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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Naval Aviators and Surface Warfare Officers
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: scott%sting.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Silvey)
>Are you saying that everytime a carrier group is involved, the carrier
>  gets sunk?!  ...

Of course not.  It takes seven torpedo hits and the umpires (carrier or
ex-carrier officers, mostly) decide that its speed is reduced by two knots
until Damage Control tidies up. :-)

(The story I hear -- admittedly thirdhand -- is that the funniest part
about this is that it's not an exaggeration.)

                                         Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                          henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry