"Experience has brought me a full appreciation of the prize cargo a man can hoist aboard. To this beloved Navy I do commend: - Love of country, overshadowing all other loves, including service, family and the sea.
- Individual desire to excel, not for aggrandizement of self, but to increase the excellence in the Navy.
- Devotion--perhaps consecration--to personal integrity in oneself, in one's service, in one's country.
- Courage to stand for principle, regardless of efforts to dilute this courage through compromise and evasion."
Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, 10 July 1961, Farewell to the Navy
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