#naval cadets charge!

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Gardemariny, vpered! (1987) Svetlana Družinina

Tatiana Lyutayeva as Anastasia Yaguzhinskaya

Gardemariny, vpered! (1987)

[lboogie1906]

General Richard Milo Clark (July 29, 1964) took command as top administrator of the Air Force Academy. Born in Frankfurt, he was one of six children in the blended family of former elementary schoolteacher Margo Hunter and stepfather Dr. Richard C. Hunter, who was once superintendent of schools in Baltimore and Richmond. A stellar high school athlete on the football and track teams, he started as a cadet at the Air Force Academy and was an outstanding football lineman.

He finished the Academy with a BA in Operations Research. He had become a graduate of the Squadron Officer School at Maxwell Air Force Base, National War College, National Defense University, and the Naval War College, and he studied security and foreign relations at Syracuse University and Harvard University. He earned an MS at Webster University in Human Resource Management; attended the weapons school at Ellsworth AFB and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Maryland.

He logged nearly 5,000 flight hours starting with training planes. He flew 400 hours during the Iraq War and was given the Distinguished Flying Cross.

After command assignments at the Pentagon, Air Force bases in the US, and service as director of Joint Interagency Task Force-Iraq, and Multi-National Force-Iraq in Baghdad, Iraq, he returned to his alma mater as Commandant of Cadets. He was in charge of the Third Air Force. He was back at the Pentagon as deputy chief of staff, Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration, Headquarters Air Force.

President Donald Trump nominated him to become superintendent of the Air Force Academy. He was the first to serve as the Academy’s African American chief and as a former Commandant of Cadets to return to lead the Academy. His many recognitions are the Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, Combat Action Medal, Aerial Achievement Medal, Bronze Star Medal with oak leaf cluster, and Nuclear Deterrence Operations Service Medal. He is married to Amy and has a daughter. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[georgefairbrother]

In the early evening of December 4th, 1951, 52 Royal Marine cadets, aged between nine and 13, were being marched the short distance from their own barracks to the Chatham Naval Barracks, via Dock Road, to watch a boxing match. They were marching three abreast, actually on the roadway owing to the narrowness of the footpath which abutted a high wall, and with the traffic. They had no torches or safety lighting, other than what was provided by the overhead streetlamps. The cadets were under the supervision of a regular Royal Marines Officer, Lieutenant Clarence Carter.

Just before six pm, in conditions of poor visibility worsened by fog and defective streetlighting, a double decker bus operated by the Chatham and District Traction Company hit the marching column from behind. Twenty four cadets were killed and a further 18 were injured, at that point the highest loss of life in a road traffic accident in the UK.

The bus was being driven by an experienced and highly regarded driver, 57 year old John Samson, who had worked for the company for 40 years and was about to be officially commended for his safety record, long service and good conduct. He stated that he did not see the cadets ahead of him prior to the collision. He was driving using sidelights only, despite the poor visibility, which was common practice at the time. Estimations of the speed of the bus by witnesses varied between 20 and 40 mph. There was no mention of any passengers aboard, it appears that the bus was returning to depot.

There was some thinking at the time that using sidelights only under street lighting reduced dangerous glare for other traffic. It was also to save power, as batteries under load could drain even when mobile.

Accounts of the accident and immediate aftermath are, not surprisingly, horrific. The conductor, Dorothy Dunster, initially thought the bus had run over a pile of ‘loose rocks’. The dead and injured were, according to witnesses, 'spread out from one side of the road to the other'. Several cadets were trapped beneath the bus and died before they could be rescued. Lieutenant Carter, who had attempted to marshal the cadets toward the side of the road upon hearing the bus approaching, was struck and injured, although it would appear not seriously. A number of cadets died in the arms of three Royal Navy sailors who had rushed to the scene having heard the cries and screams of the injured cadets.

Mr Samson was present for the Coroner’s inquest which was held at the Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham, during which parents had to sign off on the identification of their deceased sons, but he collapsed after the final identification was complete. The Coroner recorded verdicts of Accident Death, however Samson was charged with dangerous driving, fined 20 pounds at the Old Bailey, and was disqualified from driving for three years.

There was considerable sympathy for Mr Samson at the time and for many years afterwards. The jury, upon finding him guilty, urged the judge to show as much leniency as possible. The judge noted that no amount of punishment could be worse than Samson's own utter devastation at what had happened.

A number of injured cadets, recovering in hospital, organised a whip-round to buy Samson some chocolates to cheer him up. He continued to live locally, never spoke publicly, and was shielded by friends and neighbours whenever media interest in the crash rekindled from time to time.

According to the website of Historic Medway;

"...A huge amount of money was collected by public appeals after the crash. Some was spent on memorials for the boys who died, and some was spent on the boys who were disabled. The mayors, who were looking after the money, could not agree what to do with the rest and, after a court case, it was decreed that as it could not be returned to the donors (a lot of it was collected on the streets) it had to be kept in an account. It wasn't until the 1990s that some of the money was spent restoring the cadets' graves..."

Sources include: Websites of Kent Online and Historic Medway, archived Time Magazine, The Chatham Bus Disaster (YouTube) by Raven's Eye

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Fic Scraps: 5 Ways to Die at Sea (and one to survive)

Pairing: Hans/Eric. Oh yes, I mean it.

Plot: Hans rises in the ranks of a naval academy outside the Isles, because of course he does. He meets a blue-eyed songbird and doesn't kill him. The Isles and the kingdom by the sea may or may not be allies anymore.

Will be explicit, but isn't in this snippet. It's maybe 2/5 complete, but that's across the whole thing. If I post the first part on AO3 I swear to god I will never finish it because that's how things go, but I also crave external validation for this like a locust to your crops. PLEASE. THIS THING SCREAMS AT ME ON A REGULAR BASIS

Drowning (included below)

Injury

Fever

Fire

Ice

Shore leave

Cruel, cold, and utterly familiar. The Naval Academy taught Hans that the sea was much like his family, and he could hope to conquer neither turbulent waters nor a pride of Westergaards.

No one on the Isles would admit, at least openly, that the kingdom’s navy was lacking. Hans detested this, but it also meant that no one on the Isles would care if he disappeared to a different academy entirely–one from an ally across the sea in much warmer, less rocky shores. He’d get a better education and time spent away from twelve brothers. Of course he’d be expected to take his place in the Isles’ own Admiralty, but a few years reprieve was all he could ask for.

He ascended from cadet to Lieutenant with little fanfare. Hans had always been taught that a bitter land and bitter sea would teach him better than anything, and yet he learned more in this tropical paradise than he ever did sailing close to home. Perhaps he could become an Admiral his family might acknowledge beyond a distasteful glance. As Lieutenant in this navy, he could take a cadet and teach them too. And the kingdom, trusting in a way Hans couldn’t understand, handed him their prince.

The Prince had entered the academy as Hans had seen and learned what he had to. Hans had seen enough sea burials, strung enough needles in septa to send men to heaven, and here came this fresh blue-eyed songbird who was the only direct descendant in line for his throne.

Hans assumed someone wanted Prince Eric dead. Hans wondered if he would have, too, if the sea prince had never been under his charge. Damn his blue eyes and windswept hair and love, love, so much love, too much love for a human to give without a price.

Eric’s affection was easy, unflinching, and utterly without condition. He reminded Hans of a big dog. Loyal, yes, but liable to get himself killed without a master’s intervention.

Hans was doomed to graduate and to hope his fleet admiralty would make one Westergaard lion proud.

Eric, His Highness, became something lesser on this vessel. Officer Cadet Eric, addressed simply by “sailor.” The Prince seemed to prefer it that way.

“Lieutenant Westergaard,” Hans replied. “Have you sailed before?”

“It’s all I’ve known how to do since I could walk.”

“That either means you’ll lose yourself or you’ve learned some bad habits.”

“Neither, I hope.”

“We’ll see. You report to me.”

Hans had been that bright-eyed once. He wondered if it would pain him to see how quickly jaded his little lark would become.

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HMS Belfast from the Harland and Wolff Shipyard, Northern Ireland dated from 1938 on display in London, England

This Town-Class Cruiser was the first ship in the Royal Navy to be named after the capital of Northern Ireland and was launched on St Patrick's Day, 1938. Town-Class ships were light cruisers designed under the constraits of the London Naval Treaty of 1930. They had a main armament no greater than 6.1 in (155 mm) calibre but had numerous smaller calibre guns as well as torpedoe tubes and depth charge launchers.

During the Second World War it was part of naval blockades against the Nazis, escorted artic covoys to the Soviet Union after they entered the war and fought in the battle of the North Cape where they assisted destroying the Nazis battleship Scharnhorst. In the later part of the war, the ship was part of Operation Overlord, the Normany Landings, and then redeployed to the British Pacific Fleet.

The ship is now a branch of the Imperial War Museum and home of the City of London Sea Cadets.

Photographs taken by myself 2023

[rncareergroup]

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The National Defence Academy Examination (NDA) is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission for admission to the Army, Navy and Air Force wings of the NDA and Indian Naval Academy.

Eligibility :

Age : Candidates must be between the ages of 16.6 and 19.6 years.

Educational Qualification : Candidates must have passed 10+2 examination with Physics and Mathematics from a recognized Board or University.

Physical Standards :

(i) Candidates must be in good physical and mental health and free from any disease which is likely to interfere with the efficient performance of their duties.

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NDA Exam Pattern : 

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will conduct the written examination for the National Defence Academy and Naval Academy. There will be two phases to the examination, namely a written examination and an interview. There will be two papers in the written examination. Paper I will be a mathematics test and Paper II will be a general ability test (GAT). There will be five hours total for the written examination.

Paper I — Mathematics (2 hours)

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A 900-mark interview will be conducted by the Services Selection Board (SSB). Candidates who qualify the written examination will be invited for the interview.

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A visit to RN Defence Academy is a must if you are looking for the best NDA coaching center in Haryana.

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Tips to crack NDA Exam

Almost every year, lakhs of students take the NDA exam in India with the hope of getting chosen to serve in the prestigious Indian Armed Forces. During pre-commissioning training in their respective service academies, cadets of the three services, the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, train together at the National Defence Academy (NDA), the joint services academy of the Indian Armed Forces.

If you are aspiring to crack the NDA exam and become a part of the Indian Armed Forces, then here are a few tips that will help you prepare for the exam in the best possible way:

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3. revise Regularly: It is important to revise what you have studied on a regular basis. This will help you retain the information better and also be able to recall it when required.

4. Take Mock Tests: Taking mock tests is a great way to prepare for the exam as it will give you an idea of the time constraint and also help you improve your speed and accuracy.

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[artist-ellen]

Cadet Emily Roland

Emily Roland is the daughter of Captain Roland and is set to become Captain of her mother's dragon 'Excidium' (Longwing) after her mother's death (Dragon's live a lot longer than humans so Captains "breed themselves" as much as they breed dragons, as dragons are more willing to work with a Captain who grieves the loss of their previous Captain/has had a similarly deep connection to their Captain). Emily is mistaken for a boy by Laurence at first, but only briefly. Technically she's supposed to have a bowl cut at this age, but the paintings of Naval Cadets/Midshipmen around this age had slightly longer hair so this is where we ended up.

Please: No spoilers!! I want my friend to go into the series as blind as possible ;D. Like to charge, reblog to cast that we'll get to the end of the series and I can draw amazing characters from all the books!

I am the artist!!! Don’t repost without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: Instagram , Patreon

[tealin]

Capt. Robert Falcon Scott

I know Scott intimately, as you know.  I have known him now for ten years, and I believe in him so firmly that I am often sorry when he lays himself open to misunderstanding.  I am sure that you will come to know him and believe in him as I do, and none the less because he is sometimes difficult.  However you will soon see for yourself.

— E.A. Wilson, in a letter to Cherry, April 1910 

On June 6th, 1868, Robert Falcon Scott was born in Plymouth, where his father ran the family brewery.  Robert and his younger brother Archibald followed their uncles into the armed forces.  Arch – sunny, energetic, athletic – made his way in the Army, while Robert – contemplative, moody, cerebral – was enrolled as a Naval cadet.  This drilled out of him several character traits he considered defective, but his tendency to reverie and reflection remained evident in his letters, and his relationships with loved ones saw no lapse in sensitivity. 

By his mid-twenties, he was Lieutenant R.F. Scott, and beginning to make his name on torpedo ships.  Matters at home were less promising: his father's business failed, the large family home had to be let, his four sisters took jobs, and his brother transferred to a better-paying regiment in Nigeria.  Disaster was allayed for a while, but in 1897 Mr. Scott died,  followed shortly by jolly Arch, leaving Lt. R.F. Scott head of the household and principal breadwinner.  He was devoted to his mother, whose kindness had offset his father's volcanic temper, and to his sisters, who had been eager companions on childhood adventures, and he keenly felt this new responsibility.  To keep them in something like respectable circumstances, Lt. Scott sent home as much of his meagre naval salary as he could. 

Just before all this misfortune, Scott had fortuitously run into Sir Clements Markham, who had been impressed with his sailing many years before.  Markham was, at the time, beginning to organise a scientific expedition to Antarctica, and though Scott had little inherent interest in snowy wastes per se, his curiosity and ambition prompted him to apply for the post of commander.  It paid off: two years later, at the age of 33 and not yet a full captain, Scott set sail in command of the purpose-built R.R.S. Discovery with the crew and scientific staff he'd been in charge of assembling, including Dr Wilson and Ernest Shackleton.

The Discovery Expedition expanded Antarctic knowledge exponentially, and showed where existing Arctic knowledge and experience needed amendment.  Markham believed in the flexibility of young minds and Scott lived up to his expectations, if not more; by the time he returned to Britain in 1904 he was an expert in polar science, exploration, and command, and had earned the firm loyalty of several men who would follow him back to the ends of the earth six years later.  The expedition had provided him with an opportunity to expand his intellect and exercise broader skills than a naval job allowed, and his artistic instincts flourished in the writing of the expedition narrative, The Voyage of the Discovery.

The whole affair was enough of a popular sensation to get Scott a place in Society.  When not preoccupied with naval work or golfing with the Prince of Wales, he was invited to cultured soirées, where his suppressed Bohemian side attracted him to people like J.M. Barrie and Kathleen Bruce, a sculptress who had trained under Rodin and liked to go “vagabonding” across Europe.  A Discovery companion wrote that Scott “enjoyed [women's] company if they were pretty, and more so if they appeared to be intelligent.  He was a great admirer of any woman who could 'do a job of work' successfully.”  Miss Bruce fit all three, and moreover had a high opinion of him in return, and they fell deeply in love.  Ever the responsible one, Scott was reluctant to marry, as he was still supporting his mother and sisters and felt he couldn't afford to keep a wife in any comfort on top of that.  After insistence from his mother not to be silly and from Kathleen that she was perfectly capable of providing for herself, they wed in the autumn of 1908.   

 The following year, Shackleton arrived back from his own Antarctic expedition, having failed to attain the Pole by a narrow margin, so Scott leapt into planning the next attempt.  Unlike the Discovery Expedition, Scott's second endeavour was a private enterprise.  The first ship had been a bespoke scientific vessel; the second was bought used from a whaling fleet, then renovated and retrofitted with lab space.  Scott was as preoccupied with drumming up sponsorships and donations as he was with organising the expedition itself.  Despite his lack of resources this time around, he did have an asset in the capable help and cheerleading of Kathleen, who was far more involved with the business than the more traditional men in their company thought proper.  On top of this, she was raising her much-longed-for son, who they christened Peter after Barrie's famous creation.

 When the Terra Nova set sail for the Antarctic in June of 1910, Scott stayed behind to continue fundraising in England, and do yet more in South Africa before he rejoined the ship there.  The charm offensive continued practically until the final departure from New Zealand at the end of November.  They had managed to equip the expedition, but were depending on the eventual resale of the ship, press contracts, and post-expedition lecture tours to put the whole endeavour in the black before it was wrapped up. 

Once out of sight of New Zealand, financial considerations could thankfully be put to one side, but the Antarctic brought is own strains.  Scott was a capable commander whose leadership skills had been lauded by those both above and below him, and he had worked hard to wrestle his temperamental nature into his control.  But he was still prone to depression, which tended to arise when circumstances kept his nervous energy from application.  Once such situation was when the Terra Nova was stuck in the pack ice in the Ross Sea – aside from the frustrating immobility, Scott also worried about the consumption of their limited coal, and the impact of every day's delay on what provision they could make for the next year's polar journey.  On the other hand, when energy could be turned into action, his enthusiasm and drive surpassed everyone else's – pulling up the Beardmore Glacier the following summer, he set a rigorous standard for how much time and distance could be got out of a day.

Scott's enormous capacity for planning, and personal feelings of responsibility for those in his care, were fully evident in the first year on the ice. While stuck in the hut during the winter, his drive was channelled into planning the details of the following season's journey to the Pole, taking into account the existing stores and depots, dozens of moving pieces including the ship and satellite parties, and layers of contingencies. When he learned, the previous autumn, that Amundsen stood to beat him to the prize, he resolved not to rise to the bait, and to carry on as if nothing had changed – if he came second, so be it; it would be a job done properly and with plenty of science along the way.

Nevertheless, there is obvious disappointment in Scott's journal when he discovers this is indeed what had come to pass.  That old nervous energy was soon turned to getting the party home again, but when problems started to stack up, depression came creeping in.  His self-discipline still had the upper hand, though, and no matter how despondent his journals reveal him to be, his actions were always in support of his companions and their drive to get home.

A crucial threshold was reached near the end, when his arch-enemy immobility caught up with him: frostbitten and snowed-in, this ought to have been the final straw, but instead all the strengths of Scott's character rallied and he poured himself out in page after page of letters to his friends, family, sponsors, advocates, and The Public.  His primary concern was, as always, that those depending on him (and on those he got into this mess) were provided for; he overflows with sympathy for the families his companions leave behind; he bemoans his unfinished business and tries to arrange what he can from a tent in the middle of nowhere, including a heartfelt note trying to patch things up with his estranged friend Barrie.  His Message to the Public – scribbled in tiny lines on the back leaves of his journal – is both a stirring testament to the human spirit, and a clear-headed, even-handed analysis of what went wrong; remarkable in its own right, all the more from someone starving, dehydrated, and utterly played out.  And all this was written without any assurance that any of it would ever be found. 

Found it was, though, and when delivered to its intended recipient, the Message to the Public (and the Polar Party's story) elicited such a swell of generosity that not only were the families looked after but the Expedition's debts paid off and, eventually, an eponymous institute of polar studies founded.  Captain Scott, the Tragic Hero, was sainted in British popular culture for much of the twentieth century, but post-imperial historical revisionism came for him, and his character was unsubtly dragged in a very popular and influential book, and later TV miniseries.  

Echoes of this had coloured my perception of him before I knew the story, but when I got into this subject seriously and started reading the first-hand accounts, it seemed there was more to him than the hubristic Victorian bungler.  It was the centenary of the Expedition that truly changed my mind – starting in November of 2010 I read his diary entries, one a day, and in doing so got to know him on his own terms, and in fuller context.  Both sainthood and infamy do a disservice to a deeply interesting and multi-faceted personality; I ended up rather fond of him, and full of admiration for what he achieved, both personally and professionally.  I don't know if I'll succeed in changing anyone's mind with my work, but I'm determined to present the complex and honourable man I've come to know with the sympathy he deserves. 

Scott's unfortunate history of character assassination via liberties with source material means his biographies are something of a minefield.  Trying to stick as close to the facts as possible, I've drawn this writeup mainly from George Seaver's small biography, which was largely informed by Scott's sister, and the biography Kathleen commissioned from Stephen Gwynn, which is more or less a collection of letters with sufficient editorial filler to string his life together.  I maintain that the best way to get to know him is to read his journal, but these are both sound books, and Diana Preston's portrait of him in A First-Rate Tragedy is also comprehensive and well-cited.

Regarding the art: He's a tricky one to figure out, visually, because the features that most invite caricature (big eyes, small nose, high forehead) make him look like a baby-faced old man, and that gives the wrong impression of his character.  His bust at the Canterbury Museum in New Zealand – preternaturally lifelike –helped a lot, as the later images show.

[thebritishmonarchycouk]

On This Day In Royal History . 31 July 1919 . George VI (when Prince Albert) qualified as an RAF pilot. . Prince Albert’s military career 1918-1919; . In February 1918, he was appointed Officer in Charge of Boys at the Royal Naval Air Service’s training establishment at Cranwell. With the establishment of the Royal Air Force two months later & the reassignment of Cranwell from Admiralty to Air Ministry responsibility, Albert transferred from the Royal Navy to the Royal Air Force. He was appointed Officer Commanding Number 4 Squadron of the Boys’ Wing at Cranwell until August 1918, before reporting to the RAF’s Cadet School at St Leonards-on-Sea where he completed a fortnight’s training & took command of a squadron on the Cadet Wing. He was the first member of the royal family to be certified as a fully qualified pilot. . Albert was greatly desirous of serving on the Continent while the war was still in progress and was very pleased to be posted to General Trenchard's staff. On 23 October he flew across the Channel to Autigny. For the closing weeks of the war, he served on the staff of the RAF's Independent Air Force at its headquarters in Nancy, France. Following the disbanding of the Independent Air Force in November 1918, he remained on the Continent for two months as a staff officer with the Royal Air Force until posted back to Britain. He accompanied the Belgian monarch King Albert on his triumphal re-entry into Brussels on 22 November. Prince Albert qualified as an RAF pilot on 31 July 1919 & gained a promotion to squadron leader on the following day. . Prior to 1918 he had served in the Royal Navy & one year after his commission, he began service in the First World War. He was mentioned in despatches for his action as a turret officer aboard Collingwood in the Battle of Jutland (31 May – 1 June 1916), an indecisive engagement with the German navy that was the largest naval action of the war. He did not see further combat, largely because of ill health caused by a duodenal ulcer, for which he had an operation in November 1917. . . . (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CR__TOisFSs/?utm_medium=tumblr

[workersandstudentsdemocracy]

Harvard and the Ivy Leagues are White Supremacist

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/awky8y/in_the_1920s_to_the_1930s_some_people_thought/

Yeah, it was absolutely true. Many colleges, Ivy League and not, had quotas for Jewish attendance. This mostly became an issue in the interwar period.* While Jews had been emigrating to the US for several hundred years, since the first settlement of what is now New York, a massive wave of Eastern European Jewish emigration began in 1881 and continued in full force until (and to an extent through) World War I. In the 1920s, this ended due to racist, eugenicist influences on Congress- draconian immigration laws were enacted in 1924 to drastically limit immigration particularly of poor and "less white" people, like Jews, Italians, and Greeks, by basing the permitted immigration on numbers from 1890, when relatively few had emigrated. However, by the 1920s, colleges felt like they were facing a different problem- second-generation advancement. Jews who had arrived since 1881 had come with little to no English and relatively little education in general, but especially given the emphasis on assimilation and the "melting pot" which their children received in schools and settlement houses, the children of immigrants were far more Americanized, and their parents pushed them toward academic success. By 1915, for example, about 40% of students at Columbia were Jewish (either immigrants or first generation Americans)- ironically due to the fact that Columbia had made it easier for them to get in as public school students by basing admissions on standardized tests.

College administrators were not happy about this, so they decided to do something about it.

Examples:

In 1922, Harvard implemented a 10% quota for Jews in order to prevent a "Jewish problem," in the words of its president, A. Lawrence Lowell. He rationalized this by saying that he wanted to decrease potential antisemitism on campus.

Harvard also changed its admission system from an entrance exam (which favored studious Jews from the well-performing NYC public school system, who generally succeeded) to a system in which they accepted students from the top seventh of their class regardless of their score on the exam. This favored students in other parts of the country who had received lower quality education, and had the additional "benefit" of reducing the number of Jewish accepted students.

In the 1920s, Columbia basically invented the modern college application form. Why? So that they could weed out Jewish (and potentially other undesirable) applicants. Knowing that many Jews changed their names to hide their Jewishness, these forms required that past names be listed and also asked for country of origin, mother's maiden name, and social organizations. And you know those questions about extracurriculars? Those were also invented for this purpose, as a measure of "character"- with character meaning "not Jewish." Jews were known for being studious and "greasy," not participating in all of the typically WASPy social concerns, and so by making "character" a requirement they were able to eliminate Jews from the pool. Nicholas Murray Butler, when discussing the more limited admission of Jews, stated that there had been no conscious effort to eliminate Jews- after evaluating the application forms, Jews were simply among "the lowest grade of applicant," this despite the fact that so many had previously been accepted on the basis of grades.Harvard soon followed suit in using an application form, and many other colleges adopted it in the coming years.

While universities like Princeton had been interested in making a quota, it took Harvard and Columbia making the first move for them to implement one, along with colleges like Barnard, Yale, Duke, Rutgers, Adelphi, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Penn State, Ohio State, Washington and Lee, the Universities of Cincinnati, Illinois, Kansas, Texas, Minnesota, Virginia, and Washington, and the Bronx campus of NYU.

Colgate University kept six Jews enrolled specifically in order to counter charges of antisemitic admissions.

Syracuse University housed Jews separately from other students and had a KKK branch on campus.

Sarah Lawrence College had a question on its application about whether applicants had been raised with "strict Sunday observance."

-Even as late as 1945, Dartmouth retained a quota for its Jews, citing its status as a Christian college for Christian men.

If a Jew WAS accepted to an elite university, he (they were generally not coeducational yet) could expect not to be accepted into university culture. The social clubs and fraternities which made these colleges one big boys' club did not let Jews among their number. They were often considered to lack college spirit, be physically repulsive, not drink enough, be brown-nosers, and not participate in sports enough, as well as to raise the academic standard too high. They were also considered to be below the appropriate level of social class and standing.

-At Brown University, Jewish students were barred from fraternities, but also barred from creating their own fraternity, purportedly to prevent antisemitism.

At the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, the page with the number two ranking cadet, who happened to be Jewish, was perforated so that those who desired could remove it without defacing the volume.

Even at universities which accepted small numbers of Jews, almost no Jews would be accepted as college professors. Fewer than 100 Jews were hired as faculty throughout the country, and nearly all under protest or some kind of special circumstance, with the caveat that they didn't usually hire Jews.

Graduate programs admitted few Jews, using as the pretext the fact that they would never be hired as university faculty.

Despite all this, Jews continued in their quests for education, becoming 9% of college students despite being 4% of the general population. They were also nearly half of the total number of college students in New York City. They generally matriculated at City College of New York (called by some the "cheder [religious school] on the hill") or NYU's downtown campus (nicknamed "New York Jew"). In 1920, CCNY and Hunter College (the women's college) had 80-90% Jewish student bodies. CCNY had been the first college to create a Jewish fraternity, ZBT, which stood for Zion Bemishpat Tipadeh, or Zion Shall Be Redeemed With Judgement. Even there, there were few Jewish faculty members- for example, there were only four at CCNY. By the 1930s, there were still only 5, and CCNY was faced with charges of antisemitism in their hiring.

There were absolutely protests of this practice. There was an outcry, for example, when Columbia implemented its application form. However, for the most part, Jews preferred not to attend colleges where they would be social outcasts and often (especially those who already lived in NY) actively chose schools like CCNY/Hunter College and NYU (and initially Columbia) as they were close to home and would provide a more Jewish-friendly environment. In general, especially in the 1930s and 40s, the US was a pretty antisemitic place (I touch on this here). For example, in a poll in the 1940s, 45% of college students said they would not want to be roommates with a Jew. The end of the practice of Jewish quotas wasn't so much due to outcry as due to an internal examination of antisemitism in the US and the decline of the phenomenon in the postwar years. (The Civil Rights Act didn't exist til 1964, so the practice wasn't illegal.)

*That's not to say there was no discrimination against Jews in colleges before this- many prominent Jews of the early 20th century, such as Oscar Straus and Bernard Baruch, later noted the difficulties they faced as Jews in university.

[greatworldwar2]

• HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen

HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen is a Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper of the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNN).

Abraham Crijnssen was the third of eight Jan van Amstel-class minesweepers constructed for the RNN during the late 1930s. Built by Werf Gusto at their yard in Schiedam, South Holland, the minesweeper was launched on September 22nd, 1936, and commissioned into the RNN on May 26th, 1937. She was named after 17th century naval commander Abraham Crijnssen. Abraham Crijnssen and her sister ships were 184 feet (56 m) long, with a beam of 25 feet (7.6 m), a draught of 7 feet (2.1 m), and a displacement of 525 tons. The minesweepers were fitted with two Yarrow 3-drum boilers and two Stork triple expansion engines, which provided 1,690 ihp (1,260 kW) to two propeller shafts, allowing the ship to reach 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph). Abraham Crijnssen was armed with a single 3-inch gun, and two Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, plus a payload of depth charges. The standard ship's company was 45.

The ship was based at Surabaya in the Netherlands East Indies when Japan invaded in 1941. Following the Allied defeats at the Battles of the Java Sea and Sunda Strait in late February 1942, all Allied ships were ordered to withdraw to Australia. Abraham Crijnssen was meant to sail with three other warships, but found herself proceeding alone. To escape detection by Japanese aircraft (which the minesweeper did not have the armament to defend effectively against), the ship was heavily camouflaged with jungle foliage, giving the impression of a small island. Personnel cut down trees and branches from nearby islands, and arranged the cuttings to form a jungle canopy covering as much of the ship as possible. Any hull still exposed was painted to resemble rocks and cliffs. To further the illusion, the ship would remain close to shore, anchored and immobile during daylight, and only sail at night. She headed for Fremantle, Western Australia, where she arrived on 20 March 1942; Abraham Crijnssen was the last vessel to successfully escape Java, and the only ship of her class in the region to survive.

After arriving in Australian waters, the minesweeper underwent a refit, which included the installation of new ASDIC equipment. On September 28th, the minesweeper was commissioned into the RAN as HMAS Abraham Crijnssen. She was reclassified as an anti-submarine convoy escort, and was also used as a submarine tender for the Dutch submarines that relocated to Australia following the Japanese conquest. The ship's Dutch sailors were supplemented with survivors from the British destroyer HMS Jupiter and Australian personnel, all under the command of an Australian lieutenant. The wardroom tradition of hanging a portrait of the commissioned ship's reigning monarch led to some tension before it was decided to leave Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands on the bulkhead instead of replacing her with King George VI of the United Kingdom, which was installed in the lieutenant's cabin.

While escorting a convoy to Sydney through Bass Strait on January 26th, 1943, Abraham Crijnssen detected a submarine on ASDIC. The convoy was ordered to scatter, while Abraham Crijnssen and HMAS Bundaberg depth charged the submarine contact. No wreckage of the suspected submarine was found. A pair of hastily released depth charges at the start of the engagement damaged the minesweeper; several fittings and pipes were damaged, and all of her centreline rivets had to be replaced during a week-long dry-docking. Abraham Crijnssen was returned to RNN service on May 5th, 1943, but remained in Australian waters for most of World War II. On June 7th, 1945, the minesweeper left Sydney for Darwin, with the oil lighter (and former submarine) K9 in tow. On June 8th, the tow cable snapped, and K9 washed ashore at Seal Rocks, New South Wales. Abraham Crijnssen was used for mine-clearing sweeps of Kupang Harbour prior to the arrival of a RAN force to accept the Japanese surrender of Timor.

Following the end of World War II, the minesweeper was used on anti-revolution patrols of the Netherlands East Indies. She left for the Netherlands in August 1951, and was converted into a boom defence vessel in March 1956. The ship was removed from the Navy List in 1960. After leaving service, Abraham Crijnssen was donated to the Sea Cadet Corps (Zeekadetkorps Nederland) for training purposes. She was docked at The Hague from 1962 to 1972, after which she was moved to Rotterdam. The ship was also used as a storage hulk during this time. In 1995, Abraham Crijnssen was marked for preservation by the Dutch Navy Museum at Den Helder. She was retrofitted to her wartime configuration.

[kassylin]

I am reminded every day how lucky and privileged I am to be a part of English and Russian kdrama/cdrama fandoms. I’ve said that already, but Russian fandom is insane in a best way possible lol Also there’s just something about Russian language that resonates deeply and beautifully with Chinese. Both those languages are so poetic and melodic, I can’t. There’s also the fact that in Russian so many words can be used to describe the same thing, similar to Chinese. Which English, the love of my life, often lacks. 

For example “Dawang” has the most beautiful word in Russian, that neither Lord, nor Prince can fully explain) Also I have a kink the size of the moon for any “Князь” since my favourite childhood movie “Naval cadets, charge!” lol There was this Lord Nikita Olenev that I would sell my kidney for lol TRP has the most beautiful, gorgeous and correct/thorough rus subs. There are plenty of idioms (my fav is when XQ is trying to console drunk Awu sitting in his lap and says: that brave woman who was looking at the death, standing on the cliff, as if it was a homecoming *dies*). Guys from Green tea, who are the only ones that I can watch kdramas subbed by them. Such soothing voices. FSG Fireflame, Asian Dragons, ТурмаЛин, you guys are incredible T_T FSG Phoenixes who subbed The longest day in Chang’an and every time your translation gives me goosebumps. I have translated many many stucky stories for a Russian Marvel fandom in my youth lol And I know what a hellish work that is. But how it repays with the joy of those that are as crazy as you are lol

Thank you, my lovelies!

Please accept that bow from me and Dawang for your incredible, hard work)

[creepingsharia]

Families of service members killed, wounded by Saudi jihad mass shooting at Florida Naval Air Station file lawsuit

Pensacola Navy base mass shooter had accomplices, help from Saudi Arabia, victims claim in terror lawsuit

Families of three slain U.S. service members and 13 others wounded in a mass shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola in 2019 alleged Monday that the government of Saudi Arabia facilitated the attack that U.S. authorities concluded was an act of international terrorism.

A 152-page complaint in federal court in Pensacola makes startling new allegations that the shooter, Royal Saudi Air Force 2nd Lt. Ahmed Mohammed al-Shamrani, executed the attack with the support of “accomplices.” Those included fellow Saudi air force trainees, who he told of his plans at a dinner the night before and during a November visit to the 9/11 memorial in New York City to pay tribute to the hijackers, the plaintiffs alleged.

Al-Shamrani, who was killed by responding sheriff’s deputies, worked with al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula for five years to plan the Dec. 6, 2019, attack, U.S. authorities said last May after de-encrypting his phone.

The families also accused the Trump administration and Saudi government of reneging on pledges of support for families.

“In the eyes of the American people, there is no greater betrayal than the realization that a purported ally is, in fact, an enemy, “ the lawsuit asserts. It seeks damages for an attack the families say was caused by Saudi Arabia and its willful or grossly negligent acts in sending a terrorist operative “Trojan horse” into a U.S. program to train pilots flying billions of dollars of U.S.-sold warplanes.

“I think they knew he was out to destroy the American people, and he was a terrorist. Innocent lives were loss. It should have never happened,” said Evelyn Brady, a 20-year Navy veteran whose son, Airman Apprentice Mohammed Haitham, 19, was killed while running unarmed toward the shooter with his hands up, pleading with him to stop.

“They were supposed to take care of the families. … They’ve done nothing,” said Brady, who is represented with other plaintiffs by law firms led by Kreindler & Kreindler, which is also suing the kingdom on behalf of 9/11 victims and survivors.

A U.S.-based attorney for the Saudi government and spokesman for the Saudi Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The lawsuit comes as U.S.-Saudi relations have fallen to a new low since January, with the new Biden administration canceling arms sales, criticizing human rights abuses and the harassment of dissidents and pledging to “recalibrate” ties with the kingdom and its de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The administration has said it will continue arms sales to the world’s biggest customer for U.S. weapons and signaled that it wants to continue a strong counterterrorism partnership.

But it is also expected to make public as early as this week a long-sought U.S. intelligence report concluding that the crown prince ordered the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and to press Riyadh to end its war in Yemen and to moderate their own extremism.

A State Department spokesman said it declined to comment on pending litigation, but the Pensacola families’ allegations further complicate U.S.-Saudi ties. There are also pending federal lawsuits against the prince and other Saudis by Khashoggi’s fiancee and by a former top Saudi intelligence officer and close U.S. intelligence ally now living in Canada who claims he was also targeted for assassination.

Saudi Arabia has been frequently targeted by terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda, which carried out large-scale attacks beginning in 2003, and more recently by assailants sympathetic to the Islamic State group. Attacks have been directed at government facilities, Westerners stationed in the kingdom and members of Saudi Arabia’s Shiite minority, who are considered heretics by hard-line Sunni Muslims.

In January 2020, then-Attorney General William P. Barr announced that the 15-minute rampage at the Florida base was an act of terrorism, with the FBI concluding that  Shamrani was motivated by “jihadist ideology.”

Barr and aides said that while it was initially reported that Shamrani arrived at the shooting site with others, who filmed it, he in fact arrived alone and that the investigation had not found evidence that anyone else acted with him.

Barr said 21 cadets from Saudi Arabia, including 12 from the Pensacola base, were disenrolled from their training and would be returning to the kingdom after U.S. officials said they found evidence that 17 Saudis had shared Islamist or anti-American material through social media. Fifteen — including some of those who had shared anti-American material — were found to have had contact with or possessed child pornography.

Barr said U.S. attorneys had reviewed each case and determined that such people would not normally be charged with federal crimes.

The families’ Pensacola lawsuit makes more specific allegations. They claim that Saudi authorities knew of the radicalization and anti-American and anti-Jewish statements of  Shamrani — an al-Qaeda operative who made his first contact with al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula by at least 2015 — which he shared via Twitter.

Shamrani was nevertheless one of two out of hundreds of students in his Royal Saudi Air Force Academy class awarded a scholarship to enter a joint military training program in the United States, the suit asserts.

It also claims that the Saudi commanding officer on base and 11 other trainees it did not name knew that Shamrani purchased and stored a 9mm handgun and ammunition on base in violation of U.S. and Saudi policy; and that Saudi officials left the commanding officer’s post unfilled from September 2019 until after the shooting.

“None of the Royal Saudi Air Force trainees at the scene of the attack reported  Shamrani’s behavior nor did they try to stop the NAS Terrorist Attack, because they supported it,” the suit asserts.

On Sept. 11, Shamrani posted a message on social media saying, “The countdown has begun,” and later that month sent a copy of his will to AQAP purporting to explain the coming attack, the suit alleges. That Thanksgiving weekend, the suit said, al-Shamrani visited the memorial in New York City to those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, in which 15 of 19 hijackers were Saudi nationals.

Read the lawsuit here

The suit alleges that during the visit, the trainees “discussed the plans for the NAS Pensacola Terrorist Attack.” It also asserts that on Dec. 5, the night before the attack,  Shamrani hosted a dinner party for fellow trainees at which he screened videos of mass shootings and discussed his plans for the next day.

At least three trainees who attended the dinner called in sick the next morning, one of whom stood outside the building and recorded the shooting on his cellphone while two others watched from a nearby car, the suit claims.

That so many trainees were at least sympathetic to al-Qaeda and that several were “actually accomplices” demonstrates their belief that their extremist views “were in furtherance of [the kingdom’s] political and religious goals,” the suit claims.

Killed in the attack were Ensign Joshua Kaleb Watson, 23, of Enterprise, Ala., a recent Naval Academy graduate; Haitham, of St. Petersburg, Fla,; and Airman Apprentice Cameron Walters, 21, of Bryan County, Ga., days removed from boot camp and serving his first day on watch duty, who Shamrani approached from behind and shot in the back of the head.

Four Navy service members, a Navy civil servant, seven sheriff’s deputies and a Department of Defense police officer wounded in the attack also joined the suit. Two are partially disabled for life, including Airman George Johnson, 26, and Jessica Pickett, 20. Johnson, a single parent who now must use a cane, was hit seven times, including one bullet that was blocked by a metal “I love you” card from his mother in his wallet. Pickett, a Navy veteran and civilian employee, was struck nine times and has a metal rod in her left leg, a gap in her femur and requires a walker or wheelchair.

After expressing terrorist views for two years before being chosen for a coveted slot, training overseas to become a pilot, “An officer in their uniform murdered three Americans,” said Walters’s father, Shane Walters, 47, a former Navy F-18 Hornet mechanic and sales team manager at Gulfstream Aerospace.

“Why? How did he get here? They had to have known. … It’s shameful,” Walters said.

Walters condemned the Trump administration for failing to prioritize “dealing face-to-face” with the Saudis over the attacks. He also rebuked former president Donald Trump and the Saudi royal family for never personally speaking with the families of the killed or wounded U.S. service members.

The Trump administration was preoccupied with striking new arms and diplomatic deals and coddled Saudi Arabia “in a way no president ever has. I don’t think my son’s murder, or Mo’s murder, or Joshua’s murder, was a top priority,” Walters said.

The suit asserted that, adding “insult to injury,” Saudi Arabia has ignored or rebuked all attempts to discuss the families’ claims, as it purportedly promised in exchange for the U.S. allowing Saudi officers at Pensacola to immediately return home rather than face further investigation.

The suit cited then-President Trump saying to reporters after a phone call with King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud: “The king will be involved in taking care of the families and loved ones. …  likewise the crown prince. They are devastated by what took place in Pensacola. And I think they are going to help out the families very greatly.”

However, neither the U.S. government nor the kingdom of Saudi Arabia “contacted my family or talked to the other families,” Walters said. After the attacks, representatives of his son’s last private employer came to Walters’s home to give him two challenge coins from the vice president, Walters said, “one for me and one for my wife. They couldn’t do it themselves.”

Foreign governments and leaders  are typically immune from civil suits in U.S. courts while in office. However, the lawsuit cited exceptions for terrorism and for victims of Saudi Arabia. It also cited a 1991 law called the Torture Victim Protection Act which provides recourse in U.S. courts for violations of international law and for victims of “flagrant human rights violations,” including torture and summary execution abroad.

[rncareergroup]

Best NDA Written Exam Coaching Centre In Himachal -- 7399973929

NDA Exam Coaching in Himachal — The National Defence Academy (NDA) is the joint services academy of the Indian Armed Forces, where cadets of the three services, the Army, the Navy and the Air Force train together before they go on to pre-commissioning training in their respective service academies. The NDA is located in Khadakwasla near Pune, Maharashtra. It is the first tri-service academy in the world.

The National Defence Academy Examination (NDA) is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission for admission to the Army, Navy and Air Force wings of the NDA and Indian Naval Academy.

Eligibility :

Age : Candidates must be between the ages of 16.6 and 19.6 years.

Educational Qualification : Candidates must have passed 10+2 examination with Physics and Mathematics from a recognized Board or University.

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(i) Candidates must be in good physical and mental health and free from any disease which is likely to interfere with the efficient performance of their duties.

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The written examination for the National Defence Academy (NDA) and Naval Academy (NA) will be conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). The examination will be held in two phases i.e. written examination and interview.

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[resbangmod]

Resbang 2015 Throwbacks, Week 5, Part 7

Time to get hype for this year’s Resbang, and what better way to do so than to check out the ghosts of Resbangs Past!

Come say hi to this year’s participants and mods on Discord!

This year’s schedule can be found here: beep

[Τ] That Girl is a Goddamn Problem [Kilik/Liz, minor Tsubaki/Black Star, minor Maka/Soul]

Elizabeth “Liz” Thompson is wanted for violating terms of parole, possession of illegal firearms, and drug charges. A Caucasian female around nineteen years of age, she was initially incarcerated for attempted armed robbery and participation in a street gang. Last seen in Death City at former place of employment, Deathbucks. Known associates include her former manager Kilik Rung, colleagues Blake Barett and Solon Evans, and sister Patricia “Patty” Thompson. Assumed armed and dangerous. $10,000 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction.

Warnings: gun/weapons mention, drug mention, death mention, sexual themes, language

by author: Rainshatteredsky, dead link

with artist: Yonderlie @yonder-land

Read it here: [[ff.net][ao3][tumblr]]

View it here: [tumblr]

[M] Chase of Tales [Soul/Maka, Tsubaki/Black Star, Stein/Marie]

As a young child, Maka dreamt of adventures and piracy. Guided by her dreams she joined Shibusen, ruled under the sinister thumb of Captain Soul Eater. Caught in a deadly race with the ship Arachnophobia, all chasing the legendary Oni’s Treasure, where only one can claim the first true pirate’s riches.

Warnings: Sexual content, gore, near death experience and Giriko shenanigans

by author: OblivionTime @oblivion-time

with artist: GunningTwice @gunningtwice

Read it here: [ff.net][ao3]

View it here: [tumblr]

[T] Cloudburst [Soul/Maka, minor Liz/Kid, Liz/Tsubaki, Tsubaki/Black Star]

Cursed by a witch in an effort to save his soul, Soul Evans resigns himself to the fate of being a feral, unadoptable, animal in the sleepy town of Death City—that is, until the green-eyed volunteer with a loving smile and compassionate laugh catches his attention. She may just prove to be the catharsis needed to help him learn his lesson in redemption before it’s too late.

Warnings: language

by author: Poisoned Scarlet @scurwrites

with artist: Sugarintolerant @sugarintolerant

and artist: Sojustifiable@sojustifiable

Read it here: [ff.net]

View it here: [Sugarintolerant: [tumblr], dead link] [Sojustifiable: [tumblr]]

[M] Heistception [Soul/Maka, Marie/Stein, Medusa/Stein, several incidental side pairings]

Ocean’s Eleven/Fast & Furious AU. Marie Mjolnir left prison with a plan. Medusa had burned down her strip club, seduced her husband, and taken her foster children from her. Luckily the kids are all grown up, and are more than willing to help her pull off a very ambitious casino heist using the casino’s annual off road race as cover. Unfortunately, Medusa’s into a lot more than gambling, and the price of failure might be very high indeed (though not, Soul thinks, as unbearably torturous as Black Star’s kazoo playing or Maka’s backseat driving).

Warnings: violence, language, some implied sexual antics, stripper-related nudity, alcohol use, drugs, organized crime

by author: Bones  @adulterclavis

with artist: Adorabbey @adorabbey

and artist: Darkpurply @darkpurply

Read it here: [ff.net][ao3]

View it here: [Darkpurply: [tumblr]] [Adorabbey: [tumblr]]

[M] Dreams of Long Summer Nights [Soul/Eater, implied Stein/Marie, Kim/Jackie, Star/Star]

“She remembers why they went here all those times. The beautiful smell, chirping birds, humidity in the air… Well no wonder her mama deemed it as her most favourite place in the world. She quickly discards her flip-flops, burrowing her toes in the moist choppy grass, props her arms on her hips and breaths in a lungful of the wonderful clean air. So this is Lake Tahoe.” Camp!Au with smoker/mechanic!Soul and know-it-all/bearcat!Maka. When it's not just about a burning summer passion but rather about finding someone you can trust and love and maybe hit a good few times on the head. Rebang 2015

Warnings: frequent strong language, nudity, mentions of sexs, drug usage

by author: PeppermintPoppy, dead link

with artist: Mssketch, dead link

Read it here: [ff.net]

View it here: [tumblr], dead link

[T] Didn’t You Flash Your Green Eyes at Me [Gen, Soul/Maka, Black*Star/Tsubaki, background Stein/Marie]

Soul Eater is a Jedi with a chip on his shoulder, a bounty on his head, and a mission to complete. He’s been tasked by Jedi Master Stein to retrieve the pieces of an ancient Sith artefact before it can fall into the hands of Imperial Admiral Medusa Gorgon or her mercenary crew. He wasn’t counting on Maka Albarn – top cadet in her class at the Imperial Naval Academy – and unknowingly, a Force-sensitive in a galaxy where to be a Jedi is to court death. Together they must find the artefact before it falls into the wrong hands and its terrible power is once again unleashed.

Warnings: canon-compliant violence, minor character death via human sacrifice, mentions of genocide

by author: Victoriapyrrhi @victoriapyrrhi

with artist: Alliumcepa93 @allium-cepa-39

and artist: Phfsiiing @haleyhams

Read it here: [ff.net][ao3]

View it here: [Alliumcepa93: [tumblr]] [Phfsiing: [tumblr]]

[ltwilliammowett]

Schoolship Britannia 1859 to 1905

Hard exercise and fierce discipline were the hallmarks of the cadets life. They began each day with a swim in a cold sea water bath and processed through a rigid timetable of prayers, inspection, classes, meals, boat work and exercise, the sessions punctuated by the ship's bell. Their studies fell into three broad areas. Sailing lore and signals came under the heading of seamanship. In addition to this, there were study comprising mathematics and navigation, and out study comprising French and drawing (the latter to enable naval officers to sketch navigational landmarks as they sailed past them)

HMS Britannia and Hindostan (left), connected with each other

Instructions aas followed by sport - football or cricket, walks and cross country runs, Cadets had access to a flotilla of four oared gigs and pair oared skiffs and launches and cutters for sailing. A Captain was in charge of discipline and the general non academic ruling of the ship. He was supported by a Commander, three Lieutenants, a master of arms, four ship's corporals, and six cadet captains and chief captains picked from senior term.

No disciplinary powers were allotted to academic staff, but if they reported poor or careless work the cadet was punished, without appeal. The severe scale of punishment included caning with trousers on, birching with trousers off, and confinement to cells on bread and water. Cadets who were graded in the third (worst) class for conduct were marked out with a white stripe on the arm and had extra drill, using heavy Brown Bess muskets or bar-bells . They were fed apart or a separate messroom. Offenders under punishment served a longer day, rising early in the morning, and being kept on their feet after other cadets had turned in. They were also required to stand to attention for an hour facing the main deck bulkhead, a lower deck punishment which survived until its abolition in 1912.

Cadets studying a scale model

Their examinations passed, cadets progressed to sea as midshipmen. Life in the fleets gun rooms was even tougher, and the conditions more spartan, than aboard the Britannia. After serving five years at sea, midshipmen took an examination in seamanship before a board of captains. ( like the examination in the early 19th century) A first class pass gave advancement in seniority. Now aged 20, the young men proceeded as sub- lieutenants to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. It’s aim, to cultivate “ the general intelligence of officers, to improve their apitude for the various duties which a naval officer is called upon to perform”, took some years to achieve. After five years at sea sub-lieutenants were often reluctant to return to academic studies and had forgotten much of their lessons. This training program eventually led to a massive decline in the number of lieutenants and even caused a crisis in the late 19th century, which made it necessary to recruit and promote merchant officers to this rank more quickly. But also that a sub-lieutenant received his promotion faster.