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It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?


John Masefield


#being #coming #coming home #devilish #england

After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.


Harry Mathews


#after #finished #half #harvard #i

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.


Wendell Mayes


#case #know #little #navy #never

I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.


James A. Michener


#army #done #her #herself #i

Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake.


Sarah West


#challenge #command #definitely #fully #highlight

Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.


Camille Paglia


#army #because #believe #family #guard

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.


John L. Phillips


#always #astronaut #attended #based #because

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.


Dave Van Ronk


#brooklyn #grandfather #navy #uncle #worked

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.


Thomas Friedman


#bill #bought #enlisted #got #home

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.


Mark Kelly


#after #aircraft #applied #carrier #first






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