Top Gun

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A motion picture producer, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davis_(producer)" title="John Davis (producer)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John Davis</a>, claimed that "Top Gun was a recruiting video for the Navy. It really helped their recruiting. People saw the movie and said, 'Wow! I want to be a pilot.'"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gun#cite_note-operation-hollywood-181-17" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[17]</a> After the release of the film, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">United States Navy</a> stated that the number of young men who enlisted, wanting to be Naval aviators, went up by 500 percent.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gun#cite_note-operation-hollywood-182-18" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[18]</a>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Paramount Pictures</a> offered to place a 90 second Navy recruiting advertisement at the beginning of the videocassette for Top Gun, in exchange for $1 million in credit towards their debt to the Navy for production assistance. An internal memo to the Pentagon from an advertising agency rejected the offer, noting that "Both movies are already wonderful recruiting tools for the military, particularly the Navy, and to add a recruiting commercial onto the head of what is already a two-hour recruiting commercial is redundant."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gun#cite_note-operation-hollywood-180-1-19" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[19]</a>

<h2 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19.200000762939453px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Video games<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style=" -webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Top_Gun&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Video games" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Top_Gun&veaction=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Video games" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">editbeta</a>]</h2>

<div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style=" font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gun_(video_game)" title="Top Gun (video game)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Top Gun (video game)</a></div>

<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Top Gun also spawned a number of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game" title="Video game" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">video games</a> for various platforms. The original game was released in 1987 under the same title as the film. It was released on five platforms in total: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer" title="Personal computer" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">PC</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64" title="Commodore 64" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Commodore 64</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum" title="ZX Spectrum" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ZX Spectrum</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC" title="Amstrad CPC" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Amstrad CPC</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System" title="Nintendo Entertainment System" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Nintendo Entertainment System</a> (NES) (with an equivalent version for Nintendo's "VS." arcade cabinets). In the game, the player pilots an F-14 Tomcat fighter, and has to complete four missions. A sequel, Top Gun: The Second Mission, was released for the NES three years later.

Another game, Top Gun: Fire at Will, was released in 1996 for the PC and later for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation" title="PlayStation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sony PlayStation</a> platform. Top Gun: Hornet's Nest was released in 1998. Top Gun: Combat Zones was released for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2" title="PlayStation 2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">PlayStation 2</a> in 2001 and was ported to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_GameCube" title="Nintendo GameCube" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Nintendo GameCube</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Windows</a> PCs a year later.Combat Zones was considerably longer and more complex than its predecessors, and also featured other aircraft besides the F-14. In late 2005, a fifth game, simply titled Top Gun, was released for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS" title="Nintendo DS" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Nintendo DS</a>. At E3 2011, it was announced that a new game, Top Gun: Hard Lock which was released in March 2012 for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360" title="Xbox 360" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Xbox 360</a>, PC, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3" title="PlayStation 3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">PlayStation 3</a>.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_game" title="Mobile game" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mobile game</a> publisher Hands-On Mobile (formerly known as Mforma) have published three mobile games based around Top Gun.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">citation needed</a>] The first two were top-down scrolling arcade shooters. The third game takes a different approach as a third-person perspective game, similar to Sega's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Burner" title="After Burner" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">After Burner</a>games.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">citation needed</a>]

Thomas J. Cassidy Jr., considered the father of the remotely controlled Predator drone that has redefined warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, retired Monday from the San Diego-area aerospace firm that he helped found and grow.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. said Cassidy, 77, retired as president of its Aircraft Systems Group, which builds unmanned aircraft, including the Predator -- currently the most widely deployed unmanned aerial vehicle in the U.S. arsenal.

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon, in an unusually swift reaction to the disclosure that the Navy paid $1,800 for two ashtrays for an airplane, relieved a rear admiral and two other officers of their duties at Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego Thursday.

The move, rarely taken against senior officers and equally rare in procurement matters, was announced by Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger only moments after the three officers had been told about the decision. The defense secretary was described by aides as "furious" and "very angry" about the price paid for the ashtrays and about the purchase of a socket wrench for $404.

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But the decision left some Navy officers thinking that "Weinberger is conducting a whitewash and has just ramrodded three naval officers," according to one Navy officer at the Pentagon. He said that none of the officers involved in the decision were assigned to the base at the time the purchases were made in 1981. But Pentagon spokesman Michael I. Burch said that similar ashtrays were purchased for about $660 each after the three men reported for duty at Miramar.

"There was no excuse for it," Weinberger said. "The item was identified specifically, and the outrageous price was identified."

He said that two persons had signed the purchase order. A Navy spokesman said that such documents usually are handled by low-ranking servicemen or civilians, but no action against other personnel has been announced.

'Silly Transaction'

"Nobody paid the slightest attention to the basic idea that the price bore no relationship whatever to the value of the item procured," Weinberger said at a news conference, describing the purchase as "that particularly silly transaction." He suggested banning smoking aboard naval airplanes or using "old mayonnaise jars" as ashtrays.

The three officers were identified by the Navy as Rear Adm. Thomas J. Cassidy Jr., commander of the Navy's Pacific fighter fleet; Capt. Gary E. Hakanson, the commanding officer of the Miramar Naval Air Station, and Cmdr. Jerry L. Fronabarger, the air station's supply officer.

Hakanson said in a telephone interview from his home that he was "devastated" that he had been relieved of his command.

"The ashtray thing was before my time," Hakanson said. "I just don't have the facts as to why I was relieved. . . . I just was informed by telephone. It's very much a surprise to me. I'm standing by, waiting to find out what the rationale is."

Hakanson, a 26-year Navy veteran, assumed command of the air station in April, 1983. Cassidy, a 22-year veteran, took command of the Pacific Fleet's Fighter Airborne Early Warning Wing in August, 1983, assuming responsibility for all F-14 fighter and E-2 early warning squadrons in the Pacific. The Navy said that details of Fronabarger's 18-year career were not available.

On Tuesday evening, the Pentagon had said that, if warranted, punitive steps would be taken against those responsible for the purchases "after a full investigation." Only hours after Weinberger's announcement Thursday, the Navy said that an investigation was being conducted.

The Navy officer at the Pentagon, complaining that the step was taken "without any due process of law," tied the move to Weinberger's difficulty in obtaining congressional approval for Pentagon budget requests.<img src="/eb8ae742-f1e3-5edb-bb88-31465282cff1.gif"/>

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"I think it's kind of smelly. What it really smacks of is Washington politics, because Weinberger has a credibility problem. That problem is not the admiral's and captain's problem. They're trying to run that base as best they can," he said.

The ashtrays were purchased from Grumman Aerospace Corp. of Bethpage, N.Y., which has said that it would refund $4,270 for the cost of seven ashtrays for the E-2C Hawkeye airplane.

Burch, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, said that, although the first purchases were made in 1981, they continued "into this year."

"These guys may not be guilty of the original sin, but they kept on ordering them," he said.

The disclosure about the ashtrays and socket wrench is the latest in a series of purchases for airplanes that have raised questions about the Pentagon's procurement practices and its control over prices charged by suppliers.

In recent months, it has been disclosed that the Navy paid $640 for a toilet seat cover for P3-C Orion submarine-hunter airplanes, but the price was eventually reduced to $100. In addition, $7,622 was paid for a coffee maker and $435 for a hammer.

Staff writer David Freed, in San Diego, contributed to this story.

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<span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">The Surgeon General has warned that smoking is harmful to your health. Now comes an admiral to certify that it does nothing for your career either. <br style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; letter-spacing: normal; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: initial initial;" />

<span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">Thomas J. Cassidy Jr., 52, a two-star admiral who has been given the Legion of Merit and the Distinguished Flying Cross in his 33-year career, has been given the boot by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. Cassidy was relieved as commander of fighter and early warning aircraft for the Pacific fleet over the purchase of aircraft ashtrays costing $659 apiece. <br style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; letter-spacing: normal; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: initial initial;" />

<span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">The Defense Department didn't suggest there was anything in it for Cassidy. He doesn't even smoke. And he wasn't in command when the last ashtrays were purchased in February 1983. "I think they shot in the dark and got the wrong guy," Cassidy said from his home. <br style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; letter-spacing: normal; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: initial initial;" />

<span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">His removal came days after the Navy began an investigation into buying procedures at Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego, where the admiral is based, but before any wrongdoing had been proved. Also relieved were the base commander, Captain Gary Hakanson, and a supply officer, Commander Jerry Fronabarger. One angry Miramar pilot commented, "At least they gave Gary Dotson a trial before they put him in jail for rape." <br style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; letter-spacing: normal; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: initial initial;" />

<span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">This officer said that of all the men he had served under, Cassidy was the last he would accuse of sloppy management. "He makes even the fun things not fun," the pilot said. <br style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; letter-spacing: normal; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: initial initial;" />

<span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">Cassidy's office at Miramar is small, modestly furnished and usually has a line of nervous officers waiting outside. Visitors are warned that the admiral has no sense of humor, which is certainly true where his staff is concerned. He is not beloved, but he is admired, and the pilot says his removal has been "demoralizing." <br style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; letter-spacing: normal; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: initial initial;" />

<span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">Admirals are not customarily held responsible for ashtrays. Relieving one because a supply clerk overspends is like firing a baseball manager because a clubhouse attendant goes overboard on cold cuts. The action against Cassidy probably resulted from Weinberger's embarrassment over a series of outrageous Pentagon purchases—$640 toilet-seat covers come to mind. He was "furious" when Miramar was caught with smoking ashtrays. <br style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; letter-spacing: normal; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: initial initial;" />

<span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">Weinberger himself is not known for frugality where the military budget is concerned. He's always asking Congress to buy him new aircraft carriers whenever their ashtrays are full. <br style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; letter-spacing: normal; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: initial initial;" />