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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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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As a result, according to the prevailing military doctrine, the United States did not need a two-ocean Navy, although it had to focus on potential strategic threats from both the Atlantic and Pacific.
France last week agreed to open its airspace to U.S. military aircraft and said its navy would provide logistical support to United States naval groups in the Indian Ocean.
His TV series McHale's Navy was also a major success in the United States.
However, in the 1930s, with the rise of new regional powers such as Japan and the decline of the British Navy as a bulwark against threats to the United States, it became necessary for defense planners to consider the possibility of confronting threats in two theaters simultaneously.
The Honorable George Herbert Walker Bush. (Applause.) From his time as a decorated Navy pilot to his years in the White House as the 41st President of the United States, President George Herbert Walker Bush has led a life marked by a profound commitment to serving others.
Unless this trend is reversed and strong leadership is enacted, the United States will again find themselves in a military situation much like Secretary Lehman did when he took over the Navy, underfunded, undersized, and out-of-date.
In 1988, after the Toshiba Machine Company transferred such tools to the USSR enabling the Soviet navy to fabricate vastly improved submarine propellers, Congress enacted legislation that would both prohibit imports into the United States of products manufactured by companies violating COCOM rules and bar such firms from awards of U.S. government contracts.
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