Naval Training Center - Rudder Yearbook (Orlando, FL)

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their return to civilian life. Moral Leadership The technical side of the Navy man is only part of the success side of the picture. The more powerful that weapons become, the more important becomes the will and character of the men who must use them. The advance of technology in warfare has put one item at an absolute premium-dedicated man- power. The Navy has instituted under General Order 2-1 the Moral Leadership program, a series of discussion topics to exciteyoung men's minds with the real meaning of America and the intrinsic value of the individual human being: America's mission in the world, the specific mission of the Navy, and the desperately urgent need for men who will give their best efforts, indeed their very lives, to the perpetuation of the American ideal. Essentially the Moral Leadership program puts the total responsibility for Navy men with the line officers and petty officers who must lead these men in battle. Now, besides seeing to it that men are merely well-trained for combat, Naval leaders are charged with bringing their men to a peak of efli- ciency and keeping them there. This program is more important to our combat readiness than any weapons system ever developed. This time we are dealing with the very heart of our whole combat capability-the man. The New Concept of Recruit Training The recruit of today differs somewhat from his World War II counterpart. Today most of the men in recruit training are under twenty years' of age. These men are young and open minded: many of them are entering the Navy with a definite intent to make the Navy their career. Thus it is very im- Q portant to the Navy and these young men that their careers get the best possible start in this new venture. The transition from civilian life to military life must be smooth, indoctrination in the customs, traditions, and regulations of the Navy must be thorough. Basic Navy knowledge and skills must be taught and developed. Pride in and love for the Navy and their country must be carefully and logically cultivated. In time of peace there must be increased emphasis placed on the mental, moral and social develop- ment of the individual. He must be led to a desire for self-improvement and advancement, to a reali- zation of his status in and his importance to the Navy-a sense of belonging, and to an understand- ing of his place in a democracy as a citizen as well as a part of the Navy. He needs also to be led to a full appreciation of the American way of life and to adopt, for himself, high standards of responsi- bility, military performancefleadership and conduct. The Navy's stake in the recruit's development is tremendous. From these men will come the petty officers, the warrant officers and an important part of the Olticers of the Navy of the future. The Navy cannot be better than the men and women who comprise it. The goals set forth above are stated in terms of ideals and may never be totally realized. However, it is in recruit training that these goals are set and the roots established and nurtured. Continued de- velopment and progress, wherever these men may be throughout .the Navy, will ultimately produce the strong, effective manpower and leadership re- quired for our great Navy and its role of maintaining POWER FOR PEACEI l A Q'nW , . , V u , Y, V .ru ' in u ll .fl M A y. , l ,QA . o is . ' Tung' mf'

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or-IN PAUL JONES set the pattern for aggressive, res- olute fighting which has always been the ideal of the U.S. Navy. The heritage of our modern Navy is a vast montage of individual maritime achievements. Whether the ship be wooden, sail, armored, or atom powered, the indomitable spirit of fighting, sea faring, American men have made our country the bastion of the free world today. To john Paul Jones went the honor of first hoisting the Stars and Stripes over an American man-of-war, the USS RANGER, of receiving the first national salute in Quiberon Bay on February '14, 1778, from France. In command of the BONHOMME RICHARD he defeated and captured the SERAPIS off Flam- borough Head, giving our Navy its famous fighting words upon an invitation to surrender, I have not yet begun to fight. 4 I With such inspiration thousands of American sailors have followed in his wake, making individual courage collectively the spirit of our Navy. -Commo- dore Edward Preble, like john Paul Jones, filled his officers and men with esprit and fighting courage. Some of Preble's boys became the great leaders of the War of 1812, Stephen Decatur, James Lawrence, Thomas Macdonough. Perry swept the British sea power off Lake Erie. Hull and Bainbridge in the CONSTITUTION, along with Decatur in the UNITED STATES, established American naval power on the high seas during the first year of the War of 1812. As our nation grew in stature in the family of na- THE RETURN OF THE MAYFLOWER. COMMANDER J. K. TAUSSIG, U. S. NAVY,.LEADS THE FIRST DIVISION OF DESTROYERS INTO QUEENSTOWN, IRELAND, MAY 4, 1917, TO COMMENCE OUR ANTISUBMARINE WARFARE IN WORLD WAR I. 1 NAVAL HERITAGE AIR DEFENSE PACIFIC TASK FORCE OPERATION, WORLD WAR II. tions, so did our naval officers grow in stature as diplomats. Typical of their exploits Was Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's negotiations with the Em- peror of Japan in 1853-54. Our war between the states developed the same kind of fighting men. David Dixon Porter became famous on the Mississippi River. Captain Raphael Semmes in the commerce raider, CSS ALABAMA, alone cap- tured sixty-nine union ships before he was destroyed off Cherbourg, France by Winslow in the USS KEAR- SAGE. Perhaps the outstanding Civil War naval hero was David Glasgow Farragut Q Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! j, whose fleets enforced the blockade of the Confederacy. One -generation of fighting men breeds its successors. Dewey, and Sampson, our naval leaders in the Spanish- American War at the turn of the century, led and bred the naval leaders of our next war. Wilson, Simms, Hart, Taussig, and many others next guided our Navy in the defeat of the German U-boat menace and con- voyed our armies safely to France in the war with Germany during 1917 and 1918. Between the wars the Navy devoted its meager resources and manpower, ships and funds to research and development in aviation and submarine warfare. Stricken at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines in 1941, practically blockaded by German submarines operat- ing off our East coast ports, the nation built, in three short years, the most powerful naval force in the his- tory of the world. The indomitable spirit of our carrier dive bomber and torpedo plane pilots turned the tide of the war in thelPacific in the Battle of