Famous quotes containing the words gunnery and/or officer:
“It’s gunnery practice out at sea
Just as before you went below;
The world is as it used to be”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)