he said. The Navy is preparing to discipline 15 members of the crew of the USS Vincennes on drug abuse charges . None of the 15 was in a position to influence the decision of Captain Rogers when he ordered the shootdown of an Iranian airliner in August 1988 . The Navy also announced that the Vincennes would be moved to the Long Beach Naval Shipyard so flaws in the new 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 .
The Navy is preparing to discipline 15 members of the crew of the USS Vincennes on drug abuse charges . None of the 15 was in a position to influence the decision of Captain Rogers when he ordered the shootdown of an Iranian airliner in August 1988 . The Navy also announced that the Vincennes would be moved to the Long Beach Naval Shipyard so flaws in the new 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 .