Trivia & Interesting stuff ~

[Craig]

Just for fun...

Who was NOT in the military??

a. Senator Ted Kennedy - U.S. Senator from Massachuscetts.

b, Jimi Hendrix - Greatest guitarists of all time

c. Johnny Carson - The Tonight show host

d. Shirley Temple Black - Actress, singer, and tap dancer, who is best known for being the American child actress of the 1930's. (On the good ship lollipop)

e. William Frederick "Fred" Durst - American musician, director and actor. Know primarily as the front man of the Nu Metal band Limp Bizkit

 

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Senator Ted Kennedy – U.S. senator from Massachusetts
Kennedy earned C grades at the private Milton Academy, but was admitted to Harvard as a "legacy" -- his father and older brothers had attended there, so the younger and dimmer Kennedy's admission was virtually assured. While attending, he was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him.

While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the U.S. Army, but mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England, pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and to ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea, where a war was raging. Kennedy was assigned to SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe) headquarters in Paris. He never advanced beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged.
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Jimi Hendrix – Greatest guitarists of all time
Private James Marshall Hendrix (Jimi to his friends) was officially drummed out of the military, Army brass delivered withering assessments of the 19-year-old soldier. He served a messy 13 months in the Army, beginning with his May 1961 three-year enlistment. 

Sergeant Louis Hoekstra noted that Hendrix was a "habitual offender" when it came to missing midnight bed checks and that the Seattle teenager was unable to "carry on an intelligent conversation." Hoekstra added that Hendrix, who was once suspected of "taking dope," played a musical instrument while off-duty, "or so he says. This is one of his faults, because his mind apparently cannot function while performing duties and thinking about his guitar."
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Johnny Carson – The Tonight show host.
The king of late-night TV for over three decades, Johnny Carson was born in Corning, Iowa, on October 23, 1925. He was working as a theater usher when World War II began. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy on June 8, 1943, as an apprentice seaman enrolled in the V-5 program, which trained Navy and Marine pilots.

He hoped to train as a pilot, but was sent instead to Columbia University for midshipman training. He performed magic for classmates on the side.

Commissioned an ensign late in the war, Carson was assigned to the USS Pennsylvania, a battleship on station in the Pacific. He was en route to the combat zone aboard a troopship when the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the war to a close.

The Pennsylvania was torpedoed on August 12, 1945 and Carson reported for duty on the 14th — the last day of the war. Although he arrived too late for combat, he got a firsthand education in the consequences of war. The damaged warship sailed to Guam for repairs, and as the newest and most junior officer, Carson was assigned to supervise the removal of 20 dead Sailors.

He later served as a communications officer in charge of decoding encrypted messages. He recalls that the high point of his military career was performing a magic trick for Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal.

After serving in the Navy, Carson attended and graduated from the University of Nebraska. After college, he worked for various radio and television shows in California. In 1962, Carson became the permanent host of the Tonight Show. He went on to host the show for thirty years, and became one of the most recognizable television personalities.
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Shirley Temple Black - actress, singer, and tap dancer, who is best known for being an American child actress of the 1930's. After her film achievements she began a notable career as a diplomat. She never served in the military.

Shirley Temple Black was the first person who said, on national television, 'I have breast cancer.' It wasn't Betty Ford.

She became the first female Chief of Protocol of the United States in 1976, which put her in charge of all State Department ceremonies, visits, gifts to foreign leaders and co-ordination of protocol issues with all U.S. embassies and consulates. She was in office from 1 July 1976 until 21 January 1977. In 1987, she was designated the first Honorary Foreign Service Officer in U.S. history by then U.S. Secretary of State, George Shultz.
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William Frederick "Fred" Durst - American musician, director and actor, known primarily as the front man of the nu metal band Limp Bizkit.

During his time in the Navy he married his first wife, Rachel Tergesen, at the age of 20. They moved to California, and had one daughter, Adriana. Fred served for eighteen months before being released on medical discharge from the Navy after he broke his hand skateboarding..

The couple divorced soon after Durst discovered that his wife had an affair. He was incarcerated for a month for assaulting his wife's partner

He has dated all the hot celiberies. Here is a video showing all the hot celebrities girlfriends (all bathing suits, of course)

 

Amazing stuff huh? 

[Craig]

What was the first Navy ship named for an enlisted man?

It was the Osmond Ingram (DD-255) in 1919. Osmond Kelly Ingram, born in Pratt City, Alabama, 4 August 1887, entered the Navy, 24 November 1903. Serving on the USS Cassin (DD43) when she was attacked by a German submarine off Ireland 16 September 1917, Gunner's Mate First Class Ingram spotted the approaching torpedo, realized it would strike close by explosives, thus dooming the ship, and rushed to jettison the ammunition. He was blown overboard when the torpedo struck, thus becoming the first enlisted man killed in action in World War I as he saved his ship and shipmates. For his heroic deeds, Ingram was awarded the Medal of Honor and was the first enlisted man to have a ship named after him.

[Craig]

What was the longest distance a submarine sailed without submerging and what was her name?

Question:
What submarine sailed 5,600 nautical miles to Puget Sound on the surface, the longest trip a U.S. submarine has made without submerging?

Answer: The USS San Francisco

The San Francisco crashed into an undersea mountain Jan. 8, 2005, suffering damage so severe that the warship almost sunk. The ship struggled to Guam, and after temporary repairs, the ship sailed 5,600 nautical miles to Puget Sound on the surface, the longest trip a U.S. submarine has made without submerging.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/10/navy_sub_surgery_102108w/

[Craig]

What is the name of the ONLY U.S. ship to surrendered during WW2?
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Question:
What is the name of the ONLY U.S. ship to surrendered during WW2?

Answer:

The USS Wake -
This doomed ship was nothing but trouble... Thus, no other U.S. ship has yet been named the same as this unlucky ship.

This was a U.S. ship, which surrendered to the Japanese, the Japanese then gave it to China, which was then captured by the U.S., the U.S. then gave it to the Chinese nationalist, which then was captured by the Communist Chinese forces.

She was launched on 28 May 1927 as Guam by the Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works in Shanghai, China, and commissioned on 28 December 1927. Her primary mission was to ensure the safety of American missionaries and other foreigners. However, by 1939, she was "escorted" by a Japanese warship whenever she went, as China fell more and more under Imperial control.

In January 1941, she was renamed Wake, as Guam was to be the new name of a large cruiser being built in the United States. On 25 November 1941 she was ordered to close the Navy installation at Hankow, and sail to Shanghai. When Pearl Harbor was attacked on 7 December 1941, Shanghai immediately fell to Japan. Surrounded by overwhelming Japanese force, the crew attempted unsuccessfully to scuttle the craft. Wake surrendered, the only U.S. ship to do so in World War II.

She was given by the Japanese to their puppet Wang Jingwei regime in Nanjing who named her Tatara, then she was recaptured by the US in 1945. They gave her to the Chinese nationalist as the Yuan. Finally, she was captured by Communist Chinese forces in 1949

[Craig]

I am a Sailor (1912-1918), Who am I ???................
My father died when I was an infant, and my mother soon abandoned the family. I was raised by an impoverished aunt and uncle, and had little formal schooling. In my teens I was intrigued by the burgeoning use of electric power and worked as an electric installer, wiring businesses with power.

I then joined the Navy, where I was sent to radio school, and after being discharged I worked for Wireless Specialty Apparatus Company, a major manufacturer of commercial and military radio equipment that was eventually absorbed into RCA. I joined Raytheon in the 1920s, and quickly became the company's expert on tube design. During World War II I oversaw the company's exponential increase in manufacturing tubes for military applications, and the mass production of magnetrons (which power radar equipment), which proved of immeasurable value to allied forces in winning that war. An autodidact (self-education or self-directed learning), I held more than 300 patents. My discovery of microwave cooking was utterly accidental. In a Raytheon laboratory in 1946, I noticed that I felt a tingling when I stood near a magnetron, and the candy bar in my pocket melted. I was not the first to notice this effect, but others had only been fearful, while I was also curious. I brought in raw popcorn, which started popping when I placed it near the magnetron. I then built a rudimentary metal box with a magnetron in it -- the first microwave oven -- and used it to reheat my lunches.

After I wrote a report on my findings, Raytheon patented "high frequency dielectric heating apparatus" in 1946, and began selling microwave ovens for industrial use (more than five feet tall, each oven weighed about 750 pounds) in 1954. Raytheon subsidiary Amana began selling household "Radar-Ranges" ovens in 1967. For my invention, I received no royalties, but I was paid a one-time, two-dollar gratuity from Raytheon -- the same token payment the company made to all inventors on its payroll at that time, for company patents.

Who am I?

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Answer: I am Percy Spencer, Inventor of the microwave oven, and a United States Sailor!

[Craig]

Who am I ???? -
I am known world wide! You will know my name, but you probably didn't know that I'm also a United States Sailor. I was in the US Naval Reserve (1944-46). As a US Navy surgeon in World War II, I saw numerous patients die on the operating table after being shot in the chest, when blood and air filled their chest cavities. The deaths bothered me for years, and in the early 1960s I devised a simple and inexpensive valve that could be quickly inserted through an injured patient's skin, to let the leakage escape.

In 1974, my study on airways lead to a maneuver which now carries my name. I found when a person choked on food, it was generally thought that forcefully slapping the victim's back was helpful, but in reality slapping often causes the blockage to drop deeper into the throat, making the situation even worse. In an 1974 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, I wrote that applying upward pressure to the diaphragm, under the choke point, might force the blockage to pop out, like a cork from a champagne bottle. I began to hear from doctors who had used the maneuver to save lives. There is no doubt that my innovations have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

The American Red Cross, meanwhile, has quietly replaced the term "Heimlich maneuver" in its literature with the more generic term "abdominal thrusts.". My first opportunity to actually perform my maneuver, when I heard a ruckus in a restaurant, and turned around to see a stranger choking. "I did the Heimlich maneuver, and got it out and then went on and had my lunch".

Lastly, my nephew is Anson Williams, the actor who played Potsie Webber on Happy Days……
Who am I ?
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Answer: I am Dr Henry Heimlich, inventor of the “Heimlich Maneuver”, and a United States Sailor!

[clockard]

Didn't know Anson Williams was his nephew, but I used the Heimlich Maneuver on my Sailor son when he was a toddler in 1986 or '87. He started choking on a piece of broccoli. I didn't know I could get him out of that highchair so fast! Thanks, Doc!

[Craig]

Who am I?......
Unlike most Sailors, I was famous before I decided to join the Navy (1942-1945). As a teen I was an amateur astronomer, and constructed my own telescope using a shaft scavenged from a 1910 Buick and grinding the lens and mirror by myself. I sketched the surfaces of Mars and Jupiter, using only my homemade instruments. I wanted to attend college but after a 1927 hailstorm, I had to help on my father's farm.

Seeking only advice, I sent a portfolio of my work to the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, but the observatory's director V.M. Slipher offered me a low-paying job as a photographic assistant. At Lowell, I discovered two comets, more than a dozen asteroids, and hundreds of previously unknown variable stars, and on 18 February 1930 I made my best-known scientific accomplishment, detecting what was then regarded as the ninth planet of our solar system, Pluto.

After four years at Lowell Observatory I entered the University of Kansas, while continuing to work at the observatory during the summers. I signed up for Astronomy 101 but was rejected on the grounds that my discovery of Pluto had already made me one of the world's most famous astronomers, and it would be absurd to accept me for such an introductory class. During World War II, I entered the Navy and was assigned to teach astronomy, and after the war I worked at the White Sands Missile Range in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where I designed the Intercept Ground Optical Recorder super-camera. In my astronomical work I also saw several unidentified flying objects, and I was also among the first respected astronomers to call for a serious scientific inquiry into the phenomenon.

During my lifetime I was commonly referred to the only person to discover a planet in our solar system in the 20th Century, but nine years after my 1997 death the International Astronomic Union reclassified Pluto, demoting it to sub-planetary status. Stupid B*stards!.
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Answer: I am Clyde W. Tombaugh, Astronomer, the discoverer of the planet Pluto, and a United States Sailor!

[Craig]

I am a Sailor (1962-1967), Who am I ???................

Well, this one will probably tick off a lot of people. I am not well liked by the majority of Americans. However, I am a Sailor, which means I have learned leadership skills. There is no doubt I am a leader. So here I go.

I voluntarily yielded my student deferment, quit college, and enlisted with the United States Marines Corps (Ooh-Rah). After two years in the Corps (1961-62), I got smart and I joined the Navy, and earned three letters of commendation. On leaving the military I finished college, entered seminary, and became a Christian minister, as my father was. For more than 35 years until my 2008 retirement, I was pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, which I grew from a congregation of 87 to over 8,000.

One of my long-time parishioners was Barack Obama, spoke more forcefully against me, saying that he was "outraged" and "saddened" by I behavior, and in May he resigned his membership in the church.

One of my most politically-tinged sermons, quotes “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, and then wants us to sing God Bless America? No, no, no! Not God bless America. God damn America! It's in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating its citizens as less than human!". Who am I?
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.Answer: I am Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., former senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ.

[Craig]

I am a Sailor (1923), Who am I ???

I am a U.S. Sailor. I grew up in Mooreville, Indiana. As a teenager I was a troublemaker. When two police officers who wanted to question me about the pistol I was carrying, I gave a false name, slipped out of the overcoat one officer had grabbed, and ran. The cops fired seven shots at me. To get out of town quick, I went to the Federal Building and signed up for the Navy. The Navy was used to taking in wayward youth, and knew time was often of the essence in getting kids out of town. They accommodated me by shipping me to Great Lakes Training Station a mere four days later.

Newly uniformed, I completed basic training, and was assigned to the battleship USS Utah as a fireman, third class. Which meant I shoveled coal into the ship’s huge boilers. After 22 days of hot, backbreaking labor, I had enough. I jumped ship in Boston and went AWOL for a day, to cool off. Upon my return, a deck court martial stamped on Nov. 7 was added to my growing rap sheet along with an $18 fine, — nearly a month’s pay – and a ten-day “bread and water” stint in the brig. A delay in carrying out the sentence gave me the opportunity to get into even more trouble. On Nov. 9, instead of laying low, I left my duty post “without authority” and “in disobedience of orders.” Five days of solitary confinement were tacked onto this previous sentence. If anything, this made me more rebellious. Weeks after my release, I was in hot water again, failing to return from a 24-hour leave as scheduled on Dec. 3. The Navy, noting that he “left with no effects — intentions not known,” waited two weeks, then listed me as a deserter. They also slapped the first ever bounty on my head, fifty dollars. I ended up getting a Dishonorable Discharge from the Navy.

Most people would never have thought I was in the Navy, because I'm much more famous for being a Bank robber. It is alledged that I was also a murderer, however the police shot and killed me before I could be convicted. I loved women, and I was a womanizer, however, I can’t stand women who wear red. It is believe by many people that I was INCREDIBLY well-endowed (if you know what I mean). Every week someone writes the Smithsonian asking if they (the Smithsonian) has my “anatomy”. Pictures speak 1000's better than words, my death bed photo's is hard to dispute.
http://www.snopes.com/risque/penile/dillinger.asp
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Answer: I am John Dillinger, American bank robber in the Midwest during the early 1930s, aka Public Enemy Number One and a United States Sailor!