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A Navy guided-missile destroyer is operating in the Black Sea after entering the region earlier on Tuesday. USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is scheduled to...
The following brief discussion of the bombing tests conducted by the Army Air Service against the old battleships Virginia and New Jersey is offered with two views: namely, to tell the service in general who did not have an...
RECENTLY, while reading an official report dealing with the wreck of a naval vessel and the circumstances that led up to the disaster, I was struck by the fact that two good opportunities to take observation of the sun were lost by those on board...
The selection-graded retirement system has now been operating in the Navy for more than seven years. The writer believes that this seven-year test has at least shown that the new system is a great improvement over the cumbersome old plan of...
By Lieutenant (jg) Wallace S. Wharton, U. S. N. R. F.
Publicity—how can it be used to benefit the Navy?
This is a question which everyone, with the good of the service at heart, should give due consideration. Publicity when properly used, is a powerful agent in educating...
There are fads and fancies in small-arms just as there are fads and fashions in clothes. These fashions are cyclic in nature; things popular some thirty years ago are coming into style again. In small-arms the cycle has had three phases which may...
Let us approach this subject in a different manner from other writers who have aired their views in the INSTITUTE. Instead of trying to make readers with decided opinions believe this discussion upholds their side of the question, only to find...
The questions indicated in the title of this article were presented to me in a forcible manner during the latter part of February, 1923, when without previous warning I received radio orders to report as the relief of the Co-ordinator Ninth Area...
NOTE: This essay written by Ensign Armknecht when a midshipman was awarded the Henry van Dyke Prize for the year of 1923 at the United States Naval Academy. It is of interest not only for its subject matter, but also because it is an indication...