The Brazilian Armed Forces (, ) is the unified military organization comprising the Brazilian Army ( including the Brazilian Army Aviation ), the Brazilian Navy ( including the Brazilian Marine Corps and Brazilian Naval Aviation ) and the Brazilian Air Force.

The Brazilian Navy which is the oldest of the Brazilian Armed Forces, includes the Brazilian Marine Corps and the Brazilian Naval Aviation.

The total naval strength of 64, 700 in 1997 included Naval Aviation ( Aviação Naval ) with 1, 300 members, the Marines ( Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais-CFN ) with 14, 600 members, and only 2, 000 conscripts.

* Brazilian Naval Aviation

Fly Navy: Naval Aviators and Carrier Aviation: A History.

Godfrey Paine, who served in the newly created post of Fifth Sea Lord and Director of Naval Aviation, sat on the board and this high level representation from the Navy helped to improve matters.

Often referred to as " The Father of Naval Aviation ," Captain Henry C. Mustin ,( 1874 – 1923 ), an 1896 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, was the principal architect for the concept of the catapult launch.

* V-5, a US Volunteer Naval Reserve classification for the Aviation Cadet program

The Assistant Chief of Naval Staff ( Aviation & Carriers ) is Rear Admiral T A Cunningham.

In 1992 a Naval Aviation ( Aviação Naval ) unit was created to give the Fleet more efficiency in coastal surveillance and maritime patrols.

Category: Naval Aviation Hall of Honor inductees

Category: Naval Aviation Hall of Honor inductees

In Naval Aviation, a blivet is the common term for an external baggage container carried on any aircraft.

Other military activities and federal agencies using the base include Navy Operational Support Center Tucson, a detachment of the Naval Air Systems Command, the Federal Aviation Administration, the U. S. Customs Service Air Service Branch, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.

The company Link Aviation Devices Inc was then formed, and other sales followed including to the UK Royal Air Force and, ironically in view of the Pearl Harbor attack on 7 December 1941, to the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Arm.

* A Heritage of Wings, An Illustrated History of Naval Aviation, by Richard C. Knott, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1997

The 1941 movie Dive Bomber, although focused on Naval Aviation, highlighted the role of the flight surgeon just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and demonstrated how solving the problems of hypoxia at altitude would reduce the aircraft mishap rate.

The city was founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss, " The Father of Naval Aviation ", and James Bright, during the famous " land boom " of the 1920s and was originally named Country Club Estates.

* Association of Naval Aviation

The Naval Aviation Depot ( NADEP ) located on the air station provides employment opportunities for local residents.

Captain Halsey elected to enroll as a cadet for the full twelve-week Naval Aviator course rather than the simpler Naval Aviation Observer program.

Wills had served as an Observer with the Royal Naval Air Service during the Great War, and was the driving force behind the expansion of the company from an office and a bathroom ( for developing films ) in Hendon to a business with major contracts in Africa and Asia as well as in the UK.

After completing the Navy's Aviation Officer Candidate School in Pensacola, Florida in September 1958, Hacker was commissioned Ensign and subsequently received the designation of Naval Aviation Observer ( NAO ).

He was then ordered to London, where he served with the Naval Attache, American Embassy, as a Naval Observer.

It led to speculation among Argentinian officers that the mission of Hamilton was to act as Naval Gunfire Support Forward Observer ( NGSFO ).

750 Naval Air Squadron was formed at RNAS Ford on 24 May 1939 from the Royal Navy Observer School, but after Ford was bombed early in the war, it moved to RNAS Yeovilton.

Navy precedence charts also list the Flight Meteorologist insignia as the Naval Aviation Observer Badge.

This previous name dates to the original concept of the badge in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, when the decoration was classified as the Naval Aviation Observer insignia and issued to flight support personnel such as navigators, bombardiers, radar officers, non-Naval Aviator co-pilots, and other officer aircrew.

Designated as the Naval Aviation Observer ( Navigation ) insignia, or simply as Naval Navigator wings, it was issued to Navy aerial navigators between 1945 and 1948.

After 1948, Navy aerial navigators returned to wearing the Naval Aviation Observer insignia, although the former Naval Aviation Observer ( Navigation ) insignia continues to be awarded as the Marine Aerial Navigator insignia and Coast Guard Aerial Navigator insignia to Marine Corps and Coast Guard enlisted navigators in the KC-130 and HC-130 Hercules.

In the modern Navy, the Naval Aviation Observer insignia is occasionally issued under its original name but is jointly known as the Flight Meteorologist insignia.

In addition to wings for Naval Aviators and Naval Flight Officers, the United States Navy still maintains an " Observer Badge " as such, which is issued to flight-qualified mission specialists, such as a select number of meteorologists and intelligence officers in both the U. S. Navy and U. S. Marine Corps.

Original Naval Aviation Observer Badge was identical to United States Aviator Badge except it was silver.

The Naval Aviation Observer Badge was first created in 1922 and authorized to navigators and other support personnel on multi-person naval aircraft.

Naval Aviation Observer Badge

In 1966, a new insignia was designed, and by 1968 the Naval Aviation Observer Badge was phased out in favor of the Naval Flight Officer Badge.

Additionally, the lower left quadrant, which contains the Chief of Naval Air Training insignia, has occasionally contained only Naval Aviator wings.

Naval engineers retain the rank matruusi but bear the pioneeri insignia on their sleeves.

Midshipmen at the US Naval Academy, US Merchant Marine Academy and in the NROTC wear uniforms that comply with standards established for commissioned officers of the Navy, with shoulder board and sleeve insignia varying by school year or officer rank as prescribed by Chapter 6 of Navy Uniform Regulations.

The rank insignia of a Royal Naval Air Service Flight Lieutenant

The rank insignia of a Royal Naval Air Service Wing Commander

Before 1993, all women in the Royal Navy were members of the WRNS except nurses, who joined ( and still join ) Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service, and medical and dental officers, who were commissioned directly into the Royal Navy, held RN ranks, and wore WRNS uniform with gold RN insignia.

Other common insignia is the Naval War College insignia, parachute wings, etc., also worn on the right breast.

The United States Marine Corps also lacks an equivalent ribbon, but instead awards their trademark Eagle, Globe & Anchor insignia upon completion of Recruit Training or Officer Candidate School, or at commissioning for those Marine Corps officers accessed via the United States Naval Academy ( USNA ), Naval ROTC ( NROTC ) Marine Corps Option or USMC Platoon Leaders Class ( PLC ).

The Fleet Marine Force combat operation insignia is also authorized for Naval personnel who served with the Marine Corps at any time during the Korean War.

Naval Reserve Merchant Marine Insignia is a breast insignia of officers in the United States Merchant Marine who also serve or have served in the United States Navy or United States Naval Reserve.

The breast insignia of the present Merchant Marine Reserve, U. S. Naval Reserve ( Eagle and Scroll ) was approved for wear on merchant marine uniforms on 7 April 1938, by Secretary of the Navy, Claude A. Swanson.

" Licensed officers who are members of the United States Naval Reserve shall wear on their uniforms such special distinguishing insignia as may be approved by the Secretary of the Navy.

The Naval deep sea diver qualification insignia are awarded in four degrees ; Second-Class Diver, First-Class Diver, Master Diver, and Diving Officer.

To be issued the insignia, an officer must also have completed flight training to qualify as a Naval Aircrew Member.

The insignia itself is very similar to the Naval Aircrew Badge.