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From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer)
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Subject: Re: Ship survivability (Was: USS Midway)
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From: Mary Shafer <shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov>

Another tidbit on ships and fires--_every_ person stationed on a
carrier has to go to firefighting school regularly.  They spend a lot
of time in a mockup, with hoses and fires.

I assume that this is true for other ships, but I heard about it from
a pilot, so can only speak about carriers.

This ties into the small magazines that some weapons have.  They want
to minimize the amount of explosives that are in more vulnerable
locations.  Powder monkeys at Trafalgar, for example.

--
Mary Shafer  shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov  ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer
           NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
                     Of course I don't speak for NASA
 "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot