809 Naval Air Squadron was a squadron in the Fleet Air Arm of the United Kingdom.
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“It is now time to stop and to ask ourselves the question which my last commanding officer, Admiral Hyman Rickover, asked me and every other young naval officer who serves or has served in an atomic submarine. For our Nation M for all of us M that question is, Why not the best?”
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