Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battleship Tennessee, had died of a sinus infection on the hospital ship Relief. Significance- Naval maneuvers have a way of firing the imagination of otherwise level-headed journalists and Exercise M proved to be no exception. "The most impressive and important maneuvers ever conducted by the U. S. battle fleet," breathlessly reported a United Press correspondent, "have demonstrated that the Panama Canal can be captured or destroyed by an enemy fleet and that a Japanese-American naval war under present conditions is virtually impossible. ... In demonstrating that the canal could be taken, it was proven also that the cost would...
Policy. As erroneous as the Press's interpretation of the Fleet's exercises is the public conception of the reason for the Fleet's recall from the Pacific to the Atlantic. To most laymen, Naval Policy is a secret code formulated by a few admirals in Washington who spend their days hankering for war. There is nothing mysterious or alarming about U. S. Naval Policy. Any citizen, if he likes, can have a copy of it, signed by Secretary Swanson, and printed in bold type on a single sheet of paper 2 ft. square to hang...
...matter of national policy, President Hoover sent the Fleet to the Pacific when war loomed in the Orient three years ago. The Navy was glad to go, not because it was itching for a fight, but because the Fleet trains better on the Pacific where the climate is milder and exercise grounds superior. Also for training purposes the Navy prefers to keep the Scouting and Battle Forces together no matter where they are based. No football coach works the backfield out on one field, the line on another. During the remainder of the Hoover regime the Fleet was kept...
...Fleet was returned to the Atlantic largely because President Roosevelt wanted the East to get the commercial benefit at least until late autumn of its $1,000,000 monthly payroll. As Commanders-in-Chief, most Presidents run the Navy only nominally, mak-ing appointments and issuing orders only as their Secretaries of the Navy may require. President Roosevelt, however, runs the Navy in fact. At first his election was viewed by the Navy with alarm. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels came close to wrecking the service's esprit and morale with his politics and naval men recalled that...
...design but largely by chance, Admiral Reeves becomes the first air man to command the Fleet. Usually the Battle Force commander, who will be Admiral Brumby when Admiral Reeves moves up, succeeds to the post of Commander-in-Chief. But Admiral Reeves's appointment does demonstrate the new cohesion between the Navy's air force and its sea fleet. During the Hoover Administration naval aviation was constantly being thrust forward as a unique fighting arm by ambitious, energetic David Sinton Ingalls, just as military aviation was being spotlighted by F. Trubee Davison. President Roosevelt abolished these young zealots...