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Posted by Kerry Burgess at 1:22 PM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Sunday, December 02, 2018
Astronaut Protection Act
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=42663
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks on Signing the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982
June 23, 1982
And it's always dangerous telling a trade joke to members of the trade, because the chances are too good that they've heard it.
From 10/30/1946 ( Robert Gibson ) To 2/19/2006 is 21662 days
21662 = 10831 + 10831
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 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 10831 days
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 1:26 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: February 19, 2006
Their contempt for my physical and psychological well-being continues.
excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 1:22 PM Sunday, December 02, 2018
Movie Scripts > Jaws (1975)
Jaws (1975) Movie Script
(from internet transcript)
Hooper: Gentlemen, the officer asked me to tell you that you're overloading that boat.
Fisherman: Go on, get out of here.
Fisherman: You ain't going. What do you care?
Hooper: Can you tell me... if there's a good restaurant or hotel here?
Fisherman: Yeah, you walk straight ahead.
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Somewhere in the Night (1946)
George Taylor: (wounded in hospital thinking to himself with his jaw wired shut) I won't let them know I can't remember. I won't let them dig him up!
(later)
US Marine Corps sergeant: Taylor, George W.
US Marine Corps staff sergeant: Hello, Taylor. Sit down. You're now in the process of being separated from the armed forces of the United States. You feel you have a right to know answers to a lot of questions about yourself and how you'll fit into civilian life. Those questions need not necessarily be restricted to the G.I. Bill of Rights employment, insurance and such. Oh, by the way. Before I forget. Your seabag, it's been located. Any change in your civilian address?
George Taylor: My civilian address.
US Marine Corps sergeant: I could ask one of the boys to drop it off.
George Taylor: I'll, uh - Maybe I'd better pick it up myself.
US Marine Corps sergeant: Well, why wait around? It might be this afternoon, it might be a couple of days. I imagine you'll be wanting to get back to Los Angeles. We could have it delivered to the, uh... Martin Hotel. Will you be going back there?
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-05/news/mn-1536_1_shuttle-endeavour
Los Angeles Times
Nation IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Shuttle Countdown Gets Under Way
May 05, 1992 From Times Staff and Wire Reports
NASA began the countdown for the first launch of the shuttle Endeavour and its satellite-rescue mission with spacewalking astronauts. The countdown clocks began ticking at 8 p.m. PDT Monday
From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thu, May 4, 2006 3:12:00 PM
Subject: Re: Sleep journal 5/4/06
Kerry Burgess wrote:
After my short nap yesterday late evening, when back to sleep after midnight and slept pretty soundly until after 7. Had a dream that seemed to occur just before I woke up. I was inside some kind of missile. Seems like it was an SM2-ER on the Wainwright's launcher and it was going to send me into orbit or outer space maybe. When I woke up, I heard lyrics from that song:
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 04 May 2006 excerpt ends]
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
Doctor Grant: How dare you wander about the corridors of this sanatorium by yourself.
George Taylor: The door was open. I was just curious.
Nurse: That's not true, Doctor. The door was closed.
Doctor Grant: Tom. See that this man leaves here at once.
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie1.html
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
(from internet transcript of incomplete dialog)
DECKER: Admiral Kirk! ...We're getting a top brass send off? Don't worry, she'll launch on schedule if we have to tow her out with our bare hands. Right, Scotty?
SCOTT: Aye, yes, that we will, sir.
KIRK: Let's talk.
DECKER: Sure. Let me now when the backup's ready.
SCOTT: Aye sir.
DECKER: With all due respect, sir, I hope this isn't some kind of Starfleet pep talk, I'm really too busy.
KIRK: I'm taking over the center seat, Will.
DECKER: You're what?
From 1/17/1943 ( Daniel Brandenstein ) To 7/21/1969 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1969 was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon ) is 9682 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 5/6/1992 is 9682 days
From 12/7/1979 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" ) To 5/6/1992 is 4534 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 4/2/1978 ( premiere US TV series "Dallas" ) is 4534 days
From 11/26/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in solar system deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day makes his first landing the Jupiter moon Callisto ) To 5/6/1992 is 5640 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 4/12/1981 ( my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan was the commander aboard the United States STS-1 Columbia spacecraft ) is 5640 days
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-06/news/mn-1284_1_shuttle-flight
Los Angeles Times
NASA's New Endeavour Faces Challenging, Potentially Dangerous Flight : Science: Shuttle voyage will include spacewalks and a satellite-rescue mission. The seven-person crew will also practice construction in orbit.
May 06, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
WASHINGTON — The nation's newest space shuttle, Endeavour, is scheduled to lift off at 4:06 p.m. PDT Thursday on its maiden voyage and one of the most challenging missions in the 11-year history of the shuttle program.
If things go as planned, Endeavour's seven-day flight will include a record three spacewalks, the delicate and potentially dangerous rescue and relaunch of a $150-million communications satellite, and a practice run at assembling parts of the planned space station Freedom 200 nautical miles above the Earth.
In addition, the six men and one woman aboard will test the latest devices that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has devised for its four-shuttle fleet.
Originally scheduled for Monday evening, the beginning of Endeavour's maiden voyage was moved back three days until Thursday to permit a daylight launch. Officials said Tuesday that poor weather conditions could lead to a further delay. Thunderstorms expected Thursday put the chance of launch at 30%, and Friday's weather could present a similar problem, they said.
With Endeavour's scheduled launch coming as Congress renews the debate over the future of America's manned space program, "the general theme of this mission seems to be the human role in space," said John E. Pike, director of the space policy project for the American Federation of Scientists. "To demonstrate or evaluate just what you can do with people that you can't do some other way, I think that's what this . . . is all about."
Endeavour's mission, the 47th shuttle flight since Columbia was launched in 1981, is of particular interest to Californians. The new shuttle's pilot, Air Force Lt. Col. Kevin P. Chilton, 36, grew up in Westchester and graduated from St. Bernard High School in Playa del Rey.
In Huntington Beach, engineers at McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Co., which is building a major portion of the planned, $30-billion space station, are relying on the assembly practice sessions to help them evaluate procedures and complete final, detailed design work.
Named after the 18th-Century ship that was the first command of Capt. James Cook, the British explorer, the $2-billion Endeavour replaces the shuttle Challenger, which exploded in 1986, killing seven crew members and stalling the U.S. manned space program for more than two years.
Completed a year ago by workers at Rockwell International in Palmdale, Endeavour has a host of new features intended to improve navigation, foster safer landings and permit longer flights.
The most difficult task the crew will attempt is the rescue of Intelsat VI, a 9,000-pound, 17 1/2-foot-tall, 12-foot-wide communications satellite. It was lost in a useless, low-Earth orbit in March, 1990, when a booster rocket failed to fire.
Intelsat--the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization--is a consortium of 122 nations that owns and operates a 17-satellite system that transmits television, telephone, facsimile, data and telex signals. The organization is paying NASA $93 million for the rescue operation.
If successful, the mission will put the satellite in position in time to transmit images of the 1992 Summer Olympics from Barcelona, Spain, to points around the world.
The operation will begin hours after launch, when satellite controllers at Intelsat headquarters in Washington start maneuvering Intelsat VI into an orbit 200 nautical miles above the Earth, 100 miles lower than its current flight path.
Four days into the mission, Endeavour's commander, Navy Capt. Daniel C. Brandenstein, 49, will move the shuttle into rendezvous position. As the shuttle approaches, astronauts Pierre J. Thuot, 36, a Navy commander, and Rick Hieb, also 36, will begin the first of the mission's three spacewalks.
Thuot will ride the shuttle's mechanical arm toward the slowly rotating satellite. In one of the trickiest maneuvers of the mission, Thuot will attach a "capture bar" to the bottom of the satellite, secure the bar with a special tool and then manually halt the satellite's rotation with a wheel built into the bar.
Astronaut Bruce E. Melnick, 42, a U.S. Coast Guard commander working inside the shuttle, will use the mechanical arm to pull the satellite into the cargo bay. There, Thuot and Hieb will attach the satellite to a 23,000-pound, solid-fuel rocket motor carried aloft by the shuttle.
Then the satellite and its new motor will be jettisoned from the spacecraft by four large springs. When the rocket motor is fired, it will propel the satellite into a transition orbit 45,000 miles above the Earth, before setting it down in a permanent position about 23,000 miles above the Atlantic.
This part of the mission is particularly dangerous, Pike said. "Any (spacewalk) is risky in the sense that deep-sea diving is risky," he said. "You're in a very hostile environment, and there's not much between you and that hostile environment. You have all of the same pressure problems . . . plus you have space debris to worry about."
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-06/news/mn-1284_1_shuttle-flight/2
Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 2)
NASA's New Endeavour Faces Challenging, Potentially Dangerous Flight : Science: Shuttle voyage will include spacewalks and a satellite-rescue mission. The seven-person crew will also practice construction in orbit.
May 06, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
The mass and rotation of the satellite add to the potential problems, Pike said. "It's kind of like floating around a swimming pool with a bunch of elephants."
After they deploy the satellite, Endeavour's astronauts will twice more venture outside, five and six days into the mission, to practice techniques that will be used beginning in late 1995 to assemble space station Freedom in orbit.
Astronauts Kathryn G. Thornton, 39, and Thomas D. Akers, a 40-year-old Air Force lieutenant colonel, will team up for the second spacewalk, while Thuot and Hieb will handle the third.
During the spacewalks, the astronauts will build a pyramid intended to simulate a section of the 300-foot-long aluminum truss structure that will serve as the backbone of the space station. They will use the pyramid as a substitute for the orbiting station and practice the complex berthing maneuvers that will be required when the shuttle brings up additional pieces of the station for assembly in space.
The crew will also test five devices intended to assist future astronauts in working outside the space shuttle and the space station.
Engineers at McDonnell Douglas Space Systems are particularly interested in the ability of the astronauts "to be able to position that (pyramid) in the correct place, to be able to dock it and mate it to the other station component," said Bob Overmyer, McDonnell Douglas' director of operations for the space station project.
In addition, Overmyer said, engineers are "eagerly awaiting information to come back to us on the preference on the size and shape of the hand holds, for better gripping . . . so we can get on with our design."
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Somewhere in the Night (1946)
Michael Conroy: And - And there was a suitcase. He dropped it.
George Taylor: Who dropped the suitcase?
Michael Conroy: One of the men who ran away.
George Taylor: Larry Cravat?
Michael Conroy: I hid it under - under the dock... up in between the pilings. Nobody ever goes there. He'd have to pay me for it. I'd be rich. That was clever of me.
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
George Taylor: Then I found my wallet. There was a letter in it. No name. No signature. Just a letter. It - It told me about myself. It told me good.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 11/11/07 12:54 PM
I have no idea how long I have been awake so far today.
From 11/3/1954 ( Kevin Patrick Chilton ) To 11/11/2007 is 19366 days
19366 = 9683 + 9683
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 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 9683 days
From 12/12/1942 ( the fictional date setting 1946 film "Somewhere in the Night" ) To 12/20/1984 ( Stanley Milgram ) is 15349 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 11/11/2007 is 15349 days
From 5/30/1946 ( premiere US film "Somewhere in the Night" ) To 6/7/1988 ( Los Angeles Times "Senate Refuses to Invoke War Powers in Gulf" ) is 15349 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 11/11/2007 is 15349 days
From 6/20/1975 ( premiere US film "Jaws" ) To 11/11/2007 is 11832 days
11832 = 5916 + 5916
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 1/13/1982 ( the United States Park Police helicopter rescue of several Air Florida Flight 90 survivors from the Potomac River ) is 5916 days
From 6/12/1957 ( premiere US TV series episode "Navy Log"::"The Marines Have Landed" ) To 11/11/2007 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
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 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 9207 days
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 11/11/07 8:38 AM
It stands to reason that the zombies will be following along with this movie as well, regardless that it was from 5 years before I was born, but it probably shapes their strategy of hijacking my identity.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046816/quotes
Memorable quotes for
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Lt. Barney Greenwald: And now we come to the man who should have stood trial. The Caine's favorite author. The Shakespeare whose testimony nearly sunk us all. Tell 'em, Keefer.
Lt. Tom Keefer: No, you go ahead. You're telling it better.
Lt. Barney Greenwald: You ought to read his testimony. He never even HEARD of Captain Queeg!
Lt. Steve Maryk: Let's forget it, Barney.
Lt. Barney Greenwald: Queeg was sick, he couldn't help himself. But you, you're real healthy. Only you didn't have one-tenth the guts that he had.
Lt. Tom Keefer: Except I never fooled myself, Mr. Greenwald.
Lt. Barney Greenwald: I wanna drink a toast to you, Mr. Keefer. From the beginning you hated the Navy. And then you thought up this whole idea and you managed to keep your skirts nice and starched and clean, even in the court martial. Steve Maryk will always be remembered as a mutineer. But you, you'll publish your novel, you'll make a million bucks, you'll marry a big movie star, and for the rest of your life you'll live with your conscience, if you have any. Here's to the real author of the Caine mutiny. Here's to you, Mr. Keefer.
[Splashes wine in Keefer's face]
Lt. Barney Greenwald: If you wanna do anything about it, I'll be outside. I'm a lot drunker than you are - so it'll be a fair fight.
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 3:07 AM Saturday, September 27, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_P._Chilton
Kevin P. Chilton
General Kevin Patrick "Chilly" Chilton, USAF, (b November 3, 1954), is the current Commander, U.S. Strategic Command of which he assumed the duties on October 3, 2007.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/chilton.html
Kevin P. Chilton (General, USAF)
NASA Astronaut (former)
PERSONAL DATA: Born November 3, 1954
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stanley-Milgram
Encyclopædia Britannica
Stanley Milgram
AMERICAN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Stanley Milgram, (born August 15, 1933, New York City, New York, U.S.—died December 20, 1984, New York City), American social psychologist known for his controversial and groundbreaking experiments on obedience to authority. Milgram’s obedience experiments, in addition to other studies that he carried out during his career, generally are considered to have provided important insight into human social behaviour, particularly conformity and social pressure.
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=11161
IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 917-07
July 24, 2007
General Officer Announcements
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced today that the President has made the following nominations:
Air Force Gen. Kevin P. Chilton for appointment to the grade of general and assignment as commander, U.S. Strategic Command
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 11/11/07 8:11 AM
I caught a glimpse of that fire again on television the other day and I was reminded of that epxression about someone burning their bridges. That also reminded me how one day this sleeper cell zombie next to me waited until he heard me leaving my room as he conspicously timed himself to walk out of his room with his garbage. They are staging stuff to counteract what is happening to them.
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=noaafire08&date=20060708&query=burning+pier+fire
Local News: Saturday, July 08, 2006
Electrical short, not fireworks, caused fire on pier, chief says
By Sara Jean Green
Seattle Times staff reporter
An electrical short in a cord providing power to a 224-foot ship docked in Lake Union sparked Wednesday's spectacular pier fire that burned for hours, pumped plumes of acrid smoke into Seattle's Eastlake neighborhood and caused millions of dollars in damage, according to Seattle's fire chief.
The accidental fire at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Operations Center on Fairview Avenue East began about 1:20 a.m. Wednesday, about 2 ½ hours after the end of the annual Fourth of July fireworks display over Lake Union.
The timing of the fire prompted investigators to examine the possibility that fireworks ignited the pier's creosote-covered timbers, but they quickly ruled out pyrotechnics as a cause, Seattle Fire Chief Gregory Dean said Friday.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 11/11/07 7:16 AM
damnit I wish I could fall back asleep. I am exhausted.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 06/21/08 11:54 AM
In the hour or so after waking up, I was thinking again about possible conversations and events related to this experience or that occurred around the same time. I find myself thinking again that I was enjoying very much my day off at home with my wife Phoebe but I was called to rush to meet the helicopter as described in the text below so I could fly it to the river to rescue the survivors, although I did not explain to her why I had to leave. After I got back home to my wife Phoebe, I explained that President Reagan had personally invited us to spend the next weekend at Camp David with Nancy and him because he had called me in at such short notice. We got there the following weekend and we were talking with Ronald and Nancy and Ronald was explaining to Phoebe that he knows life in the military is difficult on marriages, especially new ones, and so he wanted to talk to us personally and thank us for giving up our day off together. He then explained that he had called me in to fly the helo that rescued the survivors. Phoebe had watched some of it on local news but did not think too much about whether that was me flying the helicopter. President Reagan went on to inform her that he had called me in because I was a military pilot for Special Operations, among my other activities which he did not elaborate on, such as U.S. Navy SEAL, and that it was good that she did not think too much about where I was at when something spectacular was on the news at the same time I was gone. He said something else about how he wanted me to fly that helicopter because I was the best helicopter pilot he knew of in the U.S. military but also because of the failed rescue attempt less than 2 years earlier in Iran. I then explained to my wife Phoebe that I had been one of the pilots on that operation and so she then understood why I was gone during that time. In the back of my mind, I knew that processes were in motion to bring her into the world of the CIA and these were the first steps. One of the important reasons at the beginning, before she established a career on her own merits, was so she would learn how to not give away and details about my activities that I did not want the enemy to know. My involvement in Operation Eagle Claw and that rescue flight on 1/13/1982 was the only activities I told her about. She might have learned of my other activities over time but I expected that could occur regardless of how much I tried to keep her from knowing.
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:45 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Finally
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:45 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Finally
Kerry Burgess wrote:
It'll take damn near a century to get this unscrewed right.
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:45 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Finally
the worst time is seeing the plane flying over and waiting..........
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/releaseinfo
IMDb
Jaws (1975)
Release Info
USA 20 June 1975
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from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 11/26/07 6:40 AM
Why is this familiar? Today isn't the first time I have thought of that event and I don't understand that.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21905008/displaymode/1168/rstry/21902983/rpage/1/
A U.S. Park Police helicopter pulls two people from the wreckage of the remains of the Air Florida jetliner after it fell into the Potomac River when it hit a bridge while taking-off from National Airport in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1982. (AP Photo/Charles Pereira, Pool)
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 11/26/07 7:16 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Florida_Flight_90
At approximately 4:20 p.m. EST, Eagle 1, a United States Park Police Bell 206L-1 Long Ranger helicopter, N2PP, based at the "Eagles Nest" at Anacostia Park in Washington, D.C. and manned by pilot Donald W. Usher and paramedic Melvin E. (Gene) Windsor arrived and began attempting to assist the survivors to shore. At great risk to themselves, the crew worked close to the river surface, at one time coming so close to the ice-clogged river that the helicopter's skids went beneath the surface of the water.
The helicopter crew lowered a line to survivors to tow them to shore. First to receive the line, Bert Hamilton, who was treading water about ten feet from the floating tail, took the single lifeline dangling beneath the chopper and passed it under his arms. The others watched while the helicopter carried him a hundred yards to the Virginia shore and returned. The helicopter pilot had to gently move the survivor across the ice, while avoiding the sides of the bridge and keeping an eye on the crowd.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 06/21/08 11:54 AM
From 2/6/1911 ( Ronald Wilson Reagan ) to 4/1/1984 ( premiere TV movie "Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac" ) is: 26718 days
26718 = 13359 + 13359
'1-33-59' ( my birth date US )
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087272/
Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac (1984) (TV)
Release Date: 1 April 1984 (USA)
Plot Summary: Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac is a true story based on the crash of Air Florida flight 90 on January 13, 1982 in Washington D.C.
Movie Scripts > The Caine Mutiny (1954)
The Caine Mutiny (1954) Movie Script
(from internet transcript)
What do you want?
He's here, sir.
Bring him in.
In here, Keith. Captain DeVriess, this is Ensign Keith.
May I see your orders, or are they a military secret?
I'm sorry, sir.
Princeton, 1941... Top five percent in midshipman's school... Pretty good background, pretty good record. Disappointed it's a minesweeper?
To be honest, yes, sir.
You saw yourself on a battleship?
I had hoped that...
I only hope that you're good enough for the Caine.
I'll try to be worthy of the job.
The Caine is a beaten-up tub. After 18 months of combat, it takes 24 hours a day to keep her together. I don't think you understand. You're in the junkyard navy. Steve, put in with Keefer in Communications. And have Tom show this Princeton Tiger and the other ensign the ship. And Keith... Don't take it so hard. War is hell.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 11/11/07 1:40 AM
I woke up feeling exhausted despite several hours of sleep. I wish I could fall asleep again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_P._Chilton
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-03/news/we-2090_1_kevin-chilton
Los Angeles Times
Family, Friends Always Knew That He Would Go Far : Space shuttle: Now Kevin Chilton's mom and dad are heading to Cape Canaveral to give the NASA pilot a big send-off for the maiden voyage of Endeavour.
May 03, 1992 BERNICE HIRABAYASHI TIMES STAFF WRITER
WESTCHESTER — Jim and Shirley Chilton of Westchester are off to Florida for a vacation. The Epcot Center and the golf, however, will be little more than distractions. The main event will be a visit to Cape Canaveral, where on Thursday their son, Kevin, is scheduled to blast off aboard the space shuttle Endeavour.
"We're just thrilled to be a part of it," Jim Chilton said. "This mission will contribute to science and mankind."
Kevin Chilton, 37, has been selected as the pilot of Endeavour for its maiden voyage. The new craft, named for the ship commanded by the 18th-Century British explorer Capt. James Cook, replaces the shuttle Challenger, which was destroyed in the 1986 explosion that killed six astronauts and teacher Christa McAuliffe.
On launch day, the Chiltons will be joined in the guest bleachers at Kennedy Space Center by dozens of relatives and some of their son's old teachers and friends from the Westchester neighborhood where he grew up.
Among the guests will be Sister Mary Anne Peterson of St. Bernard High School, the Catholic school in Playa del Rey that Kevin Chilton attended.
"It isn't very often that a high school (has a) graduate in the astronaut program," Peterson said.
The oldest of four children, Chilton grew up in a modest stucco home on Beland Avenue in Westchester, where his parents still live. A lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, he was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1987.
"He was always interested in airplanes," said Shirley Chilton, who quit her job as an American Airlines flight attendant after she got married. Her husband is a retired flight test engineer for McDonnell Douglas.
But it wasn't until a close family friend flew Chilton over the ocean in a small plane that he decided to become a pilot.
"He was very excited about it," his father recalled. "He couldn't believe that anybody could get paid for that."
Chilton played many sports, making up for his small size with plenty of determination, his parents said.
Wilna Twomey, whose sons played Little League baseball with the Chilton boys, said Chilton was not a gifted athlete, but added, "I have never met a boy that was so polite." Twomey and her son, Dan, plan to attend the launch.
"You hear nowadays about the breakdown of the family," Twomey said. "Well there's no breakdown at the Chiltons. They're a fine example of what families can do."
Chilton didn't stay short forever--he grew rapidly in high school and is now a six-footer. After high school, he attended the Air Force Academy, graduating in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in engineering sciences. He obtained a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University in 1977.
Schoolmate Curt Neff remembers Chilton as being just "one of the guys." He was a dependable friend and was shy around girls, he said. The best friends met in first grade and double-dated to their senior prom.
"He's a hero in the most positive sense of the word," said Neff, who now lives in Agoura. "But he's still the same old person. . . . He's a really nice guy."
Neff plans to watch the shuttle landing May 11 at Edwards Air Force Base with some old high school friends.
Chilton and the six other members of the Endeavour crew are spending the days before the mission at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, so he is unavailable for interviews, said Barbara Schwartz, a NASA spokeswoman.
The crew members are undergoing intensive last-minute training while adjusting to the sleeping schedule that will be used on the mission.
Chilton's wife, Catherine Dreyer, and parents will visit with him briefly three days before the launch, after they are given a clean bill of health by a doctor. Chilton's two children will not be allowed to see him.
"They don't want the astronauts catching something at the last minute, or worse, getting sick during the flight," Schwartz explained.
Chilton's special duties will include maneuvering the shuttle into position for three space walks and a rescue attempt for a $150-million communications satellite.
Jim and Shirley Chilton insist they are not worried that Endeavour might meet with an accident such as the one that destroyed its predecessor, Challenger.
"We've been around airplanes enough," Jim Chilton said. "NASA has exhausted every possibility for failure. . . . He was at more risk when he was a fighter pilot flying F-14s."
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- posted by Kerry Burgess 9:01 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 02 December 2018
