JamesRK & Others...Happy Birthday, Navy Brothers!!
243 years - a pretty good run! Thanks for your service!
A few notes from the web......
The U.S. Navy turns 243 years-old [today]. On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress commissioned two ships, each with eighty sailors, ?for intercepting such transports as may be laden with warlike stores and other supplies for our enemies.? The foe at the time was Great Britain, whose navy ruled the seas. By the end of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Navy had grown to about fifty ships. In 1789, the U.S. Constitution guaranteed the navy?s future by granting Congress the power ?To provide and maintain a navy.?
George Washington once said that ?as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive?and with it, everything honorable and glorious.? Those words are even more appropriate in the twenty-first century when U.S. interests span the globe. To serve and protect those interests the U.S. Navy today has 286 deployable ships, more than 3,700 operational aircraft, 328,267 active duty personnel, 98,748 reserve personnel, and more than 210,000 civilian employees.
John F. Kennedy was the first navy veteran to be elected president. But five of the next six presidents also served in the navy: Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush. Well-known navy veterans include baseball hall-of-famers Yogi Berra and Stan Musial, basketball hall-of-famers David Robinson and John Wooden, football hall-of-famer Roger Staubach, former Tonight Show host Johnny Carson, actor Humphrey Bogart, and astronaut Neil Armstrong.........AND GunBroker's JamesRK, P3Skyking, Navybat, and.......?
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A few notes from the web......
The U.S. Navy turns 243 years-old [today]. On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress commissioned two ships, each with eighty sailors, ?for intercepting such transports as may be laden with warlike stores and other supplies for our enemies.? The foe at the time was Great Britain, whose navy ruled the seas. By the end of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Navy had grown to about fifty ships. In 1789, the U.S. Constitution guaranteed the navy?s future by granting Congress the power ?To provide and maintain a navy.?
George Washington once said that ?as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive?and with it, everything honorable and glorious.? Those words are even more appropriate in the twenty-first century when U.S. interests span the globe. To serve and protect those interests the U.S. Navy today has 286 deployable ships, more than 3,700 operational aircraft, 328,267 active duty personnel, 98,748 reserve personnel, and more than 210,000 civilian employees.
John F. Kennedy was the first navy veteran to be elected president. But five of the next six presidents also served in the navy: Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush. Well-known navy veterans include baseball hall-of-famers Yogi Berra and Stan Musial, basketball hall-of-famers David Robinson and John Wooden, football hall-of-famer Roger Staubach, former Tonight Show host Johnny Carson, actor Humphrey Bogart, and astronaut Neil Armstrong.........AND GunBroker's JamesRK, P3Skyking, Navybat, and.......?
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Me--Machinist mate 2nd class.
Tin can sailor.
USS John A Bole DD 755.0 -
Me--Machinist mate 2nd class.
Tin can sailor.
USS John A Bole DD 755.0 -
CE-2 Seabee electrician 2nd class Petty officer. (ankle-deep sailor) [:D] 0 -
US Navy, 8 years and 9 months; 1967-76
VT-29, RVAW-110, VAW-115, RVAW-110
AT1, E2-B Radar Operator/Flight Technician; 200+ Combat Missions flown, 208 Carrier Landings (USS Midway, CVA-41). NATOPS Evaluator/Instructor (E2-B Radar Operator/Flight Technician).0 -
Navy 1952-1956
P2V-5 Aircrew VP-4, AOU-20 -
Thanks Matey. It was an honor and a Helluva lot of fun to serve. AO1 (NAC) 1975-1992
USS FORRESTAL CV-59, VP-50, VP-48, VP-50(AGAIN), VP-19, USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CVN-730 -
Thank you sir!
USN 10 APR 1961 - 30 JUN 19890 -
Rejoice and make a big noise unto the world!
Gunner's Mate. '76-'80.
USS Semmes DDG-18
USS Forrest Sherman DD-931
F****r, Fighter, Tin Can Rider.0 -
Thanks to all
Electricians Mate
2nd Class
71-74 active duty, 75-81 Reserve
USS Conyngham DDG-17 "The Gus Boat"
"Blue Nose" 1973
Here is our 1973 cruise book
http://www.ussconynghamassoc.org/CruiseBooks/conyngham_ddg17-1973.pdf0 -
quote:Originally posted by SW0320
Thanks to all
Electricians Mate
2nd Class
71-74 active duty, 75-81 Reserve
USS Conyngham DDG-17 "The Gus Boat"
"Blue Nose" 1973
Here is our 1973 cruise book
http://www.ussconynghamassoc.org/CruiseBooks/conyngham_ddg17-1973.pdf
Looks to me like tin can sailors ain?t a hell of a lot prettier than LST (gater navy) sailors, or gunboat riders for that matter.
I can?t help thinking LT P. E. Dingeldey would be happier in a different career. [:D]
Appears to be a good ship with a good crew. Thank you for your service.0 -
Thanks...
JIM......
MMC(SS)/ CWO-3/ LCDR(LDO)..RET.0 -
Do Honorary Chiefs count, huh, huh?!!! [;)][:D] Happy Brithday...uh, Sailors!!!!!!! [:D] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by JamesRK
quote:Originally posted by SW0320
Thanks to all
Electricians Mate
2nd Class
71-74 active duty, 75-81 Reserve
USS Conyngham DDG-17 "The Gus Boat"
"Blue Nose" 1973
Here is our 1973 cruise book
http://www.ussconynghamassoc.org/CruiseBooks/conyngham_ddg17-1973.pdf
Looks to me like tin can sailors ain?t a hell of a lot prettier than LST (gater navy) sailors, or gunboat riders for that matter.
I can?t help thinking LT P. E. Dingeldey would be happier in a different career. [:D]
Appears to be a good ship with a good crew. Thank you for your service.
Yes, we were the motley crew of the 13th century type not the 80's type. We worked hard and played hard which means I will never be a Supreme Court justice.0 -
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I had just been given the petty officer 1st class rank when I left the Navy in 1991. I was a Machinist Mate.....lathes, milling machines and drill presses were my Navy world and I loved every minute of it. I even worked in a machine shop for a while when I came home....until I met back up with my high school sweetheart and things went in another direction.
Sub Base, Pearl Harbor was my duty station. I even got to raise the flag at the Arizona Memorial one morning. I do love my time in the Navy and I think its a great experience for anyone. I wouldn't trade my 4 years in the Navy for anything.
Both my Grandfathers were in the Navy as well. My mother's father lied about his age and went in when he was 15. He was a gunner's mate on the USS Enterprise for all but one of the battles it was in. My other Grandfather was on the beach during D-day cutting the metal structures they had placed on the beach and remembered bullets flying by as they worked. He also helped construct the prison on Johnson Island....and was the first prisoner in the prison (insert drunken sailor story)0 -
quote:Originally posted by kimi
Do Honorary Chiefs count, huh, huh?!!! [;)][:D] Happy Brithday...uh, Sailors!!!!!!! [:D]
Welcome Aboard! Won?t bother me a bit, but won?t your USMC buddies make you quit grunting? [:D]0 -
quote:Originally posted by JamesRK
quote:Originally posted by kimi
Do Honorary Chiefs count, huh, huh?!!! [;)][:D] Happy Brithday...uh, Sailors!!!!!!! [:D]
Welcome Aboard! Won?t bother me a bit, but won?t your USMC buddies make you quit grunting? [:D]
Now that s funny!!!! [:D]0
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