* Merchant marine, a collective term for all of the merchant ships, shipping companies, and merchant mariners, usually of a particular country ; also known in British usage as the Merchant Navy

The Royal Navy throughout the 1870s attempted to suppress " this abominable Eastern trade ", at Zanzibar in particular.

The British Royal Navy, in particular, resorted to impressment, forcing thousands of American seamen into service on their warships.

It was a mistake most of the major powers, in particular the Imperial Japanese Navy, made during the lead up to the Second World War.

Operation Chacewater began, in which Coastal Command began monitoring their movements, in particular other vessels that loitered in areas covering the arrival and departure routes for Royal Navy nuclear submarine forces.

The use of ship prefixes is not universal ; in particular neither the Third Reich's Kriegsmarine nor the Imperial Japanese Navy used ship prefixes.

Douglas created a wide variety of aircraft for the US armed forces, the Navy in particular.

In particular, they drew support from military officers, especially in the Brazilian Navy.

In particular, Royal Navy Westland Lynx helicopters were responsible for the destruction of almost the entire Iraqi Navy.

John Michael ( Mike ) McConnell, a former vice admiral in the United States Navy, a former Director of US National Intelligence, and Senior Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton promoted the development of a future capability to require biometric authentication to access certain public networks in his Keynote Speech In particular, the Unclassified Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Defense Biometrics states in Chapter 17, Recommendation 45 that it is wise to protect, and sometimes even to disguise, the true and total extent of national capabilities in areas related directly to the conduct of security-related activities.

The Navy, in particular, recognizes what the politicians and common people of Earth do not: that Earth is headed for disaster, and their primary mission is to remove as many people from Earth as possible before the holocaust.

Members of Congress, noting the failure of the ironclads, blamed the navy in particular, and suggested that there was no need for a separate Navy Department.

Each side's Air Force and Navy have designated numbered channels, some squads who often play together use specific channels for intersquad communication, and a particular coordinated effort between many the side's High Command, players, various squads and / or various military branches may decide to use a specific numbered channel, as their Target channels may be quite different.

The Royal Navy throughout the 1870s attempted to suppress " this abominable Eastern trade ", at Zanzibar in particular.

He retired from the Navy in August 2010 and now pursues a portfolio of mainly non-executive and charitable interests, with a particular emphasis on property and regeneration.

Citizen authored milblogs often did not have this issue, where the focus was solely on the reporting of a particular aspect of the military, such as the Navy.

Upon the election of John Quincy Adams in 1825, Rush ( having made a study of Britain, and the British Navy in particular, while he was there ) desired to become the Secretary of the Navy.

Four ministers, in particular, had served with King Amadeo: Echegaray ( Finance ), Becerra ( War ), Fernández de Córdoba ( Navy ) and Berenguer ( Infrastructure ).

Some campaigns apply to all of the military services while others are specific to a particular branch of the U. S. Armed Forces, ( the United States Marine Corps is part of the Department of the Navy and is eligible only for Navy campaigns ).

In particular, the Navy needed better integration of aerial weapons with Naval aircraft.

The Aerospace Experimental Psychologist insignia is a military badge of the United States Navy which is issued to those members of the Navy Medical Service Corps who have been qualified as in-flight aviation observers with certification in psychology, in particular the psychology of in-flight aircraft close quarters and the mental stress of possible combat situations.

He also spearheaded the conversion of Navy Pier into a popular tourist destination.

Running out of time, Muir secretly creates a forged urgent operational directive from the CIA director to commence Operation Dinner Out, a rescue mission spearheaded by Commander Wiley's ( Dale Dye ) U. S. Navy SEAL team, which Bishop laid the groundwork for as a " Plan B " to his own rescue attempt.

U. S. Navy and Air Force elements staged to Puerto Rico and southern Florida to prepare to support the airborne invasion, spearheaded by elements of United States Special Operations Command and the U. S. 82nd Airborne Division.

Eulenburg concluded that the policy of naval build-up spearheaded by Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz was wasteful in the extreme, arguing that Germany would have been better served by a small cruiser fleet capable of protecting the German Merchant Marine and coastlines, and allowing the billions of marks spent on the Navy to go to social reforms and the Army instead.

During World War II, the U. S. Navy approached MIT about the possibility of creating a computer to drive a flight simulator for training bomber crews.

The original construction of the road portion from Marlinton to Richwood over a highly mountainous section of the Monongahela National Forest was instigated by the so called " Cherry River Navy ", thus reducing what was a 3 hour drive on indirect alternate routes to a current 30 minute drive.

Supporters were mostly from the northern states and the coastal regions, who argued the Navy would result in savings in insurance and ransom payments, while opponents from southern states and inland regions thought a navy was not worth the expense and would drive the United States into more costly wars.

However, after coaxing one shuttle to mimic a pilot attempting to flee, and another to bring up its impeller drive inside the boat bay, her party manages to escape when the drive wedge of the shuttle-turned-bomb destroys the PNS ( People's Navy Ship ) Tepes and kills the worst member of Haven's ruling triumvirate, Cordelia Ransom, whose specialty is class warfare.

Alexanderson had worked on the problem of torque amplification that allowed the small output of a mechanical computer to drive very large motors, which GE used as part of a larger gun laying system for US Navy ships.

Together with the other two survivors of the second flag raising, Navy Pharmacist's Mate John Bradley and Marine Private First Class Ira Hayes, he was assigned to temporary duty with the Finance Division, U. S. Treasury Department, for appearances in connection with the " 7th War Loan " drive ( bond selling tour ) in May and June 1945.

* SOCOM II: U. S. Navy SEALs supports additional maps, however the files must be copied from a magazine demo disc to the hard drive and cannot be downloaded.

The story is ostensibly the transcription of a Navy tape recording, as related by Commander Edward J. Richardson for use in a war bond drive, of events resulting in his award of the Medal of Honor.

The Swedish shipbuilder Kockums has constructed three Gotland class submarines for the Swedish Navy which are fitted with an auxiliary Stirling engine which uses liquid oxygen and diesel fuel to drive 75 kilowatt generators for either propulsion or charging batteries.

Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement ( MTVR ) or 7-Ton, is a six-wheel drive all-terrain vehicle used by the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy.

Shortly afterwards, he was called by car owner Dale Earnhardt, Jr to drive his # 88 United States Navy Chevrolet for JR Motorsports for the rest of the year in the Busch Series, posting five top-ten finishes.

Ahmad Shah and his group recovered a large amount of weapons, ammunition, and other materials, including three SOPMOD M4 Carbines fitted with M203 40mm grenade launchers, a ruggedized laptop with an intact hard drive containing maps of embassies in Kabul, night vision equipment, and a sniper spotting scope, among other items from the Navy SEAL reconnaissance and surveillance team, items which they could then use against American, Coalition, and Government of Afghanistan entities.

Gen. William C. Chase's 8th Cavalry, the first unit to arrive in the city, began a drive towards the sprawling campus of the University of Santo Tomas which had been turned into an internment camp for civilians and the US Army and Navy nurses sometimes known as the " Angels of Bataan ".

After helping to unify Vietnam under the Nguyen Dynasty, the French Navy began its heavy presence in the Mekong Delta and later colonized the southern third of Vietnam including Saigon in 1867.

For most of the war Operation Ranch Hand was based out of Bien Hoa Air Base ( 1966 – 1970 ), for operations in the Mekong Delta region where U. S. Navy patrol boats were vulnerable to attack from areas of undergrowth along the water's edge.

Kerry was serving in the United States Navy at the time, as lieutenant and Officer-in-Charge of Swift Boat PCF-94, which for that period primarily patrolled in the Mekong River delta.

* May 15 – The U. S. Navy deploys its first aircraft carrier to Dixie Station in the South China Sea off South Vietnams Mekong Delta.

* September 19 – Using UH-1Bs borrowed from the U. S. Army, the U. S. Navys first attack helicopter unit begins operations, supporting U. S. Navy riverine forces operating in South Vietnams Mekong Delta.

* U. S. Navy attack helicopters in South Vietnam begin using flight-deck-equipped tank landing ships operating in the Mekong Delta as bases.

The Navy entered the Vietnam War in 1958, when the UDTs delivered a small watercraft far up the Mekong River into Laos.

In the Vietnam War, the Mobile Riverine Force ( MRF ) ( after May 1967 ), initially designated Mekong Delta Mobile Afloat Force, and later euphemistically the Riverines, were a joint US Army and US Navy force that comprised a substantial part of the Brown Water Navy.

* Navy Mobile Riverine Force Mekong Delta, Vietnam War History

:" Captain Roy Hoffmann was the commander of the Navy Coastal Surveillance Force, and it was Hoffmann ’ s decision to send Navy Swift boats up the narrow rivers in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam — almost always without support from helicopters or artillery — where they ran the risk of mines and were fired on almost at will by Viet Cong dug in along the river ’ s banks.

This action would be called “ the most successful SEAL operation in the Mekong Delta ” by the U. S. Navy.