https://www.yahoo.com/news/jesse-watters-says-everyone-knows-142548063.html
Jesse Watters says ‘everyone knows’ that wearing a Chicago Bulls hat ‘means you’re MS-13’
Justin Baragona
Wed, April 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM PDT
Fox News star Jesse Watters backed the Trump administration’s claim that an illegally deported Maryland man is a dangerous terrorist, arguing on Tuesday night that Kilmar Abrego Garcia wearing a Chicago Bulls hat “means you’re MS-13” and you “hang around with high-ranking gangsters.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagons-unusual-online-hype-man-080101151.html
The Pentagon's unusual new online hype man really wants to sell the idea that the troops love Pete Hegseth
Kelsey Baker
Tue, April 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM PDT
The defense secretary said in the past that he liked engaging with the troops because "it's not that long ago that I was right there with them." He told reporters in February, "I probably connect more with those guys than I do with four-star generals."
Hegseth has faced mounting criticism since he became the secretary of defense
https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-scarborough-rips-jd-vance-170715484.html
Joe Scarborough rips JD Vance, questions whether veep learned about due process at ‘uppity school’
Alexandra Steigrad
Wed, April 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM PDT·3 min read
“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough slammed JD Vance for griping about due process for deported migrants and mocked the vice president for not learning the law at the “uppity school” where he got his degree.
That “uppity school” was Yale, from which Vance graduated in 2013.
The Ivy League school had rejected Scarborough.
From 7/9/1987 ( as me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, enlisted US Navy Fire Controlman Petty Officer 2nd Class (FC2)(E-5), following my graduation Naval Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia, I arrived at my second US Navy fleet assignment the USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, for permanent duty until 1990 - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) ) To 7/10/2008 ( ) is 7672 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/4/1986 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Date Completed - US Navy Fire Control Technician Class "A", Service School Command, Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois, - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) is 7672 days
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: 07/10/08 7:18 AM
There was a lot of the dream I cannot remember now after just waking up. Some details I do remember is that I seemed to be running through some complext obstacle course and there was an element about it that was not an exercise. At another point, I looked down at the front of my shirt and I was wearing military ribbons. I noted two ribbons of the same color that were in the lowest order of precedence and the notion occurred to me that those ribbons were the Medal of Honor but then it was as though the narrator told me those were Congressional Space Medal of Honor ribbons. I must have been thinking or dreaming more about that because I was pondering in my sleep that I might have been awarded 2 because I was commander of Apollo 8 and Apollo 13, and I thought much about that notion. But just as I was writing that last sentence, I thought to myself that I was awarded 2 of them because I was commander of Apollo 13 and STS-1. I am not certain what my thoughts mean about Apollo 8 and of thinking during my sleep that Frank Borman was my stand-in for that mission. Maybe he was and I was commander of all three of those flights. I don't remember consciously.
From 6/21/1955 ( Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of USA: 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 7/10/2008 ( ) is 19378 days
19378 = 9689 + 9689
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/13/1992 ( the Intelsat 6 successful rescue during US space shuttle Endeavour {its first flight} orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-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 9689 days
From 2/9/1958 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twentieth Century"::"D-Day Attack" ) To 7/10/2008 ( ) is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my US 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 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) To 7/10/2008 ( ) is 6931 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/24/1984 ( premiere USA TV series episode "3-2-1 Contact"::"Space: Living There" ) is 6931 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Space_Medal_of_Honor
https://www.nasa.gov/history/congressional-space-medal-of-honor/
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: 07/10/08 10:07 AM
I awoke startled earlier today from another dream that reminded me of this dream, in terms of feeling as though I was being tortured.
All I remember from the dream though was that my legs were trapped, or stuck, in something I was trying to crawl out of. I am not entirely certain what it was but it could have been part of that obstacle course, as I first described it, and I had forgotten about it until just now as I scanned across this note about the dream.
But I awoke with a terrible feeling from that dream. Not quite the sense of horror I had from the dream about how time had seemed to stop but this type of dream is close.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE:
I woke up about 2 a.m and felt compelled to immediately record this dream as best I could in my journal and I think I need to write about it here too:
God what a fucked up dream. Makes me think of being tortured. They put you into a machine and you have to wriggle your way out, centimeter by centimeter and it is beyond claustrophobic and they look for your worst fears and every day they have a new day to exploit your worst fears and this goddamned doesn't even come close - not even goddamned close - to describing how bad it is.
They don't torture you with primarily physical pain, such as beatings, etc. Physical torture is easy to resist. For a while at least. If you are good, you can resist it for a long time. Depends on how far they take it though. But the real bastards look to get in your head and really screw with you. And they have weeks and months and years to just screw with your head and screw with your head because they are lunatics and this doesn't come goddamned close to describing how bad it was.
That dream is something literal that happened to me. I have had several similar and recurring dreams like that. I can’t remember what it means because it was a horrible experience and I don’t want to remember. I think the dream represents a collection of experiences similar to what I think happened on the HMS Sheffield when it was hit by an anti-ship missile on 5/4/82. I think - based on my interpretations of symbolic “memories - that I was trapped in a compartment on the ship that was filling up with water. We escaped and then I went on to lead a team trying to put out the fire that would eventually claim the ship. The particular details I wrote above though could be about some kind of torture I endured as a POW years ago. I don’t know. It could also reflect something about how I escaped. I think I was crawling through the ceiling. I have dreams of being stuck in some highly claustrophobic surroundings and trying to break free.
I woke up this time thinking, partially visualizing, flying an F-14 Tomcat over the ocean somewhere. I can almost visualize another F-14 flying on my wing. Suddenly, the other F-14 exploded but I can't actually visualize that part. I think both people parachuted out of that aircraft. Apparently another missile hit my aircraft, shattered the canopy, and knocked me unconscious. Then I can almost see us traveling straight down towards the ocean surface and the Radar Intercept Officer in the seat behind me was yelling at me to wake up. I pulled up and engaged the two aircraft that fired at us. One was hit by my Sparrow but the other Sparrow missed. I went in and finished off the other one up close. I returned to the carrier and landed safely, and then passed out from a moderate concussion with blood running out from underneath my cracked helmet.
Or the RIO had been knocked out to from the explosion that tore off the canopy. What I was hearing was someone on the carrier yelling at me over the radio to pull up before I crashed into the ocean.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: 07/10/08 8:47 AM
The dream actually did not seem to be of me on an obstacle course but I was running through a lot of obstacles. For example, I was climbing through the structure of a building; along the rafters and so so, as I was climbing down through the building.
07/10/08 8:50 AM
That didn't seem to be the roof or attic of the building though and I am not certain where I was but I could visualize climbing along beams and so on as I tried to work my way down to where ever I was going. After that, I saw myself jumping off some high cliff or something and landing in the sand along a beach with a lot of vegatation and trees. The hill or cliff was I guess about 10 feet high. I think it was after that I was looking at the ribbons on my military uniform shirt.
From 9/29/1969 ( the USA Congressional Space Medal of Honor established ) To 6/29/1995 ( ) is 9404 days
9404 = 4702 + 4702
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/17/1978 ( premiere USA TV series "Battlestar Galactica"::series premiere "Saga of a Star World" ) is 4702 days
From 7/30/1918 ( during World War I, the 1st Marine Aviation Force arrived at Brest, France, becoming the first U.S. Marine Corps aviation force to serve in combat ) To 11/19/1977 ( USA 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment - Delta ) is 21662 days
21662 = 10831 + 10831
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) 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 commissioned-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 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my US 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 6/29/1995 ( ) is 1624 days
1624 = 812 + 812
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/23/1968 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of USA: Special Message to the Congress - "To Earn a Living: The Right of Every American. ) is 812 days
From 12/9/1992 ( official State of South Carolina documents: "the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, and released, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell and release unto Kerry Wayne Burgess" the house I owned in Country Club Estates in South Carolina ) To 6/29/1995 ( ) is 932 days
932 = 466 + 466
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/11/1967 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of USA: Statement by the President Concerning the Report "The Space Program in the Post-Apollo Period." ) is 466 days
From 5/31/1723 ( Johann Sebastian Bach officially installed to the post of cantor of the city of Leipzig ) To 1/24/1753 ( eventually the Princeton University, the Board of Trustees of the College of New Jersey vote to move the institution from Newark to Princeton ) is 10831 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/29/1995 ( ) is 10831 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate and possibly the date of the top-secret, doctorate-degree credential from Princeton University, I can theorize only ) To 6/29/1995 ( ) is 1566 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/15/1970 ( premiere US TV series episode "Bonanza"::"The Law and Billy Burgess" ) is 1566 days
From 7/3/1955 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Appointment with Adventure"::"Caribbean Cruise" ) To 6/29/1995 ( ) is 14606 days
14606 = 7303 + 7303
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/31/1985 ( Houston Chronicle reports that Soviet warships are being watched in Gulf of Mexico by the USS Taylor FFG-50, US Navy, my permanent {1984-1986} enlisted duty assignment ) is 7303 days
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-space-shuttle-docks-with-russian-space-station
History
On June 29, 1995, the American space shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir
Soviet warships to pay visit to Mexico port for first time
Washington Post
FRI 09/13/1985 HOUSTON CHRONICLE
WASHINGTON - Two Soviet warships are expected to pay a port visit to Mexico for the first time next month, U.S. officials said Thursday. The State Department expressed "concern" about the visit in a message to the Mexican government.
The planned visit is "significant," one official said, because until now Soviet naval deployments to the Caribbean Sea have included port calls only in Cuba.
"Obviously, we're concerned about the Soviet ability to move their ships in and out of the Caribbean," a State Department official said. "Mexico is an independent country and they can do what they want, but we have made our concerns known."
A Kashin guided missile destroyer and a Krivak guided missile frigate are expected to visit the eastern Mexican port of Veracruz Oct. 4, U.S. officials said. The vessels are now in the North Atlantic Ocean heading toward the Caribbean.
Soviet warships being watched in Gulf
Houston Chronicle News Services
TUE 11/05/1985 HOUSTON CHRONICLE
A U.S. Navy vessel is closely monitoring the movements of two Soviet warships that entered the Gulf of Mexico and came within 40 miles of the Texas coast, the U.S. Navy said.
The USS Taylor, American guidedmissile frigate, has been tracking the Soviet ships - a guided-missile destroyer and a guided-missile frigate - since they left Havana Thursday, said Lt. Cmdr. Craig Quigley, a Navy spokesman in Norfolk, Va.
The Taylor is always "within visual range" of the Soviet vessels that were last reported about 100 miles southwest of Tampa, Fla., and moving in a southeasterly direction, possibly toward Cuba, said Quigley.
However, there was no way to determine whether the Soviet warships were preparing to leave the Gulf and return to Havana. "They can always change rudder at a moment's notice," he said.
https://www.usswainwright.org/ship-store/hat-clothing/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer
Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
From Wikipedia [retrieved 04/18/2025]
The Arleigh Burke class of guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) is a United States Navy class of destroyer
The Arleigh Burke class has the longest production run of any U.S. Navy surface combatant. As of January 2025, seventy-four are active, with twenty-five more planned to enter service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation-class_frigate
Constellation-class frigate
From Wikipedia [retrieved 04/18/2025]
The Constellation class of multi-mission guided-missile frigates is a United States Navy class of frigate
On 30 April 2020, it was announced that Fincantieri Marinette Marine's FREMM design had won the contest and was awarded a $795-million contract for detailed design and construction of the lead ship, with options for nine additional ships.
Naming
United States ship naming conventions have historically named frigates after U.S. Navy and Marine Corps heroes or leaders. A report to Congress in February 2021 advised that the U.S. Navy had not stated that this naming scheme was a change in their rules for naming ships.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wainwright
USS Wainwright
From Wikipedia
Three ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Wainwright.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wainwright_(Medal_of_Honor)
Richard Wainwright (Medal of Honor)
From Wikipedia
Richard Wainwright Jr. (September 15, 1881 – March 28, 1944), was an officer in the United States Navy during World War I who received the Medal of Honor for actions during the 1914 Veracruz action.
Namesakes
Three ships have been named USS Wainwright for his father Richard, his grandfather and two other relatives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Veracruz_(1914)
Battle of Veracruz (1914)
From Wikipedia
The Battle of Veracruz was a military conflict between the United States and Mexico that took place in the Mexican port city of Veracruz between April 21 to November 23, 1914.
The incident occurred in the midst of poor diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States related to the ongoing Mexican Revolution. It began with an occupation in response to the Tampico Affair of April 9, 1914, where Mexican forces had detained nine American sailors, further worsened relations, and led to widespread anti-Americanism in Mexico.
Veracruz (city)
From Wikipedia
Veracruz, also known as Heroica Veracruz, is a major port city and municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 05:52 AM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 04/18/2025
