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Thursday, Sept. 17Coronado Village Car Procession3:30 p.m., Rotary Park, Coronado
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In June of 1935, San Diego hosted the inaugural Fleet Week cel-ebration as part of the California Pacific International Exposition. Under command of U.S. Navy Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, Com-mander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet, 114warships and 400 military planes arrived with more than 3,000 commissioned officers and 55,000 enlisted men.
Thousands of San Diegans and other exposition-goers were guests on the various ships.
Over time, community and business leaders who understood the great depth of public support for our military cultivated Fleet Week San Diego. They shared a vision to recognize the contribu-tions made by the armed services to the many communities of the greater San Diego region.
Fleet Week San Diego honors the men and women of the mili-tary through public events and alliances that support and thank these heroes throughout the year. Events such as the Coronado Speed Festival, Enlisted Golf Tournament, Enlisted Recognition Luncheon and Miramar Air Show are sell-outs year after year, and provide a way for the San Diego community to interact with the military in otherwise restricted ways.
The event has grown beyond a week-long celebration — begin-ning in September and running through mid-November.
Fleet Week is a United States Navy, United States Marine Corps and United States Coast Guard tradition that has spread cities across the country.
For information about Fleet Week San Diego and a full line up of events, go to www.fleetweeksandiego.org.
Nation’s first Fleet Week celebrates 80 years
San Diego is birthplace of nationwide annual events
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By Elise CooperMilitaryPress
The Last Ship” is an action-packed and explosive TV Show created by the producing team of Mi-chael Bay and Hank Steinberg. It
is based on the novel by William Brinkley of the same name, in which a nuclear war destroys much of civilization with the only survivors being those on board this one ship.
The TV series modernized the novel’s story line, yet kept the central idea of the lone ship. The first season aired on TNT last year where the episodes had the crew of the naval destroyer U.S.S. Nathan James assigned to find a cure for a pan-demic virus that wiped out most of the world’s population. This year the plotline had Commander Tom Chandler (played by Eric Dane), the XO Mike Slattery (played by Adam Baldwin) and those on the ship trying to find a way to save humanity from the brink of extinction. Below is an inter-view with Steinberg, who also created the hit TV show “Without A Trace.”
Elise Cooper: Did you film on a real Navy Ship?
Hank Steinberg: We film the exterior scenes on a real ship in San Diego. The Navy has graciously coordinated with us and allows us access to ships in port. Ac-tive destroyers are usually in port half of the year, so we try to find a ship and work around their schedule. For the interior scenes on the ship we use the sets built in Los Angeles. We use visual effects to show
the ship as moving, when they are sup-posed to be out to sea.
EC: Did you use a model of a destroyer or what we see on the Universal tour, the pond they created?
HS: No. We have a special effects per-son who makes it appear like the ship is moving in the ocean. I don’t know much about technology, so we get the experts to
help. The computerized technology today is amazing on how real everything looks. It would have been very difficult to make this show 15 years ago because of the financial achievability. The visual effects can take anywhere from a few days to a couple of months to finish, depending on how com-
INSIDE THE MIND BEHIND ‘THE LAST SHIP’
The creator behind TNT’s drama “The Last Ship,” starring Eric Dane and Adam Baldwin, says the production team strives for authenticity.
LAST SHIP, continued on Page 16
One-on-one with Hank Steinberg
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The Marine Corps birthday ball is a spectacle every year, a celebration of the military branch’s founding more than 200 years ago. In recent years, some Marines have even tried to invite celebrities, such as actress Mila Kunis, who showed up as one Marine’s date in 2011.
This year, the newfound tradition goes on. Marine Lance Cpl. Jarrod Haschert asked his celebrity crush, the unstoppable mixed martial arts fighter Ronda Rousey, to the upcoming Marine Corps 240th birthday ball with a video.
Rousey responded — with an enthusi-astic yes in a video posted to the website TMZ.com, and no one was more surprised than Haschert himself.
“When it happened, I didn’t know how to contain myself,” said Haschert in a phone interview from his barracks at Camp Lejeune, N.C., where he serves in 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, an infantry unit in which Haschert serves in the mortar sec-tion. In 2004, the battalion participated in the battle of Fallujah and has deployed multiple times to Iraq and Afghanistan in the last 15 years.
Apparently Rousey knew about the invi-tation but couldn’t accept because training for her fight with Holly Holm conflicted with the event.
When the fight was moved to November, she decided to go to the ball but didn’t know how to to contact Haschert.
“Do I call him?” she said in an accep-tance video that went viral as well. “Or do I set up a time and place like “Never Been Kissed” and wait until the clock runs out and be like ‘I’m here!’”
She also said the Marine would have to be on his best behavior and would have to find dates for all her single friends.
“He needs to find dates for my girls,” she said, “and we’ll all go.”
While Haschert hasn’t talked to Rousey directly, he has been in touch with “her people.” Originally she was worried about a scheduling conflict with an upcoming fight, but the fight was moved and now she is free and clear to partake in Marine Corps birthday activities.
Haschert has been in the Marines for a little more than two and half years. He’d deployed once to the Pacific spent a stint with another Camp Lejeune unit, 2nd Bat-talion, 9th Marines. He has had a crush on Rousey since his senior year of high school when “she started to get big,” he says.
At 22 and as seasoned lance corporal of Marines, this upcoming birthday ball is not his first.
“The ball is going to be crazy,” Haschert said, referring to the attention he and Rous-ey will surely get. “I was hoping we could spend some time during the day together to just talk and hang out or whatever.”
UFC fighter Ronda Rousey surprised Cpl. Jarrod Haschert when she accepted his invitation to the Marine Corps Ball.
Rousey says ‘yes’ to dateUFC star to attend Marine Corps Ball for more than 34 seconds
ROUSEY, continued on Page 17
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By Art Garcia, Jr.MilitaryPress
When Eddie Royal signed a free agent deal with the Chicago Bears early in the offseason, many fans won-
dered if the Chargers could replace such a productive playmaker. It didn’t take long before General Manager Tom Telesco dipped into the free agent pool and signed the versatile Stevie Johnson to fill the void left by Royal’s departure.
Entering his eighth NFL season, John-son’s best years were in Buffalo where during a three-year span, 2010-2012, he had 247 receptions for 3,123 yards and 23 touchdowns. Heading into the opening game versus the Lions, Johnson answered a few questions from MP reporter Art Garcia Jr. following a recent practice.
AG: Tell me how it has been working with Philip Rivers throughout the offseason?
SJ: It’s an opportunity that’s unreal and I have to take advantage of it. With this be-ing my eighth year, I feel like it’s coming to an end because you can’t play forever and to be able to play with a quarterback like
17. It’s an opportunity you can’t pass up on.AG: How long did it take you to contact
each other after the team signed you?SJ: That day, that day. We started writ-
ing messages and texting each other and calling, then the next thing you know OTAs (Organized Team Activities) are
starting and I’m running routes and catching passes. It seemed unreal, but it’s a good situation.
AG: I heard you were watching clips of Rivers and the team even before you signed here, true?
SJ: Yeah, You Tube highlights of him
… Well I was already watching, but (after signing) then I started watching to see any connection to where I was at with No. 11 (Eddie Royal) and seeing his (Rivers) con-nection with Eddie — I wanted to start vi-
CHARGERS REPORT
Stevie Johnson had a breakout game against the Seattle Seahawks in the Chargers third preseason game. He finished the night with four receptions for 63 yards.
JOHNSON TO PLAY KEY PASSING ROLE
JOHNSON, continued on Page 18
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A military flyover takes place ahead of a game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Indianapolis Colts last year.
The NFL and the military
This is the power of the NFL: it can brand something you respect into something nauseous. I have a lifelong fascination with the military: my grandfathers were pilots in WWII, one also in Korea. My stepfather, a man I love and respect, only retired from the Air Force this decade. I attended high school near Eglin Air Force Base, living out near Range Road, where you could sit on your roof at night and watch the bomb tests light up the underside of clouds. Most of my friends’ dads were in the service.
But just like that friend’s dad who got in your face all OORAH about how you could never dare question him (on any-thing) when you knew in reality that he ran Quicken for the 101st Chairborne, doing sorties on Excel columns, the NFL doesn’t have an off switch on its deployment of big words like battle and sacrifice. NFL com-missioner Roger Goodell glad-handing veterans who’ve lost something, smirking under a flyover, is another avatar of the rear-echelon dudes who spent their Iraq War scanning the base doppler for tor-nados in the midwest and up-armoring their word rage to combat the “libturd” War on Christmas, daring you to question those who do their duty. The NFL is in the business of not being questioned, and the troops are its favorite accessory.
Complaints about the creeping militari-zation of the NFL are almost as old as com-plaints about how current finesse dynasties always get the defensive pass interference calls, and their ubiquity reduces them to the angsty hum of a punk band tuning all their guitars to drop-D. But this last year reified the issue as something worthy of consid-eration to more than just teens hoping to annoy dad. The NFL, which swaddles itself in camouflage to honor the troops, allowed 14 teams to charge the Department of De-fense $5.4m for the privilege of their own honor, over four years.
That the NFL found a way to monetize patriotism shouldn’t surprise anyone; the
only surprise is how efficiently and directly they did it. This sort of behavior is par for the course with the NFL. Every October, it puts its athletes in pink shoes, pink towels, gives refs pink penalty flags and sells “au-thentic” alternate pink jerseys to promote breast cancer awareness. The proceeds from these sales do not go breast cancer research, and what little escapes the wholesaler, dis-tributor and retailer goes toward promoting screening and awareness. The NFL doesn’t directly profit, but its friends do.
Crossing the military-sports boundary is nothing new. George Carlin’s famous rou-tine about the difference between baseball and football pays off so well because his description of football is laden with all the casual military metaphors self-important NFL commentators have injected into the game to make sure nobody dares take it anything less than deadly seriously.
Other sports have gotten in on the act for mercenary but at least more organic reasons. San Diego, a town dependent on its naval base for its prosperity, features regular troop acknowledgments at games, and Padres players take the field in cam-ouflage uniforms. Tampa Bay, home to MacDill Air Force Base and CENTCOM, also sends out the Rays in camouflage uni-forms and sets aside discount sections for active-duty servicemen. Both these teams struggle against the allure of the beach and vacation nightlife to fill seats, so their motives aren’t pure, but they are at least speaking to a significant local population that shapes the region.
Beyond teams with local military fan-bases, Major League Baseball learned that releasing authentic camouflage jerseys and red-white-and-blue jerseys for Memorial Day and July 4th meant another vector for selling $140 garments that look and feel like grandpa’s old nightshirt designed to sweat out a fever.
A love a!air as strange and cynical as ever
NFL, continued on Page 12
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By Heather SiegelMilitaryPress
Don’t make any plans for December,” says Harry Anderson, “I’m having my 100th birthday party, and it’s going to be a big party.”
Spry, delightful, almost impish, Anderson lives in a retirement park in San Marcos with a friendly roommate/caregiver. Full of stories, souvenirs and spice, it was a real pleasure to meet someone of that age, with all his facul-ties, ready for life’s next adventure.
Anderson is a World War II veteran and survivor, whose troop ship landed in Tokyo just two days after the official surrender of Ja-pan in 1945. But Harry did not turn around and leave. He stayed for more than two years and lived among the war-torn civilians.
To this day, he proudly maintains writ-ten correspondence with descendants of his Japanese friends.
What keeps him going? An easy question to ask and much harder to answer.
Widowed, with many great-children, An-derson has survived most members of his
immediate family. His real family members are his fellow residents at Madrid Manor, a resident-owned trailer park. There is much camaraderie and genuine friendship shared among the residents.
Harry is very proud of his Japanese souve-
nirs, which include a ceremonial cup and an ancient lantern. He collected rocks during his rockhound days. Part of his concerns now are how best to leave his collections to the right people and organizations.
Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa,
Harry worked in the aviation industry in California. When he was drafted into mili-tary service, he was trained to drive a tank. He kept busy being a clerk-typist in the oc-
Harry Johnson, veteran of World War II, is planning a huge party for his 100th birthday in December.
THE SIEGELSIDEBAR
WWII VET CELEBRATES 100TH BIRTHDAY
BIRTHDAY, continued on Page 12
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American Legion members will have no trouble remembering newly elected Na-tional Commander Dale Barnett’s motto. The Department of Georgia Legionnaire made sure to have it placed on this year’s membership shirt.
“Duty, honor, country — these three words have great meaning to my life, and I hope this year will have great meaning to you,” Barnett told Legionnaires on Sept. 3 at the 97th National Convention in Bal-timore. He then broke down what each word means to him.
Duty. “The first lesson of basic training was to know your job and do your job to the best you could,” Barnett said.
“Your life depended upon it, and the life of your buddies. In The American Legion, people depend on us each and every day to do the right thing. To get them to ap-pointments. To mentor the youth. To help families in need.”
Honor. “It was an honor to wear the military uniform, and I’m sure many of you still have your uniforms and you’re proud to share those stories,” he said. “But I’m also proud to wear the uniform of The American Legion. It’s an honor to be in this organization and to serve alongside you. I guarantee you your communities respect what you do, and they understand what you do each and every day. That makes their communities a better place.”
Country. “Our country needs us,” he said. “It’s the greatest country on earth. I’m so proud to be an American, but I’m so proud to be standing before you today to say I’m part of the greatest organiza-tion that, since 1919, has been fighting for
the principles that have made this country great. We will continue to fight for those principles. Our country needs us, and we must step forward now.”
“So this year, when you see those words, I want to challenge you,” Barnett added. “When you see them with your eyes, I want you to live it in your heart, and I want you to execute it with your body and soul.”
A member of Post 105 in Fayetteville, Ga., and past Department of Georgia commander, Barnett was raised in central Indiana and attended Whiteland Com-munity High School, where he was stu-dent body president, captain of the track and basketball teams and president of the Whiteland United Methodist Youth Bas-ketball Team. He also attended Hoosier Boys State in 1969, which he said was the determining factor in his decision to at-tend the U.S. Military Academy.
“The American Legion has shaped my life,” he said. “When I went to Hoosier Boys State in 1969, it planted for my at-tendance, and it was only because of The American Legion and Boys State that I think that I was selected to attend the Military Academy. It led to an opportunity of service”
Barnett was an Army infantry officer from 1974 to 1996, and served from 1990 to 1991 as the battalion executive officer of the 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. After retiring as a lieutenant colonel, he taught high school social studies and coached bas-ketball, baseball and cross country.
Legion’s new leader puts focus on duty, honor and country
New National Commander Dale Barnett is sworn into office by Past National Commander Dave Rehbein.
LEGION, continued on Page 15
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At 7:47 a.m. Sept. 5, after 28 days at sea, a U.S. Coast Guard ice-breaker reached the North Pole, making it the first U.S. surface
ship to traverse it on a solo exhibition. It was 21 degrees outside and the crew
on the bridge started cheering. The Healy, a medium-duty icebreaker, was there on a National Science Foundation-funded re-search expedition to document trace ele-ments in every ocean on Earth as part of an international series called GEOTRAC-ES. The ship left Dutch Harbor on Aug. 9 with about 145 people on board, includ-ing about 50 scientists from all over the world sampling the Arctic Ocean for the first time.
“You literally feel like you’re on a dif-ferent planet with 24-7 sun and ice all around you,” said Captain Jason Hamil-ton. “It’s really a sense of accomplishment and pride.”
The crew even had a rendezvous with the German icebreaker Polarstern, which was also on a GEOTRACES mission at 90 degrees N and parked about a half-mile away from the Healy.
Scientists and shipmates walked across the ice to compare notes and ships on top of the world.
“It was great to see our colleagues,” he said.
The seawater, sediment and air samples from the Arctic Ocean will help scientists piece together marine ecosystem cycles and their relationships to climate. Even though it only constitutes 3 percent of the world’s ocean coverage, GEOTRACES scientists consider it to be the epicenter of
climate change. Sampling the North Pole was part of its
initial plan from 2006, so it’s an accom-plishment shared by the researchers and the U.S. government.
Bill Schmoker, a teacher aboard, wrote on a blog while aboard the ship, “We squeezed in what seems like a week’s worth of work and excitement in the last three days at the pole.”
The Healy is a 420-foot, 16,000-ton, 30,000-horsepower icebreaker, capable of breaking more than 10 feet of ice, accord-ing to the Coast Guard. It uses as much as 22,000 gallons of diesel a day when it has to back up and ram into the densest pieces.
The last time it or any U.S. surface ship was at the North Pole was almost exactly a decade ago, on Sept. 12, 2005.
The scientific voyage was in collabo-ration with a Swedish icebreaker and its purpose was to survey marine life under the Arctic ice cap.
“Scientific research and operations didn’t require us to make the dangerous trek to the North Pole after the Healy’s 2005 voyage,” said Coast Guard spokes-person Lt. Donnie Brzuska.
“This year, (GEOTRACES is) sampling in the Arctic for the first time, which re-quired the cutter crew to sail to the North Pole.”
The North Pole was the Healy’s second mission of the season. It sailed hundreds of miles north of Barrow earlier this sum-mer on a science mission to that primarily benefited the Coast Guard’s operations. From bettering communication with iridium satellite walkie-talkies to testing the landing capabilities of an unmanned aircraft that delivers live video feed, it was bustling with different types of research onboard.
This trip to the pole was primarily a sci-entific mission and a lot of research was performed on ice, instead of from the boat, as with earlier research. But the Hamilton said the new challenges were just a testa-ment to the Coast Guard’s capabilities.
“The Coast Guard has been operating here off Alaska since the 1860s,” Hamilton said. “Healy continues that proud tradi-tion and we clearly demonstrated the ca-pability to provide access to the furthest regions of the planet.”
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The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy and the Geotraces science team have their portrait taken at the North Pole. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Cory J. Mendenhall)
Coast Guard cutter reaches North PoleHealy is first U.S. surface vessel to make solo trek
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The Veterans Affairs Department is rejecting reports that 300,000 veter-ans likely died while awaiting care, even though the figure came from its own in-spector general.
The number reflects the number of veterans with pending enrollment appli-cations that the Social Security Adminis-tration reports as deceased — but nothing indicates they went without medical care or died while actively seeking enrollment into the VA system, according to a senior official with the department’s Veterans Health Administration.
“[The IG] could not determine specifi-cally how many pending records represent veterans who applied for health care ben-efits or when they may have applied,” Act-ing Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and Management Janet Mur-phy said in an official VA blog post.
Lawmakers cited the figure as further evidence of mismanagement at the VA, which has been rocked by a series of scan-dals over the past few years, notably re-ports that many hospitals kept secret wait lists to conceal the fact that so many veter-ans were stuck in the system and unable to receive treatment.
Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said the
IG report is evidence that veterans should be able to get their health care needs met anywhere and not be tied to the VA system.
“It is absolutely clear that the way ahead for reform of the VA must be to empower all veterans to immediately get the care they need where and when they need it — regardless of the location — and never allow bureaucrats to deny our nation’s he-roes the benefits they deserve,” he said.
Rep. Dan Benishek, R-Michigan, called the IG findings “outrageous and ... tragic.”
“The endless amount of probing and investigations that it takes before the VA finally reveals the truth about the misman-agement that is occurring has got to stop now,” said Benishek, who spent 20 years as a doctor with the VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain, Michigan.
But according to Murphy, the depart-ment official, the lawmakers and the media reports based on the IG findings aren’t accurate.
Some of the veterans could have ap-plied for health care years ago and gone on to get care outside the VA. Murphy said the department does not have the authority to remove a claim from pend-ing status even if they attempt, but fail, to contact the veteran.
For that reason, any number of applica-tions for care could remain in the system, regardless of when it went in and whether the individual is alive or deceased.
Murphy did concede that its own system
is the reason the IG was not able to say exactly how many pending records rep-resented veterans who applied for health care benefits or when they applied, call-ing it “data weaknesses within our system which we are working hard to improve.”
Applications stay in pending status if they’re not complete, if a veteran’s record is transferred into the system even though he or she may not have initiated enroll-ment, or if a veteran accessed VA care pri-or to 1998, according to Murphy.
She also said that the veterans with pending applications are not already en-rolled in VA health care, so that it’s a mis-take to think that of the deceased had been department patients or enrollees.
She criticized media reports suggest-ing otherwise, saying “VA has repeatedly pointed this out to inquiring media.”
Author Kelly Kennedy, a Gulf War vet-eran and former reporter who now writes on veterans’ issues for the law firm Berg-mann & Moore, which specializes in vet-erans’ cases, responded to Murphy’s blog posting on her own site.
The VA posting, she wrote, “started out nicely: a contrite acknowledgement that things need to be fixed. And then it went downhill, into a convoluted statement that things aren’t as bad as the media are mak-ing them out to be (it’s always the media’s fault because blame-shifting), but we can’t tell you exactly how bad they are because we don’t know.”
VA denies 300,000 died awaiting careSays own IG’s numbers wrong
News BriefsTroop pay raise at 1.3 percent in 2016
President Obama announced a 1.3 percent pay raise for military members next year, a level that’s less than what’s specified under the law.
The change to monthly basic pay will take effect Jan. 1.
The presidential order is consistent with the Pentagon’s proposed budget for fiscal 2016, which begins Oct. 1.
The spending plan called for a pay raise of 1.3 percent rather than the 2.3 percent estimated increase in private sector-wage growth, which military pay is supposed to track by law. The 1.3 per-cent figure is slightly higher than the 1 percent pay increase that service mem-bers have received the past two years.
Army sent live Anthrax to all 50 statesDeputy Defense Secretary Bob Work
has repeatedly said the scandal over the military’s mistaken shipment of live an-thrax spores around the nation and the world would get worse — he was right.
The number of labs that received live anthrax has more than doubled to 194
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World events
Jan. 31.-
is between World War II Allies and Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Finland.
-casts into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on Feb. 17.
-gins operation March 1.
effect May 3.
Harry S. Truman33rd U.S. PresidentServed April 12, 1945 – Jan. 20, 1953
President Truman did not have a vice presidentas he served out the remainder of Franklin Roosevelt’s
term from 1945 to 1949.
“I am not worried about this country ever going Communist.We have too much sensefor that.”
-dent Truman signs a bill codifying the Tru-man Doctrine, guaranteeing U.S. provide to democratic nations under threat from authoritarian forces.
outlines the Marshall Plan for European reconstruction June 5.
Frank is first published June 25 in Am-sterdam.
formed by the partition of In-dia gains independence from Britain, forming Pakistan on
Aug. 14.
-comes India on Aug. 15.
on Aug. 31.
votes to partition Palestine between Arab and Jewish regions, leading to the creation the State of Israel on Nov. 29.
U.S. News
televised for the first time Jan. 3.
“Black Dahlia,” is found murdered Jan. 15 in Los Angeles. The case remains unsolved.
Grandcamp explodes in Texas City, Texas, on April 16. The blast killed 581, injured 5,000 and destroyed 20 city blocks.
first hit as a Major League Base-ball player during his second
outing as a Brooklyn Dodger against the Boston Braves on April 17. He also scored his first
run. Dodgers won 12–6.
alien aircraft is found in Roswell, N.M., on July 8.
signs the National Secu-rity Act of 1947 on July 26,
Jackie Robinson makes his debut as a Brooklyn Dodger. Howard Hughes pilots the only flight of the “Spruce Goose.”Chuck Yeager is first pilot to break the sound barrier.
forming the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the National Security Council and the U.S. Air Force.
-vised White House address Oct. 5.
Technology-
stant camera,” the Polaroid Land Camera, on Feb. 21 in New York City.
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tion July 6, becoming the most produced gun in history.
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1947BORN THIS YEAR: David Bowie, musician (Jan. 8).
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Hillary Clinton, politician (Oct. 26); Jaclyn Smith, actress (Oct. 26).
Howard Hughes pilots the only flight of the “Spruce Goose.”
the Hughes H-4 Hercules — “The Spruce Goose” — the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built and flown, in Long Beach on Nov. 2. The flight lasted 8 minutes.
Movies
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cupied country.Emotions run deep when the elder Harry
remembers what he went through as the younger Harry in the immediate aftermath
of the bombing destruction of Japan.“I did whatever I could to help those peo-
ple, who had nothing,” he said proudly. “War is so stupid.”
When the party gets fully planned, Harry expects relatives from across the country and friends from around the world to attend. Dawn, his caregiver, said that that may be a good time to suggest who gets what of Har-ry’s massive collections. Or, not. Harry just
wants to have a good time.Yes, his son in Northern California wants
Harry to move closer to him, but his dad gen-tly and firmly refuses.
“This is my home where my true friends are,” Harry said. “I am not planning to start over somewhere else.”
From what Dawn tells me, it appears that the trailer park is more like a form of as-sisted living, because neighbors keep helping neighbors to stay safely in their homes.
Harry is going to apply for the Honor Flights and just got registered with VA Health. He’s too busy sometimes sharing his spirit with his neighbors to take care of himself.
A talent that we all admire.
BIRTHDAYContinued from Page 6
‘I did whatever I could to help those people, who had nothing’
But if these other developments are a bit mercenary, only the NFL feels like it’s fully embraced outright camouflage-washing. Take an embattled brand, wrap it up in Desert MARPAT and dare anyone to start jeering at it.
Goodell and company have — barring any generalized sense of competency that we’d ascribe to a functionally non-malig-nant business — proved that they are mas-ters at a certain kind of craven canniness, and they and plenty of others have noticed the numerous opportunities for cynical capitalization. Far from the behavior of the founders (Washington, say, who deliber-ately patterned his life after Cincinnatus), or even of the Brokaw-dubbed Greatest Generation (in which roughly maybe one-sixteenth of personnel saw serious com-bat), we have nationally balked at applying any differentiation or critique to the roles of any active duty personnel in the Wars on Terror, Afghanistan, Iraq or ISIS. MSN-BC’s Chris Hayes was broadly slammed for suggesting his discomfort at the overuse of hero, because that is the brand now.
What a boon environment for a “non-profit” cartel flush with billions that social-izes the debts for new stadiums by plunder-ing municipalities and then privatizing the profits, that threatens to lockout the labor-ers who give the sport its only reason for existence when they ask for a fraction more money to continue at jobs that give them potentially terminal brain damage. Take a
recent example, when the NFL arranges the heartwarming reunion of a soldier and his cheerleader wife. Nobody watch-ing from the stands is likely to know that the former is a member of the obscenely wealthy Anheuser-Busch family, and the latter is a member of a well-connected po-litical family.
The NFL is the only organization that responds to people’s wincing in awkward embarrassment as if it were some sort of cue that the embarrassing thing wasn’t done in-tensely or often enough, and they long ago went all-in on draping themselves in the blood and bones of others to attain some whiff of contact legitimacy. All the “FOOT-BALL IS WAR” rhetoric might have started out as easy tropes for a lazy commentariat, but that stuff isn’t accidental anymore. That’s branding, and every flyover or unfurl-ing of an America-shaped American flag by combat veterans is a deliberate, crass attempt to so wholly synonymize the fiscal upward-suction of the NFL with terms like valor, duty and honor. The more we salute the business’ use of soldiers, the more we render a predatory business unassailable. It’s brand synergy between the moneyed and profane and what we consider nationally sa-cred. It’s the same emotionally exploitative and cynical impulse that leads some fobbit to start waving his Green Zone Participa-tion Medal in people’s faces to justify some hateful online rant about how the Brewton, Alabama, nativity scene is under attack by sharia disguised as liberals. There is no level of stupid that can’t be camowashed, and the NFL knows it.
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since Work and Frank Kendall, the Penta-gon’s top acquisition official, released a re-port in July on the shipments of the deadly pathogen from the Army‘s Dugway Prov-ing Grounds in Utah.
The number of states receiving live an-thrax also more than doubled to include all 50 states and Washington, D.C., plus Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
The number of countries that received live anthrax went up from seven to nine — Japan, United Kingdom, Korea, Aus-tralia, Canada, Italy, Germany, Norway and Switzerland, according to the Penta-gon’s updated accounting of the shipments through Sept. 1.
There have been no deaths or serious illnesses reported from the military’s 10-year program to ship anthrax to private and military labs for testing to develop vaccines and detection devices, according to the Defense Department.
However, at least 31 military and civilian personnel were treated with antibiotics as a precaution after a lab in Maryland dis-covered in May that a supposedly irradi-ated anthrax sample contained live spores.
VA launches online self-help coursesVeterans Affairs MHS’s Online Self-
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The courses are completely online and can be taken at the time, pace and place of your choosing.
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The courses are: “Parenting for Service-members and Veterans,” which provides practical information on ways to com-municate with children, how to discuss deployments and methods to positively discipline children. It explains how to in-terpret specific emotions and behaviors that children may show at a variety of ages.
“Moving Forward: Overcoming Life’s
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And “Anger and Irritability Manage-ment Skills,” which teaches you to identify your personal anger triggers and warning signs, so you are better prepared for stress-ful situations and you learn practical tools for reducing the intensity of your anger. Develop a personalized anger manage-ment plan that you can use in real-life situations.
These courses are unlike typical online training courses and feature interactive exercises, quizzes, games and videos.
The courses can be found on VA’s web-site at www.veterantraining.va.gov.
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Now’s time to increase stocksBy Norman L MachtMilitaryPress
In a classic cartoon by Chas. Ad-dams, whose weird characters populated the 1960s TV show “The Addams Family,” the audience
in a movie theater is shown facing the screen. Every face is sad; everyone’s eyes are teary — except one. A ghoulish little man with fangs, wearing a black cape, is grinning. There is no caption.
I was reminded of it by the stock market’s sudden late-August 10 percent dive that made scary headlines for most investors. What did it mean? How far down would it go? What should I do? Or, as a client once asked me in a similar time: “Should I panic?”
Who knows how many people of all ages were saying, “All I know about the stock market is that it makes me want to turn off the TV and take something for my nerves.”
So who was smiling? Apart from the short sellers who had bet on a decline by selling stock they didn’t own (don’t try it), those who were smiling — or should be — were the long-term investors who see a steep decline as an opportunity to enhance their growth potential, and income-seekers who see dividend yields go up as stock prices drop.
For working people wise enough to be investing regularly and reinvesting the dividends, it’s a time to increase, not cut back, your allotment. If the S&P 500 were to go from 200 to 300 druing the next 10 years, it would be far more profitable for you if it got there, not by a slow, steady rise, but by dropping to, say, 150, in the meantime, because you’d be buying more shares at lower prices. Do the math.
For the retired seeking income, a buy-ing opportunity requires having avail-able cash or short-term CDs to liqui-date. But before you go all-in, if you are on a monthly withdrawal plan, be sure you retain enough cash or equivalent to cover your needs without having to sell any stocks in a down market. How much cash? Advisers recommend hold-ing anywhere from three to as much as 10 years’ liquid reserves to draw from in order to avoid the need to sell stocks during a possible bear market.
As for trying to understand why the market is acting like a yo-yo on steroids,
MONEY, continued on Page 17
NEWS BRIEFSContinued from Page 9 A man who is good
enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.— Theodore Roosevelt
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Smokin’ in the rainJane and Arlene are outside their nurs-
ing home, having a drink and a smoke, when it starts to rain. Jane pulls out a condom, cuts off the end, puts it over her cigarette, and continues smoking.
Arlene: What in the hell is that?Jane: A condom. This way my cigarette
doesn’t get wet.Arlene: Where did you get it?Jane: You can get them at any phar-
macy.The next day, Arlene hobbles herself
into the local pharmacy and announces to the pharmacist that she wants a box of condoms.
The pharmacist, obviously embar-rassed, looks at her kind of strangely (she is, after all, over 80 years of age), but very delicately asks what size, texture, brand of
condom she prefers.“Doesn’t matter, Sonny, as long as it fits
on a Camel.”The pharmacist fainted.
Super size itHave you heard about McDonald’s new
Obama Value Meal? Order anything you like, and the guy
behind you has to pay for it.
Fart footballAn old married couple gets into be and
no sooner to they hit the pillows when the old man passes gas and says, “Seven points.’
His wife rolls over and says, “What in the world was that?”
The old man replied, “It’s fart football.”A few minutes later his wife lets one go
and says, “Touchdown, tie score.”After about five minutes the old man
lets another one go and says, “Aha. I’m ahead 14 to 7.”
Not to be outdone, the wife rips out an-other one and says, “Touchdown, tied up again!”
Five seconds go by and she lets out a little squeaker and says, “Field goal! I lead 17 to 14.” Now the pressure is on for the old man.
He refuses to get beaten by a woman, so he strains real hard.
Since defeat is totally unacceptable, he gives it everything he’s got, and acciden-tally poops in the bed.
The wife says, “What the hell was that?”
The old man says, “Half time — switch sides.”
Nasal cavitiesWhat do you find in an empty nose? Finger prints.
Modern familyA guy walks into a bar and says to the
barman, “Give me six double vodkas.”The barman says, “Wow, you must have
had one hell of a day.”“I just found out my oldest son is gay.”The next day, the same guy comes into
the bar and asks for six more double vodkas. When the bartender asks what’s wrong, the man says, “I just found out that my youngest son is gay, too!”
On the third day, the guy comes into the bar and orders another six double vodkas. The bartender says, “Jesus! Doesn’t any-body in your family like women?”
The man downs the first drink and shakes his head, “Yeah, my wife!”
Seeing the dermatologistA Democrat walks into a doctor’s office
with a frog sitting on his head. The frog looks at the doctor and says,
“Hey doc, can you get this wart off my butt?”
Swear to GodOne day little Johnny was walking up a
hill pulling his red wagon behind him say-ing, “Damn this,” “Damn that.”
The town priest hears this and walks up to Johnny and says, “You shouldn’t swear like that, Johnny. God is all around us.”
“Is he in the sky?” asks Johnny.“Yes,” says the priest.“Is he in that bush over there?” asks
Johnny.“Yes,” says the priest.“Is he in my wagon?” asked Johnny.“Yes,” says the priest.“Tell him to get the hell out and push!”
Foreign tradeIn the beginning, God created the heav-
en and the earth.After that, everything else was made in
China.
Best FriendsA woman meets with her lover, who is
also her husband’s best friend.As they lie in bed, the phone rings.
Since it’s the woman’s house, she picks up the receiver.
The best friend listens, only hearing her side of the conversation:
“Hello? Oh, hi... I’m so glad that you called... Really? That’s wonderful... Well, I’m happy to hear you’re having such a great time... Oh, that sounds terrific... Love you, too. OK. Bye-bye.”
She hangs up the telephone and her lover asks, “Who was that?”
“Oh,” she replies. “That was my husband telling me about the wonderful time he’s having on his fishing trip with you.”
Paternity testA doctor is examining a pregnant pros-
titute, and asks, “Do you know who the father is?”
“Oh, for goodness sakes!” she replies. “If you ate a can of beans, would you know which one made you fart?!”
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Walk of VeteransThe former coach is introducing a new
initiative this year: Walk of Veterans. Barnett said the walks will take place in communities throughout the nation and are aimed to raise awareness about the Legion’s impact on its communities. Barnett wants the walks to in-clude Legion family members, Legion youth program participants and their families, Scouts and local high school JROTC units, as well as community leaders and anyone else interested in participating.
“We walk for veterans each and every day in our communities,” Barnett said. “We mentor our kids, we do things for our com-munity. I want to walk with all the people we touch, and that’s a lot of people. I want you to walk, and I want you to tell your story about why you joined The Ameri-can Legion and why you stay a member in The American Legion. I guarantee … that when people in your community walk with you and walk with us, and learn about what we’re doing, we’re going to see people join this organization. We’re going to see goodwill with public relations. And we’re going to get the message of The American Legion out to the communities.”
VA health care system a priorityCaring for those who have worn the
nation’s uniform — and monitoring the health-care system designed to care for them — will be a priority for Barnett.
“I want each and every one of you to know that I pledged to the (Department of Veterans Affairs) secretary — you have pledged to the VA — that it is a system worth saving, and we’re in it together,” he said.
“We’re going to do everything possible to make the VA health-care system pro-vide the best health care in the world to our veterans because they have earned it and they deserve it.
“We will continue to look at the time-
liness of VA claims, appointments and services, as well as the accuracy of that reporting. We will continue to partner — through our network of service officers, volunteers and town hall meeting — to monitor and to work with VA to ensure timely delivery of health care.”
Barnett said VA employees must per-form their responsibilities in an acceptable manner or deal with the consequences.
“We will continue to support further empowerment of the VA management to
hold people accountable in the VA system who do not perform and provide that qual-ity health care to our veterans,” he said.
Elected as national vice commanders were George E. Cushing (Arizona), Alan A. Davis (Minnesota), David L. Gough (Wisconsin), John W. Hargreaves (Maine) and Jimmy Lane (Arkansas). Rev. Dr. H. C. “Ted” Kelley (Pennsylvania) was ap-pointed national chaplain, while James E. Copher Sr. (Minnesota) was appointed national historian.
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plicated they are. Then there are a few weeks of editing.
EC: What about experts, any military?HS: Yes. There are many military ad-
visers on the set who are former Navy, including a few writers. They tell us how to do the action stuff. We also have people from the Navy who arrange things logisti-cally from being able to film on the ship to providing help with the dialogue, the way people move and how they act. We want to be as realistic as possible. We want to make the characters professional and re-alistic so we consult on how things look, sound, and work.
EC: Do you have scientific experts?HS: We have several, including micro-
biologists and those specializing in kinet-ics. Some come to the set to make sure we have the correct props and equipment. They work with Rhona, Dr. Rachel Scott, to teach her how to use the equipment. We wanted to make everything scientifically grounded even though what is being ac-complished is somewhat more advanced than what has been done. For us it must be in the realm of plausibility. The scien-
tists help us formulate how our ideas could happen, making sure the science is actu-ally correct.
EC: This season it seems the plots are based on a Holocaust comparison with white supremists. True?
HS: We did not speak of Nazism so much, but I could see why the compari-sons would come up. I don’t think Ramsey thinks of himself specifically as Hitler, but Chandler does comment about a “master race.” The Immunes, led by the Ramsey
Brothers, seek biological purity instead of racial purity, but do have a sense of their own superiority as inheritors of the race. There is a sense of primitive tribalism as a result of the breakdown of civilization.
EC: What about the episode with the
children found on an island. Did you base it on the Lost Boys from “Peter Pan?”
HS: No. We were thinking more of “Lord of the Flies.” We wanted to explore what happens to children when they must survive on their own. We always wanted to do a sto-ry on children survivors without any adults.
EC: The characters this season have more gray areas than last. Please explain.
HS: As the series develops you always want to explore deeper and deeper with the characters. We put them in different
situations to show who these people re-ally are — to show their different sides. It is interesting to watch how these peo-ple deal with impossible circumstances and find the strength and courage within themselves. For me, I am interested in the ongoing struggle and how they evolve without making them too old-fashioned, because we do give them flaws. The main characters are trying to do the right thing and are up against incredible odds.
EC: A lot of fans were upset with Com-mander Chandler for his reaction to Ra-chel after she killed someone. Why did he not support her?
HS: The commander believes in a mor-al authority and military discipline. Ra-chel violated this code as well as his trust by doing it behind his back, lying to him, and allowing rumors on the ship to run rampant. With the president on the ship, there would have been blow back on him as well as the commander because some of the crew thought they condoned it.
EC: But she killed evil, so what is wrong with that?
HS: We are a country that is based on
rules of law. As the population is start-ing to create a new society they need to make sure someone is put on trial for their wrong deeds. I know a lot of people were upset with Chandler because Rachel did something that was clearly what they would have done. Yet, she acted emotion-ally and did not think about the other con-sequences. There is a saying about values: when you only stick to them when they are convenient, then they are not values. The fact that people were arguing about the commander’s toughness on Rachel is ex-actly what we wanted to achieve.
EC: Why did you decide to kill off cer-tain well-regarded characters?
HS: It is based on the direction the story is going. The Israeli soldier, Lt. Ravit Bivas, (Inbar Lavi) bid farewell after getting mor-tally wounded. When she said the Shema prayer, it was very emotional to me because I am Jewish. We wanted to make it inher-ently tragic with her. It was a dramatic in-evitability based on her frustrated ideology.
EC: How do you come up with the antagonists?
HS: That is the biggest and most impor-tant question for the series. What defines the whole story is the challenges these vil-lains present to the heroes. We try to cre-ate very interesting ones that are fresh and make sure never to cannibalize from previ-ous stories.
EC: What do you want the viewers to get out of the storyline for “The Last Ship?”
HS: The same thing I want viewers to get out of anything I have ever written. I want them to feel for the characters, feel that they are part of a situation, and to feel connected as the story moves along since we live somewhat vicariously through the characters. I want people to think about, “What would I do?” and “How would I react in that situation?” Sitting on their couch but feeling as if they are there.
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LAST SHIPContinued from Page 2
‘We want to be as realistic as possible. We want to make the characters
professional and realistic, so we consult on how things look, sound and work.’
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At work today, I took charge of the team. Afterward, my boss asked where that came from. My answer was easy.Jump-start your life in the National Guard.
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Haschert is right about one thing: the birthday ball will be crazy. Even without celebrities in attendance, the ball is the highlight of the year for most Marines, unless that is, EASing (military speak for ending ac-tive service). The gathering is a Marine Corps tradition in keep-ing with the Marines’ founding on Nov. 10, 1775 when two com-panies of sea-faring warfighters were recruited in order to sup-port ship-to-ship fighting dur-ing the Revolutionary War.
Recently, the ball usually means a four-day weekend in conjunction with Veteran’s Day and is usually held in a convention center a few hours from base. Haschert says the ball will be somewhere in South Carolina.
Haschert is trying to figure out his trans-
portation to the ball and is considering a limo from the hotel to the convention center.
“My friends can’t believe it,” he said. “My phone has been blowing up from people I haven’t talked to since middle school.”
At the ball, Marines are clad in full dress uniform, known as dress blues, and start the evening off by watching the Marine Corps birthday message — usually in video form — delivered by the current commandant of the Marine Corps. This is in keep-ing with a tradition started in 1921 by “the greatest of all Leathernecks” 13th comman-dant Gen. John A. Lejeune. Af-ter that there is a cake cutting by the oldest and youngest Ma-rine of the battalion and then,
of course, some dancing.Rousey is undefeated in the UFC with
12 wins. Her last three fights all lasted 34 seconds or less.
don’t bother. Commentators are paid to comment, to say something that sounds plausible. Conditions cited as the reason for one day’s 600-point drop didn’t go away when the market bounced back up 500 points the next day. Any time you read about “investors’” sentiments affect-ing the market’s daily activity, forget it. In this age of computer-driven high-volume trading, you and I are not “moving” the market up or down.
Ours is not to reason why the tides go in and out, but to cast our lots upon the waves in the hopes they will carry us to our goals, whatever they may be.
For most of us, it’s the only game in town.
A retired stockbroker, Norman L. Macht is a per-sonal financial consultant residing in Escondido. Contact him via email at [email protected].
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sualizing how I would fit in.AG: I’m sure you had other teams inter-
ested in you, why did you pick San Diego?SJ: I wanted to be here. I wanted to be
here after my first contract (ended), but it didn’t happen. It just so happens I got to play for all of my favorite teams — Buffalo, San Francisco and now hopefully I can fin-ish it up here in San Diego.
AG: What was it specifically about the Chargers that made you sign here?
SJ: Being in California, the quarterback … I would have to say the quarterback with me being a receiver. And in Califor-nia the weather is great throughout the season, where in Buffalo the weather is great early but later in the year it gets real icy. So being in a place where you are able to throw the ball throughout the year is big
for a receiver.AG: How far along are you and Philip
in developing that QB/WR relationship where you just look at each other and in-stantly know what the other is thinking out on the field?
SJ: We’re still building that. It’s been ac-celerated because it is unreal how fast he picks up on the tendencies of the receivers. I don’t want to be overconfident and say that we’ve reached that point already — so I would just say we’re building it.
AG: You talk about the opportunity of playing with Philip. What is different about him compared to the other quarter-backs you have played with?
SJ: It’s the freedom — the freedom to control the entire offense. You have a gen-eral back there who can see the defense, know what’s coming and deal with the checks to maneuver the players where to go — that’s like having cheat sheet on a
test. A lot of quarterbacks that I’ve played with were good and talented, but none of them have the freedom that he has and that’s pretty big.
AG: What qualities do you bring to the Chargers as a seasoned veteran, and do you prefer to play inside at the slot position or would you rather line up on the outside?
SJ: My versatility — like being in the re-ceiver room and with the offense I’m able to line up everywhere and help everybody out, so I just want to keep building on my versatility. It doesn’t matter where I play, inside or outside is fine with me.
AG: Did you set any goals for this season?SJ: I want to win a championship. We
have a guy in Jacoby Jones who has won a championship and I want to be at that level too — to be able to be a champion at the sport we play.
The Endzone: When asked why he
signed with the Chargers rather than the defending Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots who were also seeking his services, Johnson said he just couldn’t sign with his one-time rival.
“Honestly, it was like I have been going against the Patriots for so many years, and with them being rivals, I couldn’t sign with them,” Johnsons said. “I’m so engrained in the Buffalo area that it just wouldn’t fit. I guess I’m just too loyal to my soil, you know what I’m saying?”
With tight end Antonio Gates sus-pended the first four games of the season, look for Johnson to play a major role in the Chargers passing attack. At 6-feet-2-inches, he presents a much larger target for Rivers to throw to than Royal who is 5-feet-10-inches tall. He also said he feels faster on the field now that he’s playing at 197 pounds — his lightest playing weight since his freshman year at Kentucky.
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