A Naval Reserve is the reserve body of a nation's Navy, typically called-upon in times of conflict. Naval Reserves include:
- La réserve Marine (France)
- Royal Naval Reserve (United Kingdom)
- Royal Australian Naval Reserve
- Naval Reserve of the Royal Canadian Navy
- United States Navy Reserve
- Naval Service Reserve (Ireland)
- Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve
- Naval Reserve (South Africa)
Famous quotes containing the words naval and/or reserve:
“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?””
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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