 Sure, we're all part of the system, you know, we're into it. But I think if you're going to make it within that system, you know, you've got to use your own mind. They're right for their society. It's what Niebuhr talks about as the individual morality. Okay, then you're in the situation of being faced with the problem of does the end of the highest value on your pyramid, for example, belief in the United States, the code of conduct, my religion, in the case of Abraham, the word of God, does this, as an end, justify any means to secure it? But you're saying they're just... It's immoral to kill, it's immoral to take somebody else's life no matter what. You've got to use that assumption. Do you think that canoe would deny that there can be a quality of personal experience or you'd have to necessarily deny a morality, personal morality? It's like one thing that Bath picked up completely, the no-judgment clause, kind of. Nobody can judge your standards except you. Very good, Mr. Showers. Mr. Rudd, stand up straight. It's the last time you've washed that cap cover. We go Tuesday, sir. I thought so, Mr. Rudd, it's gross. The shoes. When's the last time you've polished them, Mr. Rudd? Three days ago, sir. Mr. Rudd, you know you're supposed to polish them every day, right? Yes, sir. After a morning meal, right? Yes, sir. Why didn't you do so? Excuse, sir. Don, right, there is, Mr. Rudd. Thank you for new mail list. French onion soup, cheese, croutons, cold roast beef salad. Oh, man. Take cold potato salad. I don't like all any of them. This particular service coming up is really going to be a challenge to our class because our way back when and when we were pleased, you hear that all the time when we were pleased, but it was more or less physical when we were here that one summer. And this one coming up, it's a complete transition from physical harassment to mental motivation. I mean, instead of dropping the guy for, you know, the 10 push-ups, it's got to work more or less to the positive motivation aspects. There's a little bit of disagreement there. A lot of guys really favored going back to the hard-nosed tactics, you know, more physical than... How about just like a hard-pleased summer rather than, you know, the hard years? I think that I favor that. I make sure I cover two things when I'm talking and one of his motivations and then covers that. You know, I tell the guy, he won't like it here. And you just can't like it here unless you want it, unless you can see what you're getting out of it. I think the guy that comes here wanting a free education... We'll leave about two weeks because he'll find out. Yeah, he's the one that's going to leave. Same thing with the guy that just comes here to get out of the draft. I've never heard anything like this. He says, come here to get out of the draft. That's the big thing in the summer, Joe. We were talking about, you know, professionals, the time discipline, you know, the ability to figure out what you got to get done and realize that it's impossible to get it done the amount of time you got to do it in and then get it done in that amount of time. What I'm saying is that because of the varsity court, I think you should be prepared to give yours at the time given. If you can't, then you better work it out with someone else in an equitable arrangement with them. Okay, fine. That's fine. I hope he didn't get that on tape. And each midshipman, I don't care whether he's the star half-back or the stroke of the crew or whatever, he must maintain a satisfactory academic average. Everything that everybody else does, the athlete does as well. These assets of the Naval Academy is the fact that everybody must participate in some sort of a sport, be it intercollegiate or intermural. And while you can hear behind me right here, you can see these guys really getting involved in the sport. None of these guys are really great athletes, but they're involved in the competitive sport. And it brings out certain feelings inside themselves that they really never have experienced before. The Academy is the only place I know where you can go out any hour of the day and find somebody out running just for the fun of it. We're gambling and teaching a person to be a thinker, an intellectual of some sort. A broadly experienced man is going to pay off rather than the narrow, essentially professional, practical courses. And I don't think any one of us here would claim to know that that gamble is going to work at this stage. Here we've gone from a strictly, a very strictly structured curriculum designed to produce professional Naval officers to a very flexible curriculum in which personally I think the academics have been over-emphasized. But I do think there's a correlation between reaching the higher ranks and working to acquire a broader knowledge. These people will graduate from here and they will serve in science and serving in military, strictly in military capacity. They will also serve on joint staffs. They've got to know about the Russians, they've got to know about the Europeans, and they've got to know this may very well be the last time they'll get a course like this before they have such duty. That's wonderful, that's fine, they'll get a nice poor background, but will it be a benefit to the Navy? This is a military school so people forget that. If you were Harvard, you'd get the same theory and so forth with different examples. The emphasis comes more from our way of life and the context in which we teach it rather than what we teach. It's possible for me as a Naval officer to get postgraduate work in oceanography in which I would specialize in oceanography and then possibly go into research work. No matter what their major is, they all turn out to be really majoring in being an officer. Why can't we at the Naval Academy produce, in addition to the professional naval officer, a professional naval officer who has a acknowledged degree of expertise in the field of management? Wonderful, but our object isn't to train a professional physicist, to train a naval officer. Well, if we can make him feel that naval career is not, you might say, antithetical to scholarship in a variety of areas and to real intellectual advance, the Navy in recent years has felt that the Naval Academy ideally should graduate approximately 70% of its graduates in the engineering math science field. Up until this point, we have allowed virtually free choice and the choices have fortunately come quite close to those percentages. Evidently, you can speak to anyone, anyone of authority, authority to myself that mathematics and science are going to be the mainstay here in order to function. But somehow or other, we've got to get it across to them that this will be very vital to them at some time in the future. He doesn't have to be a technician, but he should at least be able to understand the language of his men. I think it's essential that they be trained within a military environment. The career they're going into, our mission is to send these men to the fleet. Everyone will have his version of whether we're succeeding or whether there is too much professional orientation or too much academic orientation, probably according to his background. Now, I'm First Regimental Commander and as such, I'm also Brigade Operations Officer. As far as responsibility goes, I think your first-class year one of the biggest responsibilities you can have is being a squad leader, which is just a one-strike position. But at that level, you have personal contact with your second, third, and fourth classmen. On my level, I'm lucky if I get that contact. It's not there. I've got to go out. I've got to get among people there to find out how they feel about stuff, see? They're going to be farther away right now at this point in time, and then toward the middle, you're going to have the quasars, and then toward the middle farther, you're going to have something that we don't see. No, no, absolutely not. Why not? Show you why not. I'm going to redraw it on a bigger scale. Here we are with all these little knots, you see, all of them. Give all the proto-galaxies. Let's say they're all the same age, okay? And they're all going wham, and the whole thing is expanding uniformly. So now let's take a few representative ones, one in the middle and a couple out of them. And let's assume they all evolve at the same rate. Okay, got it. So now this thing expands, and in empty, empty years... Wham the herb be Mississippi herb? Wham the herb be Mississippi herb? Wham the herb be Mississippi herb. Wham the herb be Mississippi herb. Wham the herb be Mississippi herb. 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Try the conversation and it went all right you guys ready to go yeah ready to go you know but then all of a sudden we got plenty of characters. The engineering and science curriculum that we get is basic. That's what the Navy needs these engineers not poets. A lot of people don't like that. I've fine I've been able to balance balance both. Calm in. I don't know I would like to see that the character somehow more individualized than they are. You know when you say individualized characters that's what I do in the conversation. And here they thought that we were making a limited drive. Basically five ways you can go from the academy. If you're motivated towards infantry you can go Marine Corps. It's got everything off in that respect. If you like air you can fly the best pilots in the world. If you like submarines or technological type professions you've got the nuclear power program. And of course if you like the sea and like the open area you've got line. We're convinced that this was a temporary operation. Or what I'm trying to develop here is a rotor blade that's flexible. You can roll it up on a drum and also develop one that's stable. The problem you run into with a blade of this type is that it's also flexible on torsion. When you start up the blade you can see how flexible it is right at the beginning. At the low rpms we can see it fairly well but once you get up into the operating range of 400 to 600 rpm it becomes pretty much of a blur. How do I get this together? On whom do I rely for these decisions? Politician will make. There's a lot of ad hoc activities that I participate in. I was at a conference last weekend with other students and and professional people from Washington on national security. Next week I'm going to Texas for a seminar in the university. I think it's going to be the scientist who makes the decision and political scientist who gives it his endorsement. Is the political scientist in terms of where the money's going to go? The political scientist can't make a decision on something technological because he has no he doesn't just doesn't have the background so he'll have to receive the inputs from these guys before he can implement any kind of position or policy. We're stabilized at 11 degrees. Minus 0.7, 7.5, minus 20.7, minus 0.4. The reason we only had two divisions wasn't there some type of agreement that we would supply so many troops and that they would back them up with so much and really it was just an agreement but as to why we only had two divisions. There's more concern for the individual here more concerned I know very few places where you can call a professor even at home as you can't hear and they'll they'll counsel you help you with whatever problem you have and they make it it's a free and open invitation if you do definitely have a problem they have no qualms about you calling calling at home. Only in a rudimentary form are we talking about NATO or common market or Soviet response to either one of them through a Warsaw Pack. Remember this really doesn't get off the ground from 1955. Get ready to take your readings and Mr. Capra you get ready to move the probe. I found that I think the Naval Academy probably has some of the best facilities of any school around and they're constantly modernizing it. This gives us the data to get an axial plot in order to find the material buckling. What's the vertical reading there now? That's where we started. Much like say the Confucians and the people of China and Japan and people we studied before I think that that even more so the Africans have developed this family feeling more of their history than anything else. You have certain amounts of time that you have to put the study use. You can't study when you want so you can't read a book all night. You can't read a book from cover to cover and get the essential theme of that book for one course because you've just got too much to do. Pull this up over the top. It's just about impossible to get to the stone crab. We'll just break off chunks of the shell until I can get to the soft meat. Another predator. It's the common seagull. What was that? 9.5. 4 on a strut. Can you get away at night? Hey, you're pretty good at that. Constant 820. You're good. 0.8 knots. What was the way of height? It would mean that your 6,000 yards from the guide or from the center of the formation, 120 degrees relative to what? Formation axis. 120 degrees relative to the formation axis. Formations normally have a formation axis. They would also have a formation course, a formation speed. Many times the formation course is not the same as a formation axis so you have to be careful. When you're stationing your ship in a formation you station relative to the formation axis. Right now the freshman, sophomores and juniors all have classes that directly involve use of the YPs. It takes the practical or theoretical knowledge that we've learned in the classroom and makes it come alive out in the bay. And as plebs they get their basics indoctrination on the YPs from this point on they'll go into navigation they'll navigate the YPs on the bay and during second class summer they'll be involved in advanced tactics in which case they'll make a cruise to Little Creek, Virginia in return. Well the YP squadron is an extracurricular activity and so this is comprised of those individuals who desire additional time on the YPs and they're organized into a ship's company so to speak and they spend their afternoons here on the Severin and then the Chesapeake. If you're command qualified you're able to take a boat out onto the bay without any supervision of any kind. You know there will be no officers on board or senior people at all who are completely responsible for the ship and their crew. We do a lot of the tactical maneuvers that the ships in the fleet do use. We actually get a feel not for what a formation should look like but actually once you're in that formation to stay in the formation without drifting too far off station. I really do think that the YP squadron gets a person ready to go to the fleet be it on the summer cruise or after graduation and it definitely is an advantage on summer cruise to have been a member of the YP squadron. I don't know of anyone on the YP squadron that got below the grade of A on their cruise. The summer cruise basically allows you to live the life as both enlisted and as officers. The youngster cruise is to show you a lot of the enlisted man in that you do his functions, stand his watches and actually work with an enlisted man. Really the summer cruise is tied together all the professional training that you have here at the academy. The large amount of your time is spent in navigation, naval science, engineering and mathematics. The first class cruise is different in so far as you are treated as an officer and have the responsibilities of an officer. The first class cruise was tremendous. I was in the Mediterranean. I saw just about every other ship in the bed. I saw quite a few interesting ports. It was really well worth it. We had five days off in New Zealand, a week off in Australia and three days in Hawaii. The third class year I went to England and Germany. That was just fantastic. To be a professional officer you have to be able to have some knowledge of the sea and be able to make decisions in sailboat racing. There's no better way to learn about the weather, learn about sea conditions, learn about what can happen while you're out there, what the sea can do in a short time. Jerry, I want to know where the mark is. We feel that the sailing at the naval academy is a very essential element in developing the capabilities we're looking for in a naval officer. I wish that we had more of an opportunity to work longer hours with all of midshipmen. Of course we're competing with all of the sports here at the naval academy. The whole list of 20-odd varsity sports. You can get really into a sport at the naval academy. You've got four years to play it, to practice it, and you practice it five days a week in most cases. If you're on a varsity or junior varsity level. It becomes a very important part of your life to many, many people here. Physical activity and it helps you study better at night. That's for me, anyone who helps me sleep better and everything else. Maybe a little more time in the afternoons could be devoted to academics. An entire afternoon, basically intramurals from about 3.15, 4 o'clock to about 6.30 as well as sports. Well, you get out in the afternoon and you get to get rid of all your tensions. Psychologically, athletics I think is really good for a person because you get rid of all the tensions in your body. Physical and mental and emotional sometimes. Playing a tennis match or playing a football game or a basketball game is the same thing as taking that test. Taking that final exam. You have to apply it under pressure. And you're learning that here. For the type of life that a midshipman leads in Van Croft Hall, where his life is centered here at the academy rather than out in a college town where he has evenings that he can go off into town and express himself in various ways. Well, I think to a midshipman that athletics are more important. It just has to be more important. That's a restricted life. There's no getting away from that. It's a military. And it's a place where they take away all your God-given rights, they say, plea, beer and give them back to you one at a time as privileges. Yes. As far as comparing the Naval Academy against other civilian colleges and universities, certainly. He lives a regimented life. Five days a week he's under pretty rigid control. But on the other hand, these midshipmen do have all sorts of opportunities to enjoy much the same sort of social and extracurricular life that their counterparts in civilian schools do. Weekends are pretty much free. I think the whole spirit and mood of the academy has grown more relaxed in recent years in terms of allowing them to indulge in certainly extracurricular activities that would be found on almost any other campus. And by the time you're first class, as I am, you have no problems and we can take off. We have recreational liberty at night and I can take off and go into town just about any time I want. And with the reforms that have come about as far as first class go, I can leave three out of four weekends. Well, I think we believe that in order to attract the best students we could find in this country and bring them to the academy, we had to offer a program that was more varied than the standard curriculum. I think the Navy also felt that there just, there were too many varieties of careers available to midshipmen. There were too many possibilities open to them to really feel that one curriculum would serve the needs of the Navy or the needs of our incoming midshipmen in all cases. Perhaps I won't be in ship design. Maybe I'll be in weapons design or people engineering. I'm not sure yet but I feel that there have to be some people in the Navy with a little bit of know-how that they can correct the situations as they exist now. And right now I'm really looking forward to going to Pensacola because I got a great feeling for Navy air right now and I really love to fly. Well, I'm going Marines. I've always wanted that. I'm assigned right now to a missile ship in Mayport, Florida. That was my first choice. I wanted a submarine which means I'll be going to Newfield Power School. I selected Surface Line as my specialty. There's a tremendous amount of fun associated with being a member of the Brigade. A lot more so than people like to admit. And I think most of them realize it when it's just about over. You know, it grabs you after four years. It's just wet and hard work and it's goodbye.