And now they're meeting those challenges as officers in the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
For 20 some year, including leading the largest squadron in the United States Navy, I led.
In the late 1980s, the United States Navy began building its own sealift capability.
And as the future officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, you're preparing to join this fight.
Irony of ironies: the principal champion of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is the United States Navy.
Bahrain, where the United States Navy's Fifth Fleet anchors, is a small, predominantly Shiite country governed by a Sunni royal family.
Fifty years later, his two potential successors debated horses, bayonets and whether the United States Navy is smaller than in 1916.
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True, the United States Navy under Admiral George Dewey had ousted Spain from the Philippines in the Spanish-American War of 1898.
Among the more disturbing provisions of the current defense budget is its slashing of the United States Navy carrier battle fleet.
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From 1974 to 2005, Captain Sulzer served in the United States Navy.
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During the Veterans Day Parade, I was able to chat with Vickie, a fellow American Women Veterans member and United States Navy Veteran.
Just last month, the United States Navy reported that China is the most active supplier of Iran's chemical, nuclear and biological weapons program.
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Mr. Ginman was commissioned as an Ensign in the Supply Corps, United States Navy in 1970 and retired as a Rear Admiral in 2000.
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And this year, I'm looking forward to standing with our son, Hunter, when he is commissioned as an ensign in the United States Navy.
Last Thursday, the United States Navy confirmed that the President's vision can be realized in a near-term and highly cost-effective way - from the sea.
In related news, the United States Navy has dispatched the USS Enterprise to the Persian Gulf, which would be its third aircraft carrier in that tiny body of water.
Rather, they reflect a strategic imperative not unlike that which led Britain's Royal Navy and, subsequently, the United States Navy, to assume responsibility for, and amass the means to exercise control over the world's oceans.
The Center for Security Policy commends the United States Navy for Wednesday's successful shoot-down of a failing spy satellite that could have posed a threat to human health and American national security had it fallen to earth.
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Mr Simon was happy to acknowledge that he had once touched the real world in commerce (and in the United States navy, where he spent three years), although in fact nearly all his adult career was in academe.
"We do not tolerate deviations from the policies that govern who we are and what we do as sailors in the United States Navy, " Deputy Commander of Naval Special Warfare Command, Rear Admiral Garry Bonelli told the Associated Press.
"You know there's this tradition in the United States Navy that if a captain of a ship goes up on the shoals, almost regardless of whether it's his fault or not, he loses command, " Biden said Wednesday on CNN.
In contrast to paying for college, the young men and women who enter the Naval Academy get paid while they are enrolled, and then serve a five year military commitment as paid officers in the United States Navy or Marine Corp.
Senators are encouraged not to spend precious time worrying about an accord that the United States Navy strenuously supports, the Bush administration wants promptly ratified, various mining and energy interests and environmental groups (however implausibly) agree is desirable and the bipartisan Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved a couple of years ago.
Among the signatories of the letter were scores of retired flag officers who previously served in the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, as well as R.
At the time, in the beginning of the 19th century, Mahan could argue that the United States required a Navy that could meet the greatest of any naval threat regardless of the direction from which it might come the Pacific or the Atlantic.
The Center for Security Policy again thanks the men and women of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard, as well as the countless civilian workers in the defense, security and intelligence community, for devoting their lives to the defense of our great country.
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Standing on the roof of Two World Financial Center, amid mounds of debris that still litter the streets and rooftops around the World Trade Center, New York police officers -- among them former Marines -- raised the flags of the United States, Marines, Navy, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard.
This HMS Campbeltown was, in fact, an elderly American vessel given to the Royal Navy by the United States through the lend-lease programme.
Mr. Gaffney's leadership has been recognized by numerous organizations including: the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award (1987), the U.S. Business and Industry Council's Defender of the National Interest Award (1994), the Navy League of the United States' "Alfred Thayer Mahan Literary Achievement Award" (1999), and the Zionist Organization of America's "Louis Brandeis Award" (2003).
The length of the Somali coastline is roughly the same length as the entire Eastern Seaboard of the United States, according to U.S. Navy statistics.
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