Red Tails

The movie Red Tails is about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American pilots that flew and fought in World War 2. This movie was released in theaters in January 20, 2012 and directed by Anthony Hemingway whom is also the director of CSI NY. The movie stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, and Nate Parker. This is an action drama film which takes place during WWII in Italy/Europe. The executive producer was George Lucas.

What I liked  about the movie was it was about  the first African American Airmen. During World War II, the Civil Aeronautics Authority selected 13 black cadets to become part of an experimental program at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The program aimed at training “colored personnel” to become fighter pilots for the Army. The U.S. military thought an “African American” could not pass flight school or basic combat training. They all proved the Pentagon wrong. After they passed everything it took to become a fighter pilot, the Pentagon would give them missions that were already covered and cleared. At the middle of the movie they were given their first mission. The mission was D-Day. They were to go behind the enemy lines bombing and getting rid of Jarry’s (German Fighters). In that mission they had over 100 in flight kills and they took down a German airbase.

Another part of the movie I liked were the planes and fighting scenes. The bombers were all just like the real ones from WWII. The explosions and fighting in the air very realistic as well. The fighting scenes are very intense.

I don’t want to spoil the movie for those want to see the movie.  overall this movie is my favorite of all time. It is a suspenseful and inspirational movie that will leave you with emotion. I would recommend it to people who like inspirational action movies.

Thank you,

                                                     By Brayden Calvin

Early Life

Isaac Newton was born on Jan. 4, 1643 in the Hamlet Woolsthrope Lincolnshire, England. His father was prosperous local farmer, but died 3 months before Isaac was born. Newton was born premature and was not expected to live. His mother remarried and Newton was left in the care of his grandparents. In 1661, he went to Cambridge University where he became interested in mathematics, optics, physics and astronomy. In October 1665, a plague epidemic forced the university to close and Newton returned to Woolsthorpe. The two years he spent there were an extremely fruitful time during which he began to think about gravity. He also devoted time to optics and mathematics.

At age 12, Newton was reunited with his mother after her second husband died. She brought along her three small children from her second marriage. Newton had been enrolled at the King’s School in Grantham, a town in Lincolnshire, where he lodged with a local apothecary and was introduced to the fascinating world of chemistry. His mother pulled him out of school, for her plan was to make him a farmer and have him tend the farm. Newton failed miserably, as he found farming monotonous.

He soon was sent back to King’s School to finish his basic education. Perhaps sensing the young man’s innate intellectual abilities, his uncle, a graduate of the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College, persuaded Newton’s mother to have him enter the university. Newton enrolled in a program similar to a work-study in 1661, and subsequently waited on tables and took care of wealthier students’ rooms.

Adult Life

As a professor, Newton was exempted from tutoring but required to deliver an annual course of lectures. He chose to deliver his work on optics as his initial topic. Part of Newton’s study of optics was aided with the use of a reflecting telescope that he designed and constructed in 1668—his first major public scientific achievement. This invention helped prove his theory of light and color. The Royal Society asked for a demonstration of his reflecting telescope in 1671, and the organization’s interest encouraged Newton to publish his notes on light, optics and color in 1672; these notes were later published as part of Newton’s Opticks: Or, A treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light.

However, not everyone at the Royal Academy was enthusiastic about Newton’s discoveries in optics. Among the dissenters was Robert Hooke, one of the original members of the Royal Academy and a scientist who was accomplished in a number of areas, including mechanics and optics. In his paper, Newton theorized that white light was a composite of all colors of the spectrum, and that light was composed of particles. Hooke believed that light was composed of waves. Hooke quickly condemned Newton’s paper in condescending terms, and attacked Newton’s methodology and conclusions.

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Bio.com, and BBC

Early Years

Marcus was born in Huston Texas on November 7th, 1975. He was raised with his twin brother Morgan Luttrell. When they were young they dreamed of being a U.S Navy Seal. Marcus and his brother began training at the age of 14, with U.S Army veteran Billy Shelton who lived near him. Marcus was educated at Sam Houston State. His brother also went to Sam Houston State. Martial arts training has been an important role in Marcus’ life from the time he was a child.

  “I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down i will get back up, every time. I 333will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my teammates and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.” -Marcus Luttrell

  Military Career

Marcus joined the seals in 1999 at the age of 25. He began UD training (Underwater Demolition) /Seal training. He started buds in class 226, but due to a fractured femur he graduated in class 228. Marcus graduated 18 Delta in 2001, making him a team medic for seal team 1, eventually becoming a sniper/medic for seal team 10.  

Operation Red Wing

Marcus was just a normal Navy Seal until “Red Wing”. The purpose of Operation Red Wing was to clarify the location of a high ranking Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. They were ordered to capture or to kill Ahmad Shah. The team consisted of Luttrell, Michael P. Murphy, Danny Dietz, Matthew Axelson.  Luttrell and Axelson were the team’s snipers; Dietz was in charge of communications and Murphy the team leader. A couple of goat herders stumbled on the seals. The seals quickly took control  of the situation and decided  on what to do with the herders. The decided on ROE “Rules of Engagement” and they let them go. Murphy had the last say. The herders disappeared over the ridge of the mountains. Luttrell thought that they immediately betrayed their position. One hour later the seals were engaged in a huge gun fight. “The ambush was intense, came from three sides, and included PK light Machine Gun fire, AK-47 fire, RPG-7 Rocket Propelled Grenade fire, and 82mm mortar fire.” The Taliban pushed back the seals into a valley. Again and again they tried to contact their command but only got enough time to tell the command that they were under attack. Then Michal P. Murphy went out onto a rock in the open and made a call that would cost him his life. He called for back up while he was getting shot at. Just then 1 Mh-47 Chinook helicopters were dispatched from base without Apache backup. That was the pilots decision to go without backup. Carrying 8 Seals and 8 160 Nightstalkers, the helicopter was shot down by an RPG. All 16 men that were in the Chinook were killed. 

Michael P. Murphy, Danny Dietz, and Matthew Axelson made the ultimate sacrifice. Marcus was alone in the middle of an intense gun fight.  Badly wounded, Marcus managed to walk and crawl seven miles to evade capture. The entire time all he could think was “I need water to survive.” When he finally found water, a cuple men with guns walked up to Marcus. Marcus had a grenade in his hand with the pin pulled. The one man had his hand out to give Marcus help. They brought Marcus back to their village. They gave him food and gave him help for his wounds. Marcus did not know it was tradition, if they gave you food and shelter they would put up a gun and fight for you. It took the Seals 6 days to find out that Marcus was still alive. They sent out an Mh-47 Chinook with apache support. They picked up Marcus and headed back to base. Michael Murphy was awarded the Medal of Honor. Danny Dietz, Matthew Axelson and Marcus Luttrell were awarded the Navy Cross.

After Red Wing

After he recovered physically, he had to recover mentally. Marcus faced PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) really bad. From Red Wing until he recovered, was considered Marcus’s dark days.

In 2010, Marcus met the woman of his dreams and married shortly after. Marcus and his wife Melanie, have a son Axe, who is named after Matthew Axelson, and a daughter, Addie.

In 2010 Marcus also started the Lone Survivor Foundation and is fully involved with The Boot Campaign. To reed further more on the Lone Survivor Foundation or the Boot Campaign go to http://lonesurvivorfoundation.org or http://www.bootcampaign.com

If you want to read more please go to http://marcusluttrell.com/bio/ and click on bio in the top right corner.

The web sites I used following          http://marcusluttrell.com/neverforget/ and http://marcusluttrell.com/bio/

The Missions Before D-DAY

This is World War II . My name is Officer Calvin tackling top secret missions with my unit.

Stuttgart Germany May 31, 1944

The wind was blowing on a hot summer day in Germany. The leaves were dancing as the wind whistles through them. In an old beautiful house on hundreds of acres of farmland, the sun beats down on us.

“HIT THE DECK,”  I yelled.

“BOOM!!! BOOM!!! BOOM!!!” the bombs hit all around us.

“Are we all ok?” I yelled.  

“ Ya we’re alright,” Sergeant Briggs says as he gives me a salute. This was Sergeant Briggs’ first mission.

We needed to get out of there and quick. Staff sergeant Malark tells me that the General has order cargo plane to pick us up. Only problem it was ten minutes away and we needed to pack up and get to the landing point, which was a mile away.

“Move out” I yelled, “ We have a plane that’s minutes out but the runway is one mile away.”

“Come on really?” Sergeant Briggs said.

“You don’t have to go if you feel like dying.” I barked.

The lookout comes in and yells “perimeter breach 1 Minute.”

Seems like the bomber wasn’t finished. Everyone got up and ran out of the house. I hopped in my jeep and took off.

“Into the ditch,”  I yelled, as a bomber fly over head. They dove into the ditch and I park the jeep in the ditch.

“Get the bazooka ready!” I ordered. As the bomber comes for a closer look, my men fire the Bazooka. It was a direct hit right in the cockpit. “BOOM!!” The plane hits the ground. The injured walked out yelling “Nicht Schießen!!!Nicht Schießen!!!”  (Do Not Shoot) We walk up on them and decided to leave them. We drove around the bomber and we saw the runway. Everyone hopped into the jeep and we rushed over to the runway.

The cargo plane had just landed and we ran to it. We loaded up the jeep and the unit and took off. After a 3 hour flight  we finally got to Britain. I found out the pilot was a german spy and I shot him on the scene. I walked outside and there was a truck waiting to escort us to the general. When we got to the General’s office I gave him a salute.

“Office Calvin reporting for duty,” I shouted.

“I have a top secret mission for you” General Malloy said.

“Yes sir, what is the mission?” I asked.

“You will go to Normandy, France and parachute in behind the enemy lines. You will be destroying their main artillery on the coast line. You will plant multiple mines on the artillery. This is a top secret mission noone can see you. You slip in and out, undetected,” he ordered.

We slept well for that night we all knew what what was ahead for us.

Great Britain June 1, 1944

We loaded into the D-47 and flew to Normandy. After 3 hours Iwoke up and heard the flight officer yelling:

“3-2-1 Go!! Go!! GO!!”

I jumped out and fell for thousands of feet. I pulled my parachute.  I hit the ground hard. Once on the ground wedug a hole and buried our chutes. We crawled up to the the huge building and croucheddown to discuss the plan.

“We are going up the stairs. If we see a German we will not fire, we will choke him and throw him off the building,” I ordered.

We ran up the stairs and a german saw us. He jumped off the building before we even touched him. We walked through the long halls until we saw one more german. He pulls the alarm,

“DING!!! DING!!! DING!!!”  it rings.

“BANG!!! BANG!!! BANG!!!” Bullets flying past us we all are shooting at the Germans.

I yelled, “GRENADE!!”

I pulled the pin and threw it at them.

“Hit the Dirt” Briggs yelled.

“BABOOM!!!” the grenade explodes.

I went up and saw no more Germans .

“Clear!” I yelled.

The rest of my unit got up. We ran to the artillery and planted the bomb to blow up their weapons and amo. I ran out and hid in a ditch and charged the bombs. The building came crashing down.

It was almost morning, the sun was rising. German troops were rolling in on the road. I saw the ditches and I said, “Get in the German ditch!” We had to outsmart them. We all low crawled to the ditch.We took out our tomoson machine guns shot every german who came near. We planted bombs everywhere and cleared the rest of the ditch. We moved out and when the Germans got into their ditch,

“Boom,” the bombs exploded and the Germans were dead.

We got bored so we grabbed the German’s machine guns and loaded them. We ran from ditch to ditch trying to clear all of the ditches. We cleared all of them but one. That ditch had the General in it and with the tightest security you could ever have. We decided to launch a small group with Briggs,Malark, and me. I commanded bazookas and mortars (grenade launcher) at ready. We low crawled the fifty yards.

When we got there we left Malark with the sniper and said, “fire when ready”. We got to the tent we grabbed our german machine guns and loaded them. We fired. Hits, all hits we took out the first line of defense. We saw our ships and we were happy to finally see some back up. We let the cold blooded machine guns rip one more time. Kill after kill we took out the enemy. We finally got to the General taking him hostage. Our back up finally arrives. They were surprised to find no enemy fire. Our soldiers climbed up the ladders and saw us standing there. The entire army pushed back the Germans all the way to the next beach, Sord. After we won the battle we were sent to the ship that had General Malloy on it.

“You did a great job out there,” General Malloy said as he pointed to our next mission.

You will no longer refer to me as a general, you will now refer to me as an old friend. I will be up at the front lines with your unit. 

December 15, 1944

Lets move lets move General Malloy said. (I’m sorry Malloy said) We carried Winchester Model 70, Colt 45 revolver, Staff Sergeant Malark carried a Browning M2 50cal. Sergeant Briggs carried a 60mm mortar. 

I woke up in my tent the cold crisp air hits my face. I walked out of my tent and felt the warmth of the camp fire. I saw a squirrel, “BAM! BAM!” “Got him!” said Tom, my dad’s friend.. My brother ran out of the tent yelling, “where is that squirrel?” We ran over and brought the squirrel back for Stella, the bird dog, to play with.

We got our boots on and loaded our rifles. We hopped in the war wagon and headed down the mountain. We stopped in a prairie and waited for the squirrels to come out. “I see one, BAM! Yes! I got him,” I yelled. My dog took off to retrieve the squirrel.  After about 2 hours we went to track a pack of Boars.  We love tracking down pigs to shoot.

After about an hour of hunting we went back to camp and ate lunch. After lunch it was 3:00 pm and we sat around the campfire till 5 then we set off and to go hunt for pigs. Before we set off we put on our helmets with night vision and thermals. We went out and we saw a pack of pigs at the prairie. We put the pedal to the medal going 80 mph around a turn. “Darn, they got away,” I yelled.

We waited and waited. Finally the pigs were back. My dad stalked them and he kicked a cow pie and the pigs ran. “BAM! BAM! BAM!,  We got them,” I said.  We ran to the pigs that we shot. My dad ran back to the truck and drove up. My dad cleaned the pig and we drove back to camp.

Later that evening, while we were eating dinner, we heard a howl. We took out our thermals and night vision and headed pig hunting again. We grabbed our guns and we hopped in the truck and drove down to the prairie. My brother started complaining about being  tired, plus it was freezing. So, we went back to the camp and went to sleep. We woke up the next morning to the hot camp fire. We decided to go to the shooting range. We shot our sniper rifle and our pistols.

It started to rain and we knew how hard it was to get out of there when it rains. So, we packed up at the range and raced back to camp to pack up. It took us 30 minutes to get out of there and thank goodness it was only a light rain. We drove to Tom’s house to drop him off but decided to stay at his house for the night. The next morning, after a huge, delicious breakfast, we started our 7 hour journey back home.

You are probably wondering why a planet is exploding and we are celebrating.  So, lets get back to the beginning.  My name is John Malloy A.K.A the Master Chief, I was raised in a military family so I learned from the best.  I was living an ordinary  Navy  life until I got information  that changed it all.  It all started when I got top secret information that other life forms were coming to Earth. The information  said that they were not friendly.  The aliens wanted to take over the Earth!

At that point, I was immediately assigned to a platoon to go fight the war.  We had to  go up to the Battle School and train for the tactics  because we were new to it.  We went to a space shuttle and launched to the Battle School.

When we got up there, we met the Admiral.  Then I looked around the halls were jammed packed with soldiers.  The Admiral  told us that we would not be training.  They had changed the battle plan.

”You will be going to a another planet,”Admiral said.  “The format of the planet is mostly forest with little water. Also, the aliens will be having a gathering in the Great Hall which is in the core of the planet.  The King will be there and the aliens are not allowed to bring weapons in the Great Hall,”  The Admiral said.

“The plan is you will go and plant a bomb in the Great Hall and you will get out of there,” the Admiral said.

“Thats the plan, what about the survivors?” I said.

“That is why the bomb is a nuclear bomb,” the Admiral said.

“Ok then what are you waiting for? lets go!”I said.

“We are going as fast as we can,” The Admiral said.

An hour later.

“We’re here!” The Captain said.

“Great we will take the helicopter,” I said.

The helicopter landed on the planet and  4 of us moved out.We made our way to the Great Hall. The I had the bomb,on my belt. After we got to the ladder, I was shoved down the ladder so I reacted quickly, shot my grappling hook onto the ladder and repealed down. After I gave the all clear, my team followed.  When we got there, we planted  the bomb on a wall. We tried to get out of there, but they were spotted. The aliens security tried to stop us but failed. My groupe and I got in the helicopter and lifted off. KABOOM! The planet exploded behind us. After I was half way home, I sent a letter home. It said:

Dear Sara,

I am ok and on my way home. We had a successful mission with one man wounded by a crystal. After we got  back to the  Battle School ,we took care of him and he is now walking around. There should be no more aliens left at all, so WE WON!!!!! I am now an officer so I am now in command.

Sincerely, John

 THe End, For now! Ha Ha Ha

After we got home, we found out that there was the mother ship still left, and the king escaped. Then, we had to go and destroy the Mothership and no one wanted to go. So, the admiral said,” I will go and help the chief .” After the Admiral said that, more people signed up for the fight. we took off in the helicopter to go to the space station .

Once we got to the space station, we fought our way through and took it back from the aliens. The soldiers took the space station  to the mother ship. The gunner  took the missile and loaded it into the rocket. We took the helicopter to the mother ship undetected. My team cleared the the landing dock and made our way to the wheelhouse where we found we found the king and terminated the him. They went back to the space station and we fired the rocket. “KABOOM!” The mother ship went and the team went home to our families. When we got home, we were awarded with the silver star.We never left to war again.

The End Hopefully!

Why I Want A Phone

Dear Mom & Dad,

Did you know what helps kids study and be safe? A phone!! 63% of 10 years old have cell phones and according to “Children.webmd.com ”  45% of kids use their cells for an emergency. It says that if you let the kid pay or help pay it helps them handle money later on.

You might say that I am not responsible enough to take care of a phone. Well, I will put a protective case on it. I will put it in a safe place every time. I will always ask you to bring it anywhere. You will try too never regret it. What if I keep my room clean every Saturday for a month.

Oh I almost forgot, safety. what if I get hurt and no one is there to help me! I can call you and get help or I could call 911. If I need you to pick me up I can call you. For example Philip is allowed to stay home because he has a phone and his mom just has to call him.

And what about the cost?  I will help pay for it and and I will do my research. I have found  a samsung mini for $80 at verzon.com and I could buy it used.I will save up and help pay for any things.That will also help with me with handling money.

If you get me a phone I will be abel to handle things better then I am. You might think I won’t be responsible well if I am not responsible you have the ability to take it away. That would make me a responsible kid.What if i fall again with no one to help me? I could call 911 and you. The money I will help pay for the phone and the plan.

Will you please look at it from your perspective and look at all of the abilities that you will have. You will be abel to call me at almost every minute. You can text me at every time you need to. Please look at it at your perspective.

Thank you,

Brayden Calvin

PROBLEM TIPE.: Long division

FIND: You half to find how many candy each person gets.

GIVEN: There are 435 pieces of candy and you half divid it among 25 kids.

TRICKS YOU’LL USE: Long division

SOLUTION: 25/435 = 17.4  and I am will keep the .4 pieces of candy.

ere was a FA18 Hornet who wanted to be a Blue Angle.

Then one he got his chance he became a Blue Angle. He started doing stunts when he was five mounts in to it. Then one day he got to go on a mission. On his mission he broke the sound barrier.

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