midshipman


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a temporary rank held by young naval officers in training

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Sausalito festivals have included kazoo choruses in the midshipman's honor.
Last semester, varsity soccer player Midshipman 3rd Class Meghan Hegarty was named to the Patriot League All-Academic squad and was chosen as a First-Team College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-District honoree.
"As difficult as it would be for the government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that (the alleged victim's) professed lack of memory at the time Midshipman Graham engaged in sexual activity with her was due to her being substantially incapacitated, the government's task becomes extremely more difficult, if not impossible, due to the heavy damage done to (the alleged victim's) credibility at the Article 32 hearing,'' Cmdr.
"Supposedly Nelson caught a midshipman wiping his nose on the sleeve of his uniform, and insisted that buttons were sewn on the cuff to prevent this happening.
In a 2008 Science paper, Bass and colleagues identified this same region of the brain in larval midshipman fish, showing how it is present in the brains of other animals, including primates.
The other account of experiences in the navy as a midshipman is in a story called 'Storm Experiences' published earlier in 1859 where he describes a tremendous storm.
Vale Of York now joins Godolphin's Midshipman, a Godolphin Mile contender on the side of the world's richest race meeting at Meydan, with the latter also having been ruled out earlier this week.
A native of Westbury, N.Y., RDML Crean began his Navy career as a Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) Midshipman at the State University of New York Maritime College where he emerged as the Regimental Commander and "Outstanding Midshipman of 1978." In addition to a Bachelor of Science degree in marine transportation and business management, he earned a master of business administration degree from New Hampshire College's Graduate School of Business in 1983.
It appears on the third page, in the bottom right corner, under the heading "NELSON'S LAST MOMENTS," and it includes accounts of other heroes of Trafalgar: A midshipman, of the name of PRICE was brought into the cockpit, with his leg cut off at the calf; he was an heroic youth of 17.
Here is the cinema itself (closed on September 27, 1956), while showing Midshipman Easy (1935, starring Margaret Lockwood and Hughie Green), Queen of Spies and Cry of the Werewolf
This "feeling of command" is perhaps the most important element imparted to the marginally experienced midshipman, albeit intangible and nonquantifiable.
To that end, the midshipman education program of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was fashioned by deeply religious naval officers such as Captain Thomas Truxton, who sought to cultivate the leadership qualities in his young charges whom, he believed, were innate among those chosen for the noble service of officership.
Curse of the Blue Tattoo; being an account of the misadventures of Jacky Faber, midshipman and fine lady.