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...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!
There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.
Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.
There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.
I learned a lot in the naval officers' course. It gave me a lot.
Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.
I'm a reasonably good actor, and I'm an average naval officer. Ha, ha!
I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.
I began serving my country when I was 18 years old and entered the U.S. Naval Academy.
Everything in my life I owe to God, my family, the Naval Academy, and the Marine Corps.
I went to the Naval Academy in Annapolis and then I went right into the Navy after that.
Without the Naval Uprising of 1946, the story of India's freedom will never be complete.
Kunjali Marakkar is one of the first naval commanders of Kerala. He was an expert at his craft.
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.
There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.
Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.
I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.
One of the things I learned at the Naval Academy and the Marine Corps is we have to make tough decisions.
I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.
My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.
Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.
Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.
I was either going to be an actor, a Naval aviator, or a pediatric surgeon. Those were the three things that I wanted to do.
I was sent to Naval School when I was young, and it didn't do me any good in any other form, but it made me get up in the morning.
By interacting with NATO vessels on E.U. anti-piracy duty, the Chinese are gaining valuable insights in to Western naval doctrine.
For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.
I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute.
A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.
Learning about WWII at the U.S. Naval Academy taught me about military tactics and the importance of fighting for our country's highest ideals.
My father is a scientist , my mother a teacher, my brother is a Naval Officer and I am an entertainer - we all are doing out a bit for our country!
Whereas the U.S. views its naval role in the Pacific as a force for keeping the seas free for navigation by all, China sees things quite differently.
Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.
When I left Kentucky at age 18 to attend the U.S. Naval Academy and lifted my right hand to swear the oath to defend our Constitution, I did so willingly.
My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.
After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.
My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well educated. My mother was a hairdresser who sang every day.
My work as a naval officer in World War II enabled me to serve on 49 different South Pacific islands so that I came to know the area about as well as anyone.
President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval gunnery officer and then as Congressman for a quarter century.
Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.
So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.
And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.
Buttigieg was a naval reservist who served as a lieutenant in Afghanistan, so he has seen first hand how American foreign policy has veered wildy off her once-well-rooted tracks.
The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.
Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.
The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.
I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.
I grew up in an isolated town, out in the middle of the Mojave Desert in the middle of a naval base. My family was one of the only South Asian families in this town. We felt it. We knew.