Been looking for some help with those very questions for awhile and was happy to find this.
But now, I have another "related" question...
Do you know of a way to fix the assignment of names to crewmen when starting a new USN Pacific Theater career?
I figured out that editing the names in the saved game UPC files works, but after that career is over with, starting a new one goes right back to assigning some of the same "funky" names. These are not at all "Normal" or "Common" US names...Stan Edgar D. Street...Guy Vernon W. Hogan...Ian Merrill P. Saunders...Irvin Chester V. Madison...Kevin Martin S. Gilmore...etc...good grief man, tell me your mother didn't like you!
Anyway, I haven't found anything like those convoluted/exaggerated names in the initial UPC files...how do they get created in the first place?