By Stan Karn
It was the fall of 1964. I had been at Kamiseya about six or eight weeks when a shipmate received a letter from a buddy at Corry Field. In that letter was news that Wilfred (Bill) Cordell had received orders for Kamiseya and would be arriving soon. I had been wondering why I had not heard from Bill and this news was the answer. He must have wanted to surprise me.
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Kamiseya was a great place to be stationed and orders there were highly coveted. The base was located to the south-west of Tokyo and there was plenty to do during off-duty hours! No wonder Kami had gained a reputation as the “Camelot of the Orient.”
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RM3 Emil White, KIA, NSGA Sabana Seca
September 7, 1959 – December 3, 1979
With the war over and his job done, Admiral John S. McCain Sr. returned to his home in California and died on September 6, 1945 – just four days after witnessing the Japanese surrender ceremony aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. He had earlier joked that he was planning to celebrate the Allied victory in the Pacific by creating three new cocktails named “Zeke,” “Jill,” and “Judy” after types of Japanese planes. “Each time you drink one, you can say ‘splash one Judy’ or “splash one Zeke,” McCain said.
What if I told you a major U.S. Department of Defense component assumed responsibility for building a critical warfighting capability negligently disregarded this duty, and ultimately allowed this capability to reach a point of failure? Well, that’s exactly what happened with U.S. Cyber Command.
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Sept. 5, 2025
When President Xi Jinping presided over an enormous exhibit of China’s military might in Beijing on Wednesday, there were more than fighter jets and missiles on display.
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