Virginian Pilot – The guided missile destroyer Gonzalez returned home Thursday from an 18-month deployment that involved three crews under the Navy’s Sea Swap program. The Gonzalez was part of the now-defunct Sea Swap program, which kept the destroyer overseas for a longer-than-traditional deployment while three crews rotated aboard for six-month stints.
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Daily Archives: August 19, 2006
History – Night Session of the Presidium of the Central Committee, 22ñ23 October 1962
Naval War College Review – A Russian historian of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis argues from archival evidence that while authority to use tactical nuclear weapons was never delegated to local Soviet commanders, it was only with difficulty (and the assistance of the Navy commander in chief) that hard-liners were prevented from pushing through a potentially dangerous policy.
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