“There is also the personnel training and cost to consider, since it would take naval officers at least three years to master the operations before the Aegis-fitted warships can be enlisted.”
Andrew Yang
“There is also the personnel training and cost to consider, since it would take naval officers at least three years to master the operations before the Aegis-fitted warships can be enlisted,”
“Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at [Pearl Harbor's] officers' mess [and] are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.”
William Manchester
“Don't talk to me about Naval tradition! It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash”
Winston Churchill
“I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.”
William McKinley
“Everyone has worked very hard, pulled together and with purpose to ensure we retire this naval aviation icon appropriately and commensurate with its long and proud legacy.”
Cmdr. Richard LaBranche
“From its inception, the Tomcat has been the icon of Naval Aviation with its striking appearance, speed, formidable lethality and versatility. It is more capable today than at any other time during its existence because of the innovation, dedication, and tenacity of every maintainer and pilot who has ever been associated with it.”
