When the liberals bashed Bush over OIF and OEF, even with Yellow Cake surfacing and transported secretly and safe fully out of Iraq to Canada, preceded by the Surge and time table controversy, I was up set at those who called President Bush a murder.
A leading critic of Islam isn’t surprised there has been virtually no coverage or action taken against a Muslim group that has been running an illegal “get out the vote” campaign in swing-state mosques.
The group, Muslim Americans for Obama [MAFO], insists that all of its voter registration activity is non-partisan, despite the fact that its mission statement says it was launched in August 2008 “to provide a vehicle for Muslim-American supporters of Barack Obama to organize and mobilize our fellow citizens to get out the vote to elect Barack Obama the next president of the United States.”
http://www.onenewsnow.com:80/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=273884
To me, Obama is a voice to a party. His faith, my faith, your faith, does it play a role in how we feel and when we make decisions?
Can a politician exempt themselves from moral values brought on by any religion?
John McCain, Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account
By John S. McCain III, Lieut. Commander, U.S. Navy
By John S. McCain
Posted January 28, 2008
John McCain spent 5½ years in captivity as a POW in North Vietnam. His first-person account of that harrowing ordeal was published in U.S. News in May 1973. Shot down in his Skyhawk dive bomber on Oct. 26, 1967, Navy flier McCain was taken prisoner with fractures in his right leg and both arms. He received minimal care and was kept in wretched conditions that he describes vividly in the U.S. News special report:
This story originally appeared in the May 14, 1973, issue of U.S.News & World Report. It was posted online on January 28, 2008.
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2008/01/28/john-mccain-prisoner-of-war-a-fir st-person-account.html?PageNr=1
On 16 June 1967, USS Oriskany (CV-34) with CVW-16 embarked home ported at Naval Air Station pier at Alameda, California while anchored in San Francisco Bay, departed on her tenth “Westpac” deployment, operating with the Pacific Fleet, her third Vietnam combat cruise and tenth tour of duty with the 7th Fleet in the Far East, her fourth reported South China Sea deployment. Prior to her deployment Oriskany underwent training upon completion of fire repairs at San Francisco Naval Shipyard (16 November 1966 to 23 March 1967). Her sixth deployment since her first recommission 7 March 1959, first decommissioning at San Francisco Naval Shipyard 2 January 1957, while she underwent a SCB-125A modernization that included a new angled flight deck and enclosed hurricane bow, while new, powerful steam catapults were installed by the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington (steam catapult experts assembled and deployed to San Francisco, Ca. from Bremerton, Wash. or the ship steamed to Bremerton from San Francisco and back again in order to have steam catapults installed by Puget Sound Naval Shipyard) (16 June 1967 to 31 January 1968). Her 13th deployment since her commission in the New York Naval Shipyard 25 September 1950, Capt. Percy H. Lyon in command, having remained in a state of preservation until after the outbreak of hostilities in Korea in June 1950, then was rushed to completion; construction was suspended 12 August 1947; launched 13 October 1945, and sponsored by Mrs. Clarence Cannon; an attack aircraft carrier, keel was laid down 1 May 1944 by the New York Naval Shipyard, becoming the 34th aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.
CVW-16 squadrons consisted of VF-111 Fighter Squadron, Sundowners flying Vought Crusader F-8C Jet Fighter and VF-162 Fighter Squadron, Hunters flying Crusader F-8E Jet Fighter; VA-163 Attack Squadron, Saints, VA-164 Attack Squadron, Ghost Riders and VA-152 Attack Squadron, Friendlies flying Douglas Skyhawk A-4E Jet Attack Bomber; VFP-63 Det G/34 Light Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, Eyes of the Fleet flying Vought Crusader RF-8GRF-8G Jet Fighter/Reconnaissance; VAH-4 Det G/34 Heavy Attack Squadron, Fourrunners flying Douglas Skywarrior KA-3B Jet Attack/Tanker; VAW-111 Det G/34 Carrier Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron, Willy Fudd flying Grumman E-1B Traacer. On 20 April 1967 Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 111 (VAW-111) was established and VAW-11 detachments became part of VAW-111. VAW-13 Det Carrier Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron, flying Douglas EA-1F Attack Fighter/Special electronic installation . VAW-13 did not submit a Command History Report for 1967; consequently, it is not possible to verify all the squadron’s detachments operating aboard carriers on Yankee Station in 1967. HC-1 Det 34 Helicopter Combat Support Squadron, Pacific Fleet Angels, flying Kaman UH-2A & UH-2B Seasprite/Transport (Utility). HC-7 was established on 1 September 1967. VAP-61 Det Heavy Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron or VA(P) Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy)or Heavy Photographic Squadron.flying Douglas RA-3B /A3D-2P (RA-3B)Skywarrior/Photographic Reconnaissance/Survey
On 14 September 1967, USS Forrestal (CV-59) with Air Wing 17 (CVW-17) embarked arrived Norfolk Va., ending her first Vietnam cruise and first deployment operating with the 7th Fleet, returning from the South China Sea, via the straits of Malacca, Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea on her second Suez Canal transit steaming through the Gulf of Aden, Red Sea, to the Mediterranean Sea and North Atlantic. Forrestal arrived Gulf of Tonkin on 24 July 1967.
Cutting a wake through the calm waters of the Gulf of Tonkin on 29 July 1967, operating on Yankee Station off the coast of North Vietnam conducting combat operations, launching aircraft from her flight deck on strikes against an enemy whose coastline was only a few miles over the horizon.
For four days, the planes of Attack Carrier Air Wing 17 (CVW-17) had been launched on, and recovered from, about 150 missions against targets in North Vietnam.
On the ship’s four-acre flight deck, her crewmen went about the business at hand, the business of accomplishing the second launch of the fifth day in combat.
On 29 July 1967, a devastating fire and series of chain-reaction explosions caused great loss of life on the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal (CV-59) after an unusual electrical anomaly discharged a Zuni rocket on the flight deck. One hundred thirty-four sailors were killed, and 161 were injured. Forrestal was engaged in combat operations in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War at the time, and the damage totaled $72 million (not including damage to aircraft).
By the implementation of changes as set forth in the Federal Register, April 16, 2008, regarding “Definition of Service in the Republic of Vietnam,” for the purpose of clarifying eligibility for presumption of exposure to herbicides status, the DVA very clearly states and reiterates its stance that “38 CFR 2.307(e)(6)(iii) does not provide a presumption of herbicide exposure to a Vietnam Era veteran who never set foot on land in the Republic of Vietnam and did not service on its inland waterways.” What this action accomplishes, in addition to the relationship to herbicide exposure, is a re-designation of all veterans into two clearly distinct categories: Vietnam War veterans and Vietnam Era veterans. The VA is careful to keep this distinction of Vietnam Era veterans when referring to veterans who “never set foot on land in the Republic of Vietnam.”
Historical excellence in reporting history of U. S. Aircraft Carrier Foreign Water Fleet Deployments and deployment history is of little importance to the U. S. Navy. As Commander In Chief will Senator McCain honor those who have served aboard Aircraft Carriers by reporting deployment history in peace time or only war?
Do U. S. Naval Veterans even care?
The general public doesn’t?
As determined by the U. S. Navy Judge Advocate General, disclosure of U. S. Aircraft Carrier Deployment History “serves to inform a small segment of interested persons rather then the general public.”
He further states that information requested through my FOIA “also pertains to information about which there is currently a high level of public knowledge and thus does not meet the threshold of contributing significantly to the public record.”
