Word: naval
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...from a many different states at there were people, were given our first taste of the responsibilities and challenges that would face us as future officers of the United States Navy. And after that week, we would disperse from the Naval Education and Training Center in Newport, Rhode Island and arrive at our respective universities (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts and Harvard) and begin our studies as freshmen, class...
Although I cannot speak for the entire battalion, and especially not the Navy as a whole, I can share my experienced with the Naval Reserve Officer Training Crop and my experiences as a student at this University. I visited the United States Naval Academy in June of 1990, and stayed there for a week. I attended classes with other participants in this program ate meals in King Hall with Academy midshipmen and slept in Bancroft Hall, the largest single dormitory in the country--4,400 students under one roof with miles of corridors...
Admiral Frank B. Kelso II, Chief of Naval Operations, announced that he would retire two months early, in April, in exchange for an official tribute from the Pentagon meant to clear him of wrongdoing in the Tailhook scandal. Earlier this month, a Navy judge dismissed the last three Navy Tailhook cases on the grounds that they had been tainted by Kelso's efforts to conceal his knowledge of the affair...
...fact, his legacy is a Navy still straining to accommodate women, homosexuals and members of racial minorities. At the same time, the Navy's reputation has been battered by the investigations into Tailhook and cheating by midshipmen at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. Some naval officers and military experts note that the Navy's recent problems have come under a series of chiefs -- from James Watkins in 1982 to Carlisle Trost in 1986 to Kelso -- who arose from the aloof and secretive submarine fleet. Submarine commanders usually are trained as engineers and are not renowned for their people skills. Presiding...
Early speculation was that President Clinton would name Admiral Jeremy ("Mike") Boorda, a surface-warfare officer, as CNO. Unlike all 24 CNOs who came before, Boorda, a high school dropout, never attended the Naval Academy. As the Navy personnel chief from 1988 to 1991, he drafted a plan that allowed the Navy, unlike other services, to shrink dramatically without firing personnel. But an Administration official said Saturday that Clinton might prefer to keep Boorda in his sensitive Naples post, where he has been planning the possible NATO bombing campaign against the Serbs. If so, the next CNO is likely...