Navy Career Quotes

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.

I went to the Naval Academy in Annapolis and then I went right into the Navy after that.

I left the Navy as a lieutenant after spending almost 10 years as a helicopter pilot.

I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that.

I got out of the Navy in 1990.

I wanted to leave 'Eight Is Enough' for the Navy.

I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.

I didn't want to be president of the World Wildlife Fund. I was asked to do it. I'd much rather have stayed in the navy, frankly.

I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman.

I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.