minor 9 yds. questions (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> If convenient, would someone be interested in checking NA for date,
> text, and whether they are from the same reporter?
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> Redlands [CA] Daily Facts, April 7, 1965
> ...AFB for training in Air Combat [?] when this occurs, the flare
> ship...tactical warfare. We got...altitude, continuing to the whole
> nine yards, including drop [?] flares and the fighters a side trip to
> Panama....lower altitude...the area held by the Viet....

Citation is correct. Page 6, col 1 is location of quote. The quote as stated above is wrong -- it is two adjacent columns combined.  Correct quote follows:
"I left the Ballistic Systems Division on August 1st, Clyde said, "and went to Hurlburt AFB for training in Air Commando tactical warfare. We got the whole nine yards, including a side trip to Panama for jungle survival."

"Clyde" is Maj Clyde B. Williams.

Written by LtCol Frank D. Campbell Jr.
"Editor's Note: Col. Campbell was formerly Public Information Officer of Ballistics Systems Division, Norton AFB . When he was assigned to South Viet Nam, Mrs. Campbell and their daughters remained in Redlands. He is Director of Information, Second Air Division. He keeps up on Redlands news via the Facts."




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> Redlands Daily Facts  Feb,. 17, 1969
> ...(and it might as well be a friend) ought to write a swan song for
> the ex-commissioner [of baseball] William D. Eckert (Lt Gen ASAF, Ret.)
> better known as Spike. To me the whole nine yards of l'affaire Spike
> never quite made sense, some writers derive an odd sadistic euphoria
> for knocking a man who has made it in this....

Cite is incorrect -- 2/19/1969, p 24. Col 6.  Author is Maj Gen Perry B. Griffith, USAF, Ret.
Quote above is nearly accurate -- here is correct version:

"...(and it might as well be a friend) ought to write a swan song for
the ex-commissioner [of baseball] William D. Eckert (Lt Gen ASAF, Ret.)
better known as Spike. To me the whole nine yards of l'affaire Spike
never quite made sense.  True enough, some writers derive an odd sadistic euphoria
for knocking a man who has made it. In this case . . . "


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> Also, though it may be too late to be important,
> Index to the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-bulletiný
> Hawaii. Office of Library Services, Library of Hawaii. Friends, Hawaii
> State Library, Library of Hawaii -  - 1975 three articles:
> Page 38 [GB says p. 37]
> Richard Wood debuts in "The Whole Nine Yards" at Tenny Theatre A5/2/75
> C5:1
> DRAMAS-REVIEWS
>  "Whole Nine Yards" HPAC S5/8/75 F6:1 A5/9/75 C10:1
> S-Star A=Advertiser
> Anyone know about this play (or reviews), perhaps at St. Andrew's
> cathedral, now a youth theatre? The WNY movie writer Mitchell Kapner, I
> think, is too young to have written it, but perhaps not so the 1986 WNY
> youth book author (from Texas?), Dallin Malmgren.
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen Goranson
> http://www.duke.edu/~goranson
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