Proceedings Magazine - January 2009 Vol. 135/1/1,271

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Issue: Proceedings Magazine - January 2009 Vol. 135/1/1,271

Write—with Your Eyes Wide Open

(See W. J. Toti, pp. 16-20, December 2008 Proceedings)

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Write—with Your Eyes Wide Open

(See W. J. Toti, pp. 16-20,...

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Now Hear This

Rally 'Round the New President

Barack Obama won the recent presidential election convincingly, and it is time now for all Americans to...

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Answering the Call

'To Mature and Grow into a Man'

Coast Guard Yeoman to Golf Legend

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Inland Sailors
Individual Augmentees fill essential roles alongside overtaxed ground troops. The author, an IA in Afghanistan, considers the...
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Recapitalizing Too Early
Writing off perfectly good ships and aircraft before the end of their life cycle is a shortcoming of the transformation era.
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On the Care and Feeding of Young SWOs
Today's new surface warfare officers report to their ships woefully unprepared to do their jobs.

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A Rude Awakening
A two-year tour on a Royal Navy destroyer showed one young surface warfare officer how much he didn't know.

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Leading Surface Warfare Officers: Straight-to-the-Fleet
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If Mahan Ran the Great Pacific War: An Analysis of World War II Naval Strategy

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Weaning the Navy from Foreign Oil

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