Re: Admiral Tuttle

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In <EMERY.93Jul8144338@goldfinger.mitre.org> emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David 
Emery) writes:

>p.s.  The Model-T also follows the Navy paint paradigm:  You can paint
>your ship any color you want, as long as it's Battleship grey.  The
>Navy has recognized the benefits of standardization for both paint and
>computer languages (e.g. CMS-2.)

Uh, that's Haze Gray; battleship gray is something slightly different,
and I don't believe it is in use anymore.  And they don't *have* to be
that color.  I've served on white ones.  The white ones are
recognition by the Navy that sometimes function is more important than
blindly following a standard.


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