Word: navymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navymen around the world await the annual edition of Jane's Fighting Ships as eagerly as European aristocrats used to await the Almanack de Gotha. Since 1897, Jane's, published in London close to the British Admiralty, has been the unofficial but authoritative best word on the relative strength and precedence of all the navies of the world...
...over control of the Navy's Polaris missile-submarine system. The Air Force, claiming the right to hit strategic targets, wanted to put assignment of Polaris targets under control of the Strategic Air Command. The Navy, claiming the need for seagoing expertise, wanted Polaris targeting left up to Navymen. In another day the fight would have boiled out into angry headlines. But Gates set up the interservice strategic target team, headed by SAC Commander General Thomas S. Power, to keep track of all U.S. strategic forces and make sure that every essential target is covered by one force...
Though last week's spending decision pumped new life into the B-70, airmen can expect many another fiscal fight. Navymen and missilemen argue that ICBMs and antiaircraft missiles will have rendered obsolete all manned aircraft by the time combat-ready B-70's go on the line in 1965. In rebuttal, airmen argue that planes always will be more accurate, reliable and flexible than missiles and that the U.S. always will need both. To keep the B70 program aloft, airmen require something like $400 million in the budget for fiscal 1962. How far and how fast...
...wanted and what the Navy wanted. SAC proposed that all strategic weapons be brought under the command of SAC headquarters in Omaha. The Navy, which has to allow for its carriers and subs moving around from place to place, wanted its own target assignments to be left up to Navymen...
...enough on land-would be infinitely complicated at sea. The ship would need a navigation system of exquisite accuracy if it was to fire its birds on target, and the birds themselves would need a guidance system more precise than any then in production. Even more jarring to conservative Navymen, this was not a conventional, all-purpose Navy weapon. It was an out-and-out city killer; it seemed out of place in a naval tradition preoccupied with keeping the sea lanes free...