This page exists to provide resources for engineers interested in serving the
United States defense industry. Since the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil on 9/11/2001,
there has been a new emphasis on guarding the security of our homeland. In his 2002
"State of the Union Address," President Bush appealed to all Americans to perform
2000 hours of volunteer work for the good of the country. Maintaining an area on
RF Cafe that is dedicated to companies supporting the mission will serve as part
of my effort (in addition to the four years already spent in the USAF).
You are needed
to help guard the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial (The Wall) from vandals during the anti-war march in Washington,
D.C., on March 17, 2007.
Our politicians are too weak to have these people arrested, as we saw in January
when protestors spray painted the Capitol building steps. Please click the Gathering
of Eagles link above to see how you can help.
ABMC administers, operates, and maintains 24 permanent American burial grounds
on foreign soil. Presently there are 124,917 U.S. War Dead interred at these cemeteries,
30,922 of World War I, 93,245 of World War II and 750 of the Mexican War. Additionally,
6,010 American veterans and others are interred in the Mexico City and Corozal American
Cemeteries.
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine
patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that
stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of men and women."
-- Thomas Paine, The Crisis (1776)
"The proud warriors of Baker Company wanted
to do something to pay tribute to our fallen comrades. So since we are part of the
only Marine Infantry Battalion left in Iraq the one way that we could think of doing
that is by taking a picture of Baker Company saying the way we feel. It would be
awesome if you could find a way to share this with our fellow countrymen. I was
wondering if there was any way to get this into your papers to let the world know
that "WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN" and are proud to serve our country."
Incredibly, 22
(change each year) years have passed since the extremist Islamic attack on
American soil on the morning of
September 11, 2001. Nearly 3,000 citizens died that day. World
leaders have embarked on a path of colonizing our homelands with groups of people
that are known to harbor sympathies for the terrorists. They dwell among us now
and mean to do us harm when opportunity presents itself - which it has on numerous
occasions in the past many years. Never forget the people who died in the burning
towers, the Pentagon, and the airplanes, and those left behind to grieve and get
on with life. Never forget the police and military members who fought - and some
died - to keep us safe and free. Never forget the rotten politicians who imperil
our existence with their selfish agendas.
Please
e-mail me with suggestions or comments on content.
Americans at home and abroad we need you!
No more sucker-punches!
U.S. Constitution: Article
IV, Section. 4. "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union
a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion;
and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature
cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
A Soldier, a Sailor, an Airman and a Marine got into an argument about which
branch of the service was "The Best." The arguing became so heated the four service
men failed to see an oncoming truck. They were run over by the truck and killed
instantly.
Soon, the four servicemen found themselves at the Pearly gates of Heaven. There,
they met Saint Peter and decided that only he could be the ultimate source of truth
and honesty. So, the four servicemen asked him, "Saint Peter, which branch of the
United States Armed Forces is the best?" Saint Peter replied, "I can't answer that.
However, I will ask God what He thinks the next time I see Him. Meanwhile, thank
you for your service on Earth and welcome to Heaven."
Some time later the four servicemen see Saint Peter and remind him of the question
they had asked when first entering Heaven. The four servicemen asked Saint Peter
if he was able to find the answer. Suddenly, a sparkling white dove lands on Saint
Peter's shoulder. In the dove's beak is a note glistening with gold dust. Saint
Peter opens the note, trumpets blare, gold dust drifts into the air, harps play
crescendos and Saint Peter begins to read the note aloud to the four servicemen.
MEMORANDUM FROM THE DESK OF THE ALMIGHTY ONE:
TO: All Former Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines
SUBJECT: Which Military Service Is the Best
1. All branches of the United States Armed
Forces are honorable and noble.
2. Each serves America well and with
distinction.
3. Serving in the United States military
represents a great honor warranting
special respect, tribute, and dedication
from your fellow man.
4. Always be proud of that.
Sincerely, GOD, U.S.A.F. (Retired)
Great Quotation
"The elite didn't realize there was a revolutionary
transformation going on in American society. We're starting to see the military
dividends of that in this generation, who are not afraid of the things that terrified
their parents. They have sort of a pop-culture casualness about them — Ray-Ban sunglasses,
big muscles, dyed hair — but a deadly seriousness. And there is not that Letterman-Seinfeld
cynicism of that smart-ass urban elite."
"This war is not only going to have positive effects on the Middle East, but
it's going to create a whole generation of young people with shared sacrifices.
People admire those who risk their lives to protect the security of their fellow
Americans. It's a marked contrast to the “vomit-ins” in San Francisco or “die-ins”
in the streets of Washington. But it's going to take a while for those people to
pass through the institutions and leave us in peace."
"One, we have a conventional military that's very powerful, and we're not necessarily
predictable. We have emotions, too, and we can lash out if we have to, so if you
are rash terrorists you'd better be careful of our anger. Two, when leaders like
the Assads or the Khadafis look at what we did to Saddam Hussein, blowing up individual
homes and rounding up killers, we almost reinvented their own military dialectic.
They always threatened us with these random stealthy killers; now in response we're
saying, 'You may have a suicide bomber, but we can target you as unpredictably and
suddenly just as much as you can target us.'”
- historian Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, describing the Operation Iraqi Freedom
troops and the media elite that misjudged them.
The Declaration of Independence
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of
the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it
becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected
them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and
equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent
respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes
which impel them to the separation. We hold
these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty
and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever
any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation
on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem
most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will
dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed
to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute
Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and
to provide new Guards for their future security. -- Such has been the patient sufferance
of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter
their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain
is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the
establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts
be submitted to a candid world...
On Illegal Immigration
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Veterans Day
2023: A Pittance of
Time
This is my annual
Veterans Day tribute. On November 11 (the 11th day of the 11th
month), at 11:00 am (the 11th hour), we observe two minutes of silence in honor
of countrymen who "gave the last full measure of devotion." A Pittance of Time
is performed by Canadian citizen Terry Kelly (he
went blind at an early age). It was written after an experience he had in a
store on Veterans
Day in 1999. The piece is done in the finest Celtic tradition. In regard to the
Communist and Fascist regimes where life and limb was sacrificed, have we thus
far won the battles, but lots the war? Look around you.
Bagpipes Cryin' Tribute to our Troops
.By Rushlow Harris
See AP's Original Wired D-Day Invasion Story
On June 6, 1944, the Associated
Press' (AP)
Wes Gallagher filed the first news report from the beachhead at
Normandy. The code name was "D-Day" (see today's
RF Cafe logo). It has
now been 70 years since the day "American, British and Canadian forces landed by
daylight in massive strength on the Normandy coast of France today and sped inland
from quickly-established beachheads. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told his troops this
grand assault was a crusade which must bring 'nothing less than full victory.'"
The animation below shows day-by-day progression of WWII in all theaters of operation
- sobering to see how bad things got before the U.S. entered the war.
A Pittance of Time, by Terry Kelly
Darryl Worley - Have You
Forgotten?
Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a
new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men
are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield
of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting
place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether
fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can
not hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have
consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little
note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did
here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work
which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us
to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full
measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have
died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -
and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish
from the earth.
Incredibly, 22 
