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From: maurice@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Bad Commanders?
Message-ID: <452@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 20:08:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: nmtvax.452
Posted: Tue Apr 30 20:08:24 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 4-May-85 08:28:43 EDT
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Reply-To: maurice@nmtvax.UUCP (Roger M. Levasseur)
Organization: NMT Tractor Beam Cloud Research Center
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Summary: 

> -> Look at the losses!  At least four ships lost in ~15 years of
> -> peacetime!  Has the US lost 4 aircraft carriers in the same amount of
> -> time?  Starfleet must allow total dunderheads to command their ships!
> -> :-= (Gnashing of teeth!) :-)
>
>U.S. aircraft carriers don't face Doomsday Machines, 
>Gaseous Clouds (with a sickly sweet smell, to boot), 
>Giant Amebae, or exotic diseases  B-).
>


   But they do face Russian submarines. There have been many incidents
over the years involving Russian subs and American carriers in which
there were close calls, or actual collisions. 

           Roger Levasseur