US Navy

After Germany was defeated in World War I, she was in the rubble. The Weimar Republic barley provided any good for the German people. Germany had never been any worse in it's history and almost everything was stripped. A huge factor to this was the international bankers in Germany at the time. Most of them, if not all of them, were Jewish and they run on Jewish ideals. A couple of years before Hitler came to power, the Germans had great fear their beloved country was no longer going to exist. Hitler addressed the Jewish question to his people, and so the German people elected him for chancellor. It was not until President Paul von Hindenburg died when Hitler became the Fueher.

And propaganda did help the German people believe that the Jews were bad. It's not surprising to me. Propaganda exists in EVERY country. Always has been, always will be.

Statistics in the US military seems to show that there is a 40 percent higher mortality rate for enlisted service men versus officers. There are exceptions to this finding. US Army lieutenants have a 19 percent higher death rate than all the rest of the US Army troops combined. It is also a known fact that a US Marine lieutenant is 11 percent more likely to be killed than the regular US Marine troops.

there are exactly 1 million currently

This is completely incorrect. There are only about 1.4 million personnel TOTAL in the armed forces. There are about 300 officers who have attained the rank of GENERAL.

there are exactly 1 million currently There are 39 active military four star rank officers in US military. These positions are restricted by law. The most out of place four star officer is actually in the Public Health Service. The rest are in the actual military, to include the Coast Guard.

Is is an acronym that means:

C = Carrier

V = Vessel

N = Nuclear

Actually, it's not technically an acronym. The U.S. navy assigns letter designations to different types of ships, which nominally have some reference to the description of that class, but they're not acronyms. Prefix and suffix letters are then added which indicate special characteristics - e.g. the suffix "G" usually means "Guided Missile", while the suffix "N" refers to nuclear propulsion, with the prefix "X" being assigned to experimental or prototype vessels.

For example, the U.S. Navy designation for Destroyers is "DD", while the old system used two different designations for Cruiser: CA (nominally from "Cruiser, Armored") for Heavy Cruiser, and CL (nominally, "Cruiser, Light").

So, "CVN" indicates an aircraft carrier (designation "CV") that has nuclear propulsion (suffix "N").

Note that the U.S. Navy has changed the designation system several times in the past 150 years, so the exact meaning of a designation depends on the time period when the ship was in use (as, a ship may change designation several times over its career).

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Non-Commissioned Officers, or Noncoms/NCO's (Petty Officers in the Navy & Coast Guard, Sergeants in the other branches) form the backbone of the Navy. Though Chief Petty Officers (senior NCO's) are considered the "backbone", realistically all PO's are essential to Navy operations. They are the Supervisors, Teachers to both junior enlisted and junior commissioned officers, the ones who repair and maintain ship equipment, schedule work, etc. Without Petty Officers, the Navy could not function.

Unlike the other branches, Navy and Coast Guard Petty Officers are given a lot of responsibility, typically more than the other services. The Marines are a Naval component, so their Sergeants typically hold as much responsibility as their Sailor equivalents.

Petty Officers in the Navy or Non-coms in other services having special warfare qualifications typically advance faster also. Under the program I enlisted under in '79, I became a 3rd Class upon graduation from Sonar Basic Training. Just 2 years later, as a qualified Submariner, I was a 2nd class. 3½ years after that, and I was a 1st Class, all within 6 years. A clerical oversight found some time later revealed that I should've been advanced after my first test a year prior to my actual advancement, but it wasn't caught in time.

By comparison, the Air Force have NCO's that retire at E-5 after 20 years, or the equivalent of a 2nd class Petty Officer in the Navy.

Petty Officers, like Commissioned Officers, must meet certain requirements for promotion. Besides passing the rating test for the next Rank (a test for your particular Rating, or job), you must also have the recommendations of your supervising Enlisted and Commissioned Officers, Performance Evaluation marks above average or superior, and typically have contributed to the ship and its mission in some meaningful fashion. You must also not have been in any trouble.

For those sailors in certain naval warfare specialties (e.g., Submarine, SpecOps, Surface, Air Warfare), qualification in those specialties goes a long way toward advancement.

Though there are several established Petty Officer ranks from E-4 to E-9, there are other ranks within those that are considered senior. For example, on board a submarine, the Chief of the Boat (COB) is the Senior Enlisted rank onboard. Even if he is a Senior Chief (E-8) in rank, if a Master Chief is aboard the same boat (E-9) the COB still outranks him as the Senior member by appointed position and title.

Other equivalents in the Fleet are Command Master Chiefs, though they typically are E-9's. However, even if another E-9 is Senior to the CMC by time in rank and service, the CMC is still senior by position and authority granted.

I can honestly say that being a Senior Petty Officer on board my own boat was one of the best experiences of my career. Much of what I have achieved in my life and career is due to the experience gained during that time of my life. Had I not been medically forced from the Submarine Service, and with it my career, I would have stayed in and retired.

When I got stationed on the Seattle in October of 1989 The captain was James K. Tolbert. He was relieved by Captain Wilbur C. Trafton who was then relieved by Captain Craig Honour. The final Captain that I had onboard the Seattle was Captain Gerald Hoewing. I left the Seattle in 1993.

The Difference between the Navy and the Navy Reserves is that Navy is Active duty. This means that naval personnel belong to, work for, and get paid by the Navy 24 hours a day.

Navy Reserve personnel are civilians most of the time. They work for the navy 1 weekend a month and 2 weeks out of the year. The rest of the time they lead what ever life they want. The Navy reserves is like the US Navy's savings account of personnel. When they do not have enough people to support a mission, they call navy reserve personnel to active duty to fill in the gaps. Naval Officers commissioned through the NROTC program may receive their commission into the Naval Reserve or the regular Navy. Those in the reserves will serve on active duty for four to six years before being transferred to a reserve unit near where they are going to live.

While there are those who go directly to the Naval Reserve right out of BT, the vast majority of Reservists (myself included) are, or were, active duty Navy sailors at some point, most being either officers or NCO's.

Individual Reservists can also be called to Temporary Active Duty, in lieu of an entire unit. This is done in cases where the sailor has unique skills or qualifications necessary for the mission requirements.

US Sailors stationed on the gunline off the North & South Vietnamese coast are safe from the agent's effects. However, US Sailors assigned to the US Navy's Brown Water Navy might have had brushes with the agent. The Brown Water Navy's Riverine Forces which utilized the Swift Boats and PBR's, along with Alpha Boats & Monitors, operated in nearly every narrow and shallow muddy waterway in South Vietnam...as their boats COULD go there. And all of that vegetation had been subject to spraying.

The original transport of the agent was by sea, although some photographs depict 55 gallon steel drums being unloaded from what appears to be US Naval vessels. The US military employed massive amounts of US and other nation's civilians during the war; these were then and are still called today, contract or chartered operations.

Blue Water Navy/Brown Water Navy but what about the Navy in between the two and that is the USS Repose (AH-16) and USS Sanctuary (AH-17) the two hospital ships operating off the shores of Vietnam. DaNang, Quang Tri/Hue, China Beach. We were there we were exposed to AO and we are treated like second class citizens. The corpsmen routinely were patient handlers unloading wounded Marines, Soldiers and Sailors with fresh battle wounds being exposed by contact with the uniforms and gear of those we rushed to triage and life saving doctors. There were times so many wounded came in that the ships crew were also patient handlers. Just thought I would update your history.

Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare was born in the Malem Village of Wabag in Enga Province

The USS Lexington's was about 888 feet long (Lex was sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea).

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A CM 2 is a Construction Mechanic - the CM is for the rate designation, the 2 is for the Petty Officer (NCO) rank level, which in this case is a Petty Officer 2nd Class. The enlisted pay rate is E-5.

CM's are responsible for repairing and maintaining heavy construction equipment of all types (bulldozers, dump trucks, etc.). They are one of several rates that comprise the Navy's Construction Battalion (SeaBees) force.

The copper sheath and fasteners for the USS Constitution was supplied by the Revere Copper Company in Canton, Massachusetts. It was America's first rolled-copper mill, and was started in 1801 by Paul Revere.

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The entire Pacific Fleet of the US Navy has never been sunk. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1942, just over 50% of the ships assigned to the Pacific Command were sunk. Throughout WWII, many ships were sunk, some the original ships from the Pacific, some that came over from the Atlantic. The US, so far, has not suffered true defeat at the hands of any foe.

Rather than type a long answer - see the related link from Wikipedia for their entry on a gyro-compass.

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It is an approximately six month long deployment by a navy ship in the WESTern PACific.

Side scan sonar uses sonar to map the the ground below by emitting continuous sonar pulses while moving. The sound continuously reflects back to the system's receiver, which creates an image based on the energy of the signal received, where darker points in the image match things protruding from the ground and lighter spots indicate where there is nothing. It does not measure the depth. Side scan sonar is usually towed behind the vessel using it. Multibeam sonar is similar to side scan sonar, except that it is attached to the vessel (rather than being towed) and measures the time difference between sound emission and reception, rather than the energy of the incoming sound waves. Thus, it measures depth instead of making a picture.

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That is a cafeteria onboard ship or on a Navy land base for Chief Petty Officers to eat. Chiefs are very powerful non-commissioned officers, so they rate (ha-ha) the perc of having their own mess. (Cafeteria)

By tonnage The oasis of the seas by length the oasis of the seas. so cruise ship but a nimitz class could easily destroy a cruise ship