03-20-2008, 04:42 AM
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Captain Larry Seaquist, former CO of USS Iowa :
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From: Larry Seaquist [mailto:larry at strategygroup.org]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 10:52 PM
To: Siegel, Adam
Subject: Re: [Military-appl-society] Fw: Miami MAS
Adam,
The best overall source of information on the New Jersey's wild firing (and it was very bad, not least because no one used as spotters a shore fire control party of Marines that we actually operating in the hills under cover. Major caliber fire MUST be adjusted) is Charlie Thompson, the former Vietnam gunfire liaison officer and former 60 minutes producer who wrote the book on Iowa. Charlie is in McLean at 703-237-0276.
There were some civilian casualties but in Arab villages, not refugee camps. Otherwise, of course, the professor is nuts -- blaming us for this?!!
You might also ask the Col to call me -- back in the SSG and enroute Iowa I spent some time tracking this incident down in order to be able to fix whatever the cluster of problems was. The analysis below addresses one of the several parts of the problem but has the facts only slightly right.
And thanks for the phone call about my friends who died in the Pentagon, Adam. I really appreciate your thoughtfulness. No memorial is ever going to replace all those fine people or ease the pain for their families and shipmates.
Very best wishes to you both,
Larry
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