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From 5/30/1911 ( biographical - Milton Bradley dead ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 29960 days
29960 = 14980 + 14980
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/7/2006 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, from my official United States of America Veterans Affairs psychiatric-hospital documents, the final appointment with the psychiatrist ) is 14980 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Dumas
Pierre Dumas
From Wikipedia [retrieved by me, 05/17/2025]
Pierre Dumas (died Paris, 29 February 2000) was a French doctor who pioneered drug tests in the Olympic Games and cycling. He was doctor of the Tour de France from 1952 to 1969 and head of drug-testing at race until 1977.
Dumas came to the 1952 Tour de France when the original doctor pulled out. Dumas was a judoka rather than a cyclist and had none of the preconceptions established in cycling. He discovered a world in which
"there were soigneurs, fakirs, who came from the six-days. Their value was in the contents of their case. Riders took anything they were given, even bee stings and toad extract."
He spoke of
"medicine from the heart of Africa... healers laying on hands or giving out irradiating balms, feet plunged into unbelievable mixtures which could lead to eczema, so-called magnetised diets and everything else you could imagine. In 1953 and 1954 (Tours de France) it was all magic, medicine and sorcery. After that, they started reading Vidal [the French medicine directory]."
Mallejac insisted for the rest of his life that he had been given a drugged bottle from a soigneur, whom he didn't name, and said that while his other belongings had reached the hospital intact, the bottle had been emptied and couldn't be analysed. That evening Dumas said:
"I'm prepared to call for a charge of attempted murder."
The French team manager, Marcel Bidot, was cited to an inquiry by the Council of Europe as saying:
"Three-quarters of riders were doped. I am well placed to know that since I visited their rooms each evening during the Tour. I always left frightened after these visits."
Chicago Tribune
MAKING SENSE OF A MADE-FOR-TV WAR
Robert D. Deutsch and Yonah Alexander
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
June 15, 1991
Since the end of the gulf war, a formal cease-fire has been signed, and we have been served up no less than three prime-time ''welcome home'' shows. This Memorial Day we saw many ceremonies honoring our troops who served in the gulf. Within the last week victory celebration took place in Washington, D.C., and New York. This is all as it should be.
When the parades are completed and all our troops are home safely, from the vantage point of looking back, we need to examine just how the war was presented on TV. Americans define the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm as the ''100-hour war.'' It is worthwhile to recall how fitting it was that one of the last acts we saw of Operation Desert Storm on TV was a handful of Iraqi soldiers surrendering to network correspondents wielding only camera and satellite dish.
Vietnam might have been the first ''living room'' war, but despite censorship and pool reporters, the gulf conflict was surely a made-for-TV war.
"Brother's Little Helper" [ The Simpsons ]
Original Airdate on FOX: 3-Oct-1999
Pharm. 2: You said he was concerned about satellites?
Marge: And their beams.
Pharm. 2: Any other strange behavior?
Homer: He quit blinking. He says that's when they kill you.
From 1/17/1991 ( ) To 5/15/2025 ( ) is 12537 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/29/2000 ( ) is 12537 days
From 6/13/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Veterans Affairs psychiatric-hospital in Seattle documents includes: Other Medications - Risperdal started 6/13/05 ) To 5/15/2025 ( ) is 7276 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/4/1985 ( premiere USA film "Commando" ) is 7276 days
From 12/15/1944 ( premiere USA film "House of Frankenstein" ) To 6/27/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, the amateur-competitor number 878, I successfully completed the Ironman Coeur d'Alene triathlon ) is 21744 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/15/2025 ( ) is 21744 days
From 10/3/1999 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Brother's Little Helper" ) To 5/15/2025 ( ) is 9356 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/15/1991 ( ) is 9356 days
From 10/22/1980 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Profs win high marks from undergraduates ) To 5/15/2025 ( ) is 16276 days
16276 = 8138 + 8138
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/13/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), with my personal participation and commendation my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal 88Feb13 88Jun03, 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, Operation Earnest Will, Middle East Force, including Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8138 days
From 5/14/1992 ( the Intelsat 6 successful rescue during US space shuttle Endeavour {first flight} orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 ) To 5/15/2025 ( ) is 12054 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/3/1998 ( ) is 12054 days
From 4/21/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Qualified M-14 Rifle, USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, primary-duty: 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), while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) To 5/15/2025 ( ) is 13538 days
13538 = 6769 + 6769
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/15/1984 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as a US Navy enlisted sailor ) is 6769 days
From 4/21/1988 ( see above ) To 5/15/2025 ( ) is 13538 days
13538 = 6769 + 6769
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/15/1984 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA federal government 1981-1989: Proclamation 5194 - Missing Children Day, 1984 ) is 6769 days
From 10/6/1977 ( first flight Soviet Union MiG-29 Fulcrum ) To 5/15/2025 ( ) is 17388 days
17388 = 8694 + 8694
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/22/1989 ( ) is 8694 days
https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-apache-crews-fired-first-172749584.html
Army Apache crews who fired ‘first shots of Desert Storm’ receive Distinguished Flying Crosses
Patty Nieberg
Fri, May 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM PDT
Thirty-four years after the crews of eight Army Apache helicopters fired the first shots of Operation Desert Storm, the helicopter crews were awarded Distinguished Flying Crosses for the mission, the final step in three-decade effort by their former commander to see the crews recognized.
Fifteen pilots and weapons operators were presented the awards Thursday by Army Maj. Gen. Clair Gill, the commander of the Army Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Novosel, Alabama, at an annual convention for Army flyers in Nashville, Tennessee, according to a Defense Department release.
Known as Task Force Normandy, eight Army Apache helicopters launched from a Saudi air base toward the Iraq border in the early morning hours of Jan. 17, 1991 carrying Hellfire missiles. Led by four Air Force Pave Low helicopters that used terrain-following radar systems to keep the helicopters hidden, the Apache crews flew 90 miles into Iraqi territory to take out two of the country’s early warning radar sites, opening the skies to a massive U.S.-led bombing campaign that quickly overwhelmed the Iraqi army.
The crews originally received Air Medals with “V device” for the mission, denoting valor for flying an aerial combat mission. But behind-the-scenes efforts by the battalion commander who led the mission, retired Gen. Richard “Dick” Cody, paved the way for their award upgrades. Cody commanded the 1st Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, which the Apaches were assigned to.
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Ron Rodriguez stands proudly after being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross at the 2025 AAAA Summit in Nashville, Tenn. on May 15, recognizing his valor during Operation Desert Storm, for his actions on Jan. 17, 1991, as part of Task Force Normandy.
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Ron Rodriguez stands after being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on May 15 for his role in a combat mission in the early hours before Operation Desert Storm officially began. Army photo by Leslie Herlick.
“The eight crews of Task Force Normandy fired the first shots of Desert Storm leading to the destruction of the Iraqi radar and ground control sites and officially kickstarting the allied air campaign. Their outstanding dedication to mission accomplishment is in keeping with the finest traditions of the military, and reflects great credit upon themselves, the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), and the United States Army,” the award citation states.
The crews flew over the desert skies 20 minutes before H-hour, the official planned commencement for the U.S. military’s early air campaign of Operation Desert Storm.
As the helicopters drew close to the targets, totally undetected, one of the pilots gave a 10-second warning:
“Party in ten,” called 1st Lt. Tom Drew, according to a 1991 account in Air Force Magazine.
At around 2:30 a.m., the Apaches fired 27 Hellfire missiles, hundreds of rockets and thousands of 30-mm ammunition to knock out the Iraqi radars.
Starting the war
As the U.S. military contemplated how it would evict the Iraqi army from Kuwait, it focused on how U.S. bombers could reach Baghdad and other key sites inside Iraq. Planners knew the eyes and ears of the Iraqi air defense had electronic warfare radars that showed information like enemy aircraft size, direction of attack, and speed axis. Their defense system also included medium- and long-range surface-to-air missiles and short-range anti-aircraft artillery pieces, according to a large-scale combat operation analysis by Col. Paul E. Berg and Kenneth E. Tilley, both Army colonels.
“We knew that if we didn’t destroy the sites on time, the early warning sites would notify Baghdad and Saddam would know we were coming,” retired Air Force Col. Michael Kingsley, a lead 20th Special Operations Squadron pilot who flew one of the Pave Lows said at an event back in 2006.
The original attack plan named “Instant Thunder,” called for dropping Army special forces into the desert to destroy the radar sites on the ground. But planners instead opted for a mission that included MH-53J Pave Lows, embedded with GPS, as the navigators while Apache crews carried the weapons and soldiers for the attack.
The crews were named Task Force Normandy after the site of the 101st Airborne Division’s famous airborne operation on D-Day during World War II. Their 15-hour combat operation gave Navy and Air Force bombers a 20-mile-wide corridor for the ensuing air campaign at the start of Desert Storm.
“This is one of those truly significant moments for us, both as an Army and as an Aviation branch,” Gill said at the ceremony. “We need to use these example setters as people we should recognize and honor and then replicate the commitment that they made on that night of January 17, 1991.”
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1998/nov98/mpprodpr.mspx
Microsoft unveiled the newest member of the Microsoft Office family of applications, Microsoft MapPoint 2000 business mapping software.
REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 3, 1998 — Microsoft Corp. today unveiled the newest member of the Microsoft® Office family of applications, Microsoft MapPoint ™ 2000 business mapping software.
Gulf War air campaign
From Wikipedia
Task Force Normandy (eight US Army AH-64 Apache helicopters led by four US Air Force MH-53 Pave Low helicopters)
"Brother's Little Helper" The Simpsons
Original Airdate on FOX: 3-Oct-1999
Marge: .. so Bart?
Bart: Question.
Marge: How about getting out of the tank, eh? Maybe stopping your rampage, eh?
Bart: Thanks for coming out here mom.
Marge: No, thank you for stopping the tank!
Bart: It ran out of gas!
Mikoyan MiG-29
From Wikipedia
The Mikoyan MiG-29 (NATO reporting name: Fulcrum) is a twin-engine fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. Developed by the Mikoyan design bureau as an air superiority fighter during the 1970s, the MiG-29, along with the larger Sukhoi Su-27, was developed to counter U.S. fighters such as the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Early MiG-29s were very agile aircraft, capable of rivaling the performance of contemporary F-18 and F-16 aircraft.
First flight 6 October 1977
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-22/news/mn-945_1_voyager-project
Los Angeles Times
For Voyager, It's Too Late to Turn Back Now
August 22, 1989 LEE DYE Times Science Writer
The Voyager spacecraft fired its thrusters and changed course for the last time Monday morning, tossing its fate to the interstellar winds.
There is virtually nothing that can be done now if danger should arise on the last leg of its journey to Neptune.
"This was the last maneuver,"
"Brother's Little Helper" The Simpsons
Original Airdate on FOX: 3-Oct-1999
[a helicopter lands nearby, and a man steps out]
McGwire: Hi, folks! I'm Mark McGwire.
Computer: Big Mac himself. Who'd have thunk it?
McGwire: Young Bart here is right. We are spying on you, pretty much around the clock.
Bart: But why, Mr. McGwire?
McGwire: Do you want to know the terrifying truth, or do you want to see me sock a few dingers?
Crowd: Dingers! Dingers! [McGwire hits the long ball] Oooh!
McGwire: [takes printout] Yoink!
"Brother's Little Helper" [ The Simpsons ]
Original Airdate on FOX: 3-Oct-1999
(from internet transcript)
Marge: I think we should take him off the drug.
Pharm. 1: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! You can't just go off Focusyn.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-central-intelligence-agency-employees
The American Presidency Project
Jimmy Carter
39th President of the United States: 1977 ‐ 1981
Remarks to Central Intelligence Agency Employees
August 16, 1978
Admiral Turner and distinguished leaders, members of the Central Intelligence Agency:
It is a pleasure for me to be back out here to meet with you and to express again my feelings about our Nation and about what you do to protect it and to make it even greater than it already is.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 12:59 PM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 05/17/2025
