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A piece deep inside the WP brings news that a Russian missile specialist has warned that the nuclear ICBMs aboard Russia's older submarines are wearing out so badly that their continued deployment threatens "hundreds of Chernobyls."
The islands suffered food shortages and a serious bank failure, but nothing more threatening militarily than rumors of German submarines offshore.
German submarines aggravated the supply problem and threatened ships stopping in the islands to refuel for the remainder of the Atlantic crossing.
Women serve on submarines in the navies of other nations, including those of Australia, Norway, and Sweden, but there is much opposition within the U.S. submarine service to altering the current policy: "I only know one way, the way I was brought up," said Cmdr.
In an op-ed, former WP military reporter George C. Wilson wonders why, if the military now expects most of its missions to be related to peace-keeping and counter-terrorism, President Clinton and Secretary of Defense William Cohen continue to allow the Army to spend millions on tanks, the Navy to keep buying $2 billion submarines, the Air Force to keep buying stealthy $160 million fighters, and the Marines to buy $40-$60 million vertical take-off-and-landing troop carriers instead of much cheaper helicopters.