organized (and advertised) air arm of the Navy. Naval Aviation includes all 

 sorts of capabilities: from defensive fighter craft, to strike bombers; 

 from logistic service craft to research vehicles. Naval Aviation also en- 

 compasses very distinct organizational units, such as ASW, Strike, Recon, 

 Transport and so on, and very distinct types of people -- Navy-Man-in-the- 

 Air, if you wish -- to man or pilot them. 



Here the term Navy-Man-in-the-Ocean is used in the very same sense. 

 This corps of the Wavy also is separate and unique. It includes both de- 

 fensive and offensive, or strike, capabilities. It also includes logistic 

 and research services. It includes several very distinct types of people -- 

 undeiT/ater pilots, if you will -- who are to be found in many different 

 organizational units. 



At this point it will be well to tie down whether or not the submarine 

 service is a part of the definition of Navy-Man-in-the-Ocean. Submarine 

 boats, as we know them today, wherein the personnel who man them are living 

 and working in a more or less normal ambient atmospheric environment, are 

 not a part of Navy-Man-in-the-Ocean. The crews are certainly not in the 

 ocean; except in the escape situation, they are neither directly nor poten- 

 tially affected by the ambient conditions around them as are Navy-Men- in- 

 the Ocean and naval aviators. Perhaps the day will come when ambient 

 pressure inside a submarine hull will be increased, thereby increasing the 

 boat's maximum operating depth. When that day comes, the submarine's crew- 

 men will certainly be at least cousins to the fraternity of divers. At this 

 point in time, however, so far as Navy-Men-in-the-Ocean are concerned, men 

 in submarines, like crews of destroyers, are a part of the "sea goin'" Navy. 

 They are sailors -- submarine sailors. So we very quickly put this subject 

 into perspective -- there are sailors; there are aviators; and there are 

 Men-in-the-Ocean or, for lack of a better word, divers. 



So much for introduction and definition. Where do you find the Navy- 

 Man-in-the-Ocean capability -- organizationally speaking? 



The best way to audit this overall capability is to consider Navy-Man-- 

 in-the-Ocean as serving three separate and distinct missions, as follows: 



Logistics and Service 



Offensive 



Defensive 



Expanding on these three categories, and recognizing that there are 

 overlaps between them, we can show essentially all the different diver and 

 related tasks in the Navy,, as follows: 



Logistics and Service 



Repair, maintenance and construction. 



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