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I am sorely disappointed that the Navy didn't try to regain their institutional ethos regarding carrier names--famous ships and battles. We need names like Saratoga, Lexington, Ranger, and Hornet to remind our sailors of where the Navy comes from, and what is expected of them.

68 posted on 05/11/2003 12:41:18 PM PDT by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)

Egads, I'm feeling old. Having worked on the development of the electronics for the DD-963 class destroyers, next onto the Tomahawk missiles, and then "Patuxent River Naval Air Station" which was the land-based test site for another Navy system I worked on, I'm beginning to see the new architecture, and realize just how outdated the stuff I worked on now is. Shoot, the "Manpack" I worked on eons ago (at Litton) is now part of the electronic gear the 4th Infantry is using, and I can't believe how long it took to get from development to actual battle usage.

Seeing the development of this "transformational" defense system under Rumsfeld makes me wish I were just starting out, instead of being at the "end" of my career. Sigh.