The pirates' way of doing business was described this way at the time: "When they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth, which usually struck such terror in the foe that they cried out for quarter at once".
Mr. Rumsfeld said his changes would focus on new technology, especially communications networks, to link current weapons systems and provide information on the enemy more speedily to soldiers, sailors, pilots and marines.
Little did he realise back then, when he and his fellow sailors were dodging enemy submarines, that this bout of TB was to have a huge impact on his family's finances almost 70 years later.
Little did he imagine when he and his fellow sailors were dodging enemy submarines that, seven decades later, he would be fighting the UK government over what he says is the "disgusting" way it treats thousands of war veterans and other Britons living overseas.
The Canadian Air Force is moving ahead with its weaponized drone program, and it's hoping to find a model that's good for everything from blowing up enemy convoys to helping drowning sailors.
With a caption that says "If they attack, we will smash them in a single blow," the poster shows the red fist of a North Korean sailor splitting an enemy ship.
The Navy has argued that without training on this widely used system, sailors' ability to detect enemy vessels is severely hampered.
And yet, beaked whales often turn up stranded shortly after the intense sonar exercises the Navy uses to train sailors to detect silent enemy submarines.
Chief of Naval Research Rear Admiral Matthew L. Klunder, in somewhat ominous language, hailed the weapons test as a major technological breakthrough, so outclassing enemy capabilities as "to ensure our sailors and marines are never in a fair fight".
It is the source of phrases like "miserable sinners" and "the face of the enemy" (from the prayer to be said by sailors before a fight at sea).
