LETTERS
Aviation and Education
I finally completed the June Sea Power issue on naval aviation and congratulate
you on presenting the facts in a professional manner. The carrier will
survive for many years, but it will require periodic education of each
new regime that comes into power. Sea Power has again provided a necessary
service.
Vice Adm. Jerry Miller, USN (Ret.)
Oakton, Va.
Avoidable Tragedy?
As a former U.S. Navy sonarman I consider the collision between USS
Greeneville, one of our newest high-tech nuclear submarines, and a Japanese "classroom" fishing
vessel very disturbing. By simply following standard Navy procedures
this tragedy should have been avoided. But obviously they were not
followed! It appears that inexperience, lack of knowledge, and poor
judgment may have caused this tragedy.
Jerry Mazenko
Garden Grove, Calif.
Announcements
"Pacific D-Days" Symposium
Although the invasion of Europe may be the best known "D-Day" of
World War II, the series of allied invasions that occurred in the Pacific
played just as crucial a role in winning the war. The National Museum
of the Pacific War will look at these during "Pacific D-Days: How
The Island-Hopping Campaigns of Nimitz and MacArthur Ended World War
II," at the museum's annual symposium--22-23 September 2001 in
Fredericksburg, Texas.
The keynote speaker at the symposium will be James Bradley, author
of Flags of our Fathers, the best-selling book about the six men
who raised the second American flag on Iwo Jima during the epic battle
for that island.
For registration information, phone the Admiral Nimitz Foundation at
(830) 997-8600.
National Coast Guard Museum
The newly created National Coast Guard Museum Association has launched
a program to fund and construct a national Coast Guard museum in
New London, Conn. The goal of the seven-member board of directors is
to build a first-class museum that will preserve, display, and interpret
the proud and rich history of the Coast Guard.
The museum will be built in close proximity to the Coast Guard Academy
in New London where it can serve as a venue for the professional growth
and development of current and future Coast Guard leaders. The Academy
is home not only to the corps of cadets, but also to the service's
Leadership Development Center, which trains hundreds of officers
and enlisted personnel each year.
For more information, contact James Coleman, chairman of the National
Coast Guard Museum Foundation, at (504) 586-8300, extension 242.
