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From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.


Russ Carnahan


#broad #coast #defense #duties #guard

The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats.


John C. Stennis


#aircraft #around #cooperation #defending #demonstrating

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.


Van Morrison


#back #belfast #blues #club #doing

The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?


Kathleen Valentine


#maritime #maritime-stories #romance #love

Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.


Candice S. Miller


#great #great lakes #harbors #lakes #least

I phoned the Admiral back. 'It's no use, Admiral, the French speak nothing but French.' There was a short pause on the end of the line then his voice rattled into life like a sabre. 'They're lying, Tim!' 'What?' 'The French Navy must by law speak English, as English is the international maritime language of the sea.' 'Has anyone told the French that?' The line went dead for a moment before he thundered, 'Yes Nelson. At the battle of Trafalgar.' I tried to stifle an irresistibly British giggle not knowing if the Admiral was making a joke or not. I got it right. He was serious.


Tim FitzHigham


#french-navy #humour #language #maritime #nautical

With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)...


Garcilaso de la Vega


#oceans #sailing #sea #experience

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.


Bernhard von Bulow


#decision #definite #doubtless #english #even

The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.


Russ Carnahan


#authorization #citizens #coast #coast guard #country






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