Quotes About Naval

The only difference between a pirate and a privateer is a flag

Naval and occasionally land-based air power turned the great sea battles—the fighting near Singapore, the chase of the Bismarck, the Coral Sea, Midway, the fight over the Marianas, Leyte Gulf, and Okinawa—mostly into contests of carrier-based aircraft attacking with impunity any enemy ships except like kind.

The principal centers for these studies have been the U.S. Naval Medical Center at Pensacola, Florida, and the Soviet space program's ORBIT centrifuge facility in the U.S.S.R.

One thing Scott's tactical instructions didn't adequately clarify was how his destroyer captains would bring their torpedoes to bear. Torpedoes were the killing weapons of naval war, and much easier to aim than guns were.

The after turret, with no such restraints, kept firing, however, and as it trained straight aft the wash of fire from her barrels set fire to her two floatplanes, fantail-mounted on catapults. The small bonfires raged briefly before the next salvo blew them right off the ship.

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.

Thomas B. Buell

I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute.

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

Kunjali Marakkar is one of the first naval commanders of Kerala. He was an expert at his craft.

If you go back to a century ago, the major problems of electrical and mechanical engineering had to do with how to place a huge gun on a moving platform, namely a ship, designing it to be able to hit a moving object, another ship, so naval gunnery. That was the most advanced problem in metallurgy, electrical and mechanical engineering, and so on. England and Germany put huge efforts into it, the United States less so. Out of associated innovations comes the automotive industry.

We're going to Houston?" "California. Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, to be precise." He crossed the room and reached for the door. "We need to interview some SEALs.

the Armada de Molucca put to sea.

Spain's top naval officer, the Marquis of Santa Cruz commenced a steep decline

By way of contrast, English warships, or galleons, were "race built

the five ships comprising the Armada de Molucca in Brazil showed how porous and vulnerable the Portuguese

Officers ranked just above the sailors and specialists in the fleet's hierarchy.

new economic possibilities for any European nation able to master the seas.

However, using insidious and irresistible mind-control techniques such as offering us Mountain Dew and a ton of nachos, the naval bigwigs had managed to corral us in this room for a debriefing.

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.

As a Naval officer, I've been all over the world, and one of the foundational lessons I learned was that parents everywhere would like to raise their children to a higher standard of living in a peaceful environment. That's a universal goal for families.

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.

Naval Station Mayport and Naval Air Station Jacksonville are the East Coast home for the MH-60Rs, and the nation's P-8A fleet and Triton operations facility are based at Naval Air Station Jacksonville.