naval service
Seafaring armed forces
Naval service refers to military duty in a nation's navy or maritime defense forces.
The term encompasses both the institution itself and the period of one's career within it: He completed twenty years of naval service.
It may also describe civilian work supporting naval operations.
- fleet admiralTop naval officer grade
- admiralSenior naval commander
- destroyerOne that ruins completely
- dry dockDrained vessel repair enclosure
- blockadeSealing off a place
convoy · captain · chain of command · frigate · submariner · home port · midshipman · boot camp · petty officer · enlisted rank · maritime law · aircraft carrier · ship christening · sailor · amphibious landing · shipyard · battleship · cruiser
- navalfleet command, sailors, admirals, commanders, ships
- naval historybattleships, admiral, battleship, admirals, fleet
- military serviceactive duty, deployment, tour of duty, combat duty, enlistment
- naval trainingofficer training, seamanship, cadet training, drill commands, midshipman
- naval enlistedseaman, petty officer, chief petty officer, rating, rate
- naval reservesauxiliaries, reserve forces, reservists, reserve officers, reserve units
naval servicearmy
Organized land-based military
land forces · ground forces · infantry · air force · army corps
naval servicecivilian life
Non-military everyday existence
civil service · merchant marine · commercial shipping · civilian service
naval, service, navies, nave, naves, navigate, navigation, navigator, navigable