Proceedings Magazine - April 2000 Vol. 126/4/1,166

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What in the Hell Were You Thinking?
Issue: Proceedings Magazine - April 2000 Vol. 126/4/1,166
By: Gregory C. Allen

In May 1989, Proceedings published my letter in its Comment & Discussion section ("Bulldog Ductus Exemplo—The Platoon Commander," pp. 28-29). I was a...

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  • What in the Hell Were You Thinking?
    By Gregory C. Allen

    In May 1989, Proceedings published my letter in its Comment & Discussion section ("Bulldog Ductus Exemplo—The Platoon Commander," pp. 28-29). I was a midshipman first class at the U.S. Naval Academy...

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    By Captain Morten Jacobsen, Royal Norwegian Navy

    With declining defense budgets, how can small coastal states maintain a capable submarine force? Cooperation is the key.

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    By Francis Duncan

    A biographer of Admiral H. G. Rickover paints a gentler-than-normal picture of the Father of the Nuclear Navy, known by some, with tongue-in-cheek, as the kindly old gentleman. 

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    By Captain E. Tyler Wooldridge, U.S. Navy

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    U.S. Marine Corps operational requirements dictate that tactical aircraft (TacAir) launch and recover from today's amphibious ships. The single-engine STOVL AV-8B II has shown the way for the single-engine STOVL Joint Strike Fighter of...

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  • It's Time for the Revolution
    By Admiral Bill Owens, U.S. Navy (Retired)

    This article is excerpted from Lifting the Fog of War to be published by Farrar Straus Giroux, LLC, this month. 2000 by Bill Owens, All Rights Reserved. The Naval Institute Press published Admiral Owens' High Seas: The Naval Passage to an...

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    Reviewed by Captain Sam Tangredi, U.S. Navy

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    The 64,000-ton, 1,200-passenger MV Rotterdam is the flagship of the Holland America Cruise Line nine-ship fleet. Each year, this ship makes a 90- to 100-day world cruise. At $24,000 to more than $100,000 per person, this is an expensive...

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    Given the buzz about gains in military pay and benefits in 2000, Navy Chief Aviation Electronics Technician John Cloyes thought that it was time to move his family off base at Lemoore Naval Air Station in central California. But Cloyes quickly...

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    The 1970s are "in," baby! Hollywood and the fashion industry have made that long-past decade new again. It seems the services are headed back to the 1970s, as well.

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