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Navy History
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To HooYah or not to HooYah
Found an odd article Navy Times recently posted. Since they are asking... My thoughts, LAME. What do you guys think? http://www.navytimes.com/news/2011/10/navy-tell-us-what-you-think-hooyah-102411w/ Tell…
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This Day in Naval History - June 14
1777 - John Paul Jones takes command of Ranger.1777 - Continental Congress adopts design of present U.S. Flag.1847 - Commodore Matthew Perry launches amphibious river operations by Sailors and Marines on Tabasco River, Mexico.1940 - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Naval Expansion Act to construct ships…
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Origins of "Taps"
I was at a Memorial Service at Copley, OH yesterday and they read the following story before playing Taps. It was pretty moving.It all began in 1862 during the Civil War, when Union Army Captain Robert Ellicombe was with his men near Harrison's Landing in Virginia. The Confederate Army was on the…
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Navy Christens Newest Arleigh Burke-Class Ship Gravely
Found this story pretty uplifting.From Naval Sea Systems Command Office of Corporate CommunicationsPASCAGOULA, Miss (NNS) -- The U.S. Navy christened the newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS Gravely (DDG 107), May 16, during a ceremony at Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding,…
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Cracker Jack Story
Taken from http://www.answers.com/topic/cracker-jack#cite_note-0History1893: Frederick William Rueckheim (known to friends and family as "Fritz") and his brother Louis mass produce Cracker Jack and sell it at the first Chicago…
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First Navy Jack
I lifted this info from www.navyjack.infoA Brief History of the U.S. Navy JackIn the fall of 1775, as the first ships of the Continental Navy readied in the Delaware River, Commodore Esek Hopkins issued a set of fleet signals. Among these signals was an…
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