August 1919 Proceedings—In “The Navy’s First Airships,” Commander J. C. Hunsaker, U.S. Navy, wrote, “During the summer of 1916, German submarine activities made it very clear that the pre-war methods of coping with such craft were astonishingly ineffective. The ‘B’ class airships, as these 16 were called, were used at home for training and coast patrol. In France our air forces operated French ships and in England, English ships. Though the B ships had no direct war service, they contributed their might by training our pilots, so they could go abroad and take over foreign types.”
August 1969 Proceedings—In “Sever and the Baltic Bottleneck,” Lieutenant Charles Lavelle Parnell, U. S. Navy, wrote, “From 11 July to 19 July 1968, the Soviet Union, Poland and East Germany exercised their navies in a highly significant joint command and staff exercise code named Sever—Russian for “north.” This exercise, which covered the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, the Baltic, Norwegian, and Barents Seas, received unprecedented publicity from the press of the Soviet Union and other European Communist nations as the first major naval exercise of the Warsaw Pact nations.”
August 1994 Proceedings—“We need to rethink the philosophy of the Marine expeditionary unit (special operations capable) as our force of choice for amphibious operations,” Captain Neil C. Carns and First Lieutenant Stanton S. Coerr, U.S. Marine Corps, wrote in “A True Force in Readiness.” “With our solid foundations in littoral warfare and low-intensity conflict, the Marine Corps should know better than to rest such a burden on the skinny shoulders of the units we deploy at present. With ‘. . . From the Sea,’ the Navy has come on board with littoral warfare and the new emphasis on amphibious ships. We need to capitalize on this by deploying Marine expeditionary brigades.”
A. Denis Clift
Golden Life Member