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This book covers the history of the U.S. Coast Guard from 1790 under Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, when the Service was called the U.S. Revenue Marine, to World War I, during which the naval agency, then called the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, was combined with the U.S. Life-Saving Service to form the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915. The Coast Guard has historically served with or under the U.S. Navy in national defense missions. The maritime conflicts in that time frame include a war with France; War of 1812-1815; clashes with pirates, slave ships, and the Seminole Indians; War with Mexico; the Civil War of 1861-1865); Spanish-American War (1898); and World War I (1914-1918). The Great War involved the USCG and USN in domestic and maritime missions across the Atlantic to Europe, merchant ship convoy escorts, and anti-submarine warfare. The naval period surveys the evolution of wooden hulled, wind powered sailing ships to fuel powered iron hulled vessels. The historical geography of the wars is illustrated with maps created by retired IBM engineer and military historian David H. Allen.
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• Establishing an air station
• The USS Shenandoah and the early years
• The USS Los Angeles: training and experimentation
• The USS Akron and USS Macon
• Lakehurst: international airport
• Preparations for war
• The war years
• Postwar progress
• End of the program
• Afterword
• Appendixes
• A. Commanding officers, NAS Lakehurst (1921-62)
• B. Performance and other data for U.S. Navy airships (1915-61)
• U.S. Navy lighter-than-air headquarters and facilities, Second World War
• Memorandum on status of lighter-than-air
• E. Postwar airship deliveries to the U.S. Navy
• F. Last airships in the U.S. Navy aircraft inventory.

Originally published in 1990, Sky Ships is easily the most comprehensive history of U.S. Navy airships ever written. The Naval Institute Press is releasing this new edition - complete with two hundred new photographs--to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the book's publication. Impressed by Germany's commercial and military Zeppelins, the United States initiated its own airship program in 1915. Naval Air Station Lakehurst in New Jersey was homeport for several of the largest machines ever to navigate the air. The success of the commercial rigid airship peaked in 1936 with transatlantic round trips between Central Europe and the Americas by Hindenburg and by Graf Zeppelin - ending with the infamous fire in 1937. That setback, the onset of war, and the accelerated progress of heavier-than-air technology ended rigid airship development. The Navy continued to use blimps to protect Allied shipping during World War II. Following the war, the Navy persisted with efforts to integrate the airships, but the program was finally discontinued in the early 1960s.
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• Establishing an air station
• The USS Shenandoah and the early years
• The USS Los Angeles: training and experimentation
• The USS Akron and USS Macon
• Lakehurst: international airport
• Preparations for war
• The war years
• Postwar progress
• End of the program
• Afterword
• Appendixes
• A. Commanding officers, NAS Lakehurst (1921-62)
• B. Performance and other data for U.S. Navy airships (1915-61)
• U.S. Navy lighter-than-air headquarters and facilities, Second World War
• Memorandum on status of lighter-than-air
• E. Postwar airship deliveries to the U.S. Navy
• F. Last airships in the U.S. Navy aircraft inventory.

Originally published in 1990, Sky Ships is easily the most comprehensive history of U.S. Navy airships ever written. The Naval Institute Press is releasing this new edition - complete with two hundred new photographs--to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the book's publication. Impressed by Germany's commercial and military Zeppelins, the United States initiated its own airship program in 1915. Naval Air Station Lakehurst in New Jersey was homeport for several of the largest machines ever to navigate the air. The success of the commercial rigid airship peaked in 1936 with transatlantic round trips between Central Europe and the Americas by Hindenburg and by Graf Zeppelin - ending with the infamous fire in 1937. That setback, the onset of war, and the accelerated progress of heavier-than-air technology ended rigid airship development. The Navy continued to use blimps to protect Allied shipping during World War II. Following the war, the Navy persisted with efforts to integrate the airships, but the program was finally discontinued in the early 1960s.
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• The early years: 1921-1940
• Formation for military service
• the U.S. Naval Academy: 1940-1943
• World War II submariner: 1943-1946
• Formation for the Society of Jesus: 1946-1958
• Fleet ballistic missile submarine chaplain: 1958-1961
• Circuit rider, recruit chaplain, and Alaska pastor: 1961-1966
• Return to the Naval Academy: 1966-1969
• War chaplain
• Vietnam: 1969-1970
• Florida, Hawaii, and New London again: 1970-1976
• Command climax
• Norfolk: 1976-1980
• Jesuit Retreat Master and Pastor: 1981-1988
• Epilogue: Jake Laboon
• the legacy.

• The early years: 1921-1940
• Formation for military service
• the U.S. Naval Academy: 1940-1943
• World War II submariner: 1943-1946
• Formation for the Society of Jesus: 1946-1958
• Fleet ballistic missile submarine chaplain: 1958-1961
• Circuit rider, recruit chaplain, and Alaska pastor: 1961-1966
• Return to the Naval Academy: 1966-1969
• War chaplain
• Vietnam: 1969-1970
• Florida, Hawaii, and New London again: 1970-1976
• Command climax
• Norfolk: 1976-1980
• Jesuit Retreat Master and Pastor: 1981-1988
• Epilogue: Jake Laboon
• the legacy.

• Forty names
• The right to wear the shirt : purpose
• How to swim fifty meters underwater without dying : confidence
• The three-foot world : fear
• The hooded box : stress
• Safe return doubtful : mind-set
• The setup : trust
• After action review : communication
• Shoot, move, and communicate : relationships
• Follow your buddy : accountability
• Comfortable being uncomfortable : discomfort
• Watch the shoes : evolution
• Killing : compartmentalization
• Last stop on the speeding train.

Recounts definitive moments from the author's career as a Navy SEAL, discussing the missions that had the greatest personal meaning for him and explaining the lessons and values he hopes to pass on to the next generation.

• Tables; Figures; Foreword; A Note on the End of an Era; Acknowledgments; Introduction; What Created Success?; Strategic Culture; Relevance of the Study;
• 1. Preparing for War: Naval Education Between the World Wars; Introduction; Studying "The Right Stuff"; Study, Gaming, and Wartime Reality; The Naval Air Debate; The Carrier Debate; The Debate over Doctrine; War Plans; Implications for the War against Japan; Preparing for War; The United States Naval Academy and Strategic Culture; "Everybody Works but John Paul Jones"; Sound Military Decision; Strategic Culture in the Wartime Navy.

• Conclusion2. The Battle of the Coral Sea; Japanese Opening Moves and Plans; Japan's Forces in the Pacific Area; The Situation in the Pacific in the Summer of 1942; Japanese Plans and Preparations; The American Plan; Operational Imperatives; The Tulagi Invasion; Prelude to the Main Action; The Main Action; Coral Sea in Retrospect: Conclusions;
• 3. The Battle of Midway; Opening Phases; The Situation in the Pacific in the Late Spring of 1942; The Commander and His Opponent; Japanese Preparations; Decisions vs. Intelligence; How the Plans Played Out.

• Prelude to Action in the Aleutians and at MidwayInformation Available to the Japanese Commander; Japanese Force Deployments; Information Available to the American Commander; American Command Relations; Aleutian Phase of the Operation; Midway Preliminary Action; Naval Air Station Midway 4 June Operations; Nagumo's Attack on Midway; Midway Carrier Action of 4 June 1942; Clash of Titans; Operations of the Hornet Air Group on 4 June; Operations of the Enterprise Air Group on 4 June; Operations of the Yorktown Air Group on 4 June; Recapping the Action; The Inevitable Japanese Counterattack.

• Death of the Kido ButaiJapan's Contemplated Night Action; Operations of 5 June; Operations of 6 June; Operations of 7 June; Midway in Retrospect: Conclusions;
• 4. The Fight for Guadalcanal: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons; Strategic Reappraisal; The Fight for Guadalcanal; Choosing a Commander; The Battle of Savo Island; Where Is Task Force 61? All the World Wonders; The Battle of the Eastern Solomons; Carrier Battle of 24 August 1942; Retirement from the Area and Aftermath; The Battle of the Eastern Solomons in Retrospect; Conclusions; Epitaph;
• 5. The Battle of Santa Cruz.

• The Battle for GuadalcanalPrelude to the Battle of Santa Cruz; Evidence of a Japanese Offensive; The Battle of Santa Cruz; The U.S. Carrier Strike; The Japanese Strikes; Results of the Battle; Continued Surface Action in the Solomons; Battle of Santa Cruz in Retrospect: Conclusions;
• 6. Battle of the Philippine Sea; Japan's "Absolute National Defense Line"; SLOCs to Victory Secured; MacArthur on a Roll; The U.S. Debate on Strategy; Executing the Combined Chiefs' Strategy; Central Solomons and New Britain: The Second Phase; Numbered Fleets; Operation "Elkton" and the Dual Advance on Rabaul.

A longtime professor at the Naval War College who once directed strategic and long-range planning for the Navy and Marine Corps in Europe considers the transformation of the U.S. Navy from a defensive-minded coastal defense force into an offensive risk-taking navy in the very early stages of World War II. Noting that none of the navy's most significant World War II leaders were commissioned before the Spanish-American War and none participated in any important offensive operations in World War I, Douglas Smith examines the premise that education, rather than experience in battle, accounts for that transformation. In this book, Smith evaluates his premise by focusing on the five carrier battles of the second world war to determine the extent to which the inter-war education of the major operational commanders translated into their decision processes, and the extent to which their interaction during their educational experiences transformed them from risk-adverse to risk-accepting in their operational concepts. His book will interest students of the Pacific War, naval aviation, education, and leadership. About the Author Douglas V. Smith is Professor of Strategy and Head of the Strategy and Policy Division at the U.S. Naval War College. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Naval Postgraduate School, and Naval War College, and holds a Ph.D. in military history from Florida State University.
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• Emergence of naval aviation
• Naval aviation conception and birth: 1898-1912
• Development and growth: 1913-1919
• First transatlantic flight NC flying boats--design and assembly: 1918
• First transatlantic flight NC flying boats shakedown: 1918-1919
• First transatlantic flight: 1919
• Evolving the naval aviation test organization: 1913-1926
• Marine Corps aviation and Coast Guard aviation develop to support their service missions: 1917-1938
• Catapults and aircraft carriers: 1917-1926
• Years of technical advancement and growth: 1930-1935
• A new Treasury Secretary expands aviation missions: 1934-1938
• Appendices
• A. Time line of events (1776-1938)
• B. Technology inspired by the first transatlantic flight: 1919-1938
• C. List of acronyms, abbreviations, and rank structures
• Photographs and document credits.

A single comprehensive volume telling the history of early Naval Aviation; Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard This unified history of all naval aviators describes the interrelationship and mutual support of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Before 1920, the Marine Corps and Coast Guard did not own aircraft; the three sea service's aviators flew Navy aircraft on Navy missions from Navy ships and Navy Air Stations, commanded by Navy and Coast Guard aviators. It was during this unique time that the bond between them was born. This book was born of the frustration of looking for an answer and not finding it; or finding, after a long search, an answer so elementary as to be inadequate. Few, if any, books are written with balanced coverage about sea service events and people living from the beginning of the twentieth century through the volatile times of World War I and aviation's rapid advancement to 1938. The book is documented with 427 endnotes, and features 281 vintage aviation photographic images and a nautical chart of historical note embedded within its text. This balance of photographs and endnote documentation provides both a visual and written history that will come alive for the reader, who will learn that enormous creativity was involved in the birth, development and advancement of Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard air forces and their aircrew's capabilities.
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• Chalk One
• Green team
• Top five/Bottom five
• The second deck
• Delta
• Point man
• Maersk Alabama
• The long war
• Goat trails
• Something special in D.C.
• The pacer
• Killing time
• Go day
• Infil
• Khalid
• Third deck
• Geronimo
• Exfil
• Confirmation
• Touch the magic
• Epilogue.

Writing under a pseudonym to protect his anonymity, a member of the elite SEAL Team Six provides a behind-the-scenes, first-person account of all his dangerous assignments around the globe, including the training, planning and execution of his most important mission-the killing of Osama bin Laden, during which he witnessed the final moments of the terrorist's life.

In addition to port security, ship inspection and safety, law enforcement, and search and rescue, the U.S. Coast Guard assumes an important role in national defense at home and abroad. To that end, the Coast Guard has carried out separate and coordinated missions with other armed forces from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, and North Polar region. This chronicle of the Coast Guard's contributions to national defense examines participation in World War I, World War II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, and the War on Terror. Among the topics explored are defense threats, drug trafficking, and border security, as well as Coast Guard personnel, training, leadership, and assets.
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For the first time ever, a Navy SEAL Team Six sniper chronicles how he became an elite warrior and the ferocious battle that nearly cost him his life.

Within six months of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. navy had slowed the empire's military advance in the Pacific so much that the United States could return to its original "Germany First" strategy. That the navy was able to accomplish this feat with only six fleet aircraft carriers and a little more than 1,000 combat aircraft was the culmination of more than two decades of determined preparation. This thorough study summarizes the factors critical in shaping naval aviation after World War I, including naval treaties, fleet tactics, government programs, leadership and organization, and the emergence of Marine Corps and Coast Guard aviation. Detailed technical drawings of individual aircrafts, airships, and ship development illustrate the 22-year process of trial and error that ultimately enabled U.S. naval aviation to prevail during the early months of World War II.
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C4I systems have evolved rapidly over the last few decades, and the cost of keeping these products up-to-date on new and in-service U.S. Navy ships is high due to configuration, integration, testing, and other challenges. Looking across a specific set of completed C4I upgrades, the authors found evidence of cost improvement, a high level of variability in costs, and a trend toward overestimating the installation-labor costs of certain upgrades.

• 1 Front Matter-- 2 Executive Summary-- 3 1 Introduction-- 4 2 Strategic and Technology Planning and Disruptive Capabilities for Naval Aviation-- 5 3 Science and Technology for the Disruptive Capabilities-- 6 4 Science and Technology Planning for Naval Aviation-- 7 Appendix A Terms of Reference-- 8 Appendix B Committee Meeting Agendas-- 9 Appendix C Committee and Staff Biographies-- 10 Appendix D Allocation of Funding in the Naval Aviation Program at the Office of Naval Research-- 11 Appendix E Acronyms and Abbreviations.
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The Department of Defense is developing the means to transform the nationa (TM)s armed forces to meet future military challenges. For the Navy and Marine Corps, this vision is encompassed in Naval Power 21. Many new war-fighting concepts will be needed to implement this vision, and the ONR has requested the NRC to identify new science and technology opportunities for new naval aviation capabilities to support those concepts. This report presents an assessment of what they imply for naval aviation, an analysis of some capabilities that, if developed, would make a significant contribution to realizing those concepts, and an identification of key technologies in which ONR could invest to achieve those capabilities. In particular, the report focuses on seven key capabilities: multispectral defense, unmanned air operations, hypersonic weapons delivery, fast-kill weapons, heavy-lift air transport, intelligent combat information management, and omniscient intelligence.
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