If the officers and men are not thoroughly skilled in, and have not been thoroughly trained to, their duties, it would be far better to keep the ships in port during hostilities than to send them against a formidable opponent, for the result could only be that they would be either sunk or captured.
Roosevelt suggests that untrained ships should remain in port during hostilities to avoid disaster.
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