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West Marine is an American company based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which operates a chain of boating supply and fishing retail stores. The company has 247 retail stores in North America . West Marine also runs Blue Future [ 2 ] a non profit organization.
Vince Dooley [101] – head football coach and athletic director of University of Georgia. Art Donovan [102] – football Hall of Famer. Terry Downes [103] – British former world middleweight champion boxer. Paul Douglas [104] – United States Senator and the oldest Marine recruit to have completed recruit training.
West Marine Ltd. was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Peel Engineering Company, which was founded by designer, inventor and engineer Cyril Cannell in the early 1950s to make Microcars and GRP boats and other fibreglass products. West Marine was located in the boat yard by the side of the River Neb at the top of Peel harbour, in the Isle of Man .
Bing West. Francis J. " Bing " West Jr. (born May 2, 1940) is an American author, Marine combat veteran and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Reagan Administration . West writes about the military, warfighting, and counterinsurgency. In the Vietnam War, he fought in major operations and ...
Jim Mattis. James Norman Mattis (born September 8, 1950) is an American military veteran who served as the 26th United States secretary of defense from 2017 to 2019. A retired Marine Corps four-star general, he commanded forces in the Persian Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War . Mattis was commissioned in the Marine Corps ...
Students are officers-in-training and are referred to as "cadets" or collectively as the "United States Corps of Cadets" (USCC). The Army fully funds tuition for cadets in exchange for an active duty service obligation upon graduation. About 1,300 cadets enter the academy each July, with about 1,000 cadets graduating.
An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual ...
Hershel Woodrow "Woody" Williams (October 2, 1923 – June 29, 2022) was a United States Marine Corps Reserve warrant officer and United States Department of Veterans Affairs veterans service representative who received the Medal of Honor, the United States military's highest decoration for valor, for heroism above and beyond the call of duty during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.