Word: sailorful
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...This is the best goddam drill the Army Air Force has ever put on," remarked an Arizona sailor standing idly at the battleship's rail...
...Navy prides itself on its fighting spirit, but down in San Diego they've got a little too much. Some sailors have apparently been joining Southern California gangs, prompting Admiral Robert Kelly to order an investigation. Crews from rival warships have brawled. In August a sailor was wounded in a drive-by shooting at an enlisted men's club. The Navy has asked San Diego police for help in identifying gang members...
...unfortunately they are often the objects of scorn and abuse. As wrong as that is, it is just what we call human nature, and it will take time for attitudes to change. I do not question their patriotism, dedication or ability to serve--but the perception that the average sailor, airman or infantry man has of them because of their sexual preference makes them a target of derision and therefore a potential liability in a position of command. Those who have never stood a bridge watch in wartime can have little concept of how important trust and respect...
Though Columbus was already a first-rate practical sailor, his idea of the unexplored Atlantic was formed as much by books as by navigation: writings of the ancients (Pliny, Strabo and especially Ptolemy), medieval cosmographers, collections of "marvels." These gave him a framework in which to sell his plans to patrons: his letters to Ferdinand and Isabella, King and Queen of Spain, begging their patronage for the "Enterprise of the Indies," are full of appeals to the authority of older writers...
...Bellinger, the publisher, is the man who organized the 1985 blockade of the Mississippi River to free a Ukrainian sailor who had twice tried to defect to the U.S. by jumping ship. Alas, Bellinger's nautical skills far outstrip his editorial talents: Between the Lines is a disappointingly bland affair that lacks the right-wing vitriol of Accuracy in Media or the brass and savvy of the publications put out by the Media Research Center. A recent issue featured the entire text of a George Bush speech that the national media had unforgivably failed to reprint verbatim...