Mercury Rx Story and the Department of Defense

Stories like these make me so happy that I'm an insignificant person whose life doesn't matter...

What happens when the U.S. Defense Dept. goes through a Mercury Retrograde?

Well, in 2006 the Defense Department (Defense Logistics Agency) made a mistake while filling out an order for Helicopter Batteries to be sent to Taiwan. They sent fuses for nuclear missiles instead. The fuses had already accidentally been stored in a declassified storage facility. The Taiwanese notified the United States after opening the fuses that it hadn't received Helicopter Batteries but it took more than a year for the U.S. to figure out what they had sent.

The closest dates for the goofs I can find are in the article quoted below from Yahoo. I was pretty curious to see what Mercury was up to; if it was Retrograde and what signs it was in. Aries and Scorpio are the signs associated with weaponry due to their rulership from Mars, God of War. Mercury is the sign of Clerical work. Mercury Retrograde is the sign of Clerical Work gone on mental vacation. Mercury was in Aries when the Fuses were misshelved and it was probably in Scorpio when they were sent. It also may have been in Retrograde motion both times!

When the Fuses were mistakenly sent to the declassified storage unit in Utah in March, 2005, Mercury was in Aries. It went Retrograde at 15 Aries on March 20.

Additionally, Mercury would have been conjunct the North Node in Aries and squaring Saturn in Cancer indicated a stronger than usual influence, long term effect on Governmental procedures. Saturn came out of Retrograde around the same time that Mercury went Rx. Venus also went Retrograde at 1 Aries on March 23. Overall, the planets were jumbled and not moving real quickly at this point in time which seems to have been reflected in the brains of the people who work with Nuclear Warheads in the U.S. Military.

Right on cue it turns out, the Fall of 2006 was pretty much marked by a long Mercury in Scorpio transit due to a Retrograde. Mercury was in Scorpio from Oct. 3, 2006 to Dec. 8, 2006. It went Retrograde on Oct. 29 at 26 degrees Scorpio and stationed Direct on Nov. 18 at 10 degrees Scorpio.

The Taiwanese are said to have immediately noticed that they hadn't received the Helicopter Batteries that they ordered and it took more than a year for the Defense Department to figure out what they had sent. I don't know if the latter can really be explained through Astrology.

The fuses fit in the nose cone atop the warhead of a Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile. Although they contain no nuclear material, they are used to ignite the trigger of a Mark-12 nuclear weapon, officials said.

"It is the electrical firing mechanism that allows the rest of the system to detonate," said Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne.

Wynne said the 22-inch long needle nose component does not look like a helicopter battery.

The sequence of errors began in March 2005 when the fuses were shipped as surplus articles from F.E. Warren Air Base in Wyoming to Hill Air Force Base in Utah.

Even though they were classified items, Wynne said they apparently were put in an unclassified logistics facility at Hill Air Force Base.

"In fall 2006 is when DLA (the Defense Logistics Agency) picked them out of the warehouse in fulfillment of the FMS (foreign military sales) order and shipped them to the Republic of China, Taiwan," Wynne said.

Henry said "fairly early on" the Taiwanese communicated that what they had received was not the helicopter batteries that they had ordered.

"We, on our side, thought we were talking about different sorts of batteries. There was an effort to resolve and to reimburse them," he said.

"It wasn't until this past week that we became aware that they had something akin to a nose cone assembly, at which time elements in the field worked that for a couple of days to get resolution," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080325/pl_afp/ustaiwandefensemissiles