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Then, in 1684, to avenge countless raids against their ships, the Spanish dispatched a powerful squadron from Cuba to attack Nassau.
Cast as an indomitable woman who endures hellish training with an all-male Navy squadron, Moore "becomes perversely spectacular" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and transcends the movie's "banal premises and predictable conclusion" (Richard Schickel, Time ). But some critics find the fascination of director Ridley Scott ( Alien , Thelma & Louise ) with Moore's suffering hopelessly sadistic.
I was commanding officer of the largest squadron in the United States Navy.
The next assault is different, an attack on a concrete Nazi "pillbox" that's barely glimpsed through the thick smoke, the action viewed through the eyes of the squadron's skinny, bookish translator (Jeremy Davies).
Prime Minister Tony Blair, who contributed a symbolic squadron of Tornado bombers to Clinton, is only signaling that the Americans are not alone."