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...Soviet fleet has an offensive capability and has been considerably stretching the concept of strategic defense. Soviet submarines appeared in the Indian Ocean for the first time last winter, and only last week the helicopter carrier Moskva turned up in the Mediterranean. That, declared U.S. Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations, is "visible evidence of Russia's announced intention to be come a modern major offensive sea power...
Meanwhile, the Navy brass is more than ever dissatisfied with its own ver sion, the F-111B. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee recently, Admirals Thomas Moorer, chief of naval operations, and Thomas Connolly, his deputy for air, maintained that the plane is still too. heavy and thus ineffective for carrier duty. Connolly blurted: "There isn't enough power in all Christendom to make that airplane what we want!" That jolted Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius, who presently seems to prefer the F-111B over any "paper airplane" his admirals might want to add to the naval aviary. Ignatius...
...some gentlemanly rules prevail, and the U.S. and the Soviet Union, as first-rate maritime powers, generally try to observe them scrupulously. North Korea, with only a bathtub navy, obviously feels no such compunction. "The North Koreans have made their own rules," said Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas Moorer, "and they are new rules...
...demanded a full-scale inquiry and added: "Mr. Secretary, what all of your officers will demand to know is just how in hell this could happen in the U.S. Navy." Alexander promised Admiral Thomas Moorer, the Chief of Naval Operations, that if his cause failed, he would request reassignment from the coveted New Jersey command. When the bill came due, Alexander paid it like an officer and a gentleman...
...indeed. Prior to the August testimony, McConnell and his Navy counterpart, Admiral Thomas Moorer, had demanded air strikes on the 30-mile "buffer zone" between North Viet Nam and China, along with heavy attacks on Hanoi and Haiphong harbor. Since then, while bombers have not directly struck Haiphong's docks through which the bulk of North Viet Nam's war material moves, they have cut off rail and road links between the port and the rest of the country. The buffer zone and Hanoi itself have been hit sporadically, with pilots striking only at specific military targets...