To me Satellite Down, Kidnapped and HW, along with the three Return to Europe modules, represent the nadir of GDW writing - the fight between the Virginia and the Russian ship is so badly written that it destroys the whole believeability of the module down the drain and shows that the GDW writers knew nothing about the USN (if the Last Submarine trilogy didnt already show it)
They started the US modules so promisingly and then just suddenly went totally Mad Max and badly written Mad Max to boot.
Thats one reason for the Olefin timeline - i.e. how my GM ran the campaign and began to ignore the canon as it increasingly became clear that it had made a huge deviation that in our minds and his was unsupportable.
So ignoring those modules gives you a US Pacific Fleet of some sort like Matt came up with - and also makes a lot more sense.
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