Veterans...Get the hell in here now!

BarnBuster said:
Keep reminding yourself this is the real deal and not actors playing a part. They did sub some dialogue in afterwards, they had lip readers determine what the soldiers were saying.
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I will. I'll be watching it this evening. WWI & II are incredibly fascinating to me. So glad to find this gem. Thanks again @BarnBuster . I'll come back later and probably wanna discuss. I'm sure I'll enjoy the doc.
 
USS Jarvis Bagley-class Destroyer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jarvis_(DD-393))
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She fired on the enemy at Pearl Harbor and survived.
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However, the Japanese, still mistaking Jarvis for an escaping cruiser, dispatched 31 planes from Rabaul to search out and destroy her. Once discovered the badly damaged destroyer was no match for bombers raking the ship with bullets and torpedoes. According to Japanese records, Jarvis "split and sank" at 1300 on 9 August. None of her 233 remaining crew survived the onslaught.

My uncle was on that ship.
 
By MATTHEW KEELER | STARS AND STRIPES - Published: August 9, 2019

OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — More than a year after North Korea returned 55 cases of remains, 11 American troops have been identified and more are expected in coming weeks, according to the agency overseeing the process.

The remains were flown to Osan in late July, fulfilling part of the agreement reached by President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at their first summit on June 12, 2018, in Singapore.

DPAA “has identified 11 servicemen from those remains and we expect more than 20 additional IDs in the coming weeks,” spokesman Air Force Lt. Col. Kenneth Hoffman said Friday in an email, citing ongoing forensic analyses and DNA testing.

Last week, Vice President Mike Pence, who was at the repatriation ceremony last year in Hawaii, said in a tweet that “25 more heroes from the 55 boxes of remains” had been identified.

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Southwest Airlines flew the remains of a Vietnam airman home to Dallas. The pilot was his son.
By REIS THEBAULT | The Washington Post | Published: August 9, 2019

Bryan Knight was 5 years old when he waved goodbye to his father from Dallas Love Field airport. He never saw him again.

The year was 1967 and Roy Knight Jr. was heading to war. The pilot reported to Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base in January. By May — after flying near daily combat missions — Knight was missing, his plane shot down over enemy territory in Laos. It was another seven years before his family found out he'd been killed. And on Thursday, 45 years after that, they finally received closure.

Knight's remains, recovered near his plane's crash site more than five decades after it went down, were flown from Honolulu to Oakland, California, and from Oakland back to Dallas, where his family greeted the Southwest flight as it arrived.

Bryan Knight, the son who watched his dad leave to fight in the Vietnam War, was also the man who flew him home, the pilot of that flight from California to Texas that landed at Love Field, the last place the two saw each other.

When the plane landed in Dallas, the airport's fire trucks greeted it with a water salute. Knight's remains, in a casket draped with an American flag, were received with full military honors. Inside the terminal, hundreds looked on, their faces pressed against the window, listening as a gate agent tearfully recounted the Knight family's story over the intercom.
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Knight's plane was shot down while he was attacking a military target on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, which borders Vietnam to the west. At first, he was listed as missing but was declared killed in action in 1974. He was posthumously awarded the Air Force Cross, Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart and six Air Medals for his service, his obituary says.

https://www.stripes.com/southwest-a...d+Stripes+Emails&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines
 
BarnBuster said:
Have you watched "They Shall Not Grow Old" ? It's a historical documentary but it is a outstanding technical achievement in film processing. First 20 min or so are ho hum but then you will be amazed.
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I watched it. I was astounded to see what sort of a reception that these men found after coming back home. Signs that said help wanted, but ex-military need not apply. Appalling. Those guys went through hell in those trenches. Thanks for the recommendation.
 
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11th MEU using LAV's (M242's and M240C's) to repel small boats and drones off Iranian coast. "... the LAVs “have better sensors than the ship does to detect small incoming boats,” said Maj. Gen. David Coffman, director of expeditionary warfare."

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I was with The HS-4 Black Knights.Coronado Ca.
We started with H-3 Sikorskys and made the transition to the MH-60. Awesome times. I was primary troubleshooter, hydraulics. Still doing hydraulics.
 
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By ROB SHIKINA | The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Published: September 2, 2019

HONOLULU (Tribune News Service) — With the American flag billowing in the wind and “The Star-Spangled Banner” playing on the loudspeakers from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, the first boatload of tourists and residents in nearly 16 months stepped onto the USS Arizona Memorial on Sunday morning.

The 145 visitors on the Navy boat disembarked to spend a few solemn minutes within the white walls of the shrine at the same time, 8:10 a.m., that the Arizona was hit Dec. 7, 1941, also a Sunday, by an armor-piercing bomb that sank the ship and killed 1,177 men. The battleship suffered the greatest loss of life of all the ships and planes attacked that day. Among the dead were a father and son named Free and 23 sets of brothers.

“It was just terribly moving to be over there today,” said Minneapolis resident Patty Drake, 63, who was in Hawaii while celebrating her 27th anniversary with her husband, Bob. “All the death and the pain.”

She saw the oil seeping from the sunken ship that she recalled seeing the last time she visited the memorial while living in Hawaii more than 50 years ago.

“It was powerful,” Bob Drake said. The oil the Drakes witnessed leaks from the million gallons of bunker fuel oil that was aboard the ship when it sank and is known as the “black tears of the Arizona.” Visitors now can walk on the memorial and see the oil and the names of the dead etched into the marble wall as they reflect on the sacrifice of those who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which brought the U.S. into World War II.

While the memorial was closed, the National Park Service, which overseas the site, offered a narrated harbor boat tour along Battleship Row and still showed a 25-minute documentary.

The memorial was closed in May 2018 after park staff found major damage to the anchoring system for the boat dock at the memorial. The damage — possibly caused by king tides in 2017 that raised the concrete blocks out of the ground — allowed too much movement of the dock and created a risk that the bridge to the memorial could collapse.

Originally, the memorial, one of the state’s top attractions with about 4,300 daily visitors, was set to reopen in October 2018. Frustration grew as the timeline was pushed back repeatedly— first to December, then to March and finally this October. After the March deadline was missed, Hawaii’s congressional delegation wrote a letter to the acting director of the National Parks Service that expressed the public’s disappointment and requested monthly updates on the repair project.

Jay Blount, Pearl Harbor National Memorial’s chief of interpretation, said that initially, there were plans to repair the concrete block anchoring system, but rather than risk a repeat of the problem, planners decided to go with a completely new anchoring system, which was one cause of the early delays.

The new anchoring system uses giant screws, some longer than 100 feet, that have been driven into the seafloor. Twelve anchors were installed and then were attached to the dock using synthetic rope as part of the $2.1 million repair.

In their letter to the Parks Service, lawmakers said the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, which is home to the Arizona Memorial, had nearly 1.8 million visitors in 2018. Blount said it was unknown how large an impact the closure of the memorial had on park visitor arrivals, but recent park statistics show an annual visitor decline of about 8%.

Steve Mietz, acting supervisor of the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, said reopening the Arizona Memorial was the top priority of the National Parks Service. “Reconnecting the American public to the USS Arizona Memorial is very meaningful to me,” Mietz said. “People need to be there at that shrine to pay their respects to those fallen heroes. It’s such a moving sight.”

Mietz said the repair project involved working with several partners, including the nonprofit Pacific Historic Parks and the Navy, which had the equipment to support the parks department and helped compete the project faster and at a lower cost.

Blount said the memorial, which opened on Memorial Day 1962, stands as the symbol of American sacrifice in the Pacific theater during WWII.
 
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