Al Nofi's CIC
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Issue #75, April 20, 2002 |
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This Issue...
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Infinite Wisdom
"Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for battle, and my fingers for war."
La Triviata
- So enthusiastic a fencer was George S. Patton that he once struck an opponent�s saber so hard his own blade broke.
- Will Somers, Henry VIII�s court jester, was quite near-sighted, and had a suit of armor fitted with corrective lenses.
- Between 1939 and 1944, when expansion ended, private shipyards in the United States added 437 building ways and 19 dry docks of 200 feet or more to the country�s existing shipbuilding facitilites, while the Navy added 12 ways and 32 dry docks to its own facilities.
- Jorge Farragut, a Spanish immigrant who served as an officer in the North Carolina Navy, had a son who also adopted a maritime career, David Glasgow Farragut.
- Horse artillery � often called �flying artillery� � was introduced by Frederick the Great in 1759.
- Between 1836 and 1845 the Republic of Texas maintained a Marine Corps, in which at one time or another 68 officers were commissioned, for a force that throughout its existence included only about 350 enlisted men.
- About 10-percent of the American troops deployed doing peacekeeping duty in Bosnia are engaged in housekeeping functions, from running laundries to maintaining sophisticated equipment
- The principal supplier of high quality coal for the Imperial-and-Royal Austro-Hungarian Navy on the eve of World War I was Britain, which which the Empire shortly found itself at war.
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