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Currently lost some where on hwy 50 between Tahoe and Reno.
Oh and Byron, most of us in CVW-3 think that the Jax, FL TV crews are total scumming sucking parasites and vultures. Trumped Dusty and USN service reps to Dusty 1's house. Beat the Chaplain and HSLANTWING rep by about 10 minutes.
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The powers to be added a radar emitter that simulated a typical Early warning radar belonging to PACT naval units.
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Just remember that all the haz-mat and explosive/burnable stuff whas removed from the La Salle before we started to drop bombs. So it probably would of been quicker if there was more explosions, plus a number of the hits were well above the water line. What is that line about needing to let water in not air to sink a ship?
The CAG operations officer got a good dig in with the F-18 bubbas on the air plan the next day, he was an ex-A-6 B/N. On one side of the air plan he put a reduced size of the F-18 poster will all the ordance beside it and a big fat zero. He then put a picture of a Tico firing it 5in mount with a 1 by it. Then at the bottom written in was the line about how long it would of taken if one of these was still onboard and put a copy of the Intruder patch at the end of the statement.
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CVW-3 and Harry S. Truman Strike Group sank the USS La Salle on 11APR07 off the coast of US Eastern Seaboard. Approximate location was about 150nm due east of MCAS Cherry Point. Before she rolled over and sank she took the following hits.
3 AGM-84E SLAM-ER
4 AGM-84D Harpoon
4 GBU-16 (Mk83) Paveway II
6 AGM-65E Maverick (Laser Guided)
6 AGM-114 Hellfire
4 Mk82 Iron Bombs
3 AGM-88 HARMS
2 RGM-84D Harpoons
Approximately 750 rounds of .50Cal (mixed bag of Tracer and HE)
Approximately 1800 rounds of 20mm (mixed bag of Tracer and HEI)
Approximately 30 rounds of 5in/54cal rounds from surface ships (AP and HE)
Flight ops as part of the SINKEX started at 0745 local time and wound down onboard the USS Truman by 1645. A 4 plane strike package left every hour on the hour. The USS La Salle went under at 1845 following 5in disabling rounds from the USS Hue City, USS Winston Churchill, and the USS San Jancito.
Yours truly was there to observe flight ops on the Truman and though there are pictures out there, as of right now they are still with Secret Squirrel and his assoicate Morocco Mole.
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More like Death by Power point about reducing the maintenance manning levels in the VAQ outfits earlier this week with our Wing Commodore (an 0-6 himself) and the wing maintenance Masterchief. The question was brought up by an slightly crusty E-6 who was getting ready to retire aboout what is going on with transition. That then lead to some sour faces and the Captain answering what he knew as of a brief early in this month
They are talking about cutting 2-3 personnel in every shop but maybe adding an additional plane to each squadron.
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Rumor Control going up and down the flight line here at NAS Whidbey has the following plans for the EF-18G squadron converision:
VAQ-129, the training squadron is supposed to begin recieving the EF-18G by late 2007 up to mid 2008. For a while they will be dual operators. In that VAQ-129 will be doing EA-6B and EF-18G transition training for air crews.
VAQ-132 will begin transition upon return from a deployment and should stand up as a EF-18G squadron by summer of 2008 or early 2009. Upon which they will tranistion MCAS Iwakuni and replace VAQ-136 as the forward deployed EW squadron of CVW-5.
VAQ-136 will come home and transition to EF-18G's. Upon which they will remain at NAS Whidbey.
After that it is up in the air depending on scheduling and squadron availability. The powers to be are trying to adapt what they did with the F-14 to F-18E/F conversion as the same plan. IE as a ship comes home for an overhaul, the squadron is removed from the airwing and replaced with one that has converted from there the removed squadron would begin transition to an EF-18G outfit and be moved to a new air wing.
The is currently no plans for any USMC EA-6B outfits to transition nor is there a plan currently for VAQ-209 (the sole reserve EA-6B squadron) to make the converision.
Oh and according to my connections over at Commander Naval Air Forces, there is conflicting debates about whether CVW-17 will be stood down following the decom of the USS John F. Kennedy later this year. One plan is to just decom it and just pimp the rest of the air wing out as independent duty squadrons, the other plan is that the air wing would be held on to until the USS George W. Bush will be comissioned and then move CVW-17 onboard her. CVW-17 instead might become something similar to a Marine Air Group. In that they would deploy to bases ashore in places and operate forward deployed and using all thier resources in such places as Bagram or Al Asad.
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Word is that AGSI is working on an improved Platform Editor that will have some increased security features for the databases. They are working hard on how to get the features right.
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1952
The Third Marine Aircraft Wing is activated to provide air support for the 3rd Marine Division. The 3rd Marine Division was being employed in Korea after relieving the First Marine Division.
1964
VADM H. G. Rickover, USN, Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Ships for Nuclear Propulsion, retires from active duty, having reached the mandatory retirement age of 64. He immediately returns to active duty in a retired status.
1966
The US Navy's Deep Submergence Systems Project, DSSP, becomes a separate activity under the Chief of Naval Material. The project had previously been managed by the Navy's Special Projects Office. The SPO, which is responsible for strategic missile systems. Captain William Nicholson, USN, is named director of DSSP. He succeeds Dr. John Craven. Dr. Craven was the chief scientist for SPO.
1967
3 US Marine Battalions being Operation Prairie II, designed to counter North Vietnamese infiltration and VC operations in the northern half of the Quang Tri Province. Operation Independence begins as well. Independence involves 2 USMC Battalions southwest of Da Nang. Prairie II will end on 18MAR67 and these same forces will be used for Operation Prairie III.
1968
Unification of the Canadian military services occurs today. The Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal Canadian Navy, and Canadian Army are united to become the Canadian Armed Forces.
1969
As part of the Vietnamization process the US Navy transfers 25 river gun boats to the South Vietnamese Navy in the Mekong Delta.
1973
3rd Fleet is reactivated at Naval Station Pearl Harbor. The "new" 3rd Fleet comes from the merger of the 1st Fleet and the Anti-Submarine Forces, Pacific Fleet. The 3rd Fleet will assume responsibility for Pacific Operations from the US West Coast to International Date Line and from Alaska down south to the tip of South America.
1975
The Soviet Union will ask Portugal to make a seaport available for use by its fishing fleet.
1977
US Secretary of Defense Harold Brown will announce the establishment of the Military Airlift Command as a specific command that will report to National Command Authorities through the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. MAC will remain under USAF control for administration and logistics support.
Tenneco Inc. The owners of Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, sign a letter of intent with Globtik Tankers Limited to construct a fleet of nuclear powered oil tankers. However, these ships will not be built.
1978
A Tomahawk cruise missile is successfully launched from the USS Barb, SSN 696, operationing off the coast of California. This is the first Tomahawk launched from a submerged submarine. The missile travels from the waters off Point Mugu, CA and successfully strikes a target on the range at Naval Weapons Station China Lake, CA.
1983
Exercise Ahuas Tara begins in Honduras. US and Honduran forces conduct counter-insurgency training. US Navy ships participate in the operation.
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1950
President Harry S. Truman decideds that the US will proceded with the development of the hydrogen bomb
1958
The US Army developed Jupiter-C launch vehicle is used the orbit the first American satellite, Explorer I.
The first flight of the North American T2J-1 Buckeye trainer occurs. The Buckeye will serve for 40yrs as the initial jet carrier capable trainer that American and International Naval Aviators first fly.
1961
A US Mercury capsule carrying a chimpanzee named Ham is launched into space on top of a Redstone rocket from Cap Canaveral, FL. This flight is to test the feasibility of manned spaced flight. following a 15 min flight, which will reach an altitude of 155 miles, the capsule and Ham are separated from the rocket. They will parachute down and are recovered by a USMC HUS-1 (CH-34) Seahorse Helicopter.
1962
The NS Savannah puts to sea from Camden, NJ on her maiden voyage to her homeport of Yorktown, VA. The Savannah is nuclear powered and one of the what is hoped to be a future trend for American Merchant Fleets. The ship will enter in commercial operations in May of 1962. However she is plagued with labor troubles from day one of active duty service. The deck officers begin to object to the wage differences between themselves and the engineering officers. The Savannah is 595ft long and can carry 9830 tons of cargo along with 60 passengers at a max speed of 20knts. She was removed from active service 1972 and laid up near Galveston, TX. Later she was converted to a museum ship and moved to Patriots Point near the USS Yorktown in South Carolina. She is currently in Northrup/Grumman Newport News Shipyard having her nuclear reactor and other nuclear components removed. She was recently designated as a US National Historical Landmark.
1966
After a 37-day lull in bombing US Aircraft will resume strikes against targets in North Vietnam. During the lull, the US made unsuccessful attempts to being negotiation with North Vietnam about the war.
1967
The USS McMorris, DE 1036 and the oiler USS Tombigbee, AOG-11 collied during a night exercise. The collision occurs about 75nm south east of Honolulu. Two sailors on the McMorris are killed and seven are injured.
1968
A battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment begins to aid South Vietnamese troops in bitter street fighting during the month-long battle to recover the former imperial capital of Hue. Marine casualties at the end of the battle are 142 dead with 857 wounded. While the North Vietnamese have control of the city they will execute over 5000 civilians as "political enemies of the state".
1969
The total strength of US Forces in Vietnam will reach a peak of 542,000 actually on the ground in Vietnam.
1971
Apollo 14 will make the third moon landing. Launched from Cape Kennedy, the spacecraft has astronauts Capt. Alan B. Shepard Jr, USN; Col Stuart A. Roosa, USAF; and Maj Edgar J. Mitchell, USAF. The craft's lunar module named Antares lands Shepard and Mitchell on the moon. The spacecraft will come down in the South pacific and is recovered by the USS New Orleans, LPH 11, after a total flight of 8 days, 22hours, and 2 minutes. Captain Shepard is one of the original Mercury seven astronauts.
1975
TASS, the Soviet News Agency, reports that the Soviet Union has agreed to sweep mines from the Mediterranean approaches to Port Said.
1991
In the only offensive operation by Iraqi forces against UN forces during the Persian Gulf war. Elements of an Iraqi armored brigade rolls into the Saudi town of Khafji late in the night. The only UN forces in the city at the time was a USMC recon force. For the next 36hrs they will play hide and seek with the Iraqi forces while reporting back to CENTCOM about the forces. During a series of violent fire fights which includes AC-130 Specter, AH-1 Cobra's and an ad hoc force of US, Saudi, and Qatar force will expel the Iraqi's. The fire fights will last over 12 hrs. Some 50 Saudis and 11 Marines are killed. The Marines are the first combat deaths on the ground.
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1952
VADM Lynde D. McCormick, USN, the Commander in Chief US Atlantic Fleet is appointed the first Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT) with in the NATO command struture.
1961
In the first State of the Union from President J. F. Kennedy. Announces that the Department of Defense will "reppraise our entire defense strategy." Kennedy also reviles that he is accelerating the development of the Polaris missile system and the submarine they will be employed with.
1966
Operation Starlight, the largest amphibious operation for USMC since the Inchon landings in the Korean War begins. approximately 10000 Marines and 18 ships are involved directly in the operation. On the first day only light contact with Viet Cong forces is made.
1968
The Tet Offensive begins. North Vietnam chose this important Vietnamese holiday, the lunar new year (Tet), to launch its largest offensive today in the war. In the past a truce had been observed and because so nearly half of the 730000 ARVN force is on holiday leave. With in 48hrs major attacks are made against targets in Saigon, Quang Tri, Da Nang, Kontum, Hue, and other major cities in South Vietnam. Major American TV coverage will center on the sucide attack on the American Embassy where 15 VC sappers will enter the compound and kill 5 American servicemen before being engaged by US Army troops and the rest of the USMC Embassy Guard detail. On the military scale this offensive will ened in a major defeat for North Vietnam. Over 32000 North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong troops are killed. The Viet Cong are effectively removed as a force from the battlefiield. US and South Vietnamese losese are 1000 and 2800 consequetively. The N. Vietnamese and VC had expected a popular uprising to occur in S. Vietnam, but that failed and only the NVA and VC forces in and around Khe Shan and Hue hold thier postions for any serious length of time. However the public prepection of the offensive in American dramatically turns public opinion against the US Leadership and against the war.
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1947
29Jan- USS Philippine Sea, CV-47, from a position of 600 nm from the Antarctic coast launched eight R4D's with skis from her flight deck by Jet Assisted Take Off (JATO)bottles. The R4D is a USN version of the venerable C-47. These aircraft are flying as part of Operation Highjump, which is a continuation of research done in to the Antarctic continent by Adm. Richard E. Byrd. The R4D's were the heaviest aircraft to be launched from an aircraft carrier at the time since they averaged 26000lbs of take off weight.
1951
29Jan- Task Force 77's aircraft carriers begin a campaign to interdict the railroads along the East Coast of North Korea.
1955
27Jan-A FJ-3 Fury piloted by LCDR W. J. Manby of the USN set an unofficial climb record by reaching 10k ft from a standing start in 73.2 seconds.
1962
27Jan- VADM Hyman G. Rickover, then head of the USN nuclear propulsion program, reached the statutory age for retirement from the Navy when he turns 62. However, he will be retained on active duty until January of 1982.
1963
29Jan- In the first demonstration of the automatic TV guidance feature, a XAGM-62A Walleye air to surface bomb is launched by a YA-4B Skyhawk at the Naval Ordnance Test Station China Lake, CA. The Walleye makes a direct hit on the target. This event will usher in a new form of warfare and weapons development.
1966
29Jan- The US Selective Service will announce that for the first time since the Korean War it will again use national tests and a class standings in deciding student draft deferments
All the major elements of Operation Starlight being to receive briefings while moving to their marshaling locations off the coast of South Vietnam.
1967
27Jan- During ground testing of the Apollo 1 capsule a fire starts in the capsule and kills the three astronauts inside. Those astronauts are LTCOL Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, USAF; LTCOL. Edward White, USAF; LCDR Roger B. Chaffee, USN. The fire occurs while the capsule is sitting atop is Saturn Rocket at Cape Kennedy. The cause of the accident is finally attributed to a chaffing wire that ignited a 100 percent pure oxygen atmosphere inside the capsule. Following a Congressional and internal NASA inquiry major redesigns of the Apollo Space craft are incorporated.
At Bridgeport, Connecticut Sikorsky Aircraft and American Export Isbrandtsen Lines demonstrate the use of helicopters for discharging containers from a cargo ship. A Sikorsky S-64 Flying Crane is used to remove over 500 measured tons that are stored inside 20ft shipping containers from an offshore cargo ship.
1968
27Jan- In response to the Pueblo crisis, the US Navy diverts 2 aircraft carriers from relieving carriers off the coast of North Vietnam and activate 6 Naval Reserve carrier Squadrons. This is the first time since the Korean war that a USN Reserve carrier squadron is activated. The Pueblo crisis is approximately 5 days old when the USS Pueblo, AGER-2, an environmental research ship is seized in international waters by the North Korean Navy and the crew is interned as spies. This event also motivates one CWO-2 John A. Walker to take a series of keying materials and ciphers into the Soviet Embassy in Washington DC in exchange for money.
Various military reconnaissance units through out South Vietnam notice a sharp increase in traffic up and down the Ho Chi Minh trail. Large amounts of supply are streaming south from North Vietnam. On top of this a sharp decrease in Viet Cong activities is noticed.
1970
28Jan- The USS Mansfield, DD-728, provides naval gun fire support to the First Australian Task Force near Vung Tau, in South Vietnam's III Corps area. Battlefield intelligence assessment later shows that the 5in guns onboard the destroyer heavily damage enemy emplacements.
1971
27Jan- Cambodia recives eight river patrol boats from the United States Navy. These are the first US combat craft to be given to the Cambodian Government.
1973
27Jan- The US and North Vietnamese cease fire goes in effect.
Operation Homecoming begins today. A total of 591 US prisoners of war will be released through 1Apr73. 566 of these were military personnel and the remaining 25 were civilians.
US Navy Task Force 78 under command of RADM Brian McCauley begins minesweeping operations up and down the coast of North Vietnam. This is termed Operation Endsweep. This task force is composed of surface ships and the new squadron Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 12 along with some Marine medium lift helicopter squadrons. HM-12 flies the RH-53 Sea Dragon and the Marine units fly the CH-53 Sea Stallion, all of which will tow a variaty of mine sweeping sleds.
Secretary of Defese sends out the following message to the service secretaries: "With the signing of the peace agreement in Paris...I wish to inform you that the Armed Forces will henceforth will depend exclusively on volunteer soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines. Use of the draft has ended." This will end the draft, which has been operating at various levels since the start of the Korean War. This also effectively marks the begining of the all-volunteer force for the US military.
1975
29Jan- President Sadat of Egpyt, announces a major shift in weapons poccurement for the country when they will start to buy Mirage F-1 fighter bombers from France. This marks a change from buying weapons systems only from the Soviet Union over to buying from NATO countries.
1980
28Jan- In the worst peace time accident for the USCG, a 180ft bouy tender is sunk in Tampa Bay Harbor by a tanker after a collision. The USS Blackthorn, WLB-391, collides with the S.S. Capricorn which is a 600ft full-loaded tanker. 23 USCG personnel drown when the Capricorn drags the Blackthron under the water after trying to back out of the tender. The resulting mishap board levels blame on both ships for drifting out of thier respective channels of navigation.
1986
28Jan- In the first mishap for the US Space Shuttle program, the US Space Shuttle Challenger explodes on take off during lift-off from Cape Canaveral, FL. All seven of the astronauts are killed onboard; Captain Mike Smith, USN; Major Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee, USAF; Ronald Erwin McNair, Ph.D. in Physics; LTCOL. Ellison Shoji Onizuka, USAF; Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, High School Teacher; Captain Gregory Bruce Jarvis, USAF; Judith Arlene Resnik, Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering. Various USCG and USN units will begin an intestive search for survivors and collection of the wreackage. This includes ships such as the submersiable NR-1, USS Alvin, DSV-2. The ultimate cause of the accident is attributed to a failure of an O-ring on the external booster rocket. Another US Space Shuttle will not take off again unitl September of 1989. After 3 seperate inquiries it is found that a culture of safety mistakes are made at all levels of NASA and reforms are called for.
1991
29Jan- US Marines of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) land by helicopter from the amphibious ship USS Okinawa, LPH-3, on the small Iraqi Island of Umm Al Maradim. This island is 12nm off the coast of Kuwait and had been recently abandoned by Iraqi troops.
1992
29Jan- Russian President Boris Yeltsin announces that Russian nuclear forces will cease targeting US cities.
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The first place I would try to order the paper rules would be the publishers web page, Clash of Arms, they are pretty good at shipping anywhere without hassles. They have shipped to APO and FPO address for me and there was no extra charge. The other site that I have had success ordering Harpoon's paper rules from is War Web dot com. If those two don't work for you then hawk Ebay.com. At various times I have seen both the older GDW published rules and the current Clash of Arms rules. I would recommend that if you are getting the newer rules then still hit up ebay and try and grab some of the older GDW supplements since they will really add some interesting scenarios, platforms, and such. The ones that I have include:
Battles of the Third World War about 15 scenarios and a random scenario generator for a campaign, these are all in and around the North Atlantic and Norweigan Sea.
Troubled Waters this is all about choke points and the use of fast attack craft, the writers have four campaigns set in this book, one for operations during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, The Iran-Iraq war of the 80's then roles into the "Tanker War" opertaions at the end of the decade, A couple of scenarios about the Libyan Navy trying to challenge 6th Fleet during Operation Attain Document in 1986 and then a what-if campaign generator about continued operations by 6th Fleet against the Libyains; final campaign is all about Desert Storm operations when the Iraqi Navy tried to run and was destroyed by USN and USMC aircraft.
Ship Forms, Sub Forms, ASW Forms are three seperate books that contain a number of pre-made forms for use in games. These are designed to go well with the Battles of the Third World War but could be used in any game. The Ships Form has a really good random battle generator.
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on 25JAN GMT the following occurred in history
1951
The first flight of XF4D Skyray, a delta-wing tail less, turbojet powered interceptor occurred. Designed by the Douglas Aircraft Corporation from the outset to be a high altitude interceptor for carrier service the F4D Skyray or Ford would have a short career in US Navy and USMC service, it would be replaced in 1964 by improved aircraft. Following the 1962 designation standardization it would be re designated the F-6 Skyray.
1961
A US Navy P2V Neptune locates the highjacked civilian liner the Santa Maria . She is tracked for a 11 days by various Patrol aircraft until she enters a Brazilian port where all 607 of her passengers are set free. She is a Portuguese flagged cruise ship that was seized on the 22 JAN 1961 by Portuguese nations that opposed the policies of the Portuguese national leader at the time Anton Salazar. The US and Great Britain were asked to help located the hijacked ship.
1969
US and North Vietnamese representatives begin formal negotiations in Paris to end the Vietnam War.
1972
The first flight testing of the Lockheed S-3A Viking begins at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. The S-3A is a turbojet powered, carrier based ASW aircraft that will replaced the S-2 Tracker in US Fleet Service.
1973
US Pacific Fleet Mine Sweeping forces begin moving from various home ports through out the US to NS Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippine Islands to be readied for mine clearance operations in support of the peace-treaty with North Vietnam.
1975
President Ford signs the Geneva Protocol of 1925 that prohibits the use of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases in war. This does not prohibit the production of chemical war far agents, the development of agents, stockpiling of agents, or chemical protection and decontamination equipment. The signers further reserve the right to retaliate with chemical weapons should chemical weapons be used against them.
1984
The USS Ranger, CV-61, with CVW-9 onboard arrives at Subic Bay in the Philippines after having been at sea for 121 days with out a port call. 95 of these days were spent in the Arabian sea. This is believed to have set a record by a non-nuclear carrier for most time at sea.
1986
The US Shuttle Challenger is mated with her booster rockets and external fuel tank and the shuttle crawler begins the 24hr process to leave the maintenance hanger at Cape Canaveral, Florida and heads to the launchpad.
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On 23-24JAN GMT the following happened during the Cold War
1946
The new British light fleet carrier the HMS Warrior is transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy. Where she was renamed the HMCS Magnificent. This is the start of numerous transfers of the large Royal Navy Carrier fleet to friendly nations through out the world, such as Argentina, France, Australia, Holland, Denmark, Canada, and India
1959
To demostrated the capabilities of the A4D Skyhawk. One USMC Major J.P. Flynn and USN Captain C.D.Warfield, take two USMC A4D's on a non-stop and unrefueled flight from MCAS El Toro, California to MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina covering over 2082 miles in 4hrs and 25mins.
1960
The USS Trieste, a USN bathyscaphe piloted by Lt. Don Walsh and the civilian Jacques Piccard reach a depth of 35800ft (10910m) in the Challenger Deep off the Mariana Islands. This dive is part of a series of dives to the deepest spots through out the world. It is referred to as Project Nekton. The craft remains on the bottom for 20mins before ascending to the surface again.
1963
The DASH program or Drone Anti-submarine Helicopter, completes shipboard qualification on board the USS Buck (DD-761) an Allen M. Summer class destroyer. The DASH system employs the QH-50C unmanned helicopter and is consider operational at this point. Fleet units begin to receive their control equipment and training in the months to come.
1965
The USS America, CVA-66, is commissioned at Norfolk Naval Base in Virginia. She is the 8th "Super carrier" to enter the US Navy.
1967
A Soviet built contact mine is found at Nha Be, South Vietnam by US forces. This mine was found to be floating main shipping channel. It had a 4000lb warhead and had been swept from the Long Tau River on 31DEC66 by US Riverine forces.
1971
A USN P-3C Orion MPA sets a world turboprop flight distance record. Flying 5963 miles in 15hrs and 21min. Flying from NAF Atsugi, Japan via the great circle route to NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. The aircraft is actually considered to have flown 6095 miles, the extra mileage was done to avoid over flying the Kamchatka Peninsula. The next day the same plane and crew will set a speed record of 501.44mph over a 15to25km course at NAS Patuxent River.
1973
US and Japanese governments have announced a major re-alignment of US basing structure in Japan. The will consolidate a large number of US Forces Japan to few bases and increse the size of these bases. This agreement will keep a large number of forces and the new large basing structuring in Japan for at least 5 more years
Dr. Kissinger, current Secretary of State, and Le Duc Tho (the North Vietnamese rep)sign the Paris agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam. Under the terms of this accord, all American POW's will be released and the remaining 23700 American force will be with drawn over the next 60 days.
1974
The US Department of Interior issues a permit for the building of the Alaska oil pipeline. This pipeline will stretch 789 miles from Alaska's north coast oil fields to the port of Valdez. From the port, oil tankers will transport the oil to various US west coast ports for refinement. One of the more interesting ideas rejected by the US Department of Energy and Department of Interior was the use of submarine oil tankers that would be able to penetrate the ice fields at the North coast and then transport it south to west coast ports.
Secretary of Defense Schlesinger will confirm reports that US oil companies under pressure from OPEC reduced oil supplies to US military forces during the 1973 Middle East War.
1976
The US and Spain sign a 5yr treaty of friendship. Under the terms of this treaty the US agrees to move the Poseidon submarine force from Naval Base Rota by 1979.
1979
Secretary of the Navy Claytor will announce the plan to retire 37 ships from the active and reserve force for fiscal year 1980. This retirement will consist of 8 active duty ships, 5 from Military Sea lift Command, 1 National Oceanic And Atmosphere ship, and 23 from the US Naval Reserve Force. The two most recognized active duty ships to be retired is 6th Fleet's flagship the USS Albany, CG-10, a Oregon City class cruiser that had been modified to carry Terrier and Talos surface to air missiles. The other famous ship to be retired was 7th Fleet's flagship the USS Oklahoma City (CG-5), A Cleveland class cruiser that was considered single ended guided missile ship. She still mounted a turret forward with three 6in/47cal guns and on the after deck a dual Talos missile rail.
A US Federal Judge will prevent fishermen from interfering with naval operations in the landing and gunnery ranges off Vieques Island, PR. The fishermen and been acting as hazards to navigation and camping in on the beach areas near the US Navy ranges.
1983
The USS Ticonderoga, CG-47, is placed in commissioned with the US Navy. Her first commanding officer is Captain Roland Guilbault. She is the first of a revolutionary class that is mounting the AEGIS radar and combat system. It is considered one of the most flexible surface ships to arrive in the fleet since World War 2. She also the first of 27 total ships to be delivered over the course of a decade.
1986
Sixth Fleet carrier battle groups centered on the USS Coral Sea (CV-43) and USS Saratoga (CV-60) being operation Attain Document (I) in and near the Gulf of Sidra to demonstrate the freedom of seats to Libya. The Operation will end on 31 Jan but will be followed by more over the course of the year.
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For those of you that got the Jan 07 issue of Proccedings there is an interesting article in it by Norman Polmar. He talks about how the carriers Hermes and Invincible along with the frigates Brilliant and Broadsword were called up so fast that they didn't have a chance to offload thier nuclear shapes. Even after the fleet mustered as Ascension island there were a number of issues there that prevented offloading as well and it wasn't until the carrier battle group went south and during an unrep that the training rounds and a few survelliance rounds (shapes that measure the enviroment in a magizine but don't have the warhead in them) were removed from the rest of the frigate forces and only a few of the live rounds were able to be removed from the carriers.
So the carriers that went south in that conflict carried about 25% of the UK nuclear depth bombs. I also know from reading about that conflict the military junta in Argentina were trying to build a nuclear weapon and the last I heard they were pretty close to getting a working weapon.
So this little article makes me if the junta was dumb enough to cross the threshold either at sea on ashore, would the UK had retalitated? Let me ask then one then how much harder would it had been for the amphibs to had still be in Port Stanley offloading of the ground troops? This really adds some more intersting thoughts to how one would of conducted this conflict.
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FOund this one on Youtube while looking for something else
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Will it explain what size swallows those from VFP-62 hit?
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Your right. I was just trying to get a little laugh in about the name and how it was close to the nuclear missile.
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The P-8A was assigned today the name Poseidon. I wonder if they start talking about this over open air waves that people hearing "Poseidon one has lifted off" won't think about the other Poseidon that was in USN inventory, the UGM-73 SLBM
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A VF-211 F-14A out of Fightertown USA with 6 CATM-54C's onboard her. CATM's are Captive Air Training Missiles, they have everythhing but the rocket motor. Circa 1989. This is probably what the Chainsaw tactic would have looked like leaving American carriers during a NATO/PACT conflict. All 20-24 F-14's leaving with 4-6 AIM-54's onboard going out to look for Mr Bear and his friends the Badger and Backfire.
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I think Boats means these,
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Budda I can give creadance to the some of the "my toy is better then your toy" stories that have popped up from time to time. This debate has always seem to lead, at least on HULL, to people taking thier ball and going home and then a really big division of the community. To the point that if you talk to the opposite side you are branded a fool and some other not so nice words. There have been times where I just wish I could just find more people that would play the board game verison with me and not have to worry about issues like this.
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James,
I wouldn't hold your breath about doing ASW in the PNW. Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and a couple of the local tree-huggers groups in WA state are currently taking the US Navy to court again for the lost of a couple of Orcas due to LF sonar hazards. The US Navy has been effectively forced out of the ASW mission because of its need to bend for the tree huggers and the belief that the only people that know how to use submarines were the Soviets and US.
It is coming to the point that the US will have to relearn the ASW mission the same way that we did 60+yrs ago. With the lost of good men and good ships because people were being stupid.
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Matrix Games and AGSI are supposed to be testing in beta right now the "final word" in the Harpoon Classic game engine. So I would hazard that until that new one comes out people are holding off on writing new HC scenarios. On top of that as well H3 the Matrix edition just came out and since then there has been an explosion of H3 scenarios and people playing H3 right now. So give it a while or try and write some yourself and see if you can't get people intrested in writing again.
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