Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diplomatic relations with Turkey were broken off in 1917. Since 1919 Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol (as High Commissioner) has represented the U. S. with great firmness but with warm sympathy toward Turkey. He will this autumn relieve Admiral Clarence S. Williams as commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet...
That the southern coast of New England could not be successfully invaded by troops landed from a hostile fleet was the conclusion reached after the completion of last week's War Game between the United States Fleet under Admiral Charles F. Hughes and defending land forces under Major General Preston Brown. Theoretically, the invading fleet, known as the Blacks, with transports bearing 75,000 troops, reduced coast defense forts and landed some 20,000 men. But the defending army, known as the Blues, concentrated superior forces against the Black landing troops, prevented them from advancing inshore, dominated the situation...
...destroyer division- in which case, for the duration of the game, this destroyer is accepted as representing an entire division of its kind. In the same way, a company of infantry may have a constructive strength equal to a regiment. Thus the 75,000 troops with the Black fleet were largely constructive. In the second place, the results of an action are decided by umpires. In the New England game, for instance, the cruiser Concord was "sunk" by the battleship Pennsylvania. What happened was that the Concord, lightly armored, chanced to get in range of the Pennsylvania...
...Fairly early in the afternoon I saw a fleet of fishing boats. . . . On one of them I saw some men and flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool...
...happened to be the latter event staged by a battalion from the United States Ship Florida, the fastest battleship in our fleet since it recently attained the terrific speed of 22.32 knots a record for battleships in the United States Navy. Invading Soldiers Field, 350 men strong, the battalion quickly prepared for the exercises which served the double purpose of perfecting it in the open order of drill of which it had but a slight taste recently in Guantanamo and of acquainting Naval Science students in the University with a first hand knowledge of the tactics and manocuvres...