(na)V.(y bluenote and godollfin)

[Paul Mackin]

Chris asks:

     Paul, 'splain this please.  I don' unnerstan':

>The still unremembered significance of V in matters U.S.N. continues to
>haunt me. Keep asking every Navy person encountered. All acknowledge its 
>existence but can (will) go no further.

It's the fact that the designation V used to be used  to indicate that a particular program or weapon system belonged to the U. S. Navy rather than another branch of the military service.

For example, I was in an officer training program called V-12, whereas
the Army equivalent was A-12. There was also a V-6 program of
some kind.

No one seems to have any idea what the V stood for.

Never thought much about it at the time, but later began to wonder if old sailor Pynchon could have had something in mind for his naval novel.

I'll just keeping askin'.

					P.