Justice Rehnquist rejected both contentions. Article II of the Constitution does say that the President must appoint all U.S. officers but its very next line states: "But Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President, in the Courts of Law, or in the Head of Departments." Congress may not be able to give itself the power to appoint Cabinet officers or other high level officials, Rehnquist said, but the independent counsels "perform only certain, limited duties." Therefore, they can be considered "inferior officers" and Congress may by law vest their appointment in the three-judge court, he said.
Turning to the separation-of-powers argument, Rehnquist agreed that one branch of government may not steal away a crucial power from another branch. But that is not the case here, he said. The independent counsel law pertains to only "a certain class of criminal activity." Moreover, the attorney general retains the authority to trigger the investigations and to remove an independent counsel for misconduct.
The independent counsel law does not "prevent the executive branch from accomplishing its constitutionally assigned functions," he said. "Notwithstanding the fact that the counsel is to some degree 'independent' and free from executive branch supervision . . . , in our view these features of the act give the executive branch sufficient control over the independent counsel to ensure that the President is able to perform his constitutionally assigned duties," Rehnquist said.
Reverses Recent Trend
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-06-30/news/mn-7822_1_independent-counsel/2
Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 2)
Supreme Court Allows Independent Counsels : Ruling Covers Iran-Contra, Other Cases
June 30, 1988 DAVID G. SAVAGE Times Staff Writer
The high court's decision reverses its recent trend to insist on a rigid separation of powers between Congress and the executive branch. In 1983, the court struck down Congress' use of a one-house veto to block federal agencies' regulations, and in 1986 it invalidated a part of the Gramm-Rudman budget balancing law because the comptroller general, a congressional employee, was permitted to implement across-the-board budget cuts. These laws were judged unconstitutional because Congress was infringing on the powers of the executive branch.
Based on those opinions, Justice Department conservatives believed that the high court also would strike down the independent counsel statute.
But only Justice Antonin Scalia, a former Justice Department official and a Reagan appointee, voted to invalidate the law. In a 38-page dissent, part of which he read from the bench, Scalia said that the law unwisely takes away a part of the President's power to prosecute crime. "All purely executive power must be under the control of the President," he said. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy did not vote in the case.
Though the independent counsel law was passed during the Administration of former President Jimmy Carter, it has proven to be a particular thorn for the Reagan Administration. After independent counsel investigations, former White House deputy chief of staff Deaver was convicted of perjury, while former Reagan political adviser Nofziger was convicted of illegal lobbying.
North and Poindexter have been indicted on 23 counts of fraud and conspiracy in the Iran-Contra case, while Meese is under investigation by still another independent counsel for allegedly aiding friends in gaining government contracts.
If the high court ruling had gone the other way, some and perhaps all of these investigations and convictions could have been jeopardized.
Decides Olson Case
The actual case that came before the high court arose over one of the most obscure independent counsel investigations. In 1983, Theodore B. Olson, then an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department, was accused by a congressional committee of having lied about the Administration's handling of the clean up of toxic wastes. The attorney general agreed to have an independent counsel investigate these allegations, and Washington lawyer Alexia Morrison was eventually chosen.
But when Morrison subpoenaed Olson to appear before a grand jury, he refused, contending that the independent counsel statute was unconstitutional. A federal judge dismissed his challenge but in January a federal appeals court on a 2-1 vote struck down the law. The opinion, with two Reagan appointees in the majority, said that the law unconstitutionally took away the President's power to appoint prosecutors and that it gave Congress too much power to hound the Administration.
The ruling (Morrison vs. Olson, 86-1279) reverses that conclusion and allows Morrison to proceed with her investigation.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 7:46 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 28 May 2018
