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From: mayse@cs.uiuc.edu (Chip Mayse)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re:  Battleships
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Date: 15 Oct 90 03:36:40 GMT
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From: Chip Mayse <mayse@cs.uiuc.edu>
Decommissioning the Iowa and New Jersey was one of the cost-saving measures
being discussed a few months back, during all the talk of cutting back the
size/cost of the post-Cold-War armed forces.  Presumably the logic is that
the Missouri and Wisconsin are newer, and therefore the ones to leave in 
service.  (The Iowa may also still have some unrepaired damage from its
turret fire).  I haven't heard anything about this (or, for that matter,
about the "peace dividend") since early August.  
 
     Chip Mayse
     cmayse@ncsa.uiuc.edu