I apologize in advance if the following are silly questions, but I'm trying to figure out how to say certain things in a Harpoon orders text file.

 

As I understand it, "Good luck and Godspeed" is the traditional closing salutation for American naval orders. Is it used in other English-speaking countries or is some other phrase used? If so, what are those phrases? (I'm guessing it might be "God save the Queen" in the U.K., but I honestly don't know, and I also don't know what Canada, Australia, and other Commonwealth nations use.)

 

I would also be interested in the phrase used in other countries. I imagine that sometimes it is something that would translate fairly closely to "Good luck" but in other languages it might be a completely different phrase. I'm particularly interested in French (Is "Vive la France" still used? Am I using it properly?), Spanish, Italian, Greek, German, Russian, and Japanese, but I'd be interested in any others that anyone knows.

 

Thanks.

 

Mark

There's no such thing as a silly question on this board (as far as I can tell). Fair winds and following seas is the tradiotional adu of the US Navy.

 

FWFS,

Greg Emerson, DM1(SW), USN-Retired

Renton, WA, USA

Excellent question.

 

I know that "Good luck" translates to "Bonne chance" and ""Viel Glück" in German.

Hi Silent,

 

Excellent question.

 

I know that "Good luck" translates to "Bonne chance" and ""Viel Glück" in German.

 

Yes, "Viel Glück" is what we Germans in fact say.