Talk:USS Arthur W. Radford

message: The plural of antenna, in ALL technical contexts, has been "antennas" ever since 1950 or even earlier, so I have made that correction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.146.34.78 (talk • contribs) 2007-07-07
:Heh. I missed that. You're correct, "antennae" refer to insects, not ships. -Amatulic 21:31, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Antennas

message: The paragraph on "Fourth deployment and interim" is factually questionable.  At the very least it must be said to contain some exaggeration.   I take issue with the following sentence in that paragraph:
:After touching briefly at Bahrain Arthur W. Radford got underway on 14 March for the Persian Gulf radar picket station. Five days into her time on station, she responded to a "Mayday" from the Liberian-flag tanker Caribbean Breeze which had been attacked and set afire in the central Persian Gulf. The destroyer provided medical advice over the emergency radio channel and launched a helicopter to render assistance.
I can tell you, I was there onboard USS ANTRIM and ARTHUR W RADFORD was not.  She may have talked on the radio and she may have launched a helicopter but I don't recall it arriving on the scene of the incident.  The only aircraft that I recall were those of the USS ANTRIM and the Royal Omani Air Sea Rescue Service.  (I may not have that title exactly accurate.)  The USS ANTRIM provided on-the-scene medical emergency services, food, guidance and assitance to the crew of the MV CARIBBEAN BREEZE, and later provided navigational assistance.  The Omanis medically evacuated injured personal.  As I say, USS ARTHUR W RADFORD was not present.
In the interest of historical accuracy I feel this article should be corrected.  But I don't wish to start any flame wars.  I observe these particular facts in this article are not cited to any source material. 
What is the preferred Wikipedia approach in this matter?  Bill Cupp (talk)  (cool ASCII art ship missing here) 22:09, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm guessing the person who put it on wikipedia copied it from http://united-states-navy.com/dd/dd968.htm or similar mirror. To be honest, that text looks copied from some Navy source, possibly the ship's website or a cruisebook or similar such thing. It doesn't appear that it was made up by a random person who dropped it onto wikipedia. If you provide a source that conflicts with it, that would be enough to convince me one way or another. --Dual Freq (talk) 22:54, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: DANFS appears to be the original source http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a12/arthur_w_radford.htm I'm sure it wouldn't be the first time DANFS was wrong, but there would have to be a similar quality source saying it was wrong. The NHC has annual command histories sent from each ship's CO, the next step would be to locate the ship history and see what it said. Some of them are online, but the rest would have to be requested FOIA style, I think. --Dual Freq (talk) 01:06, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: The Arthur W Radford is the DD-X test platform http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pnav/is_200303/ai_445224708
:This was recently added to the article in an unencyclopedic way, which I reverted, but is notable enough as a source that it should be integrated into the article in an appropriate way. -MBK004 20:08, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
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