Quotes about Naval Deployment

John Quincy Adams

The portion of the naval force of the Union in actual service has been chiefly employed on three stations -- the Mediterranean, the coasts of South America bordering on the Pacific Ocean, and the West Indies

Without much fanfare, the United States was beginning to deploy naval power internationally.

Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson

Synchronize the presentation of diplomatic notes with the arrival ... of a first-class warship with landing forces.

Advising of diplomatic negotiations in the Dominican Republic:

Barbara Tuchman

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Forces of the United States Navy have today arrived in Iceland in order to supplement, and eventually to replace, the British forces which have until now been stationed in Iceland in order to insure the adequate defense of that country.

This was 5 months before Pearl Harbor & U. S. entry in WWII. However, FDR was not allowing Germany to invade critical territory. Germany had invaded and occupied Denmark. Iceland then was a part of Denmark. In the month previous to this message, Iceland declared independence from Denmark and hence from Germany. The British had naval bases in Iceland. As part of the Lend Lease agreement providing war material to England, repayment included giving the U. S. title to the Icelandic bases. With Britain at war, Iceland was a legitimate target for the Germans who could say they were acting against the bases of an enemy and at the behest of Denmark who did not recognize the Independence. However Danish King Christian would not stand in the way of Icelandic Independence, & when the U. S. Navy occupied the bases, there was no way Germany could attack without bringing America actively into the war. In this way & many others, the U. S. was a military force even before we were in the war.

Ander Crenshaw

Once our carrier fleet went all nuclear in 2005, we went from having two aircraft carrier homeports on the East Coast to one.

Mikie Sherrill

I left the Navy as a lieutenant after spending almost 10 years as a helicopter pilot.

Tony Curtis

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

Seymour Cassel

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.

Bob Hope

Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.

Bob Feller

I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

Aaron Ciechanover

I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

Brianna Keilar

My dad served in the Australian Navy until I was a toddler.

John Byng

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.

David Attenborough

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

Isoroku Yamamoto

If a war breaks out with the United States, the navy will have to put all its strength into interceptive operations, so... massive sea-borne supplies might be momentarily interrupted.

Naval Deployment Quotes