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President Johnson … expressed concerns over the number of aircraft being lost on Rolling Thunder missions. Between January and September 1966, a total of228 fixed-wing combat and support aircraft had been lost during missions against North Vietnam. The question in Washington was, did the enemy have prior warning of U.S. raids against North Vietnam? …  The answer was yes, they did.

Stephen J. Kelley in PURPLE DRAGON: The Origin and Development of the United States OPSEC Program

On this day May 4, 1942, Captain Ranson “Fullie” Fullenwider would lead the FRUPAC Radio Intelligence Unit RIU on the aircraft carrier USS LEXINGTON CV-2 during the Battle of the Coral Sea. He and his team would escape injury when the LEXINGTON was attacked and the ship had to be abandoned. Two months later at the Battle of Midway he would also be leading the RUI team on the USS YORKTOWN CV-5 and would be among the last to leave the burning YORKTOWN with ADM Fletcher..

Photo credit – NCVA

May 4, 1942, 29 Navajos reported to Fort Defiance, Arizona, the first of roughly 400 to be trained as code talkers. Make sure to check the links at the end of the page for more articles about the Code Talkers.

By CDR Brian Schulz, Commanding Officer, Navy Information Operations Command Yokosuka, Japan. 

When football pundits talk about the “great” head coaches, their assessments turn to championships and then inevitably to the “coaching tree.” This idea of a coaching tree is identifying what former assistant coaches under a head coach went on to their own success as a head coach.   Bill Parcells, one of the all time greats (I said “one of,” don’t stop reading now out of Giants/Patriots/Jets/Cowboys hatred), has a coaching tree that includes Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, Mike Zimmer, Anthony Lynn, Doug Marrone, and Todd Bowles…all former assistants under Parcells and now all pretty successful head coaches (or former, in Bowles case) in their own right.