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Navy Sequence:
"the industrial fallout rebuild bases; ships of the train and ships of the line… finally the line then was in contact and we did all these things against possible contact and when contact came after 50 years then you had an obsolete battleship…
“You have to have all this general industrial comprehensive anticipatory design science. Not a single thing in the Navy was there at the university until the principles discovered by man were actually reduced to practice and this extraordinary package could float all these things… Could float a fantastic power plant, to drive anything you wanted. So I realized that I’d really been trained in an extraordinary field where at that time there was nothing comparable to what was on land. We’ve put a lot on the land since that time. And I was really not just a passenger but was trained to know where everything was on that ship and how it worked. I got to know navigation dealing with the stars and the Universe. I got to understand the laws of storms. I learned to understand the social behaviors of peoples as well as the storms of humans and the ways they behave. These are great responsibilities and the line officer was a line officer because back then you were in line of command”
