CHAPTER XI 



Naval Guns 



Carl H. Wingo, Jr. 



Mr. Carl H. Wingo, Jr., received a BS in mathematics from Wofford College, 

 Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1949 and later did graduate study in 

 mathematics at American University. He has been employed at Dahlgren since 

 1951 and is presently Head of the Engineering Integration Division in the 

 Combat Systems Integration Department. 



The following interview was conducted by Cynthia Rouse in Mr. Wingo's 

 office at Dahlgren on September 30, 1976. 



In order to set the stage for a discussion on guns, can you tell us when you first came to 

 Dahlgren and what opportunities you saiu here then"? 



I came in March 1951, and the opportunity I saw then, as a young man, was 

 the opportunity to get into scientific work. That opportunity was not very much 

 available anywhere else to the normal college graduate. Of course, the Navy 

 always interested me. It posed a spirit of adventure, and I was always histori- 

 cally interested in war and weapons of war. Putting all those things together 

 drew me here. 



Were you employed somewhere else previously'? 



Yes, I was an athletic director for the city of Spartanburg, South Carolina. I 

 got that job upon graduation from college, but I had applied for a job at 

 Dahlgren prior to that. It took quite a while for it to come through. As a matter 

 of fact, it took a couple of years. Employment was then almost like it is now. I 

 can see a lot of similarities in the restrictions and in the ways we are retreating 

 back to control from Washington. Many very difficult things that we had to live 

 with then are coming back to us now — freezes on hiring, control of position 

 descriptions, things we thought we had put behind us are right back with us 

 again. 



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