Glenn attended New Concord High School, where he played on the varsity football team as a center and linebacker.He also made the varsity basketball and tennis teams, and was involved with Hi-Y, a junior branch of the YMCA. Glenn attended the University of Iowa in Iowa City for pre-flight training and continued at Naval Air Station Olathe in Kansas for primary training, where he made his first solo flight in a military aircraft. Having completed his pre-flight training in March 1943, Glenn was commissioned as a second lieutenant.Reports in South Korea claim the US President is bolstering the deployment by sending the USS Ronald Reagan and the USS Nimitz to the Sea of Japan next week.It comes as Trump warned North Korea that it needs to keep its nuclear ambitions in check, telling dictator Kim Jong-un he has 'got to behave'.Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, China and Korea.He shot down three Mi G-15 aircraft, and was awarded six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen Air Medals.
Lu said Beijing wants to resume the multi-party negotiations that ended in stalemate in 2009 and suggested that U. plans to deploy a missile defence system in South Korea were damaging its relations with China.The US is sending two more aircraft carriers towards the Korean Peninsula, it has been claimed.Donald Trump has already dispatched the USS Carl Vinson, powered by nuclear reactors, carrying almost 100 aircraft and accompanied by destroyers, a cruiser, and a submarine to the region.As the brown bomber jacket-clad vice president was briefed near the military demarcation line, two North Korean soldiers watched from a short distance away, one taking multiple photographs of the American visitor.Pence told reporters near the Demilitarized Zone on Monday that Trump was hopeful China would use its 'extraordinary levers' to pressure the North to abandon its weapons program, a day after the North's failed missile test launch.