#navy

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

The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present. ↗

— Chris Kyle

#any #credits #kills #me #member

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21. ↗

— Rick Scott

#enlisted #first #i #man #navy

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#assistant #been #choose #could #died

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#anybody #because #business #confidence #dame

Trying to drown me woman?" 'You can't drown a SEAL,' she said. 'How embarrassing would that be?' 'God yes. Shoot me, hang me, let me die of infection from a hangnail, but don't let me die in the water. They'd send me to hell on principle. ↗

— Maya Banks

#military #navy-seals #humor