There are enough of us Swab Jockeys here to justify a passing mention of this:
The United States Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which the Continental Congress established on 13 October 1775, by authorizing the procurement, fitting out, manning, and dispatch of two armed vessels to cruise in search of munitions ships supplying the British Army in America. The legislation also established a Naval Committee to supervise the work. All together, the Continental Navy numbered some fifty ships over the course of the war, with approximately twenty warships active at its maximum strength.
And in lieu of more traditional Navy songs I offer this:
I’ll be wearing my dixie cup and daydreaming about far away lands.
Happy Birthday to all our Navy brothers and sisters out there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyPuey-1Jw
more like this…… Happy B-day My beloved Navy Proud to have have served you as my father before me………….Gm3 CD Bledsoe…US Navy Armed Guard 1943 to 1946
Happy Birthday, USNAV! WAVES 1967 to 1970, 1972 to 1974.
M
Ok, my phone went psychotic on me there. Happy birthday Navy. I know my dad, wherever he may be, is partying right now
Happy to be here proud to serve oohrah!
A belated happy birthday to the US Navy, America’s second oldest armed service.
Happy Birthday USN!
CTIC(SG) 1985-2006
Happy birthday, Navy! To my brother and now my nephew (who is training as a Naval Aviator).
HooYah US Navy. Brought tears of pride to my eyes. US Navy founded in NYS … HooYah all my sister branches … One Team One Fight!
Happy Birthday to all my shipmates, past present and future.
It was a great ride for me, and I’d do it all over again in a heartbeat.
Roger that, AW.
If you do want to listen to Navy music, the Navy Band has a link here:
http://www.navyband.navy.mil/anthems/service_songs.htm
Includes “Take Her Down” for bubbleheads and “The Destroyermen” and “Song of the Seabees”.
Happy Birthday to all my fellow sailors!
Happy (belated) birthday to the Navy, especially you brownwater sailors in the MSRONs and Riverines.
So I’m at the Navy Ball when a 99 year old, retired Army Major, and WWII veteran walks up to me and asks me how a Navy guy could be wearing a Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal and an Army Commendation.
He accepted my explanation and then posed for a picture with my wife and I.
I’d say I hoped my eye sight was that good at 99, but it’s not that good now.