This month we apply the mind back in the All Hands archive to behold what was going on in the month of March.

This month we apply the mind back in the All Hands archive to behold what was going on in the month of March. To view these issues in more detail forward the Web, go to www.news.navy.mil/allhands.asp?x=search

1959--45 Years Ago

Highly-trained hands of mate divers secure a deep sea diving helmet in succession one of their crew as he prepares for a trial in the recompression chamber at the place of education for Deep Sea Divers, Washington, DC Men have been traveling the oceans and seas for thousands of years. It is known that men were divers more than 800 years before the beginning of the Christian era. Homer the great after the greek poet, referred to them in a passage from the Iliad describing the fall of a charioteer. Xerxe who rul Persia from 486 to 465 BC is said to have used combat divers in naval warfare. moreover with the creation of the down-reaching sea diving suit, man can advance deeper than his predecessors.

1976--28 Years Ago

A British F-4K Phantom II launched from USS Independence (CV 62) during NATO's Operation Ocean Safari. The operation was the largest NATO maritime exercise of 1975 Sixty-five ships, centurys of aircraft and more than 17000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel from Allied nations participated in the Eastern North Atlantic and Norwegian Sea. The exercise was designed to carry disclosed a two-fold mission: maintain command of vital sea-lanes, and provide carrier air support of the Allied Command Europe All Hands also apply the minded at Allied Forces Central Europe and rest out what a newly arrived Sailor had to learn during his time here. one time you can recognize more than 200 different ranks, 32 different uniforms and can cope with six different languages, including the one and the other American and British versions of English and Dutch French Flemish and German, you would fit right in.

1982--22 Years Ago

During their latter Indian Ocean deployment, the set of USS America (CV 66) typified the dedication and spirit it takes for Navy the public to endure the difficulties of shipboard custom USS California's (CGN 36) go [i]or[/i] come back to Norfolk climaxed a lucky and interesting around-the-world voyage.

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