The Navy Leaguer - 2008 Corporate Membership Directory

Addressing the Threat What a timely and powerful message the great cover story and Editor’s Note, featured in your May issue, present to all readers about the ominous mine and UIED [underwater improvised explosive device] threat to our ports.

“Sweeping Problem: Abandoning Cold War Precautions Leaves U.S. Ports Vulnerable to Mines” says it so well. We do need to get our DHS [Department of Homeland Security] and military leaders to step forward and identify and assign the roles, responsibilities and funding for each key government sector to counter this significant threat of mines and UIEDs to our major ports — and to conduct the vital “ahead of time” detailed route surveys of our ports.

Also, each of our major ports

needs to step forward as well — as is the Port of Charleston with its Project Seahawk. Project Seahawk is now developing ways to prevent, as well as respond effectively to, a terrorist mine threat by addressing it well ahead of time on all fronts. Let’s all address this threat, starting now.

Chuck Horne

USN (Ret.)

Charleston, S.C.

Propeller Correction Ijust finished reading and enjoying my May issue of Seapower and noticed the picture on page 58 of the NASA space suit and the propeller. The propeller is misidentified as a propeller from the C-130J. Actually, it is a propeller from the E-2D [Advan-ced Hawkeye airborne command-and-control aircraft] and is being

retrofitted to the E-2C [Hawkeye].

Dowty-Rotol made the six-bladed composite propeller for the C-130J and Hamilton Standard [now Hamilton Sundstrand] made the eight-bladed composite propeller for the E-2C/D. The propeller in the picture was on the Hamilton Sundstrand display [shown in the photograph from the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition in March].