The Bane…where coxswain’s dirtand seaman’s shirtsbrushed bawdily upon her chest…

Now comes the reign of iron — and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country

I fell in love with a sniper – a man whose basic training instills psychopathic tendencies. I loved a professional dehumanizer. I loved a man who lived in a world where empathy was suicide. I...

You do not mean there is danger of peace?”, cried Jack.

…It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to...

Honor, Courage, and Commitment.

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being “false,” “untrue,” yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.

We were sexual targets, marked as eternal sluts for exploring the desires only acceptable in men.

The world is a navy in an empty ocean.

I wanted to leave ‘Eight Is Enough’ for the Navy.

When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the...

Suddenly, the brave warriors parading to combat with bugles and bayonets were replaced by the push of a button.

I’ll have you understand the United States has got the best navy in the world.””Well, . . . why, then, do we need a bigger navy?””We’ve got to have a still bigger navy because we’re...

I phoned the Admiral back.’It’s no use, Admiral, the French speak nothing but French.’There was a short pause on the end of the line then his voice rattled into life like a sabre.’They’re lying, Tim!”What?”The...

I talked with the admiral’s staff. Military personnel are the worst, no disrespect intended. They clam up tighter than a bullfrog’s ass.

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of...

Thus was this expedition finished…after having, by its event, strongly evinced this important truth; that though prudence, intrepidity and perseverence united are not exempted from the blows of adverse fortune, yet in a long series...

And when you’re not partying in Vegas, what do you do?” she asked. “Prepare for your role as the next James Bond?””No, I don’t work alone.”She cocked her head as if trying to make sense...

We All Bleed RedWe have a confirmed threat against the homeland and I for one am grateful for the Americans sitting in the Army conference room in Fort Stewart, Georgia. The display cubes and screens...

Friendship is the best kind of ship.

He remembered the old-timers from his navy days. Grizzled lifers who could soundly sleep while two meters away their shipmates played a raucous game of poker or watched the vids with the volume all the...

I suddenly felt like the Grinch feels when he discovers what Chrismas is all about. For the first time in a long time, I felt like I had a purpose being in the Navy. It...

There is no honor in sending men to die for something you won’t even fight for yourself

Grant glanced down at his khaki jacket. Since he’d slipped on the US Navy uniform in Agent Bounter’s office, he’d felt a confident swagger possess him. His spine lengthened, and his shoulders retracted. He should’ve...

The reason we call ships “she” is that it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

You must be a light unto yourself.

Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I’m on parole, that I’m not really free.

As I’m smiling but fearing for the worse, he asks if I was in the Navy.”NO. THIS IS JUST MY HALLOWEEN COSTUME.””WELL, I WAS… FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS.”I don’t know whether he wants me to...

He walked straight out of college into the waiting arms of the Navy. They gave him an intelligence test. The first question on the math part had to do with boats on a river: Port...

Tom’s Navy SEAL team nicknamed him ‘Tailspin’, especially after sustaining his knee injury, but Joe likes to call him his ‘Lucky Charm’ — saved his tail too many times to count.

Do not wait and hope to be discovered…make yourself so you cannot be denied!

They Served…reliving memoriesthat will not diegiving their allfor you and I -friends takenlives shaken…

It was not about physical strength, Wit reminded himself. It was 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical. That’s what the SEAL instructors were looking for: men and women who could disregard the pleadings of the...

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