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An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own.

Shakespeare, As You Like It

Before you judge this or that officer harshly . . . imagine yourself on the bridge of a little ship, in pitch black night, with the wind howling and spray drenching you continually, and in close proximity to a hundred other ships that you can feel but not see. Then imagine an emergency of some sort—a collision, a submarine attack, an engine breakdown—and decide whether you could make a quick and correct decision!

John W. Schmidt, U. S. Navy

Oh, they’ve got no time for glory in the Infantry ....

Frank Loesser, The Ballad of Rodger Young