![]() “It is probable it was during one of my Omaha family’s visits to my San Diego grandparents. I,” the narrative non-fiction work he wrote as NIWC Pacific’s historian emeritus. “I don’t recall the first time I visited Point Loma,” LaPuzza said in “Weapons of Choice, Vol. ![]() LaPuzza joined the second of those labs on the cusp of another name change, each rebrand a pivot to answer the Navy’s emergent needs. Both had contributed to the Navy’s preparedness for World War II. Navy labs: one for early sonar technology and shipboard antennas the other for air-launched undersea weapons, ballistic missiles, and undersea vehicles. By then, pieces of the puzzle that would become the Center as we know it had existed for 29 years, first as two independently established U.S. Let’s start there: a moment, a person, Tom LaPuzza in 1969, working his first day at NIWC Pacific many name changes ago. This, rather, is a people’s history, in which the collective visions of ordinary people mean more than any of those things. ![]() We’ll have to go fast - there’s no time for exact dates, names of commanding officers, or the elaborate tree of name changes marking reorganizations. It’s an invitation to look up from the day-to-day and join me at a vantage point from which we’ll see the dent in the universe likeminded people can make with enough time and dedication. ![]() I only have you for so long, I imagine, so I’ll be direct: the point is to take you on an 80-year ride in the space of a coffee break, full of moments and people which make this warfare center unlike any place else. ![]()
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