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"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her."
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"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."
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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
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"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."
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"Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assassination and ruthlessness and was therefore implicitly distrusted by the Tidhii Mah'k'hai (Naval Command, that is The Queen Of Suth Herself.) He was expected to mete out, in generous portions, brutality to conquered subjects and to act swiftly and mercilessly in dealing with alien encounters. In short, he was expected to be a bad example."
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"We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers."
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"So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before."
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"I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed."
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"We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater."
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"We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching."
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"JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military."
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"A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class."
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"You could tell that America was gearing up for war."
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"I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941."
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"The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale."
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"In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies."
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"The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4."
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"Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack."
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"Everybody knew that I could type pretty well."
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"My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did."
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"We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby."
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