In a Carrier Battle Group, ships exchange their radar picture through the use of a computer data link. In today’s world they have, thanks to GPS, become a lot more accurate pictures. In the era that I grew up in-back when Sailors actually still took star sightings, and GPS was still a dream of some engineer-the picture was only as accurate as the navigation system of each platform. And the discipline of the persons who managed the link.
In the day, I was very aggressive about demanding a clean link picture-and usually when the link was screwed up-it was the anti air warfare cruiser’s fault. ( They would tell you different, but I know in my heart I was right).
When that would happen, I would torment my favorite E-2 NFO on the flag staff, whose job it was to make sure the links worked well with these words:
” Ray, ease my pain. Fix the link. Go the distance-fix the link”
Well now the Links are fixed. I removed links that did not work, or had not been updated in some time. Does anyone know what happened to Madame Chiang? It pained me to remove her link. I added some new ones-more from the Expat side than the military side. Because that is where a lot of my interest lies now. Getting to be one of those guys again. Plus-I changed and edited for some other reasons I will explain in a month or so.
No intent to offend anyone-and if you think you should be here, let me know. I’m going to be tinkering with the layout again this weekend.