According to tradition, Bernard founded the monastery on 25 June 1115, naming it Claire Vallée, which evolved into Clairvaux.

According to astrophysicist and UFO researcher Jacques Vallée, the Montauk Experiment stories seem to have originated with the account of Preston Nichols, who claimed to have recovered repressed memories of his own involvement.

According to the document the military of the Republic of Bulgaria should include two mechanized brigades, four regiments ( Logistics, Artillery, Engineering, SpecOps ), four battalions ( Reconnaissance, Mechanized, NBC, PsyOps ) in the Land Forces ; Fighter base, helicopter base, SAM air defense brigade and Air force training base in the Air Force ; and two naval bases in the Navy.

According to the E. J. Erickson the Greek Navy also played a crucial, albeit indirect role, in the Thracian campaign by neutralizing no less than three Thracian Corps ( see First Balkan War, the Bulgarian theater of operations ), a significant portion of the Ottoman Army there, in the all-important opening round of the war.

According to historian Thomas Woods, " Ever since the Korean War, Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution — which refers to the president as the ' Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States ' — has been interpreted to mean that the president may act with an essentially free hand in foreign affairs, or at the very least that he may send men into battle without consulting Congress.

According to Lieutenant General Leslie Groves, the primary military leader in charge of the Manhattan Project, Mills was anxious to have a very determined man involved, and – though he knew that Rickover was " not too easy to get along with " and " not too popular " – in his judgment Rickover was the man who the Navy could depend on " no matter what opposition he might encounter, once he was convinced of the potentialities of the atomic submarine.

According to one story, the United States Navy issued a Letter of Marque to the Airship Resolute on the West Coast of the United States at the beginning of World War II, making it the first time the US Navy commissioned a privateer since the War of 1812.

According to the International Institute of Strategic Studies ' Military Balance 2010, the latter includes an Army of 12, 500, a Navy of 500 and a 500-strong Air Force, while the CIA Factbook describes the People's Armed Forces as consisting of the Intervention Force, Aeronaval Force ( navy and air ) and the Development Force.

According to various sources, three men all sighted Antarctica within days or months of each other: Fabian von Bellingshausen, a captain in the Russian Imperial Navy ; Edward Bransfield, a captain in the British navy ; and Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer out of Stonington, Connecticut.

According to Navy veteran Sho Mitani, ' The Army used a trumpet sound that meant " Kill all Chinese who run away "'.

According to Luciano's authorized biography, during this time, Lansky helped arrange a deal with the U. S. Government via a high-ranking U. S. Navy official.

According to Brooks, the character of Rookie Carroca also was based on a real person, a Filipino sailor in the U. S. Navy who was his neighbor in Brooklyn.

According to the United States Navy “ the 36-day ( Iwo Jima ) assault resulted in more than 26, 000 American casualties, including 6, 800 dead .” To put that into context, the 82-day Battle of Okinawa lasted from early April until mid-June 1945 and U. S. ( 5 Army and 2 Marine Corps Divisions ) casualties were over 62, 000 of whom over 12, 000 were killed or missing, while the Battle of the Bulge lasted 40 days ( 16 Dec 44 – 25 Jan 45 ) with almost 90, 000 U. S. casualties of ; 19, 000 killed, 47, 500 wounded, and 23, 000 captured or missing.

However, in 1950, when the United States entered the Korean War, Secretary of Defense George Marshall and Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews requested that the USO be reactivated " to provide support for the men and women of the armed forces with help of the American people " According to war historian Paul Edwards, Between 1952 and 1953, not a day went by without the USO providing services somewhere in Korea.

According to Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley, " When the Swift finally made it back to the My Tho River, the crew confronted the heartbreaking sight of a huge Navy landing craft ferrying the troops back.

The People's Republic of China acquired SS-N-22 launchers and missiles ( specifically, the for-export 3M-80E Moskit variant ) with a 1999 – 2000 purchase of two Sovremenny destroyers from Russia. According to Russia, the PRC funded the development of the SS-N-22 version for the People's Liberation Army Navy ( PLAN ).

According to Navy Lt. Cmdr.

According to a 1980 Time Magazine article citing analysts from RAND Corporation, allegedly Soviet non-Slavs, including Jews, Armenians, and Asians were generally barred from senior ranks and from joining elite or strategic positions in the Air Force, Strategic Rocket Forces, and the Soviet Navy because of doubts regarding the loyalty of ethnic minorities.

According to the director's commentary on the DVD, the dunking machine was constructed specifically for the film and was an exact duplicate of the actual one used by the Navy.

According to this decree Stavka was composed of the defence minister Marshal Semyon Timoshenko ( as its president ), the head of General Staff Georgy Zhukov, Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, Marshal Semyon Budyonny and the People's Commissar ( Narkom ) of the Navy Admiral Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov.

According to records held at the National Archives the Royal Navy Court Martial held on 8 June 1702, involved the following three charges:

According to Barbara Tuchman in The Proud Tower: Europe 1880-1914, this view was so influential on the British empire and American naval strategists of the turn of the 19th to 20th century, that it effectively motivated the rise of the United States Navy and Germany's and Russia's and Japan's attempts to become main naval powers.

According to the Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Mr. Blair was " a member of the US Navy was interned from 3 December 1946 to 15 January 1947 by Chinese guerilla forces.

According to U. S. Navy officials and the Congressional Research Service the U. S. Navy has drawn up plans to expand its fleet of ballistic missile-defense-capable warships from 26 ships today to 36 by 2018.

According to the U. S. Department of Labor, the Vietnam Era Veterans ' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 ( VEVRAA ) states, " A Vietnam era veteran is a person who

According to an often-told story, during one of the earliest of the royal couple's repeated encounters with the crowds, a Boer War veteran asked Elizabeth, " Are you Scots or are you English?

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a veteran pilot for Alpine Valley suspected that Brown attempted to fly around the ski hill, but misjudged the location.

According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, it was originally intended for Buzz to be the murderer, but the U. S. military objected to the portrayal of a psychologically disturbed veteran as the killer.

According to English – American anti-pornography campaigner Gail Dines, the ejaculate on the female performer's body " also marks the woman as used goods ", conveying a sense of ownership ; she quotes veteran American porn actor and producer Bill Margold stating: " I'd like to really show what I believe the men want to see: violence against women.

According to historian and Israeli Army and U. S. Marine Corps veteran Bryan Mark Rigg, up to 160, 000 one-quarter, one-half, and even full Jewish men served in the German armed forces during World War II, including several generals and at least one field marshal, Erhard Milch.

A veteran of live television, Sweeney made her mark on primetime television as a series regular on George & Leo and Maybe It's Me and she guest starred on 3rd Rock from the Sun, Hope & Gloria, Mad About You, and According to Jim.

According to his citation in the James Bryant Conant Award, " Stelle, a World War I veteran and past national commander of the American Legion, quarterbacked a team of Legion officials that, in the space of just six months, designed and put forth the main features of the GI Bill, organized massive public support and shepherded its successful passage through Congress.

According to veteran German author, journalist and Russia-correspondent Gabriele Krone-Schmalz, there is deep disapproval of everything Russian in Estonia, this however has been challenged in a poll conducted by Gallup International which suggests that 23 % of Estonians see Russia in negative light while 34 % have positive attitude towards Russia.

According to the reference quoted below, ' it is said that Nettlestead church owes its enormous stained glass windows to a 15th century Agincourt veteran who came back from France very impressed with what had already been done with stained glass decoration for churches there.

According to Nina Easton's Gang of Five, Amy Moritz was a veteran organizer of the College Republican National Committee.

According to the 20 / 20 website ABC News consultant and veteran airline pilot John J. Nance states categorically:

According to veteran Press Association reporter Chris Moncrieff, Wigg was unpopular with Labour MPs but managed to use procedure to place the Profumo affair on the record in Parliament and led the pursuit of Profumo which ultimately resulted in the latter's resignation.

According to veteran sports journalist C. V. Narsimhan ' His service was never a powerful weapon, he did not have any powerful groundstrokes either.

According to one history, Arthur Reimer was among this group, joining his 1916 Vice Presidential running mate, Caleb Harrison, Buffalo, New York druggist and party veteran Boris Reinstein, the late Daniel DeLeon's son, Solon DeLeon, and Dr. Julius Hammer of New York City.

" According to one Russian veteran, Soviet artillery was fired without proper guidance, killing scores of Red Army soldiers ".

" According to the website, Carreon is a veteran of the Vietnam War, having served in the U. S Army's 2nd Armored Division, and is also " a graduate of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund's Advanced Leadership Program "

According to MiLB. com, Tom Kotchman, the veteran manager, recalled " one particular game when he tried to replace Lackey only to have the tall Texan tell him otherwise.

According to U. S. atomic veteran Cecil R. Coale, some hotels in Hawaii offered " rainbow bomb " parties on their roofs for Starfish Prime, contradicting some reports that the artificial aurora was unexpected.

According to Sir John Houlton, a veteran British administrator, the town takes its name from the small villages of Okni and Hazari – shown in old maps as Ocunhazry.

According to Ishizuka Akira, a veteran figure in the Japanese karate world, the term Wado Kai was in general use as early as the 1940s, but it was only in 1967 that the name was adopted formally.

According to US and Iraqi officials, al-Kurdi was a veteran of training camps in Afghanistan and became a chief bombmaker of Zarqawi's group in 2003.