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Feb 10, 1906: HMS Dreadnought became "the most deadly fighting machine ever launched in the history of the world." Dreadnought heralded a new era of naval warfare by introducing a revolutionary design that gave the battleship unprecedented firepower and speed.

HMS Dreadnought (Battleship, 1906-1922)

HMS Dreadnought, an 18,110-ton battleship built at Portsmouth Dockyard, England, represented one of the most notable design transformations of the armored warship era. Her "all-big-gun" main battery of ten twelve-inch guns, steam turbine powerplant and 21-knot maximum speed so thoroughly eclipsed earlier types that subsequent battleships were commonly known as "dreadnoughts", and the previous ones disparaged as "pre-dreadnoughts". The swiftness of her construction was equally remarkable. Laid down in October 1905, she was launched in February 1906, after only four months on the ways. Dreadnought was commissioned for trials a year after her keel was laid and was completed in December 1906. Her building, trials and early service were closely watched by the World's naval authorities, including the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence, the source of all of our photographs of Dreadnought.

The new battleship served as Flagship of the Home Fleet in 1907-1912 and remained part of that fleet thereafter. Dreadnought served with the 4th Battle Squadron in the North Sea during the first two years of World War I. On 18 March 1915, while so employed, she rammed and sank the German Submarine U-29. From May 1916, Dreadnought was flagship of the 3rd Battle Squadron, based on the Thames to counter the threat of bombardment by German battlecruisers. Placed in reserve in 1919, the once-revolutionary warship was sold for scrapping in 1922.

The first table below compares the building programs of Great Britain, Germany, the United States, and Japan in "Dreadnought," i.e. all big gun, battleships. The tradition of the Royal Navy had always been not to push innovation itself, which tended to devalue existing ships, but only to respond to innovations made by others. The lessons of the Battle of Tsushima between Russia and Japan in 1905, however, where long range fire had decided the battle, inspired the radical design of the British Dreadnought. Pre-Dreadnought battleships all had a main battery of four guns. The Dreadnought now had ten (though only a broadside of eight), and it was bigger and faster (21 knots, against 18).

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Of the battleships built before the 1930's, i.e. before the North Carolina, BB-55, only one survives afloat. That is the battleship Texas, BB-35, which is moored on public display at the San Jacinto Battlefield outside Houston, Texas. A ship like the Texas is shown on the reverse of the series 1918 Federal Reserve Bank Note $2 bill. The note is consequently known as the "Battleship $2 bill." For many years, it was not clear whether the ship was intended to be the Texas or its sistership, the New York. Recently the Bureau of Printing and Engraving announced that the ship was supposed to be the New York. Why it was necessary to wait more than 70 years to do this, especially when the announcement would then look like a political snub against Texas, is not clear. Nevertheless, the Texas is the only battleship of its era that survives afloat anywhere in the world.

Dreadnought

Feb 8, 1915: the Boy Scouts of America was founded by:

1. Charles Alexander Eastman (the first certified Native American physician)
   
2. William D. Boyce (American newspaper man, entrepreneur, magazine publisher, and explorer)
   
3. Ernest Thompson Seton (Canadian & American author, wildlife artist)
   
4. Daniel Carter Beard (American illustrator, author, youth leader, Georgist and social reformer who founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, which Beard later merged with the Boy Scouts of America)

In the 1930s, members of BSA's Sea Explorer Scout program (ages 14-20) reported that they were constantly being slapped when trying to assist women. Apparently, the women were mistaking the Sea Scouts for 'small' drunken sailors trying to "get fresh."

BSA origins is actually from across the pond to Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, was a British Army officer, writer, founder of The Boy Scouts Association and its first Chief Scout, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of The Girl Guides Association.

In 1909, William Boyce was visiting London, where he encountered a boy who came to be known as the Unknown Scout. Boyce was lost on a foggy street when an unknown Scout came to his aid, guiding him to his destination. The boy then refused Boyce's tip, explaining that he was a Boy Scout and was merely doing his daily good turn. Interested in the Boy Scouts, Boyce met with staff at the Boy Scouts Headquarters and, by some accounts, was Baden-Powell. Upon his return to the US, Boyce was inspired by his experience and incorporated the Boy Scouts of America.

Despite the bad publicity on BSA in recent times, similar to the Catholic church sexcapades, the BSA has well over One million scouts as of 2023.  The Honorary Chair is President Donald J. Trump.


Feb 10, 1968: national security adviser Walt W. Rostow (October 7, 1916 – February 13, 2003) alerted LBJ about a secret operation (Fracture Jaw) organized by Gen. William 'Westy' Westmoreland that included moving nuclear weapons to South Vietnam. Historian Michael Beschloss discovered the documents.

"Fracture Jaw has been approved by me." / "Discontinue...Fracture Jaw."


Operation "Fracture Jaw" was Gen. Westmoreland's plan to use Tactical Nuclear Weapons during the Vietnam War. LBJ was worried it would pull China into the war so he shutdown the operation.

Rostow worked in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and later was a foreign policy adviser and speechwriter for presidential candidate and then President John F. Kennedy; he is often credited with writing Kennedy's famous "New Frontier" speech.



From a recent FOIA score... A memo about Raven Rock bunker clearances and comms from AT&T executive and a '50s quiz show winner, Claude M. Blair (1913-2010).


Claude M. Blair led National City Bank and Ohio Bell


"I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it." - SecDef assistant, Giles Prentice (Frank Whaley). You could say those script lines are a FACTUAL statement if you ever looked into how many times this occurred throughout the Cold War and afterward. Scary indeed!




The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agrees to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) with documents and relevant information associated with KONA BLUE. KONA BLUE was a DHS prospective special access program (PSAP) terminated (allegedly) on February 10, 2012.


Along with the request to create (above) "KONA BLUE" is not actually defined assuming it's a mil/intel acronym other than on page 33 of 56 only states:

Two Word Designator for the Program
KONA BLUE

I'm assuming ICD-9 subtypes refers to mental disorders.

KONA BLUE (PDF)


FAA announces it is updating its "data and charts to show a name change from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and a name change from Denali to Mount McKinley".




Actually, the first U.S. President to attend a Super Bowl was Richard Nixon. He attended Super Bowl V in 1971, which was held at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.


Comedy gold comments in this Schumer thread.

Flashback reference: In January of 2017, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer warned Trump that Intel officials "have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you."
Here it straight from the horse's mouth:




USS Ohio (SSGN 726), the longest-serving submarine in US Navy history, 1981-to-present. Max capacity = 154 Tomahawks, capable of firing all within 5 minutes. #1 of The Four Tomahawkalypse...




Introducing the sonic thump...


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