aRoyal Australian Navy divers and divers from Mobile Diving and Salvage (MDSU) 1 conduct small arms training at Ewa Beach, Hawaii, during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2012 multinational exercise. 22 nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel ...
& of the Universal Ardor he perceived throughout all Ranks of the Army of discharging their Duty with Spirit & conduct – A Return of the Killed, Wounded, taken prisoner by the Enemy, & Missing to be given in tomorrow at orderly time – A Working Party of a Field Officer, 2 Capns. ...
Owing to this historical prominence, it is common, even among non-Britons, to refer to it as "the Royal Navy" without qualification. Following World War I, it was significantly reduced in size,[7] although at the onset of World War II it was still the world's largest. During the Cold...
Planning for an orderly transition to a peacetime structure was thrown into disarray by postwar cuts that shrunk RCN ranks to fewer than 6,500 by April 1946. The navy’s near collapse was characterized by a series of “incidents” in the late winter of 1949 when sailors in thedeployeddestroy...