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  • AFP/Getty Images Indian navy cadets during the Navy Day celebrations in Mumbai, Dec. 4, 2010.

    India in Pictures 2010

  • He also had me change such things as officers running to battle stations German navy officers are instructed to never, ever run, and he corrected something I never would have thought of: German Navy officers never clicked their heels when receiving orders as did German army men.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • ENS.GN TIMOTHY GORMAN, U.S. NAVY: Of any ship in the Navy, this is one ship where you can really be proud of your mission and remember on a daily basis of why we're here and why the ship is so special.

    CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2009 2009

  • It's one thing to endure harsh navy life, but to endure it, then spend time on Tahiti, then go back to harsh Navy life might have been too much for Christian and the crew.

    Captain Bligh: Bad Economist or Bad Psychologist?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • He also had me change such things as officers running to battle stations German navy officers are instructed to never, ever run, and he corrected something I never would have thought of: German Navy officers never clicked their heels when receiving orders as did German army men.

    Charles McCain author of "An Honorable German" - Loaded Questions Author Interview 2009

  • Moments later, he and the navy trainees were faced with a mock crisis: A blaze had broken out in the engine room of a Navy warship and had spread to the mess hall.

    Ahoy, Billionaires: 2008

  • According to Lt.Cmdr. Betsy Bird, a navy spokeswoman in Honolulu, another Belleau Wood seaman, Navy Airman Charles E. Vins, has pleaded guilty on lesser charges in exchange for testifying against Helvey.

    A Grisly Murder Mystery 2008

  • On Malpelo, 6 soldiers at the navy post warn off intruders by radio and a Navy boat patrols every month.

    Malpelo Island Flora and Fauna Sanctuary, Colombia 2008

  • A Soweto-born navy officer will on Friday become the second black person to assume the command of a major South African warship, the Navy said on Thursday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • S.NIOR CHIEF DAVID NAGLE, U.S. NAVY: The Navy divers are specially trained to penetrate wreckage like this.

    CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2007 2007

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