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At random: During their wartime operations submarines have engaged in some unusual maritime actions. One undersea craft slugged it out with the infantry and field artillery while other submarines destroyed a zeppelin, a bus, and a railroad train.

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steamboat

Posted 2008-03-11 3:29 PM (#13743)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1814

Location: Boydton, Virginia

Subject: USS Hampton redux

I emailed the editor of the San Diego paper that put the Hampton in a Destroyer squadron. He answered me with a very nice apology:
Steamboat sends

John,

I don't like getting hollered at any better than anyone else, but if it's a mistake I've got it coming. I'd been writing about the destroyer squadron the day before and, working too fast, wrote the wrong thing. I was focusing closely on nailing the nuclear reactor details, which were unfamiliar to me -- so much, that I missed a really obvious mistake. (So did at east three editors.) After nine years of covering the military, half of it the

The problem is, those "little" mistakes are the worst ones because they make readers ask exactly the same question you did. The paper does take them seriously. My editor and I came up with an action plan to try to prevent similar ones in the future.

Thanks for your careful reading!

Steve

steamboat

Posted 2008-03-11 3:48 PM (#13745 - in reply to #13743)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1814

Location: Boydton, Virginia

Subject: RE: USS Hampton redux

OOOOPS!
I should have posted this on Rontini's board. Oh well, maybe for those of us who read both boards, this will make sence, but then nothing else I post ever does.
Steamboat sends

miss lumpy bumps

Posted 2008-03-11 7:43 PM (#13757 - in reply to #13745)

COMSUBBBS

Posts: 2540

Location: Wappingers Falls, NY

Subject: RE: USS Hampton redux...AH, HELLOOO...

and where did you get that idea from...you have on, more than one occasion, made plenty of sense...and sometimes out of a "senseless" bit of dribble...not that anyone on here, besides yours truly posts dribble...
but what do you want from "one" who's floors don't exactly go up to 13!

No, John, you have not made any senseless posts, as far as I am concerned

Corabelle

Posted 2008-03-11 10:05 PM (#13761 - in reply to #13743)

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Posts: 2561

Location: Rapid City, SD

Subject: "half of it the..."

...what?

Cora

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