Vic Smith wrote:

Never did find out where the Navy purchases paper charts, and I gave
up. *Probably "Top Secret" except to 10,000 swabbies in BuPers.


I don't think the Navy buys them. IIRC they are provided through the
Library of Congress (Federal Supervisor of Documents or something like
that) and they definitely use Admiralty charts for much of the world.
The U.S. Defense Department also has it's own survey bureau called the
Defense Mapping Agency which creates charts for the Navy (and the
navies of allied countries).

DSK