. . .  is both an adventure in living and a satisfying career.

It is a happy blend of new sights and sounds, new friends, opportunity for training and achievement in new fields, and a great personal satisfaction of serving our nation at a critical hour in the history of civilization.

The Navy is a dynamic, close-knit organization, worldwide in scope and operating on time-tested principles that have made it the most powerful of the world's navies. Its mission is to preserve the freedom of the seas for our commerce in peacetime, and to sweep the seas clean of enemy forces in wartime. 

In this critical hour, generally known as the era of the cold war, new and sobering values have been imposed upon the Navy's mission. Today, as the leader of the free world, our Nation must assume a large share of the burden of sea defense for nations who through no fault of their own are unable to carry it themselves. The tremendous importance of this additional burden demands the best efforts of every man and woman in Navy blue. Fulfillment of this mission presents a complex problem of huge proportions. The Navy's scope of operations includes all of the oceans that cover seven-tenths of the earth; not only the surface areas but the ocean depths and the skies above as well.

Nuclear power propulsion, supersonic naval aircraft, the most advanced types of guided missiles, and electronic equipment, that was still in the dream stage only a few years ago, give the Navy

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