Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Margaret has not. I don't say Margaret would ever have made such a good Queen. But she could have been brought up very differently. Elizabeth, thank God, married the right man, himself brought up in the navy, and has an eldest son who is also a professional naval officer...
Secondly, unlike his mother, who succeeded when she was 25 and, as the wife of a naval officer, was constantly abroad and not in touch with state affairs, Charles is able to talk with Prime Ministers and ministers with considerable background knowledge. Thus he's gradually gaining experience of a sort none of his recent predecessors...
...last year, Charles was elected to the Royal Navy Club, which had been founded in 1775. To be a member, you have got to be a commander, captain or admiral who has commanded one of Her Majesty's ships. At the Silver Jubilee dinner in the splendiferous Naval Navigational School, H.M.S. Dryad, 200 senior officers were around the table when Charles got up to make the keynote speech. He said: "I'm the youngest person here. I've just come from sea to tell you that very few of you, if any, know what my generation...
...Vice Admiral Robert Coogan, commander of the Naval Air Force in the Pacific, insists that today's sailors "are not spoiled brats and we are not mollycoddling them." He admits, however, that "there is a lack of immediate obedience. It is thus more difficult to be a commanding officer...
...Washington, the most intriguing aspect of the episode was the apparent sloppiness of Soviet air defenses on the Kola Peninsula, the site of a large naval base (at Murmansk) and important missile installations. The high-flying (35,000 ft.) Korean 707 should have been spotted by Soviet radar when it was as many as 500 miles offshore. Yet it not only flew unchallenged through the 200-mile-wide air defense zone that the Soviets maintain off their shores, but charged along for at least 18 minutes over Russian territory before fighters intercepted...