# Any landlocked nations with a Naval service?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 10, 2001, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landlocked-nations-with-a-naval-service/86529 "2001-10-10T05:35:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landlocked-nations-with-a-naval-service/86529/41 "2014-07-06T18:31:56Z")

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> [@don\_t\_ask](#):
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> I just looked in Google and there must be lots.
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> From [http://law.uniserve.edu.au/law/pub/icl/mStudies/maritime\_studies\_90/ms\_Security.html](http://law.uniserve.edu.au/law/pub/icl/mStudies/maritime_studies_90/ms_Security.html)
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> Also Paraquay, Luxembourg, Bolivia.
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> Maybe you would have to check out _Jane’s_ for a list of all navies.

And Chad.

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**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landlocked-nations-with-a-naval-service/86529/42 "2014-07-06T18:34:19Z")

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> [@slipster](#):
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> About ten years ago The Wall Street Journal ran a front page article on the Bolivian Navy. An admiral was quoted as saying that the service was useful in drug interdiction programs as it cruised rivers, and added that it was also important to maintain on the chance that Bolivia had a coastline in the future.

There is a Navy base in the middle of Nevada too.

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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landlocked-nations-with-a-naval-service/86529/43 "2014-07-06T18:59:39Z")

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> [@MEBuckner](#):
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> The Liechtensteiners have a border on the Rhine they could float a gunboat or two on. Plus, they could sell commissions, and add to their existing philatelic revenue. I mean, lots of people would probably shell out a few bucks to be a Captain of the Liechtensteiner Navy.

Lots of state governors will confer the title of Colonel on people they like. The governor of Nebraska will confer the title of Admiral. (If you are not laughing yet, I suggest you take a look at a map of Nebraska.

> **[Nebraska Admirals Association](http://www.nebraskaadmirals.org/)**
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> Nebraska Admirals Association

You can even nominate your friends for the dignity:  
[http://governor.nebraska.gov/contact/](http://governor.nebraska.gov/contact/)

> [@Desert\_Nomad](#):
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> There is a Navy base in the middle of Nevada too.

New Mexico has both Navy and Coast Guard contingents. The Coast Guard station operates a radar dish monitoring the border with Mexico. The Navy tests weapons at White Sands Missile Range. The building where they work is referred to as a “Land-Locked Ship”.

> **[USS Desert Ship (LLS-1)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Desert_Ship_(LLS-1))**
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> USS Desert Ship (LLS-1) is a concrete blockhouse providing assembly and launch facilities simulating shipboard conditions for Navy surface-to-air weapons testing at the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) Weapons Division – White Sands.
> The beginning of construction of the Desert Ship coincided with the start of testing of the RIM-8 Talos missile. Although there was a mock christening upon completion of the building, the Desert Ship has never been commissioned and special permission from Congress...

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