Military Affairs & History

[DigitalGypsy66]

Looks like Paul Allen's people found the aircraft carrier Kaga, sunk during Midway. They have a strong "lead" on another sunken ship.

[shafnutz05]

Looks like Paul Allen's people found the aircraft carrier Kaga, sunk during Midway. They have a strong "lead" on another sunken ship.

I absolutely love the legacy Paul Allen has left behind. The number of shipwrecks they have been able to find has been nothing short of remarkable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Petrel

I loved the story of them finding Hornet. From this last shot 77 years ago to finding it this year....just awesome stuff. It gives you the chills just thinking about the history and just how recent it all was.

[shafnutz05]

Tif's sharing of the Captain Joe video brought this to mind...the Great War Youtube channel is one of the most phenomenal, well-done historical reference channels out there. YouTube, in their eternal lack of wisdom and ethics, has been demonetizing this and other wartime history channels. This guy has over a million subscribers. It would be nice if they could update their stupid algorithm so that "war" would not be an automatic demonetizing filter.

But yeah, this channel definitely scratched an itch I had after listening to Blueprint for Armageddon.

[tifosi77]

It sucks, but there isn't a whole lot YouTube can do about it. Roughly 300 hours of content is uploaded to YT every minute of every day. There's just no way to curate that amount of stuff in an equitable manner.

[tifosi77]

Also, it's interesting to me that all this shipwreck tech is an outgrowth and evolution of the systems Robert Ballard and his team at WHOI invented to find the Titanic* in the mid-80s.









* And when I say "find the Titanic", I mean "examine the nuclear materials aboard the lost US nuclear-powered submarines USS Thresher and USS Scorpion". The search for the lost liner was just a cover story to keep the Soviets off their back.

[shafnutz05]

It sucks, but there isn't a whole lot YouTube can do about it. Roughly 300 hours of content is uploaded to YT every minute of every day. There's just no way to curate that amount of stuff in an equitable manner.

I agree, but you would think that they could at *least* dedicate resources to channels with over a million fcking subscribers.

[DigitalGypsy66]

[tifosi77]

Wasn't there another Bradley rollover accident just a few months ago?

[shafnutz05]

That is a horrific way to die...sad.

[DigitalGypsy66]

@tifosi77 I remember seeing rollover training accidents with LAVs out at Camp Pendleton. A quick search doesn't show any other Bradley incidents, but the Google machine may be wrong.

[tifosi77]

Found it. Was not a Bradley, but an LMTV.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/west-point ... 019-06-06/

[Shyster]

Paul Allen's people now believe they have found the USS Johnston, which was sunk during the Battle off Samar. It's also the deepest shipwreck ever located at 20,406 ft. The Battle off Samar represented probably the single greatest moment of sheer badassery on the part of the US Navy, and if anyone has not read James D. Hornfischer's book The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, I can't recommend it highly enough.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/wwii-sh ... ever-found

[DigitalGypsy66]

Great book, excellent find.

[shafnutz05]

DG's post about Dick Winters kind of led me to this, but a bunch of Band of Brothers cast members traveled to Normandy for the 75th anniversary this year. This is one of the videos, but there are others:

[tifosi77]

OMG Dale Dye reminds me of the Grail Knight lol

That's a fantastic video, I'm going to seek out others from this reunion. Really good stuff.

[DigitalGypsy66]

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[relantel]

I have never been to Udvar-Hazy, and that sucks.

Free admission, but it costs between $15-20 per vehicle to park. It lost the Enterprise though, having been swapped out for the Discovery. There are some nice pieces on the floor there, and a second-level walkway where you can see from above.

The kids have been there more recently than I have, but they have an IMAX theatre and there is a McDonalds built-in, a step up from a port-a-Subway that they had when it first opened.

Choose a clear day, and the view from the observation tower is amazing.

[relantel]

odd observation, do these quotes actually tag? it was in the code but doesn't display. @tifosi77 just in case.

[tifosi77]

Yup, got both notifications. Thanks for the heads(es) up!

[tifosi77]

Happy birthday, Teufelhunden!

[Kaiser]

MD20/20 and crayolas for dinner

[tifosi77]

Adrift At Sea For 10 Hours: Downed Marine Pilot's Smartwatch Data Reveals His Tragic End

Tragic new details have emerged regarding the death of a Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet pilot that was killed last year when his fighter collided with a KC-130J tanker off the coast of Japan. According to data retrieved from the downed pilot’s smartwatch, he survived adrift at sea for nearly ten hours, ultimately drowning only about an hour before he could have been rescued.

Capt. Jahmar Resilard, 28, was piloting a Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet conducting mid-air refuelling operations from a KC-130J last December when the fighter collided with the refuelling aircraft. Six Marines died in the incident, including Resilard. According to reports, Resilard, who is referred to as “MP2” in the official investigation, was wearing a Garmin Fenix 3 smartwatch when he ejected from the fighter at 1:44 a.m. local time on December 6th. The watch continued to read a heart beat from the pilot for almost ten more hours before he ultimately drowned.

“The data from the watch indicated that MP2’s heart was beating at an average of 86 beats per minute until approximately 1130,” the report states.”MP2’s Garmin smartwatch indicates that MP2 was alive on the surface of the ocean from approximately 0145 until approximately 1130 (nine hours and 45 minutes) in 68-degree Fahrenheit water.”

An investigation into the incident led to four officers from Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 242 being relieved of duty, including the commander, executive officer, operations officer and aviation safety officer. Violations cited for their removal included the wrongful use of prescription and over-the-counter drugs by officers within the command, including by two that were involved in the crash. The investigation also called for increased search and rescue training alongside the host nation (in this case Japan), as well as for the U.S. to establish its own search-and-rescue capabilities at MCAS Iwakuni.

[Freddy Rumsen]

I was stationed at MCAS Iwakuni in 2001-2002 and the base commander then was complaining about the lack of search-and-rescue capabilities. He was told back then that "existing Japanese civil jurisdictions" were sufficient for the work.

[DigitalGypsy66]

No reason why he was in the water that long in 2018. That's just shameful. It's not like it's 1942 and radio communications were spotty.

[shafnutz05]

No reason why he was in the water that long in 2018. That's just shameful. It's not like it's 1942 and radio communications were spotty.

Yup.