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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941. Jack Adams | top
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But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer. Paul Berg | top
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The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. William Blackstone | top
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The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage. William Bligh | top
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I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people. Ernest Borgnine | top
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There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount. Graham Chapman | top
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I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13. Sean Connery | top
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My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx. Tony Curtis | top
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To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged. Josephus Daniels | top
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. William Falconer | top
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I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer. Marc Garneau | top
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Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School. Mark Kelly | top
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It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England? John Masefield | top
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And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy. Harry Mathews | top
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I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself. James A. Michener | top
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No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty. George William Norris | top
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The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. Michael Oxley | top
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We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged. John Edward Redmond | top
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Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination. Richard Reeves | top
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My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Dave Van Ronk | top
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I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war. Barney Ross | top
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But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess. Stuart Symington | top
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FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men. Stuart Symington | top
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Two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole and then again two days before the attack, they saw through their analysis that a major event was going to occur in Yemen. They told the Navy not to bring the Cole into Yemen harbor. It went in and was attacked. Curt Weldon | top
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In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British. William Whipple | top
