F.o.A flag......"Father of Aegis"
Well worth reading.
"From a poor farm family in Missouri that was ruined in the depression of the early 1930s, he rose to serve in the Navy, both at sea and ashore, and to direct the development of one of the world’s most advanced weapon systems.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_E._Meyer
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wayne_E._Meyer