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“A champion is someone who gets up, even when they can’t.” – Natalie Rogers Canon R5, RF100-500, at 300mm 1/5000 sec at f/5.0, ISO 250 NAS Pensacola Pensacola, Florida ///stateroom.melted.formed

Anybody who doesn’t have fear is an idiot. It’s just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell, when somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back. -Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF Canon R5, RF100-500, at 300mm 1/5000 sec at f/5.0, ISO 250 NAS Pensacola Pensacola, Florida ///stateroom.melted.formed

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. This I conceive to be fortunate, for man, by reason of his greater intellect, can more reasonably hope to equal birds in knowledge than to equal nature in the perfection of her machinery. -Wilbur Wright, letter to Octave Chanute, 13 May 1900 Canon R5, RF100-500, at 300mm 1/500 sec at f/8.0, ISO 100 NAS Pensacola Pensacola, Florida ///stateroom.melted.formed

"It follows than as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious." -President George Washington Canon EOS M, 18-55mm at 18mm 1/250 at f/10, ISO 100 USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park Mobile, Alabama ///curiosity.salons.educated

"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy." -President John F. Kennedy Canon EOS M, 18-55mm at 18mm 1/250 at f/10, ISO 100 USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park Mobile, Alabama ///playlist.premiered.redo

"A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace." -President Theodore Roosevelt Canon EOS M, 18-55mm at 18mm 1/320 at f/10, ISO 100 USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park Mobile, Alabama ///sailboats.softener.bespoke

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war. It's to be prepared for peace. There's a sign over the entrance to the Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state, and that sign says it all: 'Peace is our profession'. -Ronald Reagan Canon R5, RF 100-500 at 300mm 1/4000 sec at f/5.0, ISO 100 Thunder Over the Heartland Forbes Field Topeka, KS ///resembling.endorsement.lump

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities..because it is the quality which guarantees all others -- Sir Winston Churchill Canon R5, RF 100-500 at 200mm 1/5000 sec at f/5.0, ISO 250 Thunder Over the Heartland Forbes Field Topeka, KS ///resembling.endorsement.lump

A country which cannot defend itself from aerial attack will find its air bases, its munitions centres, its military depots, its shipyards, and its great cities subjected to a devastating rain of bombs within a few hours of the declaration of hostilities.  -- Brig Gen P.R.C. Groves, RAF, 1922 Canon R5, RF 100-500 at 200mm 1/5000 sec at f/5.0, ISO 250 Thunder Over the Heartland Forbes Field Topeka, KS ///resembling.endorsement.lump

…our Air Force belongs to those who come from ranks of labor, management, the farms, the stores, the professions and colleges and legislative halls…Air Power will always be the business of every American citizen. -- General Hap H. Arnold Canon R5, RF 100-500 at 200mm 1/5000 sec at f/5.0, ISO 250 Thunder Over the Heartland Forbes Field Topeka, KS ///resembling.endorsement.lump