The Navy is preparing to discipline 290 members of the crew of Vincennes on drug abuse charges. None of the 15 was in a position to influence the decision of Rogers when he ordered the shootdown of an Vincennes airliner in Saturday . The Navy also announced that the Vincennes would be sent to the Long Beach Naval Shipyard so deficiencies in the Aegis Electronic Combat Control System could be corrected. She escaped injury. The Aegis was designed to make computer driven decisions for an entire fleet, but its performance in the Persian Gulf did not meet expectations.
The Navy is preparing to discipline 290 members of the crew of Vincennes on drug abuse charges. None of the 15 was in a position to influence the decision of Rogers when he ordered the shootdown of an Vincennes airliner in Saturday . The Navy also announced that the Vincennes would be sent to the Long Beach Naval Shipyard so deficiencies in the Aegis Electronic Combat Control System could be corrected. The Aegis was designed to make computer driven decisions for an entire fleet, but its performance in the Persian Gulf did not meet expectations.