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From: wb9omc@ee.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: SR-71 was RS-71 (Re: F111)
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Date: 9 Apr 91 18:02:37 GMT
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From: wb9omc@ee.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick)


barney@procyon.usc.edu (Barney Lum) writes:
>It was actually an RS-71.  When then-president Johnson introduced
>it to the public, he erroneously called it "SR-71."  The brass didn't
>want to correct our "leader" so the name stuck :] .

	Although it has been said, probably correctly, that the Strategic
Recon, i.e., SR, probably is more accurate for the 71's mission than
RS, which was Recon/Strike.

	[Didn't it used to the YF-12 or something anyway? --CDR]
Duane

	[I'M KIDDING!  DON'T tell me the life story of the SR-71,
	 I know it already, I'm just kidding. --CDR]