... nautical nation with over 7,000 islands, exclusively bordered and interconnected by seas. Not many towns or cities in the country are more than 100 km from shore. 78% of its provinces and 54% of municipalities, almost all major cities, and 62% of the population are coastal. Just as the seas have moulded our history and the foundation of the nation, we continue to depend on them for our livelihood and welfare ... naval modernization programs in Southeast Asia. Nevertheless, Philippine Navy is still one of the most ill-quipped navies  in Asia.  Philippine Navy lacks the acceptable abili...

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... in great physical condition and must take physical readiness tests twice a year regardless of rank they have to do sit-ups, pushups and must take a times run or swim. In only two hundred years our Navy grew from a few old clusters of ships and a few sailors seeking adventure on the high seas to a powerful fighting force. Its nuclear subs and ships can travel for ... years without ever refueling. But even as time pushes on and the Navy advances and makes changes some things will always be the same as far as some old traditions go. Something else that the Navy wont ever change in the year...

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... in great physical condition and must take physical readiness tests twice a year regardless of rank they have to do sit-ups, pushups and must take a times run or swim. In only two hundred years our Navy grew from a few old clusters of ships and a few sailors seeking adventure on the high seas to a powerful fighting force. Its nuclear subs and ships can travel for ... years without ever refueling. But even as time pushes on and the Navy advances and makes changes some things will always be the same as far as some old traditions go. Something else that the Navy wont ever change in the year...

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... Isaac Hull) as the USS CONSTITUTION, the fledgling United States Navy's new warship, closed in on the HMS GUERRIERE. The USS CONSTITUTION would reign victorious in the subsequent battle, and thus establish the United States as a fierce new naval power, and begin a tradition that eventually leads to the prestige and world recognition of the power of our modern navy. After the revolution the United States of America's economy depended ... from Pennsylvanian barn roof construction. At the end of the eighteenth century most fighting ships were either the heavily armed but sluggish ship-of-the...

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... the very late 1800's, the Americans wanted to expand over seas with their belief in manifest destiny. There were many factors that started American imperialism, they included; political and military competition including the creation of a strong naval force, economic competition among industrial nations and a belief in the racial and cultural superiority of people of Anglo-Saxon decent. The Spanish American War marked the appearance of the United States as a world power. On the night of ... 15 February l898 the ... go to war, and on April 6, 1917, congress officially declared war. The en...

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