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30 Years Ago Today - 4 Nov 1979
Thirty years ago today - we were out in Nellis2/Indian Springs/Tonopah with a couple of MC-130Es and HH-53s - who says the desert doesn't get cold.
At the same time half a world away...
The American Experience: The Iranian Hostage Crisis, November 1979 - January 1981
On November 4, 1979, an angry mob of young Islamic revolutionaries overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than sixty Americans hostage. "From the moment the hostages were seized until they were released minutes after Ronald Reagan took the oath of office as president 444 days later," wrote historian Gaddis Smith, "the crisis absorbed more concentrated effort by American officials and had more extensive coverage on television and in the press than any other event since World War II."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/...e_hostage.html
Out of the ashes - Phoenix-like - arose JSOC and USSOCOM - and the rest is history.
And so it goes...
Richard's $.02 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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