by Craig Hooper on September 9, 2010
I had a chance to chat via email with Sac Bee scribe Jeff Mitchell on the debacle that is the USS Iowa preservation movement. That exchange provoked a nice story on the preservation effort, detailing the emerging competition between the two parties interested in the USS Iowa: According to Merylin Wong, president of the Historic [...]
by Craig Hooper on September 6, 2010
UPDATE: Interested news media can contact Craig Hooper at craig.hooper@nextnavy.com. After the Pentagon’s top weapons tester at DOT&E released a scathing report on the Virginia Class sub’s tendency to shed it’s sound-dampening hull coating, Alan Baribeau, the Naval Sea Systems Command’s talking head for the Virginia Class program office, told Inside the Navy (sorry, no [...]
by Craig Hooper on September 1, 2010
And…I think he likes the place. Quite the review (Look for August 29-31): …had the tour this week (long overdue) and was pleased, if not too surprised, to find that they are doing just about everything right. (And they’ve never retained me to help with anything!) The facility is terrific and will be doubly so [...]