What ever I want to, when ever I want to. I am the president of the Heritage Pines Pocket Billiard League, composed of 75 members and and president of the Rolling Green Village Homeowners Association of 33 homes. Between those two, my woodworking hobby, golfing, deepsea fishing, going on pleasure cruises a couple times a year, and going to Ohio for two weeks in the summer to visit family and friends, I keep awful damn busy.
Other Comments:
Operation Nickel Grass (Yom Kippur War)
From Month/Year
October / 1973
To Month/Year
October / 1973
Description Operation Nickel Grass was an overt strategic airlift and operation conducted by the United States to deliver weapons and supplies to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In a series of events that took place over 32 days, the Military Airlift Command of the U.S. Air Force shipped 22,325 tons of tanks, artillery, ammunition, and supplies in C-141 Starlifter and C-5 Galaxy transport aircraft between October 14 and November 14, 1973. The U.S. support helped ensure that Israel survived a coordinated and surprise attack from the Soviet-backed Arab Republic of Egypt and Syrian Arab Republic.
Following a U.S. pledge of support on October 19, the oil-exporting Arab states within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) held to their previously declared warnings to use oil as a "weapon" and declared a complete oil embargo on the United States, and restrictions on other countries. This, and the contemporaneous failure of major pricing and production negotiations between the exporters and the major oil companies both led to the 1973 oil crisis.
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year
October / 1973
To Month/Year
October / 1973
Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020
Personal Memories
Memories I remember sitting in our shop (ECM shop) on the hanger deck level, when I heard jet engines coming into the hanger bay. They were A-4's with no markings and pilots with no ingignia. They taxied into the hangars under their own power at dusk (as to get out of sight). Before dawn they were gone. This happened three nights in a row, ten jets each night. Obviously, they were headed for Isreal covertly.