July 1922 Proceedings—In “Morale as It Affects the Leadership of a Deck or Engineer Division,” Lieutenant Ernest G. Small, U.S. Navy, wrote, “How is the presence of high morale apparent? It is known by little occurrences such as a man’s insisting on rerolling tubes in a steam drum while at sea in submarine waters; by an old Swedish fireman one-half an hour after a destroyer was nearly cut in two asking a mate, ‘Have dey given de word to yump yet?’; by the spirit of cheerfulness with which a division attacks a long and disagreeable coaling.”
July 1972 Proceedings—In his 1972 Second Honorable Mention Prize Essay “The End of an Era,” Commander Roy Beavers wrote, “The quarter of a century that began with the end of World War II and extended roughly to 1970 was an era of virtually unchallenged U.S. supremacy in international power. The foundations of that power . . . were threefold: nuclear war military supremacy, economic and technological supremacy, and a global military presence. . . . That era of unchallenged U.S. world power leadership is passing. Each of the three foundations cited above is now under severe stress.”
July 1997 Proceedings—In “Fifth Fleet, Arriving,” Vice Admiral John Scott Redd, U.S. Navy, wrote, “On 1 July 1995, the Navy recommissioned the Fifth Fleet in the Arabian Gulf—the first stand up of a new fleet in 50 years. . . . At the beginning of the century, speaking of his success in the region, Lawrence of Arabia said of the Arab world, ‘Geography, tribal structure, religion, social customs, language, appetite, standards—all were at my fingertips.’ He knew that to succeed, military forces must understand the region in all its dimensions. This is the challenge for Fifth Fleet, which daily faces an enduring and vitally important mission in this active theater.”
A. Denis Clift
Golden Life Member
