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From: schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Ship survivability (Was: USS Midway)
Message-ID: <1990Jul16.030845.5404@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 16 Jul 90 03:08:45 GMT
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From: schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)

In article <1990Jul10.024753.9969@cbnews.att.com> mlfisher@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
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|Ask a pilot about planes, not ships.  They know the former quite well but
|haven't a clue about the latter.
|
|Mike

This is an overgeneralization.  There are many aviators with ship's company
experience.  A sizable number of the carrier ship's company officers are
aviators.  I've known several officers with both aviation and surface warfare
qualifications.  I would not necessarily expect a carrier aviator to be
extremely familiar with destroyer operations (but this, too, would not be
unheard of as aviators have served on destroyer squadron staffs), but I would
not categorize any officer community as not having a clue about the work done
by another officer community.

Jeff Schweiger

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