http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z6mrL1KzbM

*1665 (Great plus Grandfather)

Captain Daniel Brodhead of West Riding Yorkshire is present at the surrender of New Amsterdam to the Nicholls Expedition (English rule) helps establish New York 

*1728  (Great plus Grand father)

Captain Richard Brodhead Ulster County New York Militia 

*1737  (Great plus Grandfather)

Captain Daniel Brodhead II Ulster County New York Militia  

1776
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xFoqxXz5ww&feature=related

Three Brodhead Brothers and a son from  Pennsylvania;

Colonel Daniel Brodhead III (8^th Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment),  (Great plus GrandUncle)

Captain Luke Brodhead (1^st American Rifle regiment)                  (Great plus Grand Uncle)

Lt. Garrett Brodhead  (10^th Pennsylvania)                                      (Great plus Grandfather)

$Lt. Ensign Brodhead  (mortally wounded and captured  at Long Island) (cousin)

All serve under General George Washington 

The three Brothers would see battle at the following:
Defense of Philadelphia, battle of  Long island,  Princeton, Paoli , Germantown, Valley Forge, and Fort Pitt and so on.

Serves with George Rogers Clark older brother of William Clark (Lewis and Clark)

1812

Major Richard Brodhead 2^nd battalion Pennsylvania state Militia 
(Great Grand Father)

War of 1812-1815

Private Garret Brodhead Adam Hawks 2^nd Brigade Pennsylvania Militia  (Great  plus Grand father)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7OiNxkifX8

 

1847    Battles of Mexico City

Thornton Fleming Brodhead serves in the 15^th infantry during The Mexican American war with Grant, Lee, Pierce, Johnston, Johnston, Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Scott, Longstreet, at the battles of Churubrusco, Contreras, and Mexico City. (cousin)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKe2_SFwSYY

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXpUcRVzV1s

1848 Wilmot Proviso debates (Great plus GrandUncle)

Senator Richard Brodhead debates on the slavery issue in the newly acquired territory taken by the Mexican American War . Also debates  the Missouri compromise, and Kansas Nebraska act ( One of the reasons I am a Republican)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwSNxXWMLe0 

1853 Pacific Railways (Golden Spike)

Beset by so many contending interests, Congress finally abandoned the effort to settle on one best transcontinental route. Pennsylvania Senator Richard Brodhead's proposal for a reconnaissance of several potential lines by the Topographical Engineers, rejected early in the debate, was resurrected and passed as an amendment to the Army appropriation. The legislation took the difficult decision out of the hands of Congress and placed the burden on Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, who was charged with assigning survey teams to all prospective routes and selecting the best line based on the data compiled by field parties. Presumably, the topogs impartial analysis would succeed where partisan politics failed. [6]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcAoIlyw9i0 

1856

Senator Richard H Brodhead helps pass legislation financing Capital building dome, Congressional library, West and East Wing 

http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/capitol/pg187.pdf

Established court of claims

Helps pass legislation for the “10 regiments act” ( 160 acre land parcels for Mexican/American war volunteers)

Helps Revolutionary war and War of 1812 soldiers gain pensions.

Married to Sally Bradford   Jefferson Davis’s niece. He loses his Senate seat to Simon Cameron in 1857 (Lincolns Secretary of War). He dies shortly after Gettysburg at age 43 

1854

Charles Brodhead and Augustus Wolle (The father of Bethlehem steel) Organize the Saucona Iron Company in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  ( cousin)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QTGiHOZZFU 

1861

 Col. Thornton Fleming Brodhead raises 1st Michigan cavalry at out set of Civil war.(Wolverines)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxbeqV1MhxA&feature=related

1862  On August  17th, Buford was ordered to make a reconnaissance across the Rapidan in force.  He sent two of his regiments, the 1st Michigan and the 5th New York led by Col. Thornton Fleming Brodhead, and Col. Ira Harris.  The next day, they captured JEB Stuart's adjutant-general, who was carrying valuable dispatches from Lee.  Pressing on, they surprised Stuart himself while he was relaxing at a farmhouse with his staff.  Stuart narrowly got away, but not without leaving his famous plumed cavalier's hat and scarlet cloak - those fell into the regiments' hands as war prizes.  The Federals returned with both of the prizes and John Mosby (Mosby’s raiders)  and news that Pope was being flanked.  Pope immediately

moves his army across the Rappahannock river. The intelligence captured may have saved Popes army from total destruction.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJHnsveW08A

1862 August 30th

Brevet General Thornton Fleming Brodhead is mortally wounded at Lewis Ford while interdicting a (Jeb Stuart)12^th  Virginia Confederate cavalry flanking movement. Popes army was in retreat to the outskirts of Washington after its thrashing at Manassas.  TF Brodhead is Brevetted to Brigadier General on his death bed.. 

1863 General George Armstrong Custer becomes commander of 1st Michigan Cavalry. The 1st Michigan sees battle at Gettysburg and foils Jeb Stuarts attempt to get into the Federal rear while Pickets charge was commencing.  The Wolverines will serve with honor and distinction throughout the rest of the war. .. 

1863

Lt. Edgar Brodhead serves on the third ship to be called the U.S.S. Saratoga (Sloop of war)
Acting Lieutenant, Commanding  (cousin)

Admiral J.A. Dahlgren,
Comdg. South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Charleston, S. C.  

1864

Jeb Stuart is mortally wounded at “The battle of Yellow Tavern”   ‘the Wolverines’  Michigan Cavalry Brigade under Custer and Sheridan) . 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh1YU3YKFBI&feature=related   

1864

Private Jacob Brodhead serves Co. F 16^th New York Artillery Fortress Monroe and Army of the James  (cousin)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Monroe#American_Civil_War


1865  During the surrender of Lees Army of Northern Virginia, General  Lee must  ride through the mounted ranks of the 1st Michigan cavalry on his way to Appomattox courthouse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5grgB-dV2o

May 10th 1865
4th Michigan cavalry captures Jefferson Davis

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2896286512479747165&q=president+jefferson+davis&ei=8HUPSJmYGZSO4wKfioisBA

1898 (cousin)

Coxswain Richard Thornton Brodhead serves on the Auxiliary cruiser U.S.S Yosemite during the Spanish American War…. Blockades San Juan harbor   Puerto Rico 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_SmQK38wxw&feature=related

1930  

Coxswain Richard Thornton Brodhead would become the most

Prominent figure in the development of the Michigan Naval Militia.

Builds Brodhead Armory in Detroit  

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080212/NEWS01/80212043/0/SPORTS06

1951 Californian

Prvt. Richard R. Brodhead mortally wounded in Korean conflict. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVkH1Aw6qYU
 

1930s and 40s  (Grand father)
Andrew Jackson Brodhead
Engineering Draftsman  Pratt &Whitney Aircraft engines

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hWZ40120BQ&feature=related
 

1944 to 1968 (Uncle) Strategic Air Command

Major Andrew Douglas Brodhead

While in the Army Air corps and SAC flies the B-17, B-29, KC-97, B-52, and KC-135. Perform  security officer for Nuclear airborne alert mission out of Seymour Johnson .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iJo37MwYdA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjmO5YdNOc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45TQQtNGBk0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXKIislkXoI

Back up crew to Polameres crew 10:22 in the Morning

1. Jan. 17, 1966. A giant U.S. B-52 bomber with four hydrogen bombs aboard collided with a K-135 air tanker above the Almeria coast of eastern Spain. The tanker burst into flames and the B-52 broke up and tumbled to earth. Three of the bombs, each measuring 10 ft. in length and 20 in. in diameter, landed near the village of Palomares 

WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Cuban, missile crisis, etc. 

1950 to 1973 (Father)  Strategic Air Command

*Msgt. Milton Easton Brodhead

While in SAC (1st Combat evaluation group), performs 2 tours in Vietnam and Thailand as a radar technician in support of Combat Sky spot(95 percent increase in accuracy which saved thousands of Vietnamese civilians) Helps also score SAC B-52 aircrews in Bombing Navigation for Arc light, Linebackers, Rolling Thunder etc.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KIvAXPEcaE&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88jrZjsNHPc

 (1^st CEVG Units directed precision B-52 strikes right along the perimeter line during siege of Khe sohn  Tet offensive.)

1978 to 2006 (me) Strategic Air Command and Military Airlift Command

Stephan Andrew Brodhead

Born May 4 1960 (3 days after Francis Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union)

Westover AFB, Mass. 

While in the Strategic Air Command performed Nuclear Alert on the B-52

While a United States Air Force Reserve C-141B/C Flight Engineer
Performs medivac and humanitarian missions worldwide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6jgYzxNWw8
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsdPrQNa0Ig
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAjnnw3FgZM&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQNt0eYm1_s&feature=related
 

Somali, Rwanda,  Cuban refugee relocation, Northern Watch, Southern Watch,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwb5Ai7LN3c&feature=related

Flew FEMA assets on 911, Afghanistan, Alqaida relocation to Gitmo, Iraq war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTLlEJGlC4U&feature=related

100 combat related sorties, 20 medivac sorties into Iraq.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFOnJ2JC8Mg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE6tH3aNmxA


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2odq10YVYg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXAdQ4F0HDI