The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.
It was very strange, because my father [ Erwin Rommel] received the first call at seven o'clock in the morning. And [Hans] Speidel told my father, "I will call you up in one hour when I see more clearly what's going on. " After an hour, Speidel said, "Yes, the landing took place in Normandy. " And the German Navy had told my father that it was too stormy. And that the British and the Americans and the French can't come. And my father believed him.
I wanted to join the navy to get some perspective on the world and explore.
Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.
There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.
It has been more than 30 years since this disgraceful episode occurred, and I believe that the United States government should demand the return of the USS Pueblo to the United States Navy without further delay.
Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.
I am the son and grandson of Navy admirals, and I was born into America's service. It wasn't until I was deprived of her company that I fell in love with America.
In view of the result of attained at the Washington Treaty which, my advisors believe, guarantee peace in the Pacific for some time to come, it is proposed to reduce the establishment of the navy and army, and postpone the expansion of the air force.
Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?
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?
That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.
The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.
If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
I left home at 14 and I have friends who joined the navy and the army performing troops at 9. I know people [like that]. It's a very straightforward character.
The United States Navy carries the might and the mission of America to the farthest parts of the world.
I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.
I went to the surplus store on Santa Monica and Vine (in Los Angeles) and went and got me a Navy outfit, put the black tape under my eyes. I got me a whistle and went in there with a hat looking like a full-on drill sergeant.