Field Guide to US Paratrooper Badges

I am proud to announce that my book is finally in print. It took about a year to put this together and I am very happy with the outcome. While it won't make the NY Times best seller list it will help collectors of insignia and it fills a void on these badges. I started my engineering career in the Aerial Delivery and Air Cargo Branch of the US Air Force. This is the research and development group charged with design of delivering cargo by both parachute and cargo aircraft. I spent my first 10 years of engineering in this branch which included four years in uniform. So I am coming full circle with this book and paratrooper badges back to my first job. One of these days I will put together a posting of my Air Force days. It was rather unusual and maybe even fill in the details on the flying saucer (Secret) blueprints I found in the history vaults. A Field Guide to United States Paratrooper Badges is a comprehensive illustrated guide to hundreds of paratrooper badges to aid the collector community. All paratrooper badges are the same but to the collector they are not, small details can provide information as to when they were manufactured and by who. This guide shows the various manufactures and the details of the badges. Hundreds of photographs provide both the details of the badges and the hallmarks of the manufacturing companies where ever possible. While not 100% complete it provides the most comprehensive guide ever produced on paratrooper badges. In addition un-official badges are shown as well as badges for supporting roles to the paratrooper. A history of parachutes dating back to Leonardo da Vinci in 1495 provides the reader a sense of how parachutes came into being and the start of combat operations in WWII. A list of United States combat jumps is also provided. As is a section on un-official awards granted to people who lives were saved when jumping from a disabled aircraft such as the "Caterpillar" award. If you collect United States military insignia this book is a must for your reference library. 155 Pages, 100’s of color photos. Ordering info: Just do a search on the following at www.Amazon.com The site will let you look at inside pages, etc. In the USA - ISBN:148118105X In Europe - EAN13:9781481181051

Townepost - censorship at its best

You have been suspended from townepost.com Sorry, Joe Weingarten, you can not access townepost.com as you have been suspended. If you think you've been suspended in error, you can contact the administrator. Message to the Administrator Dear Tom You have shown that you believe in one sided journalism and censorship. In the October 2012 issue of your magazine you showed your true colors by writing an article backing the Town of Fishers Reorganization Committee. It was one sided and full of the same false and misleading statements that the committee issued. When it came to light about how much money they paid I had to question the article. I do love the last line in your article “My vote is for “yes” on question 1.” To bad you didn’t actual vote since you don’t live in Fishers, if you had we could had some fun about election fraud. You also forgot to include that you listen to “treasurer for the HSE School district” that he is a paid consultant of the town. Now that would have been news, not he approved this strange form of government. Back to censorship, when I posted a note about following the money on the Reorganization Committee and pointed out the large payment to you on Townepost – bingo it was removed like a very hot potato and I was suspended from Townepost. It appears you can’t handle the truth. Maybe people will ask the question anytime in the future you recommend anything – “How much is he being paid?” By the way instead of saying a city yes supporter was yelling – their lying, maybe you should have found out what really happened. But then again in your style of journalism it does not matter what the truth is, you never asked the other side. You just took the word of the person who was not telling the truth. The folks of Fishers defeated this plan by 62 of the vote, the voters of Geist defeated it by just over 67%. They understood and figure out the real truth even if you tried to lead people down a false path. You owe a number of us a written apology as well as all the people of Fishers in at.Geist but I am willing to bet you don’t know how to write one. Joe

Confusion in Fishers

This election day the voters of Fishers will face an extremely important election and both the Town and their supporters have been issuing false and misleading statements to attempt to convince voters to approve a new type of government. They have out and out mislead the citizens of the Town on this subject. They claim a second-class city cannot hire a professional manager. Yet under Home Rule they can. Further they cite four cities that have a Council-Manager form of government and forgot to inform the voters that all four of these have directly elected Mayors and Council members that Fishers would not have. They have claimed a million dollars in savings mostly from removing the Public Safety employees from Social Security, yet the Social Security Administration has confirmed that the Town has never contacted them nor has any government unit in the State been released from Social Security in at least the past ten years. In their new form of government they want to appoint a Mayor instead of allowing the citizens of the town to elect their Mayor. It appears the Town leaders don't trust the citizens to elect their own Mayor, why should we the citizens trust the town. They made the statement "Give Fishers residents the ability to vote for EVERY locally-elected official and hold them all accountable." They forgot to add except the Mayor who we appoint. All the council members would be elected at-large removing another layer of "locally-elected." They make the statement about keeping the taxes low, yet according to the County Auditor Fishers has the highest overall tax rate in Hamilton County. The Town Council placed questions on the ballot to make it as confusing as possible to trick the voters. It's time Fishers with 80,000 residents becomes a traditional Indiana city. To achieve this you have vote no on Question one and yes on Question two. See how confusing.

Valley at Geist Property Owners Assn Inc vs. Scott Faultless,Jana Faultless

A story the press will miss on the President of the Council of the Town of Fishers. Chronological Case Summary Case No. 29D04-1205-SC-005394 Valley at Geist Property Owners Assn Inc vs. Scott Faultless,Jana Faultless § § § § § Case Type: SC - Small Claims Date Filed: 05/22/2012 Location: Hamilton Superior Court 4 Party Information Attorneys Defendant Faultless, Jana K 15104 Geist Ridge Drive Fishers, IN 46040 Defendant Faultless, Scott A 15104 Geist Ridge Dr Fishers, IN 46040 Plaintiff Valley at Geist Property Owners Assn Inc Robert D. Roache II Retained 8144 Bowline Court Indianapolis, IN 46236 317-823-0660(W) Events & Orders of the Court 05/22/2012 Case Opened as a New Filing 05/31/2012 Service Returned Served For court 7/16/12. Sheriff of Hamilton Co. 5/29/12. Tacked on door for Defendants. 05/31/2012 Hearing Scheduling Activity First Hearing scheduled for 07/16/2012 at 9:00 AM. 05/31/2012 Notice of Claim Filed Pltf demands judgment for $735.00 plus current dues, attorney fees $450.00, interest and court costs Filed By: Valley at Geist Property Owners Assn Inc Against: Faultless, Jana K Against: Faultless, Scott A File Stamp: 05/23/2012 05/31/2012 Service Issued Sheriff of Hamilton County to both defts Requested By: Valley at Geist Property Owners Assn Inc Serve To: Faultless, Jana K Serve To: Faultless, Scott A Issued: 05/23/2012 06/05/2012 Service Returned Not Served First class mail returned. Sheriff of Hamilton Co. 6/5/12. (Return to Sender.) 07/16/2012 First Hearing (9:00 AM) (Judicial Officer Campbell, J. Richard) Result: Concluded 07/17/2012 Affidavit Filed Plaintiff, by counsel files Affidavit for Attorney's Fees together with Affidavit of Debt and Non- Military Affidavit and submits order. File Date: 07/16/2012 07/17/2012 Default Judgment entered (Judicial Officer: Campbell, J. Richard) Status: Active; Signed Date: 07/16/2012 Awarded to: Valley at Geist Property Owners Assn Inc Awarded against: Scott Faultless, et al (Joint & Severally) Judgment: $1,285.00 RJO: Book 2012, Page 0720 Judgment: Book 2012, Page 0720 Comment: includes cc Comment () 07/31/2012 Motion for Disc. of Employment Records to a Non Party Filed and submits order. File Stamp: 07/31/2012 08/01/2012 Order Granting Motion for Disc. of Emp. Records to Non Party Order Granting Motion for Discovery of Employment Records to a Non Party per signed. Order Signed: 07/31/2012 08/01/2012 Order Granting Motion for Disc. of Emp. Records to Non Party Order Granting Motion for Discovery of Employment Records to a Non Party per signed. Order Signed: 07/31/2012

Fishers Town Council you have totally confused me.

Here is what I don’t understand maybe some of my republican friends can help me out. I just found out two things about the Fishers Town Council that has me confused. First was an article in the Current that the Town Council raised taxes. What Republicans raising taxes? Isn’t that something that Republicans always say only Democrats do, so how come they were doing it? I guess they ran out of hidden fees to raise which is Fishers favorite trick. Hide the tax increase. But this time out in the open what happened? The tax increase was from 2 cents per $100 of property value to 5 cents. Holly smoke more than double. Of course they call it a small and one that is “not significant.” Just love the double talk. Now the next one is even better. Fishers and Hamilton Southeastern Schools signed a Memorandum of Understanding where Fishers is going to maintain the grounds of the School’s property. You have got to read this. It sure sounds like a private contract between the School and its contractor Fishers. The School is going to pay Fishers labor costs plus 10% if they need additional help. Well the total cost to the school is $446,834.00 plus of course any additional help with that 10% surcharge. Well this brings me to some questions. I was told Republicans believed in less government and more private business. Did any private landscape company have a chance to bid on this project? Is the Town of Fishers growing in employment to do this extra work and therefore the government is getting larger. If Fishers claims it is not hiring any extra people does that mean they had too many employees and another Republican creed of smaller government just went down the drain or should I say was mowed down. Now you can see why I am totally confused by this totally Republican government council in action. They raise taxes, expand government and take away jobs from the private sector. Are they the new type of Republican? Or are they something else. Please someone help me understand this.

Mike Pence and the Military

Mike Pence TV commercials all sound like god bless America, all of them have waves of grain, American Flags, etc. Nothing about what he would do or really stands for, etc. Just wants everyone to take his word for it, very very god and country. Well I think he has hit a new low with this type of campaign. His newest ad is about the Indiana National Guard and how proud he is we have the fourth largest guard in the nation. He goes on to say: "When our nation calls, Indiana’s sons and daughters answer. We owe them a debt of gratitude which can never be repaid." He then goes on to say "What makes today's military so special they all volunteered." What makes Mike Pence so special he didn’t. He never served. He never volunteered. As a veteran I don't mind that he never served but I am insulted by the way he using this message to try and show how proud he is. Fellow vets remember this fake support for our troops this fall. A Veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America for an amount of ‘up to and including my life.’ Joe Weingarten Captain United States Air Force 1967-1971

Mitt Romney and the 1800's.

Its July 4th and time to look at what Mr. Romney wants to do to preserve our nation, and I find his best course of action is to go back to the 1800's. I think he would feel very secure in that era. The Tea Party of course wants to go back even further but here are a few notes on Mitt's policies. “The United States is blessed with a cornucopia of carbon-based energy resources,” the Romney campaign site proclaims. “Developing them has been a pathway to prosperity for the nation in the past and offers similar promise for the future.” Yes, the past, the glorious past. Mitt’s hero – 1880’s John D. Rockefeller Speaking of John D. Here are a few of his favorite quotes: “Competition is a sin.” “Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.” “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.” Mitt would like to get rid of regulations on energy after all regulations have held back the US, that is why we not the number one nation in the world. “amend Clean Air Act to exclude carbon dioxide” We need faster global warming. “open America’s energy reserves for development” Gas reserves are under Geist lets start drilling so what if it ruins our water supply. “support construction of pipelines to bring Canadian oil to the United States” no matter how tarry and impure it is. “prevent over regulation of shale gas development and extraction” with its untested impact on water tables and the very stability of the earth’s crust. The ‘green’ technologies are typically far too expensive to compete in the marketplace,” the Romney campaign site tells us, “and studies have shown that for every ‘green’ job created there are actually more jobs destroyed.” Don’t waste any time looking for the footnote or link that tells you where these studies are located. Windmills can’t have those ugly windmills dotting the landscape do you think we are Holland? Get rid of unions and go back to the workers paradise of the 1880’s. Let’s see in the 1880’s workers had the benefits of long hours, unsafe factories, no sick leave, what is insurance, no vacation, and the boss was very friendly to you. Mitt wants to go forward with right to work laws which are right to employ and fire at will laws. Did I forget low wages “Too often, unions drive up costs and introduce rigidities that harm competitiveness and frustrate innovation.” After all the unions want to see every factory fail and every worker out of a job. The US didn’t develop all those industries and inventions while unions were around, think of how much more we can do with big profits and more rich people and more poor people. The number union in the cross hairs teacher unions. Education: More and more charter schools with the aim of shutting down public education. Make all schools private with a voucher system that results in a benefit to the rich who sent their kids to private schools by giving them extra money, enhance the religious right by allowing them to set up schools and have the government pay for them, and of course develop warehouse schools for the poor and common people. Poor Horace Mann who in the 1850 developed the “common school” concept for all is watching Mr. Romney turn the clock back to before 1850. Medical care -OMG have medical care for everyone? Do you think we are Modern County? Why that concept is so 21st century we must do everything in our power to step back in time. If you have not worked hard and saved for a heart attack then you should die. Break a leg, two sticks and duck tape should make a good splint. Don’t forget no more sick leave back to the coalmines where your only protection is a bird in a cage. Mitt get us back to the 1800’s you must double your efforts to repeal the health care law. Mitt get working on that. Deep in your heart you know the 1800’s was best. “As president, Mitt will nominate judges in the mold of Chief Justice Roberts” I wonder if he has flip-flopped this week after Mr. Roberts the approved the health care law. How dare Mr. Roberts follow law instead of politics.