The Mystery of the Unknown Sailor Who Inspired Trump to Shake Up the Navy
Defense officials said the Navy could not verify the sailor Trump cited as the source of his push to restore steam catapults on carriers.
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(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Sung-min = U.S. President Donald Trump boarded the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier 'CVN-81', which is currently under construction, last August...
Mystery sailor behind Trump’s bizarre obsession 'never found' after US Navy scramble: WSJ
The U.S. Navy went looking for the mystery sailor behind one of President Donald Trump’s most expensive military demands and not only couldn’t find him, but couldn’t verify that he ever existed, The Wall Street Journal reported.For years, Trump has referenced a mysterious sailor by the name of Bill Jones, a man he described as a Navy “catapulter” who, as paraphrased by the Journal, “loves the smell of steam.” It was Jones, Trump has said, who to…
Mystery Sailor's Advice Pushed Trump to Change Navy's Course
A lone mystery say may have nudged US naval strategy towards a multibillion-dollar U-turn—and no one can prove he exists. Writing in the Wall Street Journal , Marcus Weisgerber traces how President Trump's fixation on "Bill Jones," a assumed floor who preferred old-school steam catapults on aircraft carriers over modern...
President Donald Trump of the United States decided to return the steam catapult to aircraft carriers after talking to an unknown Navy soldier. Trump returned to the idea of installing a steam catapult under the influence of a conversation with a sailor named Bill Jones, who had already taken place during his first presidential term, wrote WSJ with reference to sources in Pentagon. Moryak, who had served a 25-year-old catapult plant on ships, po…
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