naval militia
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When the Spanish-American War broke out, Henderson commanded the first detachment of naval militia to enter Federal service since the Civil War.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had not Joe Kennedy himself once threatened that the naval militia might one day be called on to keep steam up during maritime strikes?
From Time Magazine Archive
There were about seventy thousand regularly enlisted men, besides eight thousand five hundred members of the naval militia.
From History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Francis Andrew March
Accordingly a Civil War Monitor, with one smooth-bore gun, managed by a crew of about twenty-one naval militia, was sent to the city in question, under convoy of a tug.
From Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt
The subject of the organization of a naval militia or reserve had been discussed for some time before Secretary Tracy assumed his office.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 by W. C. Jackson
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