European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 2. 19b6 the stars and stripes Page 3 profile Rosf must fight for personnel programs analysts by Charles w. Corddry Baltimore Sun Norfolk. A. Carl Trost graduated from the naval Academy lint in his class in 195 j and has come up on lop Ever since. Mysteriously Navy Secretary John f. Lehman or. Tried to Stop him from becoming the Siew uniformed Boss of the Navy. Lehman conspicuously failed. So adm. Carlisle Albert Herman Trost 56, com Mander Iff she . Atlantic reel moves Back to Washington this week to take Over As Chiaf of naval operations uniquely familiar with every Nook cranny Skeleton budgetary scheme and War plan. In prior top jobs there serving the retiring chief. Adm. James d. Waikins. And others before that he was intimately involved in mapping the Navy s course. Never openly ambitious bul i always fully secure Trost wll j hoist his four Star Flag at the Pentagon As the Reagan military buildup crests and the largest beneficiary the Navy faces i Mancial storms that could Rau its plans to founder. I rail he will have o fight every Inch of the Way for personnel and arms programs underly ing the Navy s maritime strategy As a deficit minded Congress seeks to end the Laist . Military expansion Cycle. Trost a submariner has no use for circumlocution. If Congress freezes the budget at current Levels he said in an interview the Navy probably cannot sustain the 600-ship Fleet that has been a Reagan administration priority. What Congress is doing to the military budget he said could destroy  the Navy now m better shape than he has Ever seen it could be sunk to i he Depths it reached in the 1970s. My goal very frankly is going to be to try 10 protect the Aims we be made and we be made significant gains g to and co be damned he said ref Carrir to critical reports of the watchdog general accounting office and the congressional budget office. Bolh Are politically motivated in Many of their report he contended and there s an awful lot Olf actual inaccuracy. I know what this flee has the ability to  selection by president Reagan inevitable though it seemingly was came Only after a drawn out Washington Type Power struggle in which the old salts beat of an Effort by the Young Navy civilian head leh Man to elevate a relatively Junior adm iral to the of ice. When it was Over sen. John w. Warner r-va., issued what sounded like advice for Lehman whether so in tended or not. On troll s climb up the ladder in the Cany 1970s, he served As executive assistant to Warner then Secretary of the Navy and the senator said he sure knew when to give a Secretary a Good kick in the ass to prevent him from doing something , third ranking member of the Senate armed services committee was in inc legions of Navy philos who backed Trost when Lehman tried to get vice adm Frank b. Kelso ii jumped to the top Post from his positron As 6th Fleet commander in the Mediterranean where he directed the Spring air strikes on Libya so also by All accounts were adm. William j. Crowe jr., chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and vice adm. John m.  the president 5 nation Al Security adviser. With Manv a retired Admiral cheering from the sidelines and Likely making discreet Calls Here an there Poindexter and other it inc White House reportedly insisted that Reagan have More than onename Kelso to consider and then backed the Man with the stronger and longer  Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger was re ported originally willing for Lehman 10 have his Way and finally to have played Only a Small role in the outcome. In defense department circles the episode is regarded As showing that he feisty Lehman s Power has passed its Peak after so years of by steadily winning budget Bailies by a driving hard bargains on ship building contracts and moving toward the 600-ship Fleet that tic got the republicans to Promise in their 1980 platform i had been leaked thai Kelso was a shoo in for chief of naval operations and Wels placed de sense sources said the Secretary s discomfiture As losing was such that for a while it appeared height resign. Through a spokes ,. Man however Lehman commented Admiral Trost has a Fine record and i look Forward to working with him in the years to  Kelso meanwhile has Bee named to command the Atlantic Fleet in Trost s Wake and now 52, still could become chief four years hence. So what makes t Ost the right Man to run the uni formed Navy a it a nacre a period of severe stress after what Walkins Calls six Golden years he has the most remarkable combination of Cour age Independence intelligence and foresight that i be seen in an individual said Warner who in two wars and later in High Navy office saw a lot of men in uniform. Fortunately that came to the attention of the Secretary of defense and the president he was the Only qualified candidate. A solid professional with impeccable instincts in the View of retired adm. Harry d. Train a former Atlantic Fleet commander. At a time when tight budgets Are coming Back i can t think of a better person said rear adm. Jerry o. Tulloc the Atlantic Fleet chief of staff an former Navy inspector general. He knows where All the skeletons arc in Washington better than anyone in the Navy  knows in Large part because he was director of Navy program planning in inc office of the chief of naval operations for years before coming Here last october. That is the Premier vice Admiral s Job and most influential planning position in the Navy there is no scrap of data on the present and future worldwide fleets unknown to the Man holding inc office. He puts together All the ship aircraft weapons and personnel programs for the Navy s chief and has a heavy say on allocation of  Man in that position has the keys to the King  said or my. William f. Mccauly com Mander of Atlantic Fleet cruisers destroyers and other surface ships. Carl Trust is the Only officer that could go in there and he Clye Viive from Day one the objective of All this affection and Confidence is a Broad shouldered it footer with Gray Blue cats. Who seems in motion even when sitting More or less still. He spouts facts and opinions in gating gun  does t give a lot of heavy rudder  said Fleet master chief Petty officer William c. Smith but you know he s in charge. He sure knows How to get that print  Bost a former commander of submarine forces and of the 7th Fleet in the Western Pacific now sees the Cost of running the expanded Navy As sure to be less than was expected four years  attributed thai outcome to Secretary Lehman s Tough procurement policies which for example have Cut Down Aegis Cruiser prices from a projected 11.6 billion each to an actual Sqq million plus an to a Range of economics making operations and train ing somewhat less Connly. But that did not mean the budget could be  at current Levels. His big con Cern was that Congress would actually reduce it again in fiscal 1987,"i be been telling members of Congress with whom i meet he said that they have in their hands in capability to destroy defense very simple and i think they re on their Way to do a my a that. We have right now within our grasp the ability to Cement for the next decade a very Strong Navy posture or to bring it right Back Down where it was in the 1910s."the condition of i Fleet today is Way Way better than i be Ever seen  the ancient aircraft Carrier Coral sea came Home in May from to i months in inc Mediterranean in better l shape Nan she. Was in when she Kelso  aircraft readiness a pcs Are higher than the highest goals we Ever set five and six years ago i dont think we can afford to reduce our focus on readiness he said. I Don i think the world situation ii going to permit  rear adm. Hopper 79, to retire from Navy by Norman Black Washington rear adm. Grace m. Hopper the nation s oldest military officer on Active duly has decided to retire this summer Pentagon officials said monday the 79-Ycar-old Hopper s pioneering work in devel Oping the computer programming language Jubul wonder inc nickname grand old lady of software. Several sources described Hopper s decision to step Down As involuntary. But capt. Mike Sherman spokesman for Navy Secretary John f. Lehman jr., flatly denied that Hopper was being forced out of the service that s her decision Sherman said after consulting with Lehman. It was her Choice she in in a seller requesting voluntary retirement the Secre tary would not order her  Hopper who plans to end her military career in August with a retirement ceremony aboard the Constitution in Boston the oldest commissioned ship Mihe Navy is leaving the Navy on amiable terms one Pentagon official said monday. But she has made it Clear to friends that she would have preferred not to retire at this Lime he said. Hopper is described by admirers As a vigorous woman who maintains a schedule that would Ore Many individuals half her age. A Navy biography of her awards honorary degree and professional activities requires four pages of single spaced Type. It has nothing to do with her work said another official who also agreed to discuss the Mailer Only if nol Idun lifted. It s a question of Flag Admiral billets. There arc Only so Many authorized Flag slots. The Navy wants to use that Slot someplace else and i think she saw the handwriting on the  the official would nol elaborate on How the Navy planned to use Hopper s one Star Slot. The Navy is to currently authorized by Congress i to have 253 admirals or which i 131 Are one Star slots of the Type i held by Hopper. In efforts to Contact Hopper on monday were unsuccessful. An aide at the naval data Automa Tion come where Hopper works As a special adviser said the and Miral was out of town on a speak i ing engagement. I the Normal retirement age for la military officer is 62. Hopper Hopper has remained on Active duly however under a procedure approved by Congress thai allows for special year by year extensions. Hopper born dec. 9, 1906, in new York City joined inc naval Reserve in 1943 during world War ii by Ihen she had already received a . From Yale University and spent a decade working As a pro Fessor of mathematics at Vassar College. Because of her background she was assigned by the Navy to the Bureau of ordnance computation project at Harvard where she teamed to program the first Large scale digital computer the so called Mark i. After the War she remained in the naval Reserve but joined the Ecken Mauchly computer corp., which was then building un1vac i the first commercial Large scale electronic computer. She remained with the company As a senior Programmer when it was bought by Remington Rand and later merged into the Sperry  was while working Wilh Sperry that Hopper Pur sued ground breaking research on computer programs and played an instrumental Rote in the development of cobol one of the most widely accepted of All languages for Large scale computers. In 19m, Hopper decided to retire from in naval Reserve having attained the rank of commander. Less than a year later however on aug. 1, 1967,she was recalled to Active duty and asked to standardize the Navy s computer programming languages in 1982, with the retirement of adm. Hyman g. Rickover Hopper became the oldest officer still on Active duty in the armed services. She had attained the rank of Captain in 1973 and won her Star in 1983. Rickover like Hopper was allowed to remain on Active duty Long past Normal retirement age through annual extensions. Rickover wanted to remain on Active duty but was forced to retire in 1982 when presi Dent Reagan refused to Back another one year Lour. Hopper is prominently mentioned to tourists visit ing the Pentagon because of an exhibit on her career maintained in the military women s Comdr