That's a new discovery for me this morning. When I was out there yesterday, reminiscing those 878 days, I had no idea that Red Skelton detail was going to present itself to me today just a few minutes before making this post.
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/06/battle-ready.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 10:11 AM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Sunday, June 16, 2019
Battle Ready
https://slate.com/culture/2009/06/1959-when-america-first-met-the-microchip.html
Slate
When America First Met the Microchip
At the time, few knew it would change the world.
JUNE 18, 2009
The following article is adapted from Chapter 10 of Fred Kaplan’s new book, 1959: The Year Everything Changed.To learn how he came to write about that year, see “ 1959: I swear, it really is the year everything changed.”
On March 24, 1959, at the Institute of Radio Engineers’ annual trade show in the New York Coliseum, Texas Instruments, one of the nation’s leading electronics firms, introduced a new device that would change the world as profoundly as any invention of the 20th century—the solid integrated circuit, or, as it came to be called, the microchip.
Without the chip, the commonplace conveniences of modern life—personal computers, the Internet, anything involving digital technology and displays, even something as simple as the handheld calculator—would be the stuff of science fiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_Expeditionary_Medal
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (AFEM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces
The medal shall be awarded only for operations for which no other U.S. campaign medal is approved, where a foreign armed opposition or imminent threat of hostile action was encountered.
http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/264.htm
The Pegasus [ Star Trek: The Next Generation television series episode ]
Original Airdate: 10 Jan, 1994
BLACKWELL [on monitor]: I'm postponing the quasar study for the moment. The Enterprise is to rendezvous with the starship Crazy Horse in sector one six zero seven immediately. You're authorised to exceed warp speed limitations for the duration of this assignment.
PICARD: I understand. What is our assignment?
BLACKWELL [on monitor]: I'd prefer not to discuss it over subspace channels. The Crazy Horse will be carrying someone from Starfleet Intelligence. He'll brief you when he arrives.
PICARD: Very well.
BLACKWELL [on monitor]: Captain Picard Day?
PICARD: Oh, er, yes. It's, er, it's for the children. I'm, er, ha, ha, I'm a role model.
BLACKWELL [on monitor]: I'm sure you are. Starfleet out.
RIKER: It's good to see you, sir.
PRESSMAN: Yeah, sure it is. You look like you're about to faint.
RIKER: No. It's just it's been a long time. Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Admiral Erik Pressman.
PICARD: Pressman? Yes, of course. You were Will's first commanding officer, on the Pegasus.
PRESSMAN: That's right. As a matter of fact, the Pegasus is the reason I'm here.
RIKER: Sir?
PRESSMAN: The Pegasus is still out there, Will. And the Romulans found her.
PRESSMAN: As you know, the starship Pegasus was lost in this sector some twelve years ago along with most of its crew. I was the captain and Commander Riker here was my helmsman.
PICARD: I remember hearing about it. The ship was destroyed by a warp core breach as I recall.
RIKER: The Captain and I, along with seven others managed to get to the escape pod before the breach became critical.
PRESSMAN: From space, we saw what appeared to be a matter-antimatter explosion which vaporised the ship.
RIKER: No wreckage was found, so Starfleet officially declared the ship destroyed.
PRESSMAN: However, all that changed three days ago. Starfleet Intelligence has an operative in Romulan High Command. He sent us a message that a Romulan warbird had located a piece of debris in the Devolin system which was positively identified as being from the Pegasus. The warbird was then ordered to locate the rest of the ship, if possible, and retrieve it.
LAFORGE: What would the Romulans want with pieces of a twelve year old starship?
PRESSMAN: The Pegasus was a prototype. Experimental engine, new weapon systems. In fact, some of our designs were used in constructing the Enterprise. There are a lot of things on board the Romulans would love to get their hands on.
RIKER: We went through some serious times. Do you really think we're going to find the Pegasus again?
PRESSMAN: I wouldn't have come all the way out here if I didn't.
RIKER: What about the experiment? Do you think we're going to find that too?
PRESSMAN: Maybe.
RIKER: I think a lot about what happened, especially on that last day.
PRESSMAN: So do I. It's not the kind of thing you just forget.
PICARD: As a matter of fact, I never met Will until he reported on board at Farpoint Station.
PRESSMAN: You chose your first officer without ever meeting him?
PICARD: I was looking through the records of about fifty candidates and Will's was much like all the others, filled with lots of dry statistics and glowing letters of recommendation that tell you nothing.
RIKER: Is there something else, sir?
PICARD: Yes, there is. (reading) Judge Advocate General's Report. Stardate 36764. Subject, inquiry into mutiny aboard USS Pegasus. Based on testimony from Captain Pressman and other surviving officers, the Judge Advocate believes there is sufficient evidence to conclude that certain members of the crew did mutiny against the captain just prior to the destruction of the Pegasus. Mutiny on a Federation starship? That's shocking. It's unthinkable. And yet you've never mentioned it.
RIKER: No, sir.
PICARD: You know, it wasn't easy to get this record. I had to pull in quite a few favours at Starfleet just to get a look at it. It seems that it was classified by Starfleet Intelligence. So, not only was the Pegasus carrying sensitive equipment which must be allowed to fall into Romulan hands, not only was there a mysterious explosion which seemed to destroy the ship but didn't, but it seems there was a mutiny on board. Now, I've read the official report of the inquiry on that mutiny, but I want to know your version of what happened.
RIKER: I was on the Bridge. The ship was at yellow alert. We were running some tests on the engines. Something went wrong. There was an explosion in Engineering. Heavy casualties. In the midst of this crisis, the First Officer, the Chief of Engineering and most of Bridge crew mutinied against Captain Pressman.
PICARD: Why?
RIKER: They thought he was jeopardising the ship.
PICARD: And you?
RIKER: I was seven months out of the Academy, my head still ringing with words like duty and honour. When they turned on him, I thought they were a bunch of self-serving, disloyal officers, so I grabbed a phaser and defended my captain. Two or three others joined us, but it was clear by then that the mutineers had most of the crew behind them. We felt a need to get off the ship. There was a running firefight all the way to the escape pod. About five minutes after we left the ship there was an explosion.
PICARD: The Judge Advocate also believes that the surviving officers are deliberately withholding vital information from this inquiry. Further investigation is recommended. Will, there was no further investigation. This report was classified and then it was quietly buried. Why?
RIKER: Sir, may I suggest you take this up with Admiral
PICARD: I'm taking this up with you, Will! The Judge Advocate thought you were participating in a conspiracy to cover up the truth. Now, what the hell is going on here, Will? Why did that mutiny happen? Why is Pressman so determined to find your ship twelve years later?
RIKER: I've said all I can. I am under direct orders from Admiral Pressman not to discuss this, sir.
PICARD: Very well. He's an admiral, I'm a captain. I cannot force you to disobey his orders. Therefore I will have to remain in the dark on this mission. And I will just have to trust that you will not let Pressman put this ship at unnecessary risk. And if I find that that trust has been misplaced, then I will have to re-evaluate the command structure of this ship. Dismissed.
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
US Marine Corps staff sergeant: 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?
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
Hotel Martin clerk: Did you say George Taylor?
George Taylor: Yes.
Hotel Martin clerk: Afraid you have the wrong hotel, son. There's no George Taylor in our books.
George Taylor: Well, maybe it was November or February.
Hotel Martin clerk: This runs through from July to July, and there's no George Taylor. I'm sorry, son. What's the matter? Aren't you feeling all right?
George Taylor: Yeah. I... I guess I just made a mistake.
Hotel Martin clerk: I thought, uh -Well, I see you got the Purple Heart, and I thought that maybe -
George Taylor: No, no. It's okay. I don't suppose you've got a vacancy, have you?
Hotel Martin clerk: We're all filled. Always one or two.
George Taylor: Thank you.
Hotel Martin clerk: Our, uh - Our bellboys are all out of the army... but they still ain't convinced they won't get jobs as bank presidents. It's, uh, 618, straight ahead as you get off the elevator.
George Taylor: Thank you.
Hotel Martin clerk: And, uh, I'm sorry about not finding your friend.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution
October Revolution
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The October Revolution, officially known in Soviet historiography as the Great October Socialist Revolution and commonly referred to as the October Uprising, the October Coup, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Bolshevik Coup or the Red October, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place through an armed insurrection in Petrograd on 7 November 1917.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin%27s_First_and_Second_Government
Lenin's First and Second Government
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following the October Revolution, Vladimir Lenin became the head of the new government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which was known officially as the Council of People's Commissars.
By September 1917, the councils (soviets) of workers, peasants and soldiers acquired considerable political and military power. The leaders of the Petrograd Soviet conspired to overthrow the Russian Provisional Government; the uprising started on 7 November 1917, when Red Guards units captured the Winter Palace. On the next day, 8 November 1917, the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets recognized the success of the uprising, and formally established the new government that reflected the capture of the soviets by the Bolsheviks.
http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/264.htm
The Pegasus [ Star Trek: The Next Generation television series episode ]
Original Airdate: 10 Jan, 1994
BLACKWELL [on monitor]: Captain, Starfleet places the highest priority on the success of this mission. Your request for a delay is denied.
PICARD: Margaret, something's very wrong here. Do you know what's going on?
BLACKWELL [on monitor]: I know that the Chief of Starfleet Intelligence herself is watching this one, Jean-Luc. So you'd be well advised to follow Pressman's orders and leave it at that. Starfleet out.
From 11/8/1917 ( the October Revolution in Russia ) To 12/20/1994 ( in non-aviator related duties on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 28166 days
28166 = 14083 + 14083
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 5/24/2004 is 14083 days
From 9/27/1955 ( premiere US TV series "Casablanca" ) To 5/24/2004 is 17772 days
17772 = 8886 + 8886
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 3/2/1990 ( as Kerry Burgess my the official United States Navy documents includes: departing overseas from USS Wainwright CG 28 anchored in Monaco I returned to the continental United States and to Charleston South Carolina Naval Base for processing and honorable discharge from active duty United States Navy ) is 8886 days
From 9/27/1955 ( premiere US TV series "Casablanca" ) To 5/24/2004 is 17772 days
17772 = 8886 + 8886
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 3/2/1990 ( premiere US film "The Hunt for Red October" ) is 8886 days
From 10/23/1988 ( premiere US TV series "Mission: Impossible" ) To 5/24/2004 is 5692 days
5692 = 2846 + 2846
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 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) is 2846 days
From 8/24/1962 ( John Kennedy - Executive Order 11046 - Authorizing Award of the Bronze Star Medal ) To 3/15/2001 ( George Bush - Statement by the Press Secretary: Appointment of the Counterintelligence Executive ) is 14083 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 5/24/2004 is 14083 days
From 6/21/1955 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Executive Order 10616 - Suspension of Certain Provisions of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, as Amended, Which Relates to Officers of the Marine Corps of the Grade of Brigadier General ) To 1/10/1994 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek: The Next Generation"::"The Pegasus" ) is 14083 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 5/24/2004 is 14083 days
From 6/27/1994 ( the US NASA Stargazer Pegasus rocket failure ) To 5/24/2004 is 3619 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 9/30/1975 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy test pilot was the primary test pilot for the first flight of the Hughes and McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Apache attack helicopter and for the United States Army AH-64 Apache test program ) is 3619 days
From 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 ) To 5/24/2004 is 4876 days
4876 = 2438 + 2438
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 7/6/1972 ( George W. Bush's last flight physical - George W. Bush was never a pilot qualified and was never capable of controlled flight in any jet aircraft of any branch of the United States of America military - expired without renewal ) is 2438 days
From 1/3/1969 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Whom Gods Destroy" ) To 5/24/2004 is 12925 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 3/23/2001 ( the Mir space station is deorbited and destroyed ) is 12925 days
From 6/12/1946 ( premiere US film "Somewhere in the Night" ) To 5/24/2004 is 21166 days
21166 = 10583 + 10583
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 10/24/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) is 10583 days
From 4/3/1956 ( premiere US film "The Man Who Never Was" ) To 10/24/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) is 14083 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 5/24/2004 is 14083 days
From 8/24/1952 ( premiere US TV series "The Doctor" ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) is 14083 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 5/24/2004 is 14083 days
From 4/29/1958 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Red Skelton Show"::"Appleby's Midnight Ride" ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 14083 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 5/24/2004 is 14083 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 5/24/2004 is 2744 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 5/8/1973 ( Alexander Archer Vandegrift dead ) is 2744 days
From 3/24/1959 ( Texas Instruments demonstrates the first integrated circuit ) To 5/24/2004 is 16498 days
16498 = 8249 + 8249
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 6/3/1988 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: Section 12. Campaign/Service and Other Awards - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal 88 Feb 13 - 88 Jun 03 ) is 8249 days
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Battle_Ready_(2004_book)
Sourcewatch
Battle Ready (2004 book)
Battle Ready (ISBN 0399151761) by retired Marine General Anthony Zinni and spy novelist Tom Clancy was released on May 24, 2004, by Putnam Publishing Group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca
Casablanca
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Etymology
It derives from the Portuguese word combination meaning "White House"
http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/264.htm
The Pegasus [ Star Trek: The Next Generation television series episode ]
Original Airdate: 10 Jan, 1994
PICARD: Admiral, I would like to send down a complete away team
PRESSMAN: There's some very sensitive equipment over there. I don't want anyone else near it.
PICARD: Yes, sir.
[Pegasus Engineering]
(one of the bulkheads is rock and there are bodies around)
PRESSMAN: This room was open to space for twelve years.
RIKER: Vacuum preserved everything.
(Pressman switches on the lights)
RIKER: I wonder how many of the crew are buried back there.
PRESSMAN: We're not here for a memorial service. (he opens a panel) It's still intact. What's the matter, Will? Don't you understand? We've found it.
RIKER: I know. I kept hoping it wouldn't be here. That it had been destroyed or that it was buried in that rock back there.
PRESSMAN: What the hell is that supposed to mean?
RIKER: It means that I can't put this off any longer. Right up until this moment I had the luxury of time, but now I've got to make a choice. And, Admiral, I'm afraid my choice is this. I can't let you start these experiments again. It was wrong twelve years ago, and it is wrong today.
PRESSMAN: You had better reconsider that position, Commander. We have a mission to accomplish and you're going to carry it out.
RIKER: That's all you care about, starting these damn experiments again. Look around. This room is filled with dead bodies. These people died because of this thing.
PRESSMAN: Keep your self-righteous comments to yourself. I knew most of these people a lot longer than you did. Yes, it was tragic, but it was their fault.
RIKER: You don't know that. Neither of us knows what happened after we left.
PRESSMAN: Well, it's not hard to guess. They tried to shut down an experiment they didn't understand. Something went wrong and it killed them.
RIKER: No. We killed them.
PRESSMAN: Now that doesn't sound like the same man who grabbed a phaser and defended his captain twelve years ago.
RIKER: I've had twelve years to think about it, and if I had it to do over again I would have grabbed the phaser and pointed it at you instead of them.
PRESSMAN: So on reflection you'd rather be a traitor than a hero.
RIKER: I wasn't a hero and neither were you. What you did was wrong and I was wrong to support you, but I was just too young and too stupid to realise it. You were the captain. I was the ensign. I was just following orders.
PRESSMAN: And if you hadn't you'd be dead right now along with all the rest of them. Dead because you listened to a bunch of mutinous cowards who were too blinded by fear to see what I was trying to do.
RIKER: They were brave enough to risk their lives to stop you from violating a treaty the Federation signed in good faith.
PRESSMAN: That treaty has bound our hands and given the Romulans a tactical advantage for the last sixty years. I was simply trying to level the playing field.
RIKER: And now you want to try it again? How many people will die this time?
http://www.boeing.com/history/products/ah-64-apache.page
Boeing
AH-64 APACHE ATTACK HELICOPTER
Technical Specifications
AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter
First flight Sept. 30, 1975
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/script_a.html
FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE Show #1407T
Air Date: January 28, 1997
NARRATOR: Before the planes could attack, Task Force Normandy would fire the first shots of the war. Its Apache gunships had been training for months. Their mission was vital: to destroy at all costs two Iraqi radar sites that would otherwise give Baghdad an early warning of what was to come.
Battle Ready (Commander Series Book 4) (Kindle Edition) by Tom Clancy, Tony Zinni
Amazon Prime Kindle Book preview
Chapter 1, page 1, first lines:
The Tomahawks were spinning up in their tubes.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Flying+the+first+mission+of+d…
THE FREE LIBRARY
The Free Library > Science and Technology > Military and naval science > Air Power History > March 22, 2012
Suddenly, the lights began to go off. One of the pilots mused, "I think they know we are here." Thirty seconds prior, the Apache crews turned on their ranging lasers. At exactly 2:37:50 AM, White Team Apache pilot 2d Lt. Tom Drew keyed his radio and broadcast, "Party in ten." Precisely ten seconds later all crews began firing their Hellfire missiles. Twenty seconds later, the deadly weapons began to detonate against the structures. The generators were hit first, then the command bunkers, and finally, the radar dishes themselves. Several Iraqi enemy soldiers died in the barrage.
Once all the Hellfires had been expended, the helicopters flew toward the sites and ripple-fired their rockets. Two thousand meters from the sites, they opened up with their 30 mm chain guns and riddled what remained of the compounds with every bullet they had. Four minutes after it started, it was over. The Apaches had expended twenty-seven Hellfire missiles, 100 Hydra-70 rockets, and 4,000 rounds of 30 mm cannon fire.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-02-15-bush-record_x.htm
USA TODAY
Posted 2/15/2004 11:03 PM Updated 2/16/2004 9:37 AM
Why Bush stopped flying remains a mystery
By Dave Moniz and Jim Drinkard, USA TODAY
Failed to retake physical
Then something happened.
In the spring of 1972, Bush's records show he stopped showing up for drills at his unit in Texas at about the time he requested a transfer to an Alabama Air National Guard unit. Military records indicate he requested the transfer so he could work for the political campaign of Winton "Red" Blount, a Republican candidate for the Senate and a friend of Bush's father.
Bush's last flight physical, taken in 1971, expired on July 6, 1972. He did not renew it, as required of all military pilots, which is noted in his National Guard records. He was suspended from flying in August for missing the exam.
http://www.njarmyguard.com/cprocessing/
NEW JERSEY ARMY NATIONAL GUARD
Processing Applicants
Chapter 5
Processing Applicants
l. Test scores will be invalidated for any individual found to be a “ringer” for an applicant.
From 8/17/1960 ( the Soviet Union trial of the United States Central Intelligence Agency pilot Gary Powers begins in Moscow Russia Soviet Union ) To 3/23/2001 is 14828 days
14828 = 7414 + 7414
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/19/1986 ( the Soviet Union launches the Mir space station into orbit of the planet Earth ) is 7414 days
From 2/8/1960 ( my biological paternal grandmother Queen Elizabeth announced that her future descendants would bear her husband's name as well as her own creating the surname Mountbatten-Windsor ) 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 12925 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/23/2001 is 12925 days
Other post by me on this topic: https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/06/american-made.html
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/384746/Mir
Encyclopædia Britannica
Mir
Mir, Soviet/Russian modular space station, the core module (base block) of which was launched into Earth orbit by the U.S.S.R. in 1986.
On March 23, 2001, the abandoned Mir made a controlled reentry, with the surviving pieces falling into the Pacific Ocean.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/71.htm
Whom Gods Destroy [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: 5718.3
Original Airdate: 3 Jan, 1969
Captain KIRK: Captain Garth
GARTH: Lord Garth!
KIRK: No, sir. Captain Garth, Starship fleet Captain. That's an honourable title.
GARTH: And I was the greatest of them all, wasn't I?
KIRK: Yes, you were.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-red-skelton-show/george-applebys-midnight-ride-263051/
tv.com
The Red Skelton Show Season 7 Episode 29
George Appleby's Midnight Ride
Episode Summary
George Appleby takes a job as a high school history teacher.
AIRED: 4/29/58
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1310954/
IMDb
The Red Skelton Hour (1951–2016)
Appleby's Midnight Ride
Episode aired 29 April 1958
Season 7 Episode 29
Release Date: 29 April 1958 (USA)
http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/264.htm
The Pegasus [ Star Trek: The Next Generation television series episode ]
Original Airdate: 10 Jan, 1994
RIKER: Captain, I have a suggestion. There's a piece of equipment in Admiral Pressman's quarters under guard which might get us out of here. It's a prototype for a Federation cloaking device.
PRESSMAN: You just ended your career, Will.
PICARD: That's what it's all about. A cloaking device. In the Treaty of Algeron the Federation specifically agreed not to develop cloaking technology.
PRESSMAN: And that treaty is the biggest mistake we ever made. It's kept us from exploiting a vital area of defence.
PICARD: That treaty has kept us in peace for sixty years, and as a Starfleet officer, you're supposed to uphold it.
PRESSMAN: Now that's enough. I'm taking command of this vessel. Mister Worf, escort the Captain to his quarters.
(Worf folds his arms)
RIKER: I don't think anyone's going to come to your defence this time.
PICARD: How do we use the cloak to escape from the asteroid?
RIKER: It's more than just a cloak. It changes the structure of matter. In theory, a ship using this device could pass through normal matter.
PICARD: I see why you were so eager to find it.
PRESSMAN: Can't you see the potential here? The phasing cloak could be the greatest breakthrough in weapons research in the last fifty years.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 03:33 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 17 June 2019
