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…Army was reduced by more than 630,000soldiers and civilians. The number of Army divisions shrank from 18 to 10 during the Clinton-Gore Administration. Our Navy’s ships were reduced from 586 to 324. The average age of a Marine Corps’ Amphibious Assault…

…sent a huge amount of military equipment to Muslim guerillas fighting the communist government of Afghanistan. In 1982, in an effort to strengthen the Lebanon government, he sent marines to Lebanon. In October 1983, 250 marines were killed when…

…power over the way he lives his life. The last third of this powerful monologue serves as a call to arms to his mariners as well as to the reader. He directs the last stanza to his mariners, “Souls that have toil’d, and wrought, and thought with me” (Line…

…for almost half of the total trade volume of the United States (Nettels 45,46). Transportation of goods to and from foreign markets was dominated by the American Merchant Marine. American vessels transported over eighty-five percent of foreign trade…

…governor of Texas, was appointed director. With a little help from Eleanor Roosevelt the navy united and authorized a Woman’s Naval Reserve and a Marine Corps Women’s Reserve. The Coast Guard followed closely. The first director of WAVES ( Women accepted…

…Do you remember the conflict that America had in the Persian Gulf a few years back? An incident occurred there where a man drove a truck loaded with explosives into the building where more than 100 Marines were stationed. He blew up the building…

…concentrating on improvements to the oil, Harrison designed a clock which didn't need it. It was radical thinking of this sort that would be important later on, when he tackled the problem of designing a marine timekeeper. During the mid-1720's, John and James…

…and manufacturing weapons for all branches of the military: the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marines. An Ordnance Specialist is a highly skilled, highly trained person, who transports, stores, inspects, prepares, and disposes of weapons and ammunitions. Ordnance…

…biologists study plants and animals living in water. Marine biologists study salt water organisms and Limnologists study fresh water organisms. Marine biologists are sometimes called oceanographers, but oceanography usually refers to the study of the physical…

…distinguished heroes at the Battle of Bunker Hill was Peter Salem who fired the shot that killed Major John Pictcarirn of the Royal Marines. But Peter Salem was not the only African American hero during the Revolutionary War. Another African American, Salem Poor…