US Navy

Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove ended in 2011.

The Navy - Washington - was created in 1907.

I have one as well and can find no info on it anywhere.

HMCS Cayuga

OIC means Officer in Charge. It is typically used for temporary assignments or situations. The Senior Officer on site during an emergency will be the OIC.

yes ofcourse !

"ABC" refers to the American-British-Canadian agreement during WWII for naval strategic cooperation. Fleet assets from each nation's Navy were combined as needed for escort or other duties.

There are many applications / systems in the Navy that use coordinate planes, but the most common are target tracking (e.g., SONAR & RADAR), navigation, plotting, fire control (weapons systems), trajectory plotting, and post-operational analysis. For post-op analysis, that involves recreating the tactical situation from the recorded plots and navigational information taken during the mission.

its Will Smith

Navy Personnel records are now kept at the National Archives - there are several ways to request, but you can get the best information at the EVetRec Records Copy Request site of of the Archives. Go to this link:

http://www.archives.gov/veterans/evetrecs/ Firstly, you write an application to your competent authority reflecting the reasons of requirement to obtain photocopies of your peronal file, if you are retired one. If rule permits,you will be provided.

There is no Navy rate or rank "SW"; SW is a warfare specialty designation that stands for Surface Warfare, or one who has completed qualifications for the SW badge. It's equivalent to a submariner's dolphins badge, or an aviator's wings.

Yes when I was in the navy in 1974 they did. 1 star didn't exist, except in text books as a battlefield promotion to commodore. Didn't happen during V. Nam.

There are 3 levels of qualifications in the Navy. Marksman, Sharpshooter, and Expert.

It makes the uniform look neat, but could also have to do with there being 13 original colonies.

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Steve Mcmallian

a non commissioned officer, check dictionary.com for more words.

I'm not sure what you mean by last gun but the guns he used in his last movie The Shootist were called Great Westerns. Most of the guns he uses in his films were from his private collection. The Great Westerns were historically accurate for the time period that The Shootist was filmed in. Wayne had an extensive gun collection, most of them rare antiques which I think went to his oldest son Michael after his death for safekeeping.

Engraved diver's knifes

Roger Staubach played for the US Naval academy- then years later- went pro- he had to fulfill a mandatory four-year tour as a commissioned officer in the Navy- quite apart from military requirements, this reason alone is why few (Major Leaguers or NFL types) came out of the Service academies. Staubach is the only one I can think of. I do not know if the Army"s Davis and Blanchard ever went pro- they were, in Gold and Black- known as the Touchdown Twins.

No, not likely. Hypothetically, the HMS Hood battle cruiser would have had the better chance to defeat a USS Texas class battleship. The Hood was completed in 1920 and the Texas was completed in 1914. The Hood's design, structural integrity & armor took into account the valuable lessons learned at the 1916 naval Battle of Jutland. The Texas was an early dreadnought design. The Hood carried eight 15"/42 guns as the main battery that fired 1,938 lb shells. The Texas carries ten 14"/45 guns as the main battery firing 1,500 lb shells. The Hood had a faster rate of fire for the main battery. Also the Hood was significantly faster at full speed than the Texas (31 kts versus 21 kts). The Hood had better armor protection overall. The Texas did have slightly better deck protection than the Hood (the Hood's fatal weakness that led to her destruction in May 1941). The Hood's higher speed in combat would have made it much more difficult for the Texas to hit it, and the slower Texas would have been conversely easier to hit by the Hood. The Texas would have done very well against enemy ships in the First World War, however advances in technology & ship design (based on actual combat experiences) after World War One were significant. Even so, the HMS Hood was eventually itself outclassed by the later fast battleships of the 1930's & 40's.

Boatswain Mates are part of the Deck Division. They stand watches at the helm and lookouts. They are responsible for the outside of the ship. They also maintain the small boats and top side equipment as well as provide boat crews.

The first Black chief of police for the NYPD was David Scott. David Scott was elected chief of police in 1991.

I'm not sure of the 2009 figures but back in May 1805 there were 144 Admirals consisting of 46 Admirals, 36 Vice Admirals and 62 Rear Admirals.