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Saturday, March 29, marks National Vietnam War Veterans Day.
Join us as we honor all Vietnam and Vietnam-Era veterans – especially our Naval Special Warfare heroes! From Underwater Demolition Teams, to our Brown Water boat operators, to the first Navy SEALs – their courage and sacrifice in challenging environments more than 50 years ago forged the elite force NSW is today. We recognize their service and offer a long-overdue welcome home. Thank you to all who served!

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May 14th 1945, a bomb-laden kamikaze dove straight through five decks on USS Enterprise (CV-6) during the Battle of Okinawa. The resulting explosion blew the 15-ton forward elevator 400 feet into the air. Swift damage control extinguished all fires within 30 minutes.
Appearing as if they were walking on water, USS Enterprise sailors who had been blown overboard by the explosion used the forward elevator as a life raft until being rescued by USS Waldron.

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I said this back in the 1970s and I'll say it again. Over 58,000 Soldiers lost their lives and others have had shorter lives because of the war.

They could have bombed the crap out of North Vietnam instead.
The War in Vietnam was not about wining for freedom. It was not about saving a fledgling Foreign Democracy.
It was about exercising and funding the military industrial complex of which President Eisenhower had warned.
No one in places of power must have listened to his wisdom.
And so, over 58,000 young American's died.
Needlessly.

For what?????

How many young men were forced to violate their religious beliefs and kill another soul because their government forced them to?
Think about that for a moment.
 
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The War in Vietnam was not about wining for freedom. It was not about saving a fledgling Foreign Democracy.
It was about exercising and funding the military industrial complex of which President Eisenhower had warned.
No one in places of power must have listened to his wisdom.
And so, over 58,000 young American's died.
Needlessly.

For what?????

How many young men were forced to violate their religious beliefs and kill another soul because their government forced them to?
Think about that for a moment.
I agree. That's my point now and was back in the late 1960s when I was in the Navy.
 
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When you fuel up an SR-71, sitting on the ground in the hot sun, the fuel dribbles out on the tarmac. That’s not an apocryphal tale, it’s really true.
When you want to start the engines on an SR-71, you can’t use a standard airport start cart, you have to shackle each engine up to a pair of big V8 muscle car engines. Then, to get the fuel to ignite, you have to inject a special, toxic, high temperature hypergolic chemical mix similar to rocket propellant.
So you do all that, and you get the thing into the air, and you have to have a tanker waiting, just for you. You can’t take off with full tanks, and you can’t fly very far without them—or with them for that matter.
So you fill ’er up and accelerate to cruising speed. Only then do the tanks heat up enough to expand and seal up the leaks.
So you refuel—a few times—and you get to wherever you need to go—which is going to be deep inside the territory of somebody who wants you dead, because otherwise, why are you up there? And while you are flying around at bat-outa-hell speed, if you pull off your glove and touch the wind screen, you’ll burn your hand.
And if you flame-out for any reason, you only have three shots per engine at restarting, because it’s not like you can do it by clicking an igniter plug. You have to carry enough of that hypergolic restart mix to handle contingencies, but not enough to turn the aircraft into a bomb.
Flying the SR-71 was dangerous and fabulously expensive. So as soon as the military decided they could get by without it, they retired it.
That’s a shame too, because the SR-71 is the closest thing to a space plane ever built.
 
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When you fuel up an SR-71, sitting on the ground in the hot sun, the fuel dribbles out on the tarmac. That’s not an apocryphal tale, it’s really true.
When you want to start the engines on an SR-71, you can’t use a standard airport start cart, you have to shackle each engine up to a pair of big V8 muscle car engines. Then, to get the fuel to ignite, you have to inject a special, toxic, high temperature hypergolic chemical mix similar to rocket propellant.
So you do all that, and you get the thing into the air, and you have to have a tanker waiting, just for you. You can’t take off with full tanks, and you can’t fly very far without them—or with them for that matter.
So you fill ’er up and accelerate to cruising speed. Only then do the tanks heat up enough to expand and seal up the leaks.
So you refuel—a few times—and you get to wherever you need to go—which is going to be deep inside the territory of somebody who wants you dead, because otherwise, why are you up there? And while you are flying around at bat-outa-hell speed, if you pull off your glove and touch the wind screen, you’ll burn your hand.
And if you flame-out for any reason, you only have three shots per engine at restarting, because it’s not like you can do it by clicking an igniter plug. You have to carry enough of that hypergolic restart mix to handle contingencies, but not enough to turn the aircraft into a bomb.
Flying the SR-71 was dangerous and fabulously expensive. So as soon as the military decided they could get by without it, they retired it.
That’s a shame too, because the SR-71 is the closest thing to a space plane ever built.
Yea, well my turbocharged car does that too. ;)
 
Attack Submarine-USS Seawolf (SSN 21) Polaris Point, Naval Base Guam - August 2022

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