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<text id=89TT2365>
<title>
Sep. 11, 1989: American Notes:The Navy
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Sep. 11, 1989 The Lonely War:Drugs
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 31
American Notes
THE NAVY
Rebuke for the "Robo Cruiser"
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<p> Fourteen months after the U.S.S. Vincennes mistakenly shot
down an Iranian passenger airliner over the Persian Gulf,
killing all 290 people on board, Captain Will Rogers III and his
crew last week came in for criticism from the commander of a
vessel that was part of the same task force. In the September
issue of the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings, Commander David
Carlson asserts that the Vincennes had been run in a
"consistently aggressive" manner and that this contributed to
the decision to fire on the jet, which crew members mistook for
an F-14 fighter.
</p>
<p> Carlson, who was 20 nautical miles away, aboard the frigate
Sides, says his crew had correctly identified the Airbus as
nonthreatening. But the Vincennes crew, he speculates,
"hankered for an opportunity to show their stuff," particularly
their sophisticated Aegis antiaircraft system. "An atmosphere
of restraint was not her strong suit," he dryly notes, adding
that Navy wags had earlier dubbed the Vincennes "Robo Cruiser."
</p>
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