February 1921 Proceedings—
In “The Warfare of the Future,” Institute President Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U.S. Navy, wrote, “Reason tells us clearly that history will narrate achievements, which will be accomplished long after we are dead; history will continue to repeat itself in the main essentials of human conduct; and in each generation, that nation will take the lead which, while giving due heed to the triumphs of the past, learns from them the most intelligently and the most quickly how to achieve the triumphs of the future.”
February 1971 Proceedings—
“The average junior officer is a ‘thinking man,’” Lieutenant (j.g.) F. G. Dengler, U.S. Navy, wrote in “The Silent Vote,” “a product of the same ‘information explosion’ generation—and very often the same colleges—as the vocal advocates of the political right and left. . . . After three or four years in the Fleet, young men who originally intended to make the Navy a career opt for a civilian pursuit. They leave, not always because they have a concrete offer from industry or science, but more often because their questions went unanswered. . . . Their silent ‘votes’ are cast as they depart.”
February 1996 Proceedings—
In “Death of a Sailor’s Sailor,” David Alan Rosenberg wrote, “The naval officer who quietly ‘slipped his chain’ in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 1996 was well known to the world—as a World War II naval hero and as a three-term Chief of Naval Operations. . . . Arleigh Burke was a flag officer in the broadest sense. . . . He told a fellow admiral, ‘We have to maintain in ourselves and imbue our juniors with an ardor to keep our Navy in front. We must pass along a willingness to think hard—to seek new answers.’”
A. Denis Clift
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BM3 Demetrius A. Haughbrook offers a piece of candy to a young resident of Vladivostok, Russia. Sailors and citizens of the area frequently exchanged small gifts during the four-day port visit in 1990. (Jim McGee)
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