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The UAV purchased by the North Little Rock Police Department
last year suffered a software failure and crashed during a training
flight Saturday. The Argenta News reports the remotely-piloted
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factory in South Carolina for repairs.
North Little Rock is the only U.S. city with a temporary permit
from the FAA to test a UAV for police work, thought they are
commonly used by the military in theater. Critics of the program
have called the UAV a "white elephant", and an "$80,000 toy". The
police department was preparing to apply to the FAA for a permit to
use the UAV over populated areas, which may now be in jeopardy
given the nature of the crash. Critics also complained that the UAV
required a crew of 4 officers to operate.
ANN reported earlier this month that the FAA had issued a ban on
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aircraft to meet the same 'see and avoid' standard that manned
aircraft have to operate under," he told the online
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From 1-2 October, representatives of Jewish, Muslim, LGBT and racism organisations will meet at the FRA to discuss their experiences on hate crime, and to exchange good practices on how to tackle the issue.
As a basis for discussion, FRA experts will present the results from relevant FRA surveys.
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EU LGBT survey - European Union lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender survey - Results at a glance
In light of a lack of comparable data on the respect, protection and fulfilment of the fundamental rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) launched in 2012 its European Union (EU) online survey of LGBT persons' experiences of discrimination, violence and harassment.
FRA brief: Crimes motivated by hatred and prejudice in the EU
This brief provides a short compilation of FRA findings on the issue of combating hate crime in the EU.
EU-MIDIS Data in Focus Report 6: Minorities as Victims of Crime
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This EU-MIDIS Data in focus report 6 presents data on respondents' experiences of victimisation across five crime types: theft of or from a vehicle; burglary or attempted burglary; theft of personal property not involving force or threat (personal theft); assault or threat; and serious harassment. The European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS) is the first EU-wide survey to ask 23,500 individuals with an ethnic and minority background about their experiences of discrimination and criminal victimisation in everyday life.
Making hate crime visible in the European Union: acknowledging victims' rights
Discrimination and intolerance persist in the European Union (EU) despite the best efforts of Member States to root them out, FRA research shows. Verbal abuse, physical attacks and murders motivated by prejudice target EU society in all its diversity, from visible minorities to those with disabilities. This FRA report is designed to help the EU and its Member States to tackle these fundamental rights violations both by making them more visible and bringing perpetrators to account.
02/04/2012 to 09/07/2012
EU LGBT survey
The FRA has conducted the first ever online EU-wide survey to establish an accurate picture of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people (18 years or older) and their experiences with regard to fundamental rights.
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Orange County has come to a bit of a crossroads for wildfire danger: the weekend will be hot, and mostly light winds will push toward the ocean, while humidity will be low.
But it likely won't reach that troubling tipping point, when high winds, low humidity and hot, dry conditions prompt red-flag warnings and place firefighers -- and fire-watch volunteers -- on the alert.
Not yet, anyway.
"It's coming," said Dave Raetz, the deputy director of the Irvine Ranch Conservancy who coordinates the group's fire watch efforts. "I don't think it's this particular event. But this is like the first hint of it -- the first little touch of it, to get people aware that we're rolling into that heavy wind season."
Fall is typically Santa Ana wind season, when hot, dry air rushes through canyons and passes to the sea, bringing increased fire danger with it.
The National Weather Service is predicting light winds for Orange County over the weekend, though some isolated canyon areas could see stronger gusts, Raetz said.
He is not yet activating his fire-watch volunteers, who fan out across wildlands during times of high fire-danger to watch for ignition, either accidental or intentional, and to discourage arsonists.
The Orange County Fire Authority also is making no special preparations for the weekend, said battalion chief Kris Concepcion. Still, he said, "we do have contingencies in place" in case of the unexpected.
Firefighters reported containing a fire of about 50 acres on national forest land off Ortega Highway Friday.
But with inland temperatures expected to be in the 90s Saturday and Sunday, Raetz urged Orange County residents to watch for potentially combustible situations -- such as people throwing burning cigarettes out their car windows and into the brush -- and even to call 911 if necessary.
"That's proven to be a major cause of ignitions throughout the entire county -- from roadsides," Raetz said.
And as for the chance that conditions could turn out worse than thought?
"I'm going to keep an eye on it over the entire weekend," he said.
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I simply LOVE soups. And I was excited to find out we now have an actual soup restaurant in downtown (I know, in addition to the bland offerings at Au Bon Pain). But I agree with this reviewer's observations for the most part. The soups all lack seasoning. Please add some salt and pepper to the mix. Soups were all fairly bland. My favorite was the chicken velvet by far. The others I tried were ok, but way to bland. This is a restaurant the specializes in soup. There soup, therefore, should be pretty awesome, not merely mediocre.ReplyDelete
I enjoyed the potato leek, but they offered to add bacon and I'm never one to say no to that! I also liked the lobster bisque, though I've had better it was still tasty. I really like the friendly service - I nearly dropped my soup when adding napkins and they remade it for me, despite my protests. I'm looking forward to trying the salads as it warms up.ReplyDelete
I love this place! I prefer the lentil soup with rosemary olive oil drizzled on top. I can get a cup of soup and chunk of wheat baguette for less than $4 - that's AMAZING for lunch anywhere, let alone downtown. It's within walking distance of work and the perfect place to pop into and take lunch out onto the circle in warmer weather.ReplyDelete
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Multicolored, Calico cats are the product of multiple fathers. Is it possible for a human child to have more than two parents? Researchers have discovered that it may be possible for children to have one father, but two mothers. This would make us less likely to inherit diseases, most of which come from the mother's (mitochondrial) DNA.
A mother's genetic contribution to her child comes in two separable parts. The largest is the 23 chromosomes in the nucleus of an unfertilized egg. The father also contributes 23 chromosomes in the sperm that fertilizes the egg.
But the mother ALSO contributes what is known as mitochondrial DNA. Mutations in this DNA--like mutations in regular DNA from both parents--can cause diseases, and diseases carried by the mitochondrial DNA are rare--but there are LOTS of them, meaning there is about one chance in 5,000 that a child will develop one of these inherited diseases.
Geneticist Shoukhrat Mitalipov collected eggs from the ovaries of women with mutated mitochondria and others from donors with healthy mitochondria. He removed the nuclei of both, then discarded those from the healthy cells. He transplanted the DNA from the diseased cells into the healthy cells, and then fertilized the result with sperm and allowed the fertilized eggs to start dividing, showing that it was possible to produce a zygote with three parents.
Nearly all of the experimental eggs survived the replacement of their nuclei, and three-quarters were successfully fertilized. However, just over half of the resulting zygotes displayed abnormalities. That compared with an abnormality rate of just an eighth in control zygotes grown from untransplanted, healthy eggs. However, when he tested his zygotes, he could find no trace of mutated mitochondrial DNA in them, so the purpose of the procedure--to see if he could eliminate the transfer of disease-causing DNA--seems to have been achieved.
"Test tube babies" are now pretty well accepted, but it we may have a long road ahead before we accept the idea of kids with three parents.
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Really? One calico cat can have 3 parents? I don't think so! While a mother cat can give birth to a litter of kittens, each with a different father, nature is not going to allow the egg to be penetrated by more than one individual sperm. Once the egg is penetrated, nature kicks in and does not allow another sperm to penetrate the egg. Female cats produce more than one egg at time, which is why they tend to have litters rather than only one at a time. They can produce twins, where one egg is fertilized and splits in two.
Calico cats are a product of genetics, not multiple fathers!
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I am presently weighing in at 191.4. Cannot get into the 180's yet, but it's coming, so I'm not worrying about it. Only about 50 pounds to go to hit my goal and that's not taking the excess skin into account. They tell me I'm about 30-40 pounds lighter than the scale reflects if you remove all that. I just don't think I want to have it removed. (Unless someone knows of some miracle tighten-stuff-up procedure that doesn't require surgery!)
I got a couple of photos in the mail today from my surgeon's office — their official "before" and "after" pics — and OMG. I had never seen the "before" picture before. It's horrid. I was in a wheelchair because I could barely stand at that point, and I was on supplemental oxygen, but I took it off for the photo & tried to smile. The left photo was taken less than a month before my surgery, the right photo was just over a year after my surgery. Check this out:
Not even sure I want to post it, the wheelchair photo is so hideous. But look at what a difference! THIS is what VSG surgery can do for you. In my case, in a year. Your mileage may vary, but I've gone from a wheelchair and supplemental oxygen 'round the clock, to living life again. I no longer have a death sentence hanging over my head!


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I am a Elvis Fan. Alway wanted to see Graceland. I am a two year breast cancer survivor. That would be a great way for me to celebrate. That sure would turn things around for me. I have been down for the last two years. Now I want to start having some fun again.


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Seventy video game deaths in two minutes
Friday, March 25, 2011 - 5:45pm
Boing Boing cut together 70 (by my count) classic video game deaths in this two minute video, which also features a beautiful 8-bit cover of Mad World, by Tears for Fears. Come for Battlezone, stay for Mortal Kombat, and leave thankful for the pronounced lack of Battletoads.
While this is obviously a great compilation, it's missing the most epically terrifying video game death of all time:
Ugh. My Apple II has been in the basement for years, but that still gives me shivers.
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|Hauser & Wirth Presents Major Work By Louise Bourgeois At Abu Dhabi Art
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Hauser & Wirth is delighted to participate in Abu Dhabi Art 2011 with a presentation of work by Louise Bourgeois. The centrepiece of the booth will be 'Cell (Black Days)', one of the last cells Bourgeois made before her death in 2010.
With 'Cell (Black Days)', Bourgeois created an independent architectural space in which she could explore themes of time and history, allowing the viewer to be a voyeur of her own private capsules of memories. This work is positioned as a hybrid, somewhere between an installation and a sculpture, with the viewers physically removed from the inner confines and yet invited to participate visually with the tableaux in front of them.
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I'm really loving Tangarine Tango. It's a nice classy orange. I love it with light teal or Tiffany blue. Thanks for sharing all of the trends with us!ReplyDelete
Lucy- What a nice little pop of color. My hubby's grandmother had a lot of malachite in her home. I believe it is mined in the UP-at least I know they bring the cargo ships in and out with it.
I seem to be stuck on serene right now. There is always so much going on here that I crave the blandness of not too much color...maybe a pop here and there..and, of course, traditional Christmas colors here but, other than that, pretty much texture and not so much color.
Happy New Year to you, Lu. I hope it's not too long before we see you again- You are missed when you aren't here- xo Diana
I don't think I could ever use reptile print in my home after nearly dying from a rattlesnake bite 2 years ago. I do like the tangerine though!ReplyDelete
Oops I forgot to say that I do hope you are doing better. The holidays are so hard on us at times with helping with depression.
I was reminded too today in a sermon of the words of Jesus right before He knew He was going to go to Calvary- "Glorify your son Father so that Your son may glorify you" (John 17) Cancer is such a terrible thing- my family has experienced it also and yet, God can bring glory and honor to Himself with anything, even cancer- some how that thought made it more comforting to me as I saw my loved ones go through what they had to during those days. Know you are in the palm of His hand and He loves you-
Looks to be a stylishly bright new year. Funny, I had the same reference to "writing your story" today on my blog. I don't think it's coincidence. I think it's just great minds thinking alike;-)
All will be better soon.
Anything in the orange family makes me smile! Also love the bright and bold emerald green colors - looks amazing paired with gold accents!ReplyDelete
I adore Chinoiserie. I'm really happy with tangerine, too. It's easier to work with than the pink they had last year.ReplyDelete
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Leeds boss Brian McDermott distances himself from free agent David Bentley
Boss Brian McDermott has distanced Leeds from speculation linking the club with a move for David Bentley.
Free agent Bentley, 29, is still without a club having been released by Tottenham at the end of last season.
Reports over the weekend linked Leeds with the former Arsenal, Blackburn and Tottenham midfielder but McDermott insists he already has enough cover in Bentley's position and he will not be signing players just for the sake of it.
"You can't take someone just because they are an easy deal," McDermott told the club's official website.
"We've got Ross McCormack in there and we've got El-Hadji Diouf in there, and they are similar players.
"I think David Bentley is a good player, but they're here and in that mould and the last thing you want to do is stockpile players in the same position. That isn't right.
"If I'm going to bring a player in it has to be one who can make a difference to us, there's no point in signing a player for signing's sake.
"I spoke to the owners and have said that to them that I won't do that. It might have happened here in the past, but I'm not going to do that. We're working with the players we have.
"We're always looking to improve the squad, but I never mention names. It's just complete speculation (in the media).
"In (the owner's) words he said if a player becomes available who can make the difference he will support me. We had a good conversation and I think it's important I keep the board in touch with what I want to do."
As Leeds prepare to head to Newcastle in the third round of the Capital One Cup on Wednesday night, one of their biggest problems this season has been a lack of goals.
The Whites have scored just seven in the Sky Bet Championship and are still searching for an adequate replacement for Luciano Becchio who was sold to Norwich in January.
Saturday's 2-1 home defeat to Burnley was their third loss in the last four games.
Matt Smith at least gave McDermott's men some punch when he got off the bench to nod in an 80th-minute goal, but either side of that Rodolph Austin, McCormack, Dominic Poleon and Luke Varney all floundered in and around the box.
McDermott, who reports have also linked with bringing Becchio back to the club, added: "I have five strikers here, I'd like it that they catch fire and get the goals we need. Trying to find a striker that can get you the goals and one who can come here at this moment in time isn't easy.
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Kidding about NN. I realize this isn't the tech forum but the problem appeared here first.
Thus far, I've submitted all my posts using Firefox but for this post I'm using IE to troubleshoot some problems. Thanks to beksbks and eggnog I just realized that my posts and any FOLLOWING posters comments are not showing up when using IE to view this site. But for some reason, if I switch to Firefox or Chrome, no problem. Does anyone know if this is typical? Is this due to the fact that I used FF to submit the posts in question? What do you guys use and have you ever experienced this? Is this site optimized for a particular browser?
I apologize if this has already been discussed. I'm not having any luck with the search function either.
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You are soooooo such a nerd!!!
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Does anyone know if this is typical? Is this due to the fact that I used FF to submit the posts in question?
Yes and Yes.
I (not being a nerd) don't know any more than that.
Actually, I am a nerd, but not a tech head.
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I always use Firefox. So, I had to crank up the ol IE to see what you're talking about. Seems like you're a bona fide thread killer SBC!
Anyway, I have no idea why your posts become invisible in IE. Maybe you have a browser plug in that inserts some html code Micro$oft doesn't like?
|posted Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:01:00 GMT(7/2/2010)
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I've taken a bit of a shine to Chrome as of late. Google is a good company, their Android platform/phones might be the only ones that give Crapple a run for their money.
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Okay, look here, Misery... I have no reply to that.
beksbks, I don't know that we can say Firefox alone is to blame because PrimateDave seems to be using it without killing threads. Are there other examples of this happening that you know of? I'd like to try to nail down the exact culprit.
Dave, I'm betting you're right. Do you use the AdBlockPlus plugin? I'm wondering if it's the offending party. Sheesh, I just screwed up like 5 threads by submitted posts via Firefox (and whatever plugin is killing 'em). I guess nobody that uses IE exclusively will be able to see comments after mine on those threads, huh? Sorry, folks! :-\
agonus, I will test Chrome and see if I can cause any more problems using it. :-D Hopefully not. I've actually been looking for an excuse to run Chrome but have everything set up the way I like it in FF. This might be a good opportunity to switch.
Thanks for the help, all.
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SweetBabyCheezits - I use Firefox with the AdBlockPlus plugin with no problem on here. I seem to remember a while back I had some problems on here using Firefox but it was something to do with having 'no script' enabled or something like that.
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Sweet BC, it has been happening for a long time now. When ever there is a thread that disappears (just as your's have today), I ask if they use FF. If memory serves, they have without exception been using FF.
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We just came back from this camping and there were a lot of mosquitos at this place. We had to close our tent at 21:00 o'clock otherwise these mosquitos would fly in. Sprays and oils did not help a bit. I liked Chioggia and Commachio, but it was an hour drive. The tents were clean and the pool was great. A pity it was quite a walk to the marina. I can not recommend the beach on the southside with all the wreck wood lying there. The weather was lovely. This landscape is a bit similar to our Flevopolder.
We stayed here last year as a family. We rented the caravan owned by Vacansoleil. The campsite, the entertainment and the pool were amazing. However, we locked ourselves in the caravan after 21.00 because of the mosquitoes. Our son was so covered in bites on his face that we had to take him to the doctor (he had an allergic reaction). It was really disappointing because the children really wanted to go to the entertainment at night. I hope there will be more activities in surrounding area because the villages like Porto Tolle were really boring. There were some nice places about an hour and a half away which I can recommend visiting. It's a shame this site isn't somewhere else (somewhere where the isn't a plague of mosquitoes) as we would definitely have come to stay here again.
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The Pope that during this Advent season he had been thinking about "the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees in Syria forced to leave their country because of the dramatic situation there."
The Holy Father noted the work already being done by the Catholic aid organization, Caritas, but added, "Nonetheless, I appeal to the sensibility of individuals, international organizations and governments, to make further efforts to meet these people's most urgent needs."
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Hispanics Pursue Entrepreneurship
12 Mar, 2012
Starting a business is a good alternative to low-paying entry jobs
You've graduated with an associate's or bachelor's degree in business and can't find a well paying position. What are your options? Instead of settling for a low-paying entry level job, business degree holders could also consider becoming their own bosses. Rest assured Hispanics have a great track record for becoming successful small business owners.
What do you need in order to be a successful new Hispanic entrepreneur? Two attributes are key: ambition and technological know-how. It's vital to be willing to put a lot of time and effort to get a business off the ground. You must decide on a concept, develop a business plan, raise capital, lease space and equipment, and create a marketing campaign. All of this must be done before the doors of the business even open. To those willing to make the effort, the rewards will be plentiful.
Being comfortable with emerging technologies is a must for the young Hispanic business owner. Even though you may not be in the tech industry, it's important to understand and be able to use basic computer programs, applications, mobile devices and mobile payment processing methods.
Starting the Journey
Hispanic business owners can find numerous resources to begin their journey into financial independence. The U.S. Small Business Administration provides information on assistance available exclusively to Latinos who wish to start their own companies.
Latinos may be eligible to apply for certain small business grants and loans exclusively available to minorities. The Small Business Administration, financial institutions and private organization may give lenders the opportunities to build capital to start their new business venture. Small Business Administration financial opportunities include a basic 7(a) program, 504 loans and post-disaster assistance. A 7(a) loan program is funded to help businesses that meet certain requirements. For instance, loans may be extended to businesses located in certain rural areas or those established by individuals with military backgrounds. With 504 loans, business owners can receive monies to modernize or expand your current business. The loans may be utilized to purchase new equipment or gain property for the business. Small businesses that need help recovering after a natural disaster can also receive monetary assistance through the Small Business Administration.
Keep in mind that small business grants and loans don't typically mean the organization is giving away free money to new entrepreneurs. The business owner will likely have to pay back the money, but may receive a reduced interest rate or tax incentives during the Hispanic business owner's first years in operation.
A Viable Option
In the United States, Hispanics have been recognized as the minority with the highest rate of small business ownership. According to statistics compiled through the United States Census Bureau, the Hispanic market makes up 6.6 percent of all businesses owned in the country. The types of businesses reported being owned by Latinos is varied. Some of the more popular choices for Hispanic entrepreneurs included construction companies, administrative services, cleaning companies, technical service firms and professional services.
To decide on the type of small business, consider supply and demand. What goods and services are needed in your area? Market research is an essential component before settling on a particular field. Consider personal interests as well. For instance, a tech expert may want to consider opening a consulting firm.
Entrepreneurship among up and coming Hispanic professionals should not be discounted as a viable career option. Small business ownership in the Hispanic market has grown steadily over the years and is expected to continue as more professionals take advantage of entrepreneurship opportunities.
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Dr. Leslie J. Cullen
Texas Tech University
As the year 1968 dawned over the Republic of Vietnam, the headquarters of United States Naval Forces, Vietnam (NAVFORFV) occupied a small complex of buildings in downtown Saigon. Centered on a rambling two-story nineteenth century French colonial villa, the compound housed Rear Admiral Kenneth L. Veth, Commander United States Naval Forces, Vietnam (COMNAVFORV), and his staff.
Though technically located in a combat zone, pre-1968 Saigon was infamous for its carnival-like atmosphere. Observers often wondered if there was truly a war on. American GIs on brief R&R tours wandered the numerous go-go clubs and saloons in search of readily available thrills, and jostled in the crowded streets with throngs of Vietnamese civilians on bicycles, in pedicabs, and in automobiles. The snarled traffic could be amusing when it was not dangerous. Viet Cong rocket attacks and bombings occasionally shattered the illusion of peace, as did the ubiquitous presence of heavily armed South Vietnamese soldiers. Distant rumbles of artillery often punctuated the street sounds, especially at night. Journalists, officers, and visiting VIPs could observe the war from the comfort and relative safety of the Caravelle Hotel bar veranda, sipping cocktails and looking across the Saigon River where tracers from the miniguns of AC-47 gunships arced out of the twilight into the swamps of the Rung Sat Special Zone.
On the night of January 31, 1968, when the Viet Cong launched the opening salvo of the 1968 Tet Offensive, American facilities in and around the South Vietnamese capital numbered among the primary targets. The sudden ferocity of the attacks caught Americans stationed in Saigon-including the NAVFORV staff-off guard. Admiral Veth remembers, "The first thing we knew about it was when we were all waked up (sic) in the middle of the night, and all hell broke loose in the way of gunfire and explosions." Veth and his staff gathered what weapons they could find in the compound-two machine guns, several side arms, and a box of fragmentation grenades-and clambered atop the roof of the villa. For the rest of the night and into the early morning that small group of naval officers watched tracers, rockets, and flares etch the Saigon skyline and listened to their radio as disjointed reports of Viet Cong attacks came from around the city.1
The totality of the enemy effort became clear in the week that followed, and the initial panic within South Vietnam itself gave way to domestic turmoil and political repercussions in the United States. For the American military, the 1968 Tet Offensive produced mixed results. The enemy seriously overestimated the impact the offensive would have on the South Vietnamese government and people, and this miscalculation resulted in severe casualties and an undeniable battlefield victory for the United States and South Vietnam. Of more importance, however, Tet has entered the annals of American military history as one its greatest intelligence disasters.2
After official assertions concerning Saigon's safety and the supposedly successful interdiction of Viet Cong supply and communications networks in the areas south and east of the city, Tet came as a nasty surprise. The counterinsurgency efforts, it seems, had not accomplished their planners' goals. Despite that salient fact, many in the United States Military Assistance Command (MACV) returned to confident predictions of looming success. Captain Earl Rectanus, who in 1968 served as NAVFORV staff intelligence officer, noted that the MACV and NAVFORV staffs were playing a public relations game instead of determining how the Viet Cong had amassed such a capability: ". . . we were going through all of this PR, is really what it was, and everybody was working to try to get evidence, back-up, to tell Washington that it really wasn't the disaster the media had been playing it up to be."3
In a combined atmosphere of military victory and official denial of Tet's implications, the United States Navy in Vietnam continued its standing strategy of using its in-country assets to patrol the coastal zones and major rivers. Those assets included Task Force 115, commonly known as the Market Time patrol force, which operated a dozen radar picket destroyer escorts (DERs), thirty-one cutters (WPBs), five high-endurance cutters (WHECs), eighty-four aluminum-hulled Swift boats (PCFs), and a large number of coastal junks and smaller craft. This small armada-working in conjunction with patrol aircraft-carried out an ongoing coastal surveillance effort along South Vietnam's 1,400-mile coastline. Market Time, in its three-year existence, had virtually choked off all seaborne infiltration by steel-hulled trawlers into the Republic of Vietnam.
Task Force 116, also known as Operation Game Warden, used scores of river patrol boats (PBRs) divided into five River Patrol Groups to deny the Viet Cong access to the main rivers and canals in the teeming Mekong Delta in III and IV Corps. In September 1968, TF 116 PBRs boarded and inspected more than 11,000 sampans and other small craft in the Delta.4 Despite this enormous and ongoing effort, Tet demonstrated that waterborne infiltration into southern South Vietnam-via canals and interior rivers-continued.
The final task force-the Mobile Riverine Force (MRF)-used a variety of river patrol and assault craft to support sweep and clear operations in the Delta by the 2nd Brigade of the United States Army's 9th Infantry Division. The combined action of these task forces limited North Vietnamese and Viet Cong access to South Vietnam's waterways, all of which were then and still are vital lines of transportation and communication.5
The Navy's ongoing operations, despite their positive results, did not stop the enemy from infiltrating sufficient personnel and materiel to mount the 1968 Tet Offensive. MACV intelligence officers noted however, that even if the patrolling hindered the insurgency, the Navy's efforts were unable to interdict it entirely. The enemy adapted to American patrolling methods and altered schedules of movement and location accordingly. Chased from the Mekong and Bassac Rivers, infiltrators reverted to the lesser rivers and canals that laced the entire southern third of South Vietnam. Many of these waterways ran close to the Cambodian frontier, across which men and logistics moved with relative ease.
Interestingly, the Navy had known for four years that the enemy possessed such a capability. In early 1964, before American forces became actively engaged in South Vietnam, Captain Phil Bucklew, at the behest of then-CINCPAC, Admiral Harry D. Felt, took part in an exploratory mission to determine what could be done to counter waterborne infiltration. Bucklew and his staff traveled the Delta extensively, interviewing dozens of Vietnamese military personnel and their American advisors. At the Cambodian border, Bucklew personally witnessed the Viet Cong openly moving supplies by sampan inside "neutral" Cambodia. In his report to CINCPAC, Bucklew described the totality of the infiltration effort, criticized the South Vietnamese response as inefficient and woefully inadequate, and suggested that halting the Viet Cong would require a coastal blockade augmented by extensive patrolling of the internal rivers. The report went on to recommend that the Navy establish "a viable means of controlling the rivers by implementing barricades, curfews, checkpoints, and patrols" (emphasis added).6
Granted, Market Time, Game Warden, and the Mobile Riverine Force had done this in part, but the effort did not fully realize Bucklew's intentions. The navy had yet-as of early 1968-to heed his observation that blockading and patrolling alone would not suffice. An active effort at interdiction in the lesser rivers and along the Cambodian frontier-not just along the Mekong and Bassac-was crucial to defeating the insurgency.
The Navy disregarded Bucklew's ultimate conclusion because it lacked the intelligence gathering capacity to determine that seaborne infiltration of South Vietnam-as countered by Market Time-paled in importance to materiel the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong infiltrated from Cambodia along internal waterways. Once the Navy launched Market Time, it stubbornly refused to consider the implications of Bucklew's study. The irony is compounded when one considers that the very effectiveness of Market Time caused the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong to do precisely what Bucklew predicted they would do-use the waterways along the Cambodian frontier to move logistics in a region where countermeasures were virtually nonexistent. Hence, the enemy was able to conclude successfully the build-up necessary to launch the attacks of early 1968. "It took," concluded historian Clarence Wunderlin, "the traumatic jolt delivered during the Tet Offensive to awaken naval planners to their strategic flaws."7 The Navy suffered from a gap of conception described by Marc Bloch as the tendency of finding it "useful to ask oneself questions, but very dangerous to answer them."8
In the end, it took more than the jolt of Tet to cause the Navy to alter its modus operandi in the Mekong Delta; it took a change of command. Despite the realization of what the enemy had accomplished by doing an end run around the Navy's patrolling systems, Veth clung stubbornly to the fixed pre-Tet strategy. He said, ". . . there was some agitation to go up a lot of the canals with our riverine boats and, let's say, harass the countryside, but for the most part we avoided that, again, because the chance of being ambushed by the enemy was so great and there wasn't much to be accomplished. . . . There just wasn't much to be gained by going up a lot of the little canals and streams that ran into the major rivers."9 Veth's passive strategy and his unimaginative attitude regarding the possibilities of a wider application of in-country naval power irritated General William C. Westmoreland's successor as COMUSMACV, the hard-charging, irascible General Creighton Abrams.10
Vice Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., Veth's own successor, was also a hard-charger. His superiors recognized the 1942 Annapolis graduate and World War II veteran's leadership attributes very early in his career. At age forty-seven Zumwalt became the youngest three-star admiral in the Navy's history, and immediately thereafter-in mid-September 1968-he arrived in Saigon to follow Veth as COMNAVFORV.
Zumwalt began his tenure in Vietnam with an extensive seven-day tour of his new command; from the major installations to the smallest advisory post on the rivers; from the Mekong Delta to the DMZ; the admiral's observations helped him to develop a thumbnail sketch that he did not like. Zumwalt-who was certainly aware of the Bucklew Report and its implications-concluded that the Navy's effort in Vietnam, despite the fine performance of individual units and personnel, suffered from underutilization of its in-country assets and from a lack of guidance and strategic vision at the top. Captain Howard J. Kerr-then an aide to Zumwalt-took the tour with the admiral and recalled of it: ". . . we came away from those days with a clear understanding that the staff in Saigon was cut off from the forces in the field. Their relationship was one of telephone calls and messages. . . . It was just a sleepy, large, moribund staff which had fallen into a pattern of reading message traffic."11 Zumwalt decided that the aggressive leadership of the task force commanders and the initiative and effort of the 38,000 officers and men under his command could be put to greater use. The admiral and his staff began searching for a new strategy; a strategy that would take into account the Tet-hardened conclusions of the Bucklew Report; a strategy that would change the focus of the navy's previous efforts from mere patrolling to a more forward and active drive to interdict the enemy's lines of supply and communication and destroy his base camps in the Delta. The genesis of what became Operation Sea Lords arose from this decision.
Sea Lords-which stood for Southeast Asia Lake Ocean River Delta Strategy and embodied the totality of Zumwalt's and NAVFORV's vision-encompassed all three preexisting task forces that heretofore had been operating independently of one another and brought them together in a strategy unified in its conception and execution. Since the Tet Offensive demonstrated that the previous strategy did not effectively hinder enemy infiltration, Zumwalt and his staff decided to combine and refocus the Navy's in-country assets. Market Time continued as before, but the PCFs now moved up the major rivers, freeing the Game Warden PBRs to move further inland and establish a system of named barriers. These barriers extended from Saigon north and west to the Parrot's Beak region of the Cambodian border, and along a series of canals extending from the Mekong and Bassac Rivers west and south to the Cambodian border and the Gulf of Thailand.12 The barriers consisted of mobile bases aboard Tank Landing Ships (LSTs) and more fixed facilities called Advanced Tactical Support Bases (ATSBs), which the Navy located at intervals along the interior waterways. Each LST or ATSB served as a support facility for PBRs and the heavier craft of the Mobile Riverine Force as they patrolled deeper than ever before into the interior of III and IV Corps.13
Sea Lords contained a second component complementing the forward and aggressive barrier strategy: denial of sanctuary to the enemy in remote regions previously defaulted to him. As we have seen, under Admiral Veth the Navy generally avoided the distant and inaccessible reaches of III and IV Corps, specifically the infamous Rung Sat Special Zone southeast of Saigon and the Ca Mau Peninsula at the southern extremity of the Republic of Vietnam. The NAVFORV staff developed a unique plan for each.
In the Rung Sat, stepped up river patrolling, ground sweeps, and harassment and interdiction fire kept the Viet Cong off balance in what had formerly been a sanctuary. The Navy instituted a cooperative plan with other Free World Forces-including the Australians, South Koreans, South Vietnamese, and Thais-for operating in the area and conducting coordinated operations. The frequency of Viet Cong attacks on commercial shipping using the Long Tau ship channel to the port of Saigon fell dramatically. The result, wrote NAVFORV staff historian Richard Schreadly, became "a model for what could be made of a seemingly hopeless situation, given leadership, singleness of purpose, and a spark of imagination."14
In the Ca Mau Peninsula-regarded by American advisors as one of the most eerie and inhospitable places in South Vietnam-the Navy launched a unique and innovative operation-Sea Float. A floating base anchored in the Cua Lon River, Sea Float served as a platform from which the Navy carried out interdiction patrols, SEAL team operations, and civic action efforts. As a result of this audacious placement of an American presence in a region long defaulted to the Viet Cong, Vietnamese civilians made refugees during the 1968 Tet Offensive returned to their homes in the Nam Can District adjacent to the base, and American observers witnessed a sharp rise in regional economic activity. "Sea Float's effect," Zumwalt concluded, "was that it greatly accelerated pacification."15
Because Sea Lords-with its post-Tet emphases on interdiction, denial of sanctuary, and pacification-unified the American naval effort, it is unquestionably one of the better strategies to emerge from the American military experience in Vietnam. Given the political limitations Washington placed on the theater of operations, it was as near total-geographically-as Zumwalt and his staff could make it with the available resources. Statistically, Navy records indicate the level to which Sea Lords operations interfered with Viet Cong logistics. A July 1969 NAVFORV study indicated that the barrier operations to date generated 900 firefights resulting in more than 1,600 enemy killed. Naval forces captured more than 160 tons of weapons, and in Zumwalt's opinion this statistic was worth far more than the omnipresent "body count."16 If interdiction was the key, the admiral reasoned, then numbers and types of weapons seized outweighed dead Vietnamese, however high their numbers. "We were not there specifically to see how many Viet Cong we could kill," recalled Lieutenant Commander Robert Powers. "We were there . . . to stop their bringing supplies in that were disrupting the countryside, and . . . to deny their influence."17 Powers' statement-and NAVFORV's approach-reflect one of the central aspects of the American experience in Vietnam. In a limited war of shifting goals, what constitutes success?
Success and failure can be subjective concepts. Many observers regard much if not all of what the United States did in Vietnam as unsuccessful because of the ultimate negative outcome of the entire conflict. To do so in the case of Operation Sea Lords would be inaccurate. Taking into consideration changing American policy in the aftermath of the 1968 Tet Offensive, General Abrams-and Admiral Zumwalt under him-could consider little more than how to stabilize a fluid situation long enough to allow the struggling South Vietnamese to improve their political and military structures and consolidate a defensible position. In that light, Sea Lords-despite its inability to eradicate waterborne infiltration through the Mekong Delta, made an enormous difference. It interrupted Viet Cong and North Vietnamese logistics networks. It cost the enemy in personnel, materiel, and in Zumwalt's estimation, the key factor of time. Sea Lords, in its imaginative and forward application of naval power, repeatedly disrupted enemy timetables and forced the communists to alter or delay their plans. Compared to the period prior to Tet 1968, the results of Sea Lords and its subordinate operations speak for themselves.
1 John T. Mason Interview with Rear Admiral Kenneth L. Veth, USN (Ret.) August 10, 1977 (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute Oral History Series), pp. 405-06.
2 Glenn Helm, "Surprised at Tet," Pull Together; Newsletter of the Naval Historical Foundation and the Naval Historical Center, Spring/Summer 1997, pp. 1-5.
3 Paul Stillwell Interview with Vice Admiral Earl F. Rectanus, USN (Ret.), November 19, 1982 (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute Oral History Series), p. 17.
4 Richard L. Schreadly, "Sea Lords", United States Naval Institute Proceedings, 96:8 (August 1970), p. 23.
5 The secondary literature on United States Navy operations in South Vietnam is broad, but for specific operations see Victor Croizat's The Brown Water Navy: The River and Coastal War in Indochina and Vietnam (Poole, UK: Blandford Press, 1984); Thomas J. Cutler's Brown Water, Black Berets: Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute Press, 1988); Edward J. Marolda, By Sea, Air, and Land: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Navy and the War in Southeast Asia (Washington: Naval Historical Center, 1994), and R.L. Schreadly's From the Rivers to the Sea: The United States Navy in Vietnam (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute Press, 1992). For a study of the Coast Guard's contributions to Operation Market Time, see Alex Larzelere's The Coast Guard at War; Vietnam, 1965-1975 (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute Press, 1996) and Dennis L. Noble's "Cutters and Sampans," United States Naval Institute Proceedings, June 1984, pp. 47-53.
6 Quoted in Thomas Cutler, Brown Water, Black Berets, pp. 72-76.
7 Clarence E. Wunderlin, Jr., "The Paradox of Power: Infiltration, Coastal Surveillance, and the United States Navy in Vietnam, 1965-68," The Journal of Military History, 53, July 1989, pp. 275-289.
8 Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft (New York: Vintage, 1953), p. 17.
9 John T. Mason Interview with Rear Admiral Kenneth L. Veth, USN (Ret.), August 10, 1977, p. 388.
10 In fairness to Veth, his unassertive approach to the war indicates more than the simple disdain in which General Abrams held him. There was a larger attitude within the Navy that the in-country war in South Vietnam paled in significance to the "real" war-the air war against North Vietnam flown from the aircraft carriers of the Seventh Fleet. For that reason, South Vietnam gained a reputation at best as a detour from a successful career track, or at worst, a "dumping ground" for inferior officers. The Navy's tendency to give less than ideal follow-on assignments to officers coming out of NavForV had the dual effect of reinforcing this negative perception and removing any incentive for highly motivated officers to volunteer for a tour in Vietnam. In the wider Navy, preoccupied as it was with the Soviet threat-and with Operation Rolling Thunder-the brown water war in Vietnam placed a distant third on anyone's list of priorities.
11 Paul Stillwell Interview with Captain Howard J. Kerr, USN, September 22, 1982 (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute Oral History Series), pp. 26-27.
12 The barriers included Operation Giant Slingshot, Operation Search Turn, Operation Tran Hung Dao, Operation Barrier Reef, and Operation Double Shift.
13 For contemporary descriptions of barrier operations and their support facilities, see Robert C. Powers, "Beans and Bullets for SEALORDS," United States Naval Institute Proceedings 96: 12 (December 1970), pp. 95-97; and R. L. Schreadly, "Nothing to Report: A Day on the Vam Co Tay," United States Naval Institute Proceedings 96: 12 (December 1970), pp. 23-27.
14 R. L. Schreadly, "The River War in Vietnam, 1950-1970," United States Naval Institute Proceedings 97, Naval Review Issue, May 1971, p. 205. For the official USN view of the Rung Sat, see "Rung Sat Special Zone Intelligence Study," ComNavForV Miscellaneous (8), Box 597, Operational Archives Branch, Naval Historical Center, Washington DC.
15 Author Interview with Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt. Jr., USN (Ret.), April 18, 1997, Lubbock, Texas.
16 Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Vietnam/Chief Naval Advisory Group Newsletter #9, 1 July 1969, ComNavForV/ChNavAdvGrp Newsletter File, Box #585, Operational Archives Branch, Naval Historical Center, Washington DC.
17 Etta Belle Kitchen Interview with Captain Robert F. Powers, USN, October 30, 1982 (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute Oral History Series), p. 80.


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