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...from Halstead's first encounter with the U.S. military. He covered the arrival of the Marines in Viet Nam in 1965, and he was there to witness their departure a decade later. Early one morning aboard the Lexington, Halstead watched Captain Eugene McDaniel walking his flight deck. McDaniel had been shot down during the Viet Nam War and spent six years in a prison camp, but not only was he still in the Navy, he was still flying while serving as the skipper of the Lexington. "There was a ghostly fog rolling in," recalls Halstead, "and there was McDaniel...
...arguments, stressing that the carriers have become extraordinarily vulnerable when they push close to the Soviet Union. Just as the introduction of sea-based aircraft eventually ended the battleship's reign, so the cruise missile, with its potential for pinpoint accuracy at long range, will doom the big-deck carrier. The Consolidated Guidance maintains it has become "dubious at best" that the Navy's carriers could survive off the coast of Norway, where they are certain to be blitzed by swarms of Soviet submarines and land-based bombers as soon as hostilities erupt...
...U.S.S. Hewitt is typical of the new style of U.S. warship. Officially, it is classified as a destroyer, but its 7,000-ton displacement is more than three times that of a World War II Fletcher-class destroyer. One deck below the bridge on this modern ship, inside the dimly lit combat information center, highly trained specialists bend over computer consoles that monitor the sonar and radar and control the guns, torpedoes and antisubmarine weapons. The 5-in. cannons fore and aft are fired by two men sitting at a console rather than by eleven World War II sailors scrambling...
Larry Brown kept the Navy Midshipmen below deck for 12 innings yesterday as he hurled the Crimson baseball team to a 2-1 victory in a marathon contest at Soldier's Field...
After Halas opened the 12th inning with a walk and Burke St. John sacrificed him to second base, all hands were on deck awaiting another play at the plate until Benson mishandled Santos-Buch's single...