So general, it will now make a left turnout over the delaware. It will, it is on a Training Mission it will go up and practice air to air refueling, and, fuel in flight and then it will go and do some Transition Training practicing take offs and landing. We are watching major tim goodwin. Piloting it from our air force reserve, at maguire dixon. There is no way his last name is goodwilly. Goodwilly, sir. Midair. It can be refueled in midair. That gives us unlimited capability to go anywhere in the world. We can get behind a number of airplanes, transfer fuel, we do not have to land. That allows to us transfer the ocean. That makes our air force and our nation great. How much training goes into being able to fly that thing. Your basic pilot qualifications, about a full year to get your wings, and then another three months to get your qualification in the c17. And then you upgrade all the way to instructor and evaluate or in the weapons system. So over your time it will take five years t
This, an Early Detection of rotation across the delaware bay moving towards fort skew, call the National Weather service there was a severe thunderstorm and asked them will you put out a Tornado Warning and we saw this. There was a report of a water spout that crossed the bay and was seen in fort skew. More storms are moving our way and you can see a few popping here in delaware county. Also, some in cap, but im more concerned about this to the west, flooding concerns during the nighttime hours. So we had a flood advisory for wilmington into parts of delaware county. Just be weary of heavy rain thats falling and more coming your way and a flash flood, flash Flash Flood Watch for most of the region because of the heavy rain. Some of the heaviest downpours we can see two to as much as four inches of rain during the evening and late tonight. Fast moving downpours, so concerns for street flooding, also streams and creeks. Remember, a Flash Flood Warning means it will come down so hard, flo
The casualties were astounding, a stouinstounding to soldiers, generals and those left back home. Amidst the staggering losses at cole harbor, for every soldier killed, wounded or captured, there was a family. Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters that also felt the loss. The loss of the men that fell at cole harbor in the spring of 1864 reverb rasreverberated thr kmunlts a communities across the north and south. The battlegrounds left indelible kbag impacts on the living left behind. So, too, were the believes of the men who fought that bloody spring. Indeed, in spite of so many lost lives, those believes and ideas about nation, government and home became even more deeply enslie enshrined in the hearts and minds of those left to fight on tonight to reflect upon and learn from today. Writing soon after the war with a perspective on hindsight. Sally putnam came to believe that in its own unique way, cole harbor had been a landmark event in the 1866 Campaign Across Central
Nevertheless, while other Union Commanders were failing, grant had climbed steadily up the military ladder with resounding victories, stretching from fort henry in 1862, through vicksburg to Missionary Ridge in 1863. He was clearly the norths man of the hour. When lincoln ordered an east early in 1864 to take command of all federal forces. The somewhere near 500,000 combat ready soldiers grant would have authority over the largest post any american officer had ever led. The new Lieutenant General wasted little time in making his strategic intentions known. In the past, grant asserted, union armies had quote, acted independently and without concept like a bulky team of mules, no two pulling to the. And this allowed confederates to shift men from one sector to the other to meet the most pressing danger. Union generals seemed content to maneuver. But that was not the road to victory, grant announced. The north had far superior numbers, and materiel. It was time to switch games. To stop pl
Stymied. Lee is any a powerful position and grant cant break through. What does he do . Maneuvers. He pulled the army of the potomac ought of the wilderness and goes to the spotseslvania courthouse and then lee has to come out from the wilderness and fight him on opened ground. This is a tactical maneuver aimed at pulling lee from his strong entrenchmentes. The army of the potomac shifts south, a drama take point in the war because up to this point, whatever Union Generals had been trounced in the battle as bad as lee had defeated grant and in the wilderness they always retreated but grant moved south to the court house and lee gets awe finger of his army in front of grant and blocks him and theres brutal fighting in places with names like the mule shoe and the bloody age that will goes on for over a week, will be 10 days and then finally grant realizes he cant break through there so grant maneuvers again. He pulls the union army out from spots vain yeah courthouse and send the finger