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...antisubmariner is an admiral who has proved his versatility as a fighter pilot, on the bridge of a fighting ship, and in the Big Think climate of the Pentagon. For the story of Rear Admiral "Jimmy" Thach and his war against the underworld, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Goblin Killers...
...range patrols into western Atlantic waters. In the last six months of 1957, the U.S. Navy recorded 186 separate reports of what may have been Soviet subs. Only last week, in the Navy's secret ASW plotting room at Norfolk, Va., a black, diamond-shaped marker indicating a "goblin"-a Russian submarine-went up on the wall-to-wall map. The goblin's position: perilously near Iceland, where NATO maintains an important airbase...
Navymen know that the Soviet boats are constantly probing U.S. submarine defenses, testing the detection and tracking proficiency of U.S. goblin hunters. "The Russians," says Vice Chief of Naval Operations James Russell, "are not building submarines in order to drink toasts at launching ceremonies." Russia's Nikita Khrushchev himself stated the submarine threat as baldly as possible: "Our submarines can block American ports and shoot into the American interior, while our rockets can reach any target. America's vital centers are just as vulnerable as NATO bases...
...program for 1958-and far beyond. "The primary mission of every combat ship in the Atlantic Fleet is antisubmarine," says Admiral Jerauld Wright, commander of the Atlantic Fleet. "Everything else is secondary." And Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke has placed a no-limit ceiling on the operations of Goblin Hunter Thach and his Task Group Alfa. "If Alfa wants beefsteak for breakfast," Burke ordered, "give 'em beefsteak...
...months as a goblin killer, Thach has perfected techniques aimed at the mind of the submarine skipper, imprisoned in the ocean's depths. One of Thach's favorite tactics is nicknamed The Other Shoe, and it is designed to take advantage of the submariner's insatiable curiosity about what is happening on the surface. Instead of the expected salvo of two depth charges, Thach heaves only one from a destroyer. The submarine skipper waits anxiously for the second charge-just as a man in bed, hearing his upstairs neighbor drop one shoe, frets sleepily as he listens...