Durante algunos siglos muchos oficiales de medio-alto rango británicos literalmente compraban la comisión, o sea pagaban por el rango y conseguían un comando aunque no tuvieran la más minima idea de lo estaban haciendo, especialmente en el Ejército. Para ser justo, pasaba también muchos otros...
USS Lexington (CVA-16) at sea operating with the cruiser USS Providence (CLG-6) and destroyers in the Far East. Lexington, with assigned Carrier Air Group 21 (CVG-21), Feb 17, 1961
Dreadnaught battleship USS Delaware (BB-28) in dry dock at the South Boston Annex, Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, on 30 January 1924. The ship has been stripped in preparation for scrapping
The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Chicago (CA-29) low in the water on 30 January 1943, after she had been torpedoed by Japanese aircraft during the Battle of Rennell Island
The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Chicago (CA-29), at left, under tow by USS Louisville (CA-28) on the morning of 30 January 1943. The damaged cruiser had been torpedoed by Japanese aircraft on the previous night. A tug, probably USS Navajo (AT-64), is alongside Louisville
Worcester class light cruiser USS Roanoke in 1954. Here the after turrets including the MK-27 Fire Control Radars mounted on the 6"/47 MK-16 DP main guns
USS West Virginia (BB-48), sunk at her berth by Japanese torpedoes and bombs, was sufficiently raised to drydock. She is being maneuvered by tugs, preliminary to the start of repairs, May 1942