NAVY HISTORY! Trivia: Do you know who Captain Charles Butler McVay, III is?! ANSWER: Charles McVay was the captain of the USS Indianapolis, which was torpedoed and sunk between Guam to Leyte Island on 30 July 1945 by a Japanese submarine. They’d “just delivered the bomb, the Hiroshima Bomb.” Of the 880 men who went […]
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Lesssons in Leadership
TEN LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP! 1. BE CAUTIOUS OF LABELS: Labels you place on people may define your relationship to them and bound their potential. 2. EVERYONE DESERVES RESPECT: We often wrongly treat others with less respect than they deserve. Everyone we have contact with deserves respect. 3. COURTESY MAKES A DIFFERENCE: Be courteous to all […]
Hand Salute
Hand Salute Trivia: What is the history of the “hand salute”?! ANSWER: The hand salute is believed to have began in the days of chivalry when it was customary for knights dressed in armor to raise their visors to friends for the purpose of identification. By 1700 grenadiers were wearing tall, conical hats held in […]
DID YOU KNOW…that two Navy legends fought a duel with Marines?!
r AMERICAN HISTORY! SOMETHING YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW! DID YOU KNOW…that two Navy legends fought a duel with Marines?! In 1818, two of the Navy’s most famous names, Oliver Hazard Perry and Stephen Decatur, were involved, one as a participant and the other as his second, in a duel that was the culmination of a […]