Word: nimitz
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...high seas, few planners can describe a credible scenario in which that kind of naval engagement would now take place. For all their gritty romantic lore, the days of battleships and cruisers slugging it out as submarines stealthily lurked below the surface have gone the way of Admiral Chester Nimitz. But many in the American submarine community continue to believe--or at least to argue--that a massive undersea force is still an essential part of American security...
...Luce stamp, which will be released in the spring, adds his name to a roster that includes U.S. Presidents (Thomas Jefferson and Harry Truman), warriors (Admiral Chester Nimitz and Chief Crazy Horse), writers (Margaret Mitchell and Bret Harte) and artists (John James Audubon and Mary Cassatt). The diversity of the list would have been particularly pleasing to Luce, who had a journalist's abiding curiosity about people and their work...
DOUGLAS WALLER, our State Department correspondent, left Foggy Bottom last week to get a closer look at diplomacy--or the lack of it--in action. He flew to the U.S.S. Nimitz, somewhere in the Persian Gulf. Waller knows his way around carriers, having recently completed a book on Navy pilots that will be published by Simon & Schuster next June. Still, getting to the ship required some doing, between getting permission to board and rousting out a groggy Bahraini official in the middle of the night to obtain a visa. Waller's efforts result in a rare glimpse of the intricate...
...booze allowed. Well, almost. According to naval tradition, if a ship is at sea more than 45 days, each crew member is entitled to a ration of two cans of beer. Just two. One man, the captain, decides whether the crew gets them. As of Tuesday, the Nimitz will be at Day 45. It has 5,500 sailors, so flying in 11,000 cans of beer poses a logistical challenge. The clock is ticking, but the betting here is that the beer won't come until the crisis in Iraq has passed...
...Douglas Waller/Aboard the U.S.S. Nimitz...