During the Vietnam War, the USN reactivated the battleship New Jersey and sent her to the "gun line" off South Vietnam. During her 120 days on the line, she fired 14,891 rounds of 5-inch and 5,688 rounds of 16-inch; During her entire previous career she had previously fired a total of 7,442 16-inch.
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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