Originally Posted by RustyBattleship

When we brought the BBs back out, starting in 1982 with the New Jersey going back into service in December of that year, the plan of SLEP and WIP was to keep them at sea until at least 2010. It could have been done but the anti-defense people on the hill won out. Funny thing about it. One of them was the SECDEF himself and he just shot his hunting partner.