Skip Davenport

Whow! that's a lot of aileron on the top wing on the gunship -- guess the one on the bottom wing fell off -- LOL Neat pic's though

Casey send me your email address and will send to you -- I think they would.

Folks I put together a package on the "smoke-n-mirrors" on how the Fulton Skyhook system works. It is 15 attachments in a pdf file. So if anyone would like it pm me your email address and will send.

My most memorable TDY was the one we left Herbie headed West and when we got back to Herbie we were still headed West.

Well, I do have 5 live pickups -- I also like the idea of the back end open etc. etc. -- maybe a dude dangling off the lift line :)

I'll add my 2 cents to that and add extend the yokes and add fending lines

Budgetary rules forced a House subcommittee to take the unprecedented step of creating a new Tricare preventive health care program that does not apply to 1.5 million for Medicare-eligible retirees and their families in the Tricare for Life program. Rep. Susan Davis, D-Calif., chairwoman of the House Armed Services military personnel panel, said the plan, approved Wednesday as part of the 2009 defense authorization bill, is aimed at cutting the military’s long-term health care costs by providing preventive care. The personnel portion of the defense policy bill, approved by voice vote and with no debate, includes: • A 3.9 percent military pay raise. • Increases in Army and Marine Corps active-duty personnel and in Army National Guard and Army Reserve support personnel on full-time active duty. • A tuition assistance program for military spouses. • Permission for a Pentagon-proposed experiment under which active-duty members could take a break of up to three years in their military career. The full armed services committee will take up the bill next week. Davis said her subcommittee rejected a Pentagon request for a $1.2 billion increase in Tricare health and pharmacy fees but wants to look for other ways to hold down costs, which is why expanding preventive care is attractive. “Preventive health care is important to the long-term health of our beneficiary population, and may reduce the amount of care required,†Davis said. She called the initiative “preferable†to the Pentagon’s proposed increase in Tricare fees. The preventive care plan would waive co-payments for certain treatments such as vaccinations, smoking cessation help, and breast and colorectal cancer screening. It would apply to Tricare Standard, Tricare Select and Tricare Reserve beneficiaries — but, because of budgetary procedures, not Tricare for Life. Aides named two areas in which Tricare for Life beneficiaries would be treated differently than other Tricare users: shingle vaccinations and MRIs for mammograms. Younger retirees would receive these services for free, but Tricare for Life users would have to pay, either directly or by buying supplemental Medicare insurance, aides said. Rep. John McHugh of New York, the subcommittee’s ranking Republican, said this would be the first instance of differences in what is covered under Tricare, and also promised to work to try to find funding to offset that action. There are two kinds of spending in the defense budget: discretionary, which applies to personnel, operating and acquisitions costs and construction programs; and mandatory, also known as direct spending, for programs such as retired pay, GI Bill benefits for reservists, and some health care expenses, including Tricare for Life. Davis said only congressional leaders can resolve the funding problem because direct spending involves programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and federal civilian retired pay that fall outside the jurisdiction of the armed services committee. Congressional leaders could agree to an offset by cutting other direct spending or could find another way to fund preventive care, subcommittee aides said. Steve Strobridge, government relations director for the Military Officers Association of America, said he understands the dilemma facing the subcommittee and agrees that what they did “is certainly preferable to not doing anything.†“We have been very supportive of preventive care programs,†he said. “It only makes common sense that if you come up with programs like smoking cessation that it is going to save money in the long run.†Article: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/0...ecare_050708w/

Even Santa needs help

Now I can stop looking for the email from Joseph I. Lieberman UNITED STATES SENATOR I received months ago from my sister.

Sam I have over 5000 hours in the MC-130E Combat Talon 1 Blackbird as a Aircraft Commander, Instructor & Evaluator. Flying the "black & green ugly machine" was the best 15 years of my life. The comradeship of the men and women of SOF are memories I will cherish the rest of my life. How do I obtain a comversion set for my Talon?

Yes and a 16SOS crew on a nav overwater in clear skies down wind 10 miles from a thunder storm was badly damaged by golf and baseball size hail. I think all the front windows were cracked so bad the AC had to land looking out the lower window. The leading edges looked like someone took a sledge hammer to them.

Very cool graphics...best I've seen even though it's time to wait for the NTSB hearing. Note NY Dept Contl trying to maintain contact while the A320 pilots are now concentrating on landing and no longer transmitting to them. Splashdown view was generated from the NJ side.

I checked Snoops.com and couldn't find anything on this there. I know who I won't be sending $$ to anymore. See this web site for ratings: http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20071213131834.pdf Among other things, the rating chart shows fund raising costs per $100 raised for each charity.Some of the figures are truly shocking! Americans gave millions of dollars in the past year to veterans charities designed to help troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, but several of the groups spent relatively little money on the wounded, according to a leading watchdog organization and federal tax filings. Eight veterans charities, including some of the nation's largest, gave less than a third of the money raised to the causes they champion, far below the recommended standard, the American Institute of Philanthropy says in a report. One group passed along 1 cent for every dollar raised, the report says. Another paid its founder and his wife a combined $540,000 in compensation and benefits last year, a Washington Post analysis of tax filings showed. Richard H. Esau Jr., executive director of the Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation, based in Annandale, said the cost of fundraising limits how much his group can spend on charitable causes. 'Do you have any idea how much money it costs to advertise? It's unbelievable the amount of money it takes to advertise in the print and electronic media,' he said. 'I'm very proud of what we do, and we certainly do look after everybody. The point is we do the right thing by veterans.' Borochoff said many veterans charities are 'woefully inefficient, ' spending large sums on costly direct-mail advertising. 'They oversolicit. They love to send out a lot of trinkets and stickers and greeting cards and flags and things that waste a lot of money that they get ittle return on,' said Borochoff, who plans to testify before Congress today. The philanthropy institute gave F's to 12 of the 29 military charities reviewed and D's to eight. Five were awarded A-pluses, including the Fisher House Foundation in Rockville, which the institute says directs more than 90 percent of its income to charitable causes. One group received an A, and one received an A-minus. Jim Weiskopf, spokesman for Fisher House, said the charity does not use direct-mail advertising. 'As soon as you do direct mail, your fundraising expenses go up astronomically, ' he said. One egregious example, Borochoff said, is Help Hospitalized Veterans, which was founded in 1971 by Roger Chapin, a veteran of the Army Finance Corps and a San Diego real estate developer. The charity, which provides therapeutic arts and crafts kits to hospitalized veterans, reported income of $71.3 million last year and spent about one-third of that money on charitable work, the philanthropy institute said. In its tax filings, Help Hospitalized Veterans reported paying more than $4 million to direct-mail fundraising consultants. The group also has run television advertisements featuring actor Sam Waterston, game show host Pat Sajak and other celebrities. Bennett Weiner, chief operating officer of the Better Business Bureau, said the agency has 20 standards for reviewing charities, including that a charity's fundraising and overhead costs not exceed 35 percent of total contributions. The American Institute of Philanthropy, a leading charity watchdog, issued a report card this month for 29 veterans and military charities. Letter grades were based largely on the charities' fundraising costs and the percentage of money raised that was spent on charitable activities. The charities that received failing grades are in bold type. Air Force Aid Society (A+) American Ex-Prisoners of War Service Foundation (F) American Veterans Coalition (F) American Veterans Relief Foundation (F) AMVETS National Service Foundation (F) Armed Services YMCA of the USA (A-) Army Emergency Relief (A+) Blinded Veterans Association (D) Disabled American Veterans (D) Disabled Veterans Association (F) Fisher House Foundation (A+) Freedom Alliance (F) Help Hospitalized Veterans/Coalition to Salute America's Heroes (F) Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund (A+) Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation (F) National Military Family Association (A) National Veterans Services Fund (F) National Vietnam Veterans Committee (D) Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society (A+) NCOA National Defense Foundation (F) Paralyzed Veterans of America (F) Soldiers' Angels (D) United Spinal Association' s Wounded Warrior Project (D) USO (United Service Organization) (C+) Veterans of Foreign Wars and Foundation (C-) Veterans of the Vietnam War & the Veterans Coalition (D) Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (D) VietNow National Headquarters (F) World War II Veterans Committee (D)

http://www.veteranaid.org/eligibility.php

Who the HELL cares when the photo was taken -- we all had a great time!!

The last days of 46 had the sharks teeth on the nose -- so maybe the middle I think that's the only Dennys that has a bar I have ever been in. Many a good times and songs.

Those were taken in the early days of Project 46. I had forgotten that Mrs. Fulton came out for a visit. I also think those are Mikie Pies scrawny legs. When we did the first 1500# pick up I remember the nose tucked down just a little when the liftline made contact with the skyanchor. (sort like the shift in CG on a heavy equipment drop) The yoke was wired to figure out the difference in force applied for each weight we picked up from 250 - 1500#s. Don't remember what the difference in force was but it was quite substantial.

Tiny -- Your requested grant is to small -- DISAPPROVED! You may resubmit in 6 months for the next stimulus package -- Sorry Senator's of the US

VARIOUS LEFT-WINGERY: 1. $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts 2. $380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program 3. $300 million for grants to combat violence against women 4. $2 billion for federal child care block grants 5. $6 billion for university building projects 6. $15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships 7. $4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion to provide “youth†summer jobs for people up to the age of 24 8. $1 billion for community development block grants 9. $4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities†10. $650 million for digital TV coupons, including $90 million to educate “vulnerable populations†POORLY DESIGNED TAX RELIEF: 11. $15 billion for business-loss carry-backs 12. $145 billion for “Making Work Pay†tax credits 13. $83 billion for the earned income credit STIMULUS FOR THE GOVERNMENT: 14. $150 million for the Smithsonian 15. $34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters 16. $500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities 17. $44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters 18. $350 million for Agriculture Department computers 19. $88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building next year 20. $448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters 21. $600 million to convert federal auto fleet to hybrids 22. $450 million for National Aeronautics and Space Administration 23. $600 million for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 24. $1 billion for the Census Bureau INCOME TRANSFERS: 25. $89 billion for Medicaid 26. $30 billion for COBRA insurance extension 27. $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits 28. $20 billion for food stamps PURE PORK: 29. $4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 30. $850 million for Amtrak 31. $87 million for a polar icebreaking ship 32. $1.7 billion for the National Park System 33. $55 million for Historic Preservation Fund 34. $7.6 billion for “rural community advancement programs†35. $150 million for agricultural commodity purchases 36. $150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish†RENEWABLE WASTE: 37. $2 billion for renewable energy research 38. $2 billion for a “clean-coal†power plant in Illinois 39. $6.2 billion shall be for the Weatherization Assistance Program 40. $3.5 billion shall be for energy efficiency and conservation block grants 41. $3.4 billion shall be for the State Energy Program 42. $200 million shall be for state and local electric-transport projects 43. $300 million shall be for energy-efficient appliance rebate programs 44. $400 million for hybrid cars for state and local governments 45. $1 billion for the manufacturing of advanced batteries 46. $1.5 billion for green technology loan guarantees 47. $8 billion for innovative technology loan guarantee program 48. $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects 49. $4.5 billion for electricity grid REWARDING STATE IRRESPONSIBILITY: 50. $79 billion for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund

Or Larry J Muggenberg Then Mugg's is a wee bit taller :)

I remember now it was one of the SF guys. I think he is the one in the video guiding the liftline. Anyway, I got a lot of antiseptic and pain relief in the RV on the RTB drive!

Just got word that they are going to Boise ANG as Senior Scout birds 4 sure -- Tripple Nickle was one of my favorit to fly.

Jeffysan -- Mikie is or was last time I saw him working at some golf resort in FWB don't know where Gary is though. Stoney -- you the one who wanted to do lakebed surgery and sew up the hole in my head when the ramp crew didn't lock the davit in the up position then when it came unlocked fell and cracked my head open?

FOR THOSE NOT FAMILIAR. PROJECT 46 WAS A ONCE CLASSIFIED TEST PROJECT WE WERE DOING FOR THE ARMY TO RETRIEVE A SIX MAN TEAM OR UP TO 1500# FROM THE SURFACE -- GROUND OR WATER WITH OUT LANDING. [yt]t5GJ4cu311o&feature=related[/yt]

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