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U.S. Navy photograph by Dan Dodd, PHC, USN

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U.S. Navy photograph by Dad Dodd, PHC, USN

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"The Old Navy". Image of oil painting by R. F. Zogbaum which was based on the original photograph taken in 1888 aboard the USS Mohican. From the USNA museum.

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An unidentified U.S. Navy Sailor poses for the cameria in this photograph from the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War images at the Library of Congress.

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'It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise." (Eric Hoffer, 1902-83)// The year is believed to be 1967, but even that is uncertain. The location could best be determined by the stationing of the ships in the background at that time. The USS Preble, the USS Halsey, The USS King, and the USS Macdonough.. The who and why are simply unknown and left to the viewer to hear the noise. Featured in the January 2008 issue of Proceedings magazine.

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'Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.' (Peter Drucker, 1909-2005).// The bridge of the USS Newark, most likely between 1891-93, presents a very workmanlike and professional scene. With the exception of the single Bluejacket at left, all other eyes are focused on the task at hand. No doubt the commanding officer - perhaps Captain Silas Casey Jr. - standing at right, would tolerated nothing less. Featured in April 2009 Proceedings magazine.

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110310-N-DX615-069 PEARL HARBOR (March 10, 2011) The son of Chief Information Systems Technician Jess Eisele wears his fatherÕs cover during a celebration for the arrival for the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) at Pearl Harbor for a port visit. Abraham Lincoln is returning to homeport in Everett, Wash., after a six-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Alan Gragg/Released)

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100701-N-5476H-001 PEARL HARBOR (July 1, 2010) The daughter of Lt. Cmdr. Terry Fellows pins a new collar device on her fatherÕs uniform during a promotion ceremony at Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael Hight/Released)

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Lone sailor looks aft from a launch circa 1942-1945.

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U.S. Navy photograph by Dad Dodd, PHC, USN

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090706-N-6538W-214 SAN DIEGO, Calif. (July 6, 2009) The daughter of Chief Aviation Structural Mechanic Kevin Sheppard from Lemoore, Calif. waits at the gate outside the pier to the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) for her father. John C. Stennis pulled into San Diego, Calif. to offload Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9 prior to heading back to homeport in Bremerton, Wash. John C. Stennis is returning from a scheduled six-month deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Walter M. Wayman/ Released)

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110405-N-DD445-017 MAYPORT, Fla. (April 5, 2011) A little girl waits for her dad as the guided-missile frigate USS Doyle (FFG 39) returns to homeport after a six-month deployment to the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean. While deployed Doyle conducted counter-narcoterrorism missions and made port visits to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sunday Williams/Released)

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090525-N-8547M-090 HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan (MAY 25, 2009) Master-at-Arms 1st Class Alex Roelofs, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5, raises the national Ensign to half mast on Memorial Day. NMCB-5 is deployed to Afghanistan supporting the NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and is a Naval Expeditionary Combat Command warfighting support element providing host nation construction support and security. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Patrick W. Mullen III/Released)

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100531-N-0506A-102 WASHINGTON (May 31, 2010) A sailor assigned to the U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard holds the national ensign beside the Lone Sailor statue during a Memorial Day wreath-laying ceremony at the U.S. Navy Memorial. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jesse B. Awalt/Released)

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Photo shows female yeomen in full dress uniform being inspected by Rear Admiral Victor Blue on the Washington Monument grounds, Washington, D.C., 1918.

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'It is always fair sailing when you escape evil.' (Sophocles, 497-406 B.C.)// An unknown sailor ponders his fog-shrouded ship as she is prepared for the next voyage. Featured in January 2009 Proceedings magazine.

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A photographer's mate/diver is harnessed to the hull of the nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine USS Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624) as he videotapes Navy SEAL team members during lock-out procedures off the coast of Puerto Rico, September, 1991. Photo taken by PHC(DV) Mark Reinhard.

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Navy commissioned its first African American line officers at the Great Lakes, Illinois, Naval Training Station. The group included 12 ensigns and a warrant officer and were collectively known as the Golden Thirteen. For more on this group, see The Golde

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Circa 1967 photograph of lone sailor with DLG's in the background. Photo taken by Robert D. Moeser.

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Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, JR. eating Thanksgiving dinner with the crew of the USS New Jersey, November 30, 1944.

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080822-N-9689V-001 CHUUK STATE, Federated States of Micronesia (Aug. 22, 2008) A Sailor assigned to the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) lowers the national ensign during evening colors at sunset, signaling the end of the Mercy's first day in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Mercy will operate in FSM to perform humanitarian civic assistance missions in an effort to build the relationship between FSM and the United States during Pacific Partnership 2008. Pacific Partnership is a four-month humanitarian mission to Southeast Asia intended to build collaborative relationships by providing engineering, civic, medical and dental assistance to the region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joshua Valcarcel/Released)

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An injection of intravenous fluid is given by Hospitalman Leslie G. Osterman to a Marine injured by shrapnel in Vietnam. USN photograph taken by PH3 T.B. Davis,

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Commanding Officer sights through a periscope in his submarine's control room, 1943.

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U.S. Navy Chaplain, LCDR Joseph O'Callahan is shown administering last rites to an injured crewman aboard the USS Franklin (CV-13) after she was struck by two armor-piercing bombs from a Japanese dive bomber on March 19, 1945. Chaplain O'Callahan received the medal of honor for his heroic actions onboard.

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'No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main...' (John Donne, 1572-1631)// This idyllic scene, taken some time before November 1935, off Diamond Head, Hawaii, portends little of what the fates have in store for either the Sailors of the ships in the distance. There is little to tell the aircraft carriers apart. They are the sisters Lexington (CV-2) and Saratoga (CV-3). Featured in the May 2008 issue of Proceedings magazine.

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041023-N-4166B-041 Pacific Ocean (Oct. 23, 2004) - Pilots aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), assemble on the bow of the ship as the sunsets on the western Pacific Ocean. The Lincoln and Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2) are currently deployed to the Western Pacific Ocean. Carrier Strike Group Nine (CSG-9) is the first to be used in the Surge Role in support of the Chief of Naval Operations Fleet Response Plan (FRP). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Jordon R. Beesley (RELEASED)

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'When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.' (Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)// Sailors begin work to spread the awning on the forecastle of the USS Pennsylvania (BB-39). At the time, in late 1937, she was the Combined Fleet flagship. Featured in March 2009 Proceedings magazine.

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080829-N-8848T-907 NEWPORT, R.I. (Aug. 29, 2008) Ensign Brandon Boyles, from Charleston, S. C., receives a first salute from his Drill Instructor Gunnery Sgt. Sandra Center. Boyles was one of more than 40 officer candidates to graduate from Officer Candidate School (OCS). Chief of Naval Personnel, Vice Adm. Mark E. Ferguson III, was the reviewing officer and keynote speaker at the ceremony. He was also a speaker and participant at a ribbon cutting rededication ceremony for the main training facility of OCS, Callaghan Hall. The $9.2 million two-year renovation project of the 30-year-old building will now be a state-of-the-art facility for training present and future Navy officers. (U.S. Navy photo by Scott A. Thornbloom/Released)

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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE U.S. NAVY NURSE CORPS. Originally established by an Act of Congress on May 13, 1908, the first contingent of 20 nurses reported in October of that year for duty at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Washington, DC. This is a photograph of the original group of Navy Nurses. Front row: Mary R. Du Bose, Adah M. Pendleton, Elizabeth M. Hewitt, Della V. Knight, J. Beatrice Bowman, Lenah S. Higbee, Esther V. Hasson (First Superintendent of Nurses), Martha E. Pringle, Elizabeth J. Wells, Sara B. Myer, and Clare L. De Ceu. Back Row: Elizabeth Leonhardt, Estelle Hine, Ethel R. Parsons, Florence T. Milburn, Boniface T. Small, Victoria White, Isabel Rose Ray, Margaret D. Murray and Sara M. Cox.

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Crewmen of the USS Maine (BB-10) parade through the city during their visit; May, 1908.

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This bear cub was one of sixteen acquired from Seattle, Washington that were added to the "Great White Fleet's" extensive menagerie. There were already numerous pigs, monkeys, cats, dogs, and exotic birds in the fleet, and they would soon be supplemented with kangaroos and other strange animals from the other side of the earth; 1908.

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Officers and men on liberty in Port of Spain, Trinidad, December 1907. The sailors seem intent on augmenting the shipboard menagerie by acquiring exotic tropical birds. One of the officers is carrying a Kodak box camera, which by 1907 was in general use.

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A number of Naval officers from the Atlantic Fleet are transported to Rotorua, New Zealand via horse and buggy; August 1908.

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These sailors are going through a line crossing ceremony as they cross the equator en route to Rio de Janeiro, January 1908. They will soon be proud members of the Order of Neptune.

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American naval officers of the "Great White Fleet" are pictured here visiting the Governor General of Australia in August of 1908.

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Sailors of the "Great White Fleet" are shown here on parade in Australia. Australian law forbid the landing of armed troops, but Admiral Charles Stillman Perry forbid his men to parade unarmed. They reached a compromise with the Americans parading with arms but not ammunition; August 1908.

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U.S. Marines parade in Australia. A section of Pitt Street, one of the main thoroughfares in Sydney, was renamed American street for the occasion; August 1908.

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This wallaby was a generous gift from the people of Sydney, Australia and a fine addition to the already extensive menagerie of the "Great White Fleet;" August 1908.

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By the end of their stay in Australia, many of the men of the Atlantic Fleet were exhausted by the sheer relentlessness of the entertainment the Australians had provided for them. "We have at last escaped from the hospitalities of Sydney," one sailor wrote upon their departure; August 1908.

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Bluejackets from the "Great White Fleet" are shown here on parade in Melbourne, Australia. The Melbourne reception committee tried to give the sailors as much free time as possible, but still put together a dauntingly comprehensive schedule of entertainment; 29 August 1908.

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Officers look on as men from Black Spur construct fires for their amusement. Black Spur is not far from Melbourne, Australia; September 1908.

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As part of the festivities at Black Spur conducted on behalf of the nearby Melbourne, Australia, the officers enjoy a wood chopping contest; September 1908.

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American sailors from the Atlantic fleet make their way to Tokyo in October 1908. President Roosevelt was concerned about possible misbehavior of the sailors in Japan. The specially briefed group of first-class libertymen allowed on sure were informed that attending the entertainment on shore was a matter of military duty, and strict discipline was observed at all times.

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Rear Admiral Charles Stillman Sperry's first step in preparing for the arrival in Japan was to write a long letter to the American citizen Henry Willard Denison, a legal advisor to the Japanese Foreign Office who had spent the last 34 years living in Japan. The letter, which Denison showed to the Japanese naval staff, explained, among other things, the character of the American men, their desire for sightseeing, and their need for guides; October 1908.

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During the festivities, a handful of Japanese bluejackets fraternize with their American counterparts. Due to concerns about offending their Japanese hosts, disorderly conduct among American sailors was particularly discouraged, and the threat of a court martial for undesirable behavior loomed over the proceedings; October 1908.

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Rear Admiral Charles Stillman Sperry, shown here with several Japanese naval officers, took great care during every step of the Japanese visit. He was, in turn, impressed with the level of organization and spectacle that the Japanese were able to provide for the Americans and reported to President Roosevelt that the visit had been "profoundly successful [and] beneficent in effect"; October 1908.

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On the evening of their arrival in Japan, 18 October 1908, the American libertymen were treated to an elaborate reception given by Baron Kohei Sufu, the governor of Kanagawa. As naval officers made their way through the crowds, shouts of banzai! were heard from the townspeople.

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Bluejackets from the "Great White Fleet" are shown here enjoying refreshments provided by their Chinese hosts; October 1908.

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In Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), this train was commissioned to transport men and officers of the "Great White Fleet" from Colombo to Kandy. Many of the bluejackets rode on the top of the train cars neccesitating that the train halt before each of tunnel it approached to let the sailors get back into the cars; December 1908.

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Officers are transported in rickshaws from Colombo to Galle Face, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka); December 1908.

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