Purpose
- To generate world wide awareness of the importance of Regular and Reserve Chief Petty Officers in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard, of the past, present and future.
- To encourage accelerated advancement in those services through study and accomplishment.
- To conduct conventions with such members of the NCPOA to foster camaraderie and good fellowship.
- To maintain true allegiance to the Government of the United States of America and to promote patriotism and pride in their service in the U.S. Navy or U.S. Coast Guard.
Read more about this topic: National Chief Petty Officers Association
Famous quotes containing the word purpose:
“Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind’s eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.”
—Richard Dawkins (b. 1941)
“To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)