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Excerpt from A Chat About the Navy Portsmouth with her proper spars, which are now replaced by those of a frigate. 62. Boat Exercise, Sailing. 63. H.m.s. Terror nipped in Fox's Channel during Back's Expedition in 1836. 64. Gunboats of the so-called flat-iron class. 65. H.m.s. Enterprise at noon in midwinter of? Point Leopold, during Sir James Ross's expedition in 1849. 66. The Tobacco hists. 67. H.m.s. Alert leaving Portsmouth on the Nares expedition of 1875. 68. Naval Brigade in square with 5-barre1 Nordenfelt in the angle. 69. H. M.s. Bulldog at the bombard ment of Bomarsund, August 15, 1854. Sir Charles Napier has the telescope under his arm. 70. A Battleship's Mast, fitted with military top, crow's nest, and semaphores. 71. Field-gun Drill. 72. Musketry Exercise. 73. The Log Ship. 74. H.m.s. Victoria, First-class Battleship, 15 heavy guns, 21 quick-firing guns, 8 others, tons displacement, horse power, 588 officers and men (she is firing one of her 111-ton Guns). 75. The Search Light. 76. Disabling Field Gun. 77. N elson's Monument, Trafalgar Square. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Offering a unique perspective on dog training, a former Navy SEAL and trainer of military working dogs discusses the science behind gaining a companion dog's trust and achieving desired levels of canine obedience.
For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine, either to themselves or to the public at large. As neither a land-based organization like the Army nor an entirely sea-based one like the Navy, the Corps' missions overlapped with both institutions. This work argues that the Marine Corps could not and would not settle on a mission, and therefore it turned to an image to ensure its institutional survival. The process by which a maligned group of nineteenth-century naval policemen began to consider themselves to be elite warriors benefited from the active engagement of Marine officers with the Corps' historical record as justification for its very being. Rather than look forward and actively seek out a mission that could secure their existence, late nineteenth-century Marines looked backward and embraced the past. They began to justify their existence by invoking their institutional traditions, their many martial engagements, and their claim to be the nation's oldest and proudest military institution. This led them to celebrate themselves as superior to soldiers and sailors. Although there are countless works on this hallowed fighting force, How the Few Became the Proud is the first to explore how the Marine Corps crafted such powerful myths.
The ability to conduct a real-time conversation online has become a ubiquitous component of today's communications environment. Commonly referred to as chat or instant messaging, this mode of communication provides users with a format that facilitates multi-tasking conversation with other duties. Chat has also become a critical tool in military command and control, as evidenced by its extensive use during both Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). A recent survey of fleet users during OIF provided detailed information and insights about chat usage patterns and warfighter requirements for chat tools. The results revealed positive and negative issues related to chat use in an operational environment. Issues included the need to monitor multiple chat rooms simultaneously; the lack of consistent business rules; requirements for chat rooms with different access privileges; and requirements for chat histories. The ability to work near real-time with peers is perceived to be a tremendous boost to productivity and greatly facilitates communication, cooperation, and coordination. This paper discusses the results of the survey and highlights areas where human factors and technology interventions may be able to facilitate chat use within US military command and control.
Did I dream of becoming a Navy wife? No! Never! I wanted to stay in the safety of my own small town world like all the other post World War II couples I knew. But man proposes and God disposes so, dragging my feet, I encountered a frighteningly unfamiliar world whose terms and conditions were created by the United States Navy. I tip-toed into it reluctantly and only years later when my husband was retiring, did I come to realize how much the way of life had become a part of me, and how much I was going to miss it. The learning process was challenging. I never grew to love the weeks and months of loneliness, but I did learn to cope with it, and grew in the learning.
