Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Pharmacies, eh?



Yep, anything is possible.




I guess just a coincidence that FBI director Christopher Wray was claiming that Chinese cyber hackers were lurking in our phone companies at the Munich Security Conference just one week ago. Perhaps seeding a narrative for wicked things to come.

"Hackers lurking in your power stations, your phone companies, poised to take them down when they decide you stepped too far out of line and that hurting your civilian population suits the CCP...

China is not the only adversary we are up against. Russia, Iran, and North Korea are also determined to use cyber means to take aim at things we all hold sacred...

Russia has made murder, rape and mayhem its stock and trade so no one should question its continued willingness to launch destructive cyber attacks before and during military conflicts."





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Capt. Chris Hill and Nora Dora...


Civilians might think this is silly, but in the Navy on those long deployments at sea it's a huge morale thing, especially during harms way.


SS Pacific Tracker (callsign: WQVZ) ballistic missile test tracker vessel coming into Honolulu, Hawaii - February 19, 2024:



SS Pacific Tracker (2009 - present) is a United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) missile range instrumentation ship that monitors tests conducted by the Missile Defense Agency. It was formerly a crane ship (1964 - 2006) named SS Beaver State (T-ACS-10) was named for the state of Oregon, which as you might know is the Beaver State. As of Sept 30, 2023, Pacific Tracker was listed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Pacific division assigned to Portland, OR.

Keystone State Class Crane Ship:

1. Laid down, 13 April 1964, as the breakbulk ship, SS Mormacdraco, a Maritime Administration type (C6-S-60a) hull, under Maritime Administration contract (MA 144) at Ingalls Shipbuilding Inc., Pascagoula, MS.
   
2. Launched, 14 January 1965
   
3. Delivered to the Moore-McCormack Lines, 28 May 1965
   
4. Converted to a MARAD type hull (C6-S-MA60b) Crane Ship at National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, CA.
   
5. Renamed SS American Draco, 13 September 1983
   
6. Transferred to the United States Lines, 1 November 1983
   
7. Re-acquired by the Maritime Administration (MARAD) in April 1987
   
8. Assigned by the Maritime Administration to the Ready Reserve Force, (RRF), under operation control of the Military Sealift Command (MSC)
   
9. Placed in service as SS Beaver State (ACS-10), 4 May 1997
   
10. SS Beaver State (ACS-10) was berthed at Bremerton, WA. and assigned to Maritime Prepositioning Ship Squadron Three and was maintained in a five-day readiness status.
    
11. Removed from MSC control, withdrawn from the RRF by reassignment to the National Defense Reserve Fleet, 28 July 2006
    
12. Converted for the Missile Defense Agency at Cascade General Shipyards, Portland, OR. to an X-Band Transportable Radar Ship, designated (XTR-1)
    
13. Renamed SS Pacific Tracker, 1 April 2009. (No fools joke)
    

USS Mississippi (SSN 782) Virginia-class Block II attack submarine with a SEAL Delivery Vehicle on its back leaving Pearl Harbor - February 21, 2024:



USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer returning from deployment to Pearl Harbor - February 21, 2024:


The ship is named for Vice Admiral William P. Lawrence (1930–2005), a naval aviator, fighter pilot, test pilot, Mercury astronaut finalist, Vietnam POW, a U.S. Third Fleet commander, a Chief of Naval Personnel, and a Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy. The ship maintains a missing man table in the ship's mess hall.


USS Frank E. Petersen, Jr. (DDG 121) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer coming into Pearl Harbor - February 20, 2024:


USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) was named for United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General Frank E. Petersen Jr. (March 2, 1932 – August 25, 2015) The first African-American Marine Corps aviator and the first African-American Marine Corps general. His date of designation as an aviator also precedes all other aviators in the U.S. Air Force and Army. The ship was commissioned on 14 May 2022 at Charleston, South Carolina.


USS McCampbell (DDG 85) "Relentless in Battle" is an Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer leaving Pearl Harbor - February 20, 2024:


She is named in honor of Naval Aviator Captain David S. McCampbell (January 16, 1910 – June 30, 1996), a Medal of Honor and Navy Cross recipient who was the Navy's leading ace in World War II. Legendary McCampbell is the US Navy's all-time leading flying ace (called Ace of the Aces in the Navy) and top F6F Hellcat ace with 34 aerial victories. He was the third-highest American scoring ace of World War II and the highest-scoring American ace to survive the war. He also set a United States single mission aerial combat record of shooting down nine enemy planes in one mission, on October 24, 1944, at the beginning of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in the Philippines who became the only American airman to achieve "ace in a day" status twice!

He retired from the Navy in 1964 with 31 years of service. He died in Florida in 1996 and was interred at Arlington National Cemetery.

Commissioned on 17 August 2002. In July 2020 the ship left Yokosuka, Japan for Portland, Oregon to begin a midlife update at Vigor Shipyards. On Feb 5, 2024: The U.S. Navy announced that USS McCampbell will forward deploy to Yokosuka, Japan. McCampbell maintains on board an active VBSS team to conduct anti piracy, anti-smuggling, and anti-terrorist operations.



Coat of arms badge:

The traditional Navy colors were chosen for the shield because dark blue and gold represents the sea and excellence respectively. The light blue band refers to the Pacific theater, where Captain McCampbell's served as commander of Air Group 15. In the band, there are thirty-four stars representing the number of enemy aircraft Captain McCampbell destroyed in air to air combat. This distinguished him as the leading naval ace in World War II. The Roman numeral “XV” signifies the “Fabled Fifteen” which embarked on USS Essex. The Navy Cross with a Silver Star center symbolize Captain McCampbell's bravery during combat in the Philippines.

The reversed star refers to Captain McCampbell's Medal of Honor which was awarded for heroism in both the first and second battles of the Philippine Sea. The sea lion represents the Republic of the Philippines government seal. Two tridents, symbolizing sea prowess, surround the star and signifying the AEGIS system's firepower and strike capability. Representing the United States coat of arms is the winged shield to symbolize naval aviator wings which was Captain McCampbell's area of specialty.