As set forth in Guarding the Cold War Ramparts: The U.S. Navy's Role in Continental Air Defense, the U.S. Navy played a signifcant role in early warning defensive measures.This effort included aircraft, radar picket destroysers, and converted Liberty ships classified as AGRs. These ships were part of the "Guardian-class". Some of the aircraft included modifed Constellation airplanes, the EC-121D "Warning Star". Interesting times.
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| USS Guardian (AGR-1) |
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| Navy EC-121 |
A reminder that the US Navy in and off Vietnam went on for about 6 years after this first film was made.
The second film, also from 1967, is about the U.S. Coast Guard serving in Vietnamese waters.
Finally, a later film "The U.S. Navy in the Vietnam War: The Ten Thousand Day War at Sea"
If you think people are expendable and the people involved think dying is an honor, then you get suicide planes, suicide vest wearers, and the like.
Stand off antisubmarine system. Stand off being important in certain cases.
Every U.S. Navy sailor should have firefighting training. Every single one.
Back before gas turbines and currently in some older large deck amphibs - long ago we all got trained on the operations of the steam plant.
