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Officer joins Rimpac 80'Navy Cmdr Charles N. Bright, son of Winnie E. Bright of Box 595, Sterling City, Texas, and whose wife, Patsy, is the daughter of Myrtle B Potter of Box 182, McCaulley, Texas, recently participated in exercise “Rimpac ttu in the Pacific Ocean.He is an officer assigned to the staff of Commander Third Fleet, located in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.“Rimpac 80’ ’ was the seventh in a series of major Fleet exercises involving rim of the Pacific” nations Forty-one ships, 200 aircraft and 20,000 sailors and air men from Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand the U.S. participatedThe exercise was designed to test and improve the combat readiness of the units in most aspects of maritime warfare. Antisurface, anti air and antisubmarine warfare procedures were practiced, along with at-sea replenishment and opposed transits. Also, a weapons firing was conducted at the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands, Hawaii.A 1954 graduate of Pyote High School, Pyote, Texas, and a 1964 graduate of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Bright joined the Navy in November 1955.
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Big Spring Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Sun, Mar 30, 1980
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