Since some of you have scored very well on your questionnaires, we have made an exception for you. SAMUEL VIMES and SAM UNDERWOOD, you are ACCEPTED into the Liberty Navy. You'll be given some further training at West Point and Richmond academies then issued an Executioner Heavy Fighter by the Quartermaster. Log plenty of flight time, pay attention, and you'll do well.
As for the rest of you, while your determination to join is admirable, the Liberty Navy Primary Fleet recruitment is now CLOSED with no further exceptions being permitted. Those who are currently considering an application may register an application, but it will not be looked at until we are open again. Of course, feel free to apply for various secondary fleet divisions such as SFC, 36th, or 41st in the meantime, for it is a good way to get started.
Sincerely,
Vice Admiral Teerin,
Logistics Corps Head,
Liberty Navy Primary Fleet.
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"You see what your knowledge tells you you're seeing. ... how, what you think the universe is, and how you react to that in everything you do, depends on what you know. And when that knowledge changes, for you, the universe changes. And that is as true for the whole of society as that is for the individual. We all are what we know, today. What we knew yesterday, was different; and so were we."
- James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed (1985)