The planking is five-ply, 3/8-inch-thick Weldwood Royal Marine plywood.

Marine plywood is manufactured from durable face and core veneers, with few defects so it performs longer in humid and wet conditions and resists delaminating and fungal attack.

Marine plywood is frequently used in the construction of docks and boats.

The US military has specialized units, which can respond to a bioterrorism event ; among them are the US Marine Corp's Chemical Biological Incident Response Force and the U. S. Army's 20th Support Command ( CBRNE ), which can detect, identify, and neutralize threats, and decontaminate victims exposed to bioterror agents.

* Earliest day on which Marine Day can fall, while July 21 is the latest ; celebrated on the third Monday of July.

Marine habitats can be divided into coastal and open ocean habitats.

Marine habitats can be modified by their inhabitants.

The Silver Star or Silver Star Medal ( awarded to Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard personnel ) is the third highest military decoration for valor that can be awarded to any person serving in any capacity with the United States Armed Forces.

Navy and Marine Corps personnel assigned to or embarked aboard ship do not have the option of refusing NJP, nor can they appeal the decision of the officer imposing punishment ; they may only appeal the severity of the punishment.

A glimpse of the old Brighton restaurant at No. 1 Marine Parade can be seen in the background of Norman Wisdom's 1955 film One Good Turn just as Norman / Pitkin runs onto the seafront.

Marine diatoms can be collected by direct water sampling, though benthic forms can be secured by scraping barnacles, oyster shells, and other shells.

Marine environments can have inverted biomass pyramids.

Marine Protected Areas ( MPAs ), Biosphere reserves, marine parks, national monuments world heritage status, fishery management and habitat protection can protect reefs from anthropogenic damage.

Marine jellyfish can consist of as much as 98 % water and therefore are rarely found in fossil form.

Graduates are usually commissioned as ensigns in the navy or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps, but a small number can also be commissioned as officers in the other services.

Marine mammals can be subdivided into four recognised groups ; cetaceans ( whales, dolphins and porpoises ), pinnipeds ( seals, sea lions and walruses ), sirenians ( manatees and dugongs ), and fissipeds, which are the group of carnivores with separate digits ( the polar bear, and two species of otter ).

One such location is Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve, Shark Bay in Western Australia where excellent specimens are observed today, and another is Lagoa Salgada, state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, where modern stromatolites can be observed as bioherm ( domal type ) and beds.

The town now welcomes tourists with numerous marinas, seafood restaurants, gift shops, a boardwalk, an upscale gourmet grocery, a sculpture garden, The Calvert Marine Museum where visitors can climb atop a former lighthouse, harbor cruises, and occasional famous performer concerts outdoors.

** Marine City can also be considered as in the Blue Water Area, a subregion of the Thumb.

* The Brevent Park and Leonardo Fire Company is the owner of a Marine Fire Boat that can be requested throughout the Bayshore community for scenes on the water involving Fire and Water Rescue

An illustrative example of this is the modular integration employed by the United States Marine Corps, which can take elements from its regimentally grouped forces and specifically tailor combined arms task forces for a particular mission or the deployed Marine Expeditionary Units ( MEU ).

The Navy authorized a special uniform change that allows hospital corpsmen assigned to 5th and 6th Marine Regiments to wear a shoulder strap on the left shoulder of their dress uniform so that the fourragère can be worn.

In the mechanical field, sending a Marine / Soldier to the motor pool to retrieve a spark plug for a diesel engine, or in a communications unit the unsuspecting serviceman might be sent out to find a can of frequency grease or a spool of orderwire. In the Airwing Marines / Sailors are at times asked to get a can of pneumatic fluid or a batch of flightline.

* 1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U. S. Marine.

Marine species such as salmon, spider crabs, squid and other shellfish and molluscs may be fished in this region's shores.

A U. S. Marine Corps F / A-18 Hornet squadron will be the first forward-deployed unit with the AGM-88E.

Major General William Rupertus, USMC — commander of 1st Marine Division — predicted the island would be secured within four days.

Navy and Marine Corps F / A-18 demonstration pilots and naval flight officers are required to have a minimum of 1, 250 tactical jet hours and be carrier-qualified.

Marine Corps C-130 demonstration pilots are required to have 1, 200 flight hours and be an aircraft commander.

The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —

In the Navy and Marine Corps, the Combat " V " may also be authorized to denote direct participation in combat operations.

Carbon storage in or under oceans may not be compatible with the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter.

However, military historians such as former Royal Marine Julian Thompson have written that these lessons should not have needed a debacle such as Dieppe to be recognised.

* Raw Materials: Industries may be agriculture based, Marine based, Mineral based, Forest based ....

The United States Navy and United States Marine Corps require that all arrested personnel be read the " rights of the accused " and must sign a form waiving those rights if they so desire ; a verbal waiver is not sufficient.

However, there was a movement amongst geologists ( particularly Neogene Marine Geologists ) to also include ongoing geological time ( Quaternary ) in the Neogene, while others ( particularly Quaternary Terrestrial Geologists ) insist the Quaternary to be a separate period of distinctly different record.

On these occasions depending on their billet, Marine Staff Non-Commissioned Officers ( E-6 and above ) may also be required to carry swords, which have hilts of a pattern similar to U. S. Naval officers ' swords but are actually sabres.

The SEALs however are surrounded and gunned down by Hummel's marines in a shower room after SEAL Commander Anderson ( Michael Biehn ) refuses to surrender ( the fight is provoked by Marine Captains Frye and Darrow, later revealed to be following Hummel only for the money instead of honor ), leaving only Mason and Goodspeed alive when they remained in the tunnels while the SEALs confronted the marines.

* August 21 – The Medal of Honor is posthumously awarded to James Anderson, Jr .— he is the first black U. S. Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

From 1913 through the mid-1930s, the IWW's Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union ( MTWIU ), proved a force to be reckoned with and competed with AFL unions for ascendance in the industry.

The United States Central Command requested planners from SAMS along with its " sister schools ", the United States Air Force's School of Advanced Air and Space Studies ( SAASS ), which was designed to be similar to SAMS, as well as the United States Marine Corps's School of Advanced Warfighting ( SAW ).

Live video images of the Strait of Juan de Fuca may be seen on the cameras located at http :// www. racerocks. com from the Race Rocks Marine Protected Area.