I was stationed at Quonset Point in 1959-1961. My rank was AE3 I worked in weight and balance area. After the aircraft was rebuilt we would weigh the aircraft. I had many friends in the civilian work staff. I never realized the base was closed until a few years ago. I look forward...
While partially true, this is a misconception. The PLAN has, and displays, a rank system comparable to our British Royal Navy-derived structure. The PLAN officer’s rank, however, is not the indicator of hierarchy in the PLA. It is, instead, the positional grade or zhiwu dengji of the o...
Captain 1st Rank Roman Martov, the head of the information support department of the Pacific Ocean Fleet, said on Wednesday that the units of Pacific Fleet ships comprising the missile cruiser Varyag, the sea tow-boat SB-22, and the tanker Boris Butoma are heading from the Pacific Ocean to...
The Mess President is normally the President of the dinner, although any officer or member could be called upon to act as President. There is no rank at a Mess Dinner, so the President presides over all diners regardless of rank, seniority or classification. During the dinner the President ...
Matthew C. Perry was a U.S. naval officer who headed an expedition that forced Japan in 1853–54 to enter into trade and diplomatic relations with the West after more than two centuries of isolation. Through his efforts, the United States became an equal
a mine countermeasuresvessel, between 1993 and 1994. In his last years of active duty, he worked in London for the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Navy. He retired in 2001 with the rank of commander but maintained his naval affiliation, reaching the honorary rank of vice admiral in 2015...
King had been promoted to the rank of fleet admiral in 1944. The post of commander in chief of the U.S. fleet was abolished at war’s end, and King relinquished the post of chief of naval operations to Nimitz in December 1945. His memoirs, cowritten with Walter Muir Whitehill, were ...
Hyman G. Rickover was an American naval officer and engineer who developed the world’s first nuclear-powered engines and the first atomic-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, launched in 1954. He then went on to supervise plans for harnessing nuclear en
To give authenticity to his writing, Morison undertook numerous voyages himself, sailed the ocean routes followed by Columbus, and during wartime served on 12 ships as a commissioned officer in the Naval Reserve. By the time of his retirement from the navy in 1951, he had reached the rank ...
Due to his seniority in rank, Fletcher would have overall tactical command, but he granted Spruance significant operational latitude. This was fortunate, as Spruance was arguably the finest American naval commander of the war. The flight of the Devastators As the attack on Midway was unfolding,...