The NRL's first hundred years (1923-2023)
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 5:36 pm
The NRL Centennial on July 2 was memorialized in a a fresh iteration of their history.
https://www.nrl.navy.mil/About-Us/Histo ... entennial/
Once "college-dropout" Townsend maneuvered his way into a position at this, the first national science lab of its kind in the world, everything he did was in furtherance of the organizational goals and aspirations. He was always a very purpose-full individual. I am reminded of that each time I suddenly see his purpose behind a seemingly random action. I have just realized that when Townsend encouraged Linda to start her diary, taking her to the stationary shop to pick out the handsome leather book that would become the first of several hand-scribed volumes, he was just beginning own his "missing notebook" years." Sly as a fox, he was.
Other posts on this forum point out that those years, and his trail seem to merge in the Corona/Keyhole Optical Reoconnaissance Satellite Program. The GE employees assigned to the program operated in a dedicated plant in Valley Forge, PA, which was the location of Ashlawn, the family residence for Linda's last two years of high school.
I'm just saying. Townsend always like to live close to his work.
https://www.nrl.navy.mil/About-Us/Histo ... entennial/
Once "college-dropout" Townsend maneuvered his way into a position at this, the first national science lab of its kind in the world, everything he did was in furtherance of the organizational goals and aspirations. He was always a very purpose-full individual. I am reminded of that each time I suddenly see his purpose behind a seemingly random action. I have just realized that when Townsend encouraged Linda to start her diary, taking her to the stationary shop to pick out the handsome leather book that would become the first of several hand-scribed volumes, he was just beginning own his "missing notebook" years." Sly as a fox, he was.
Other posts on this forum point out that those years, and his trail seem to merge in the Corona/Keyhole Optical Reoconnaissance Satellite Program. The GE employees assigned to the program operated in a dedicated plant in Valley Forge, PA, which was the location of Ashlawn, the family residence for Linda's last two years of high school.
I'm just saying. Townsend always like to live close to his work.