After a truck bombing of American marine barracks in Beirut killed 241 marines and sailors in 1983, a government commission excoriated the institutional failures that allowed marines to billet in a vulnerable building that was guarded by sentries with unloaded rifles.
In 1882 Yamagata induced the emperor to promulgate the "Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors"—in essence a recapitulation of Yamagata's "Admonition to the Military"—which was to become the spiritual guidepost of the imperial army until Japan's surrender at the end of World War II.
A contingent of Marines and sailors, in town for Fleet Week, held a special place of honor.
It was a significant cause of mortality amongst slaves and sailors in the colonial West Indies.
A man was sitting next to a young soldier and sailor in the bar of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington.
Most recently, some Russian military leaders have stopped barely short of accusing the United States or other NATO powers of sinking the Russian submarine Kursk and killing 118 Russian sailors, in a covered-up collision.
A band of Somali pirates hijacked three Thai fishing boats and captured 77 sailors in an attack more than 1,200 miles offshore in the Indian Ocean, the European Union naval force said on Tuesday.
"I saw two sailors in a fight; I had never seen a fight before".
In 1931, Leach also appeared in "Singapore Sue," a ten-minute movie short, starring Anna Chang, that Casey Robinson made for Paramount in Astoria; Leach, Millard Mitchell, and two other actors played American sailors in an Oriental café.
The officials told Reuters that Artan's actions fit the pattern of so-called "lone wolf" militants who carried out attacks in the US, such as the gunman who shot dead 49 people at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in June, and the man who killed four US marines and a navy sailor in a shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, last year.
