Happy 250th Birthday to the United States Navy.
The American Navy was born in Philadelphia, like me, and the U.S. Navy has served and protected America faithfully since the country’s
beginnings.
I’ve “stood the watch,” as the Navy puts it, serving two years
on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk in 1970-1971 during the Vietnam War. I
later served two years on the Navy tugboat USS Saugus at the U.S. nuclear
submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland.
You can take the proverbial boy out of the Navy, but you can’t take the Navy out of the boy.
The U.S. Navy offers the below on her 250th birthday:
The 13 October 1775 resolution of the
Continental Congress established what is now the United States Navy with “a
swift sailing vessel, to carry ten carriage guns, and a proportionable number
of swivels, with eighty men, be fitted, with all possible despatch, for a
cruise of three months….” After the American War of Independence, the U.S.
Constitution empowered the new Congress “to provide and maintain a navy.”
Acting on this authority, Congress established the Department of the Navy on 30
April 1798.
In 1972, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral
Elmo R. Zumwalt authorized official recognition of 13 October as the birthday
of the U.S. Navy. Since then, each CNO has encouraged a Navy-wide celebration
of this occasion “to enhance a greater appreciation of our Navy heritage, and
to provide a positive influence toward pride and professionalism in the naval
service.”
13 October 2025 will mark the Navy's 250th Birthday.
God Bless America and the U.S. Navy.
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