At dawn we slept...in the cab on the way back from Olongapo

[Cap Mandrake]

Morning Air attack on Manokwari , at 85,109

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 33 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 6
A6M5 Zero x 21

Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 8

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D1 Liberator: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged

[Cap Mandrake]

Sneaky LYBs

Morning Air attack on Manokwari , at 85,109

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 2
A6M5 Zero x 7

Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D1 Liberator: 3 damaged

[Cap Mandrake]

The IJN goes up against the mighty P-39, one number better than the P-38. Lousy raid for them. Not easy to hit a DD with an aerial torp. Jap carriers are 40 miles east of Manokwari so the Vals or Judys don't make the run to Dobo

Morning Air attack on TF, near Dobo at 83,116

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 85 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 36 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 26
A6M5 Zero x 19
B5N2 Kate x 5

Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vc Trop x 5
P-39D Airacobra x 18

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 2 destroyed
A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed
B5N2 Kate: 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
DD Barton
DD Woodworth

[Cap Mandrake]

<make labial fricative sound...not those labia you animals>

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Dobo at 83,116

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 105 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 44 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 20
A6M5 Zero x 14
B5N2 Kate x 8

Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 10

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
DD Barton

[Cap Mandrake]

Sumatra: Huge raid over Padang. The P-40's from Batoe-elanden try to cover.

Morning Air attack on 19th Australian Brigade, at 44,85 (Padang)

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 36
G3M3 Nell x 68
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 10

Allied aircraft
P-40K Warhawk x 8

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
P-40K Warhawk: 2 destroyed

Allied ground losses:
24 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

[Cap Mandrake]

Morning Air attack on 117th RAF Base Force, at 44,85 (Padang)

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M3 Nell x 35

Allied aircraft
P-40K Warhawk x 2

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M3 Nell: 1 damaged

No Allied losses

[Cap Mandrake]

That's 136 bombers if you are counting.

Morning Air attack on 19th Australian Brigade, at 44,85 (Padang)

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49-IIa Helen x 31

Allied aircraft
P-40K Warhawk x 2

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

No Allied losses

[Cap Mandrake]

155

Morning Air attack on 19th Australian Brigade, at 44,85 (Padang)

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-IIa Lily x 19

Allied aircraft
P-40K Warhawk x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-IIa Lily: 1 destroyed

No Allied losses

[Cap Mandrake]

The Diggers hold!

Ground combat at Padang (44,85)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3437 troops, 23 guns, 71 vehicles, Assault Value = 129

Defending force 2420 troops, 54 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 106

Japanese adjusted assault: 61

Allied adjusted defense: 250

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 4 (fort level 1)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-)
Attacker: fatigue(-)

Japanese ground losses:
388 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 41 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
129 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 16 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)

Assaulting units:
148th Infantry Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
3rd Raiding Regiment

Defending units:
111th LRP Bde /8
16th Australian Bde /6
19th Australian Bde /5
117th RAF Base Force

[Cap Mandrake]

Padang is a jungle/rough hex

[Cap Mandrake]

Situation in Sumatra. I blame the staff. Won't upload. I am getting damned tired of involuntary MS downloads. I blame the boss for that. Actually, it was ATT

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

time to move I'm guessing you're not in real estate sales.

Humidity is 36%, which is high for SoCal. High clouds too. It's not so bad when the sun goes behind a cloud but when the sun comes out it's like the gates of Hell opened up. A few big wildland fires so you can smell the smoke. Beautiful sunsets.

And elsewhere, California has power outages from demand exceeding capacity while parts of Colorado went from 100ºF to snow overnight. Just weird.

[RangerJoe]

I think that you can blame the California power woes on its legislature passing a law that the companies that sell the power to the people can't own their own power plants. That set up Enron.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

I think that you can blame the California power woes on its legislature passing a law that the companies that sell the power to the people can't own their own power plants. That set up Enron.

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

I think that you can blame the California power woes on its legislature passing a law that the companies that sell the power to the people can't own their own power plants. That set up Enron.

That was a disaster but more recently the legislature has mandated a certain percentage of renewable energy. Rather than build a lot more renewable sources they simply shut down oil and natural gas fired plants and started buying hydro from Washington and solar from Arizona not to mention CLOSING nukes...well...when it gets hot Arizona gets hot and THEY take their own power. Its leadership by virtue-signaling

[JohnnieX]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

I think that you can blame the California power woes on its legislature passing a law that the companies that sell the power to the people can't own their own power plants. That set up Enron.

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

I think that you can blame the California power woes on its legislature passing a law that the companies that sell the power to the people can't own their own power plants. That set up Enron.

That was a disaster but more recently the legislature has mandated a certain percentage of renewable energy. Rather than build a lot more renewable sources they simply shut down oil and natural gas fired plants and started buying hydro from Washington and solar from Arizona not to mention CLOSING nukes...well...when it gets hot Arizona gets hot and THEY take their own power. Its leadership by virtue-signaling

At least you close nuclear power stations after opening them. Closing them before opening them seems to be wasteful.

https://www.longisland.com/news/05-18-2 ... tems...%20

[Cap Mandrake]

Wow..that is an epic "cost overrun" [:D] It's almost a 100 fold overrun.

It took so long you can't even fire the board of directors that voted for it because they are all dead.

[RangerJoe]

There was a rainstorm on the say of the rally.

[&:]

Folk singer Pete Seeger sang for protesters at the rally.

A known communist. Good music.

By law, the site cannot be used for nuclear power.
The debt on the plant is still not paid and officials expect the remaining $1 billion to be paid off by 2033.
A feasible safety plan to evacuate Long Island in case of an accident was never approved, leading to the shuttering of the plant.

Somebody should consider a lawsuit for the taking of the property rights. After all, the construction was approved and what did the powers that be think that the power plant was going to be used for?

[Cap Mandrake]

Man..I don't have any free time any more. Maybe I am watching too much television? I probably lost 30-45 minutes every day because the baahsterds took away my cute Asian and Turkish female scribes. My notes are terrible. I purposely don't correct any mistypes. I am waiting for them to send down someone to ask:

Administration functionary with obviously fake and paternalistic empathy "Dr Mandrake, your notes are down in quality, is there anything we can do to help ?"

FAM:<begins to giggle like a maniac>

Also, I am getting pretty damn tired of face masks and shields and lab coats. It's intolerable in hot weather. Also, we now have a mandate from the state of California to do screening for childhood trauma. It's called "trauma informed" when the doctor does this. I spent 5 hrs watching videos of patients reporting divorce, domestic violence, sexual abuse, drive-bys...as if I hadn't figured out that is bad before. So now we hand a questionnaire and the parent self-scores it and when it's above X you know you will not go home on time. In many cases the trauma is 30 years ago. It is a real problem, no doubt....but there is nobody to hand the baton off to. It would seem the state legislature forgot about that part.

[RangerJoe]

Is that questionaire optional? If so, let your patients know that and know that whatever their answer is that you don't how will handle the information after you. I bet many would say "NO!"

[Cap Mandrake]

Well, you can't do that because it is a medical confidentiality and it plausible that trauma in a parent's life might carry over to their children and they trust their pediatrician. That's why it actually is a valid screening effort. But someone who got this passed as a state ballot proposition forgot to include funding...or more likely...knew it would not pass if you included funding. You can't uncover decades old traumas and then say "OK, see you in 6 months". What you need is a so-called "warm handoff" to a therapist..probably a woman..plus someone to take care of the kids for 20-30 minutes for an initial session. That person would essentially have to have nobody booked like a fire crew waiting. That would take a new mental health position for every 5 pediatricians. It's impossible. The first person we screened falls apart and reports her husband's family in Pakistan beat her. She has a bad eye from trauma so it is entirely plausible. Oh, great..now we've done it. She can't even drive now.

So i get a female Urdu translator via teleheath, and send the kids out to color with the LVN. 30 minutes later we have established the perp is not the husband but the husband's female relatives and they are still back in the shithole so no US laws have been broken and the kids are thriving. Now, everyone behind her in the schedule is pissed and the group has spent more on the translator than they will be paid for 3 or 4 visits and now i have to find a female Urdu-speaking therapist that accepts MediCal....no problem

This is how "unfunded mandates" play out in real life.