McIntyre Lewis McIntyre

Take Charge and Move Out: The Founding Fathers of TACAMO (eBook, ePUB)

True Believers and the Rise of Navy Strategic Communications

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The birth of the US Navy's "e;Take Charge and Move Out"e; (TACAMO) mission which provides essential airborne communications to the US nuclear deterrence forces.The US Navy's "Take Charge and Move Out" (TACAMO) mission provides essential airborne communications to the US nuclear deterrence forces. Today it is a thriving community, respected by the Navy and the US strategic defense forces.But it wasn't always so. Despite the enormous importance of the mission, for the first decade of their existence, the TACAMO squadrons did not provide a viable career path for officers, instead being a "one and done" tour for the junior officers who found themselves unluckily so assigned. A second tour in the squadrons was considered to be professional suicide. But in 1975, inspired by a significant commanding officer, a handful of lieutenants put their faith in a community that did not yet exist, betting their careers on that second tour. From their faith and courage was born the TACAMO community.This is the story of the birth of TACAMO, in the words of those who built the community from scratch.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Casemate
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781636241555
• Artikelnr.: 66238327

Autorenporträt

Lewis F. McIntyre graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1970, earning his wings as a Naval Flight Officer. He was assigned to TACAMO Squadron VQ-4 in 1972 flying EC-130 Hercules aircraft. He requested a second tour in VQ-3 in Guam after completing the Naval Postgraduate School in 1977. Throughout his naval career, he held various positions in test and evaluation, tactical and strategic command and control, retiring in 1990. Following his Naval retirement, he pursued a second career as an engineer in support of the TACAMO mission, finally putting that aside to start a third career as a writer. He has published two novels.