Francis Harvey
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"First World War"• Battle of Heligoland (1914)/Battle of Heligoland Bight• Battle of Dogger Bank (1915)/Battle of Dogger Bank• Battle of Jutland

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Major "Francis John William Harvey, Victoria Cross/VC" (29 April 1873 – 31 May 1916) was an officer of the British Royal Marine Light Infantry during the First World War. Harvey was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military award for gallantry in the face of the enemy given to British and Commonwealth forces, for his actions at the height of the Battle of Jutland. A long serving Royal Marine officer descended of a military family, during his career Harvey became a specialist in naval artillery, serving on many large warships as gunnery training officer and gun commander. Specially requested for , the flagship of the British battlecruiser fleet, Harvey fought at the battles of Battle of Heligoland (1914)/Heligoland Bight, Battle of Dogger Bank (1915)/Dogger Bank and Battle of Jutland/Jutland.

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The last four months of the (fiscal) year, we averaged about 8,000 recruits. We have a good momentum going right now.

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Routinely co-located with units assigned a direct combat mission.

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Is this a crisis? No, it's not a crisis.

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We have to do better than we have done, ... It's like a sales forecast, you have to do better than you have done in previous years. I think we have to focus on what you're trying to do here.

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We didn't have a perfect solution.

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You have an infrastructure here that provides the Army with the organization. It helps us develop our doctrine, our tactics, techniques and procedures. (It) looks at our organization, helps us develop leaders -- all those ingredients that go into making your Army and my Army the best in the world.

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If the Air Force is interested in participating in this program, gee, I welcome it, ... I mean, it's the Air Force, and this is an airplane.

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Over the last 10 years the average recruiting number is about 74,200. Our final numbers are about 73,200 to 73,300, so we're about 1,000, or one percent, off our average recruits for the last 10 years.

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With the cost of fuel today, I think we can justify that.

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