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This page is dedicated to all our Military. We are grateful for your service and your willingness to be in the front lines to fight for our freedom and liberty. We appreciate the sacrifice that you and your families are making.
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U. S. Navy celebrates
234 years
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Throughout our Navy and throughout the year, our various communities celebrate birthdays. From Seabees to Submariners, Corpsmen to the Supply Corps, community birthdays are a source of pride and renewal.
October
13, 1775, the birth of our Navy, is the one day that connects us all, every
community and every Sailor.
Throughout the past 234 years, our Sailors and the Navy have continually adapted
to the needs of the nation in both peace and war. Throughout our history,
Sailors from every social group, from countries around the globe, from diverse
cultures and backgrounds have joined in one common cause: the right of all
people to enjoy freedom and liberty. We can do no less in this splendid
endeavor.
To all the men and
women in the U.S. Navy who serve, and have served, we thank you.
Happy birthday U.S. Navy!
The United States Navy Song:
Anchors Aweigh
Anchors Away, my boys,
Anchors Aweigh.
Farewell to foreign shores,
We sail at break of day-ay-ay-ay.
Through our last night on shore, Drink to the foam,
Until we meet once more.
Here's wishing you a happy voyage home.
Blue of the Mighty
Deep; Gold of God's Sun
Let these colors be till all of time be done, done, done,
On seven seas we learn Navy's stern call:
Faith, Courage, Service true, with Honor, Over Honor, Over All.
-Words by CAPT Alfred H. Miles,
USN, 1906
U.S. Chief of Naval
Operations -
Gary Roughead.
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On
the 18th of September, 1947, our Nation created the U.S. Air Force. Over the
last 60 years, the Air Force has changed dramatically, employing new
technology and responding to a changing world. Today, we plan and fight as a
joint and total force, and the U.S. Air Force is performing all of its
missions superbly, from patrolling the skies of America, airlifting supplies
to Afghanistan and fighting in Iraq. ****** The United States Air Force Song:
Off we go into
the wild blue yonder,
U.S. Air
Force Chief of Staff
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Observed: Third Friday in September
September 17, 2010
Before 1979, there were no official commemorations held to honor America's POW/MIAs. That year resolutions were passed in the Congress and a national ceremony was held at the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
Every year the US Congress continued passing legislation observing a National POW/MIA Recognition Day. In 1995 that changed and now the US President signs a yearly proclamation observing the day.
During the 1980's, the American Ex-POWs decided on establishing April 9th as the date of observance. That day was chosen because it was the date, during World War II, that the largest number of Americans were captured.
Eventually in an effort to accommodate all returned POWs and all Americans still missing and unaccounted for, from all wars, the third Friday in September was proposed - a date not associated with any particular war. This is the date on which the holiday is now observed.
Ceremonies observing National POW/MIA Recognition Day are held throughout the nation and around the world on military installations, ships at sea, state capitols, at schools, churches, national veteran and civic organizations, police and fire departments, fire stations, etc.
The POW/MIA flag is flown and the focus of the day is to ensure that America remembers its responsibility to stand behind those who serve their nation and do everything possible to account for those who do not return.
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New DOL Veterans Grants
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced 97 grants, totaling more than $24
million, to provide approximately 14,000 veterans with job training to help them
succeed in civilian careers.
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Black Hawk Down:
By Mark Bowden In 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia, that tradition engulfed a team of Army Rangers and Delta Force troopers in a nightmarish struggle to survive in a third-world, urban jungle. Bowden captures the surreal and heroic action in this gritty tale of the small war updated for the 21st Century.
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Medal of Honor Recipients
Archived Stories from the news...Past and Present
Much can be learned when we peruse some of the stories and articles published by newspapers and magazines through the years.
Stories
from the past about American heroes. These stories will touch your hearts.
Lance Sijan endured unfathomable grief in Vietnam.
He paid with his life, and by doing so inspired legions at the Air Force
Academy.
For Capt. Lance Sijan, it began like any other night in Danang, South Vietnam, in the fall of 1967. The classic fighter pilot - big, rugged, handsome, a former football player at the Air Force Academy - eased into the back seat of an F-4 Phantom about 8 p.m.
Ten minutes later, Sijan and fellow pilot Army Lt. Col. John Armstrong were streaking over North Vietnam, looking down at bursts of artillery fire and glowing firefights.
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Pray
for Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates
Dr.
Robert M. Gates was sworn in on December 18, 2006, as the 22nd Secretary of
Defense. Before entering his present post, Secretary Gates was the President of
Texas A&M University, the nation’s seventh largest university. Prior to assuming
the presidency of Texas A&M on August 1, 2002, he served as Interim Dean of the
George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M from 1999 to
2001.
Secretary Gates served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1991 until 1993. He is the only career officer in CIA’s history to rise from entry-level employee to Director. Secretary Gates served as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from 1986 until 1989 and as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser at the White House from January 20, 1989, until November 6, 1991, for President George H.W. Bush.
Secretary Gates joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1966 and spent nearly 27 years as an intelligence professional, serving six presidents. During that period, he spent nearly nine years at the National Security Council, The White House, serving four presidents of both political parties
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Story of Audie Murphy - Click Here
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"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives
acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."
Dwight
D. Eisenhower
Video:
GI Bill Can Help Vets Attend
Ivy League
The American Veteran features a video news segment that explains the Post-9/11
GI Bill's Yellow Ribbon Program.
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Tribute To Those
Who Fought in World War II
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JACK LUCAS
Medal of Honor
World War II
Jack Lucas was a fraudulent enlistee. He was only 14 years old when he joined the Marine Corps in 1942 after falsifying his enlistment papers to reflect his age at 17. Three years later, just five days after he actually turned seventeen, he was in his second day of combat at Iwo Jima.
Forty-thousand Marines made the initial landing at Iwo Jima, suffering 5,320 casualties in the first day alone. One of the most bitter fought battles of World War II, 27 Americans received Medals of Honor for their heroism on the small Pacific Island from February 19 to March 16th, 1945. Only 13 of these Medal recipients, with an average age of 23 years, survived to wear their Medal.
Jack Lucas, at seventeen, became the youngest American in this century from any branch of service, to receive our Nation's highest award. Despite the horrible wounds caused by selflessly covering two enemy grenades with his own body to save his comrades, he was one of the few to survive.
Jack Lucas is a true patriot, a man who loves our Country and has sacrificed much to preserve it. He makes frequent visits to schools and veterans organizations to speak to the public about the service and sacrifice that are required by those who live in a free society.
In 1995 he was invited to Washington, DC for President Clinton's State of the Union address, where the World War II hero was introduced to a rousing standing ovation by both houses of the United States Congress. More recently, he and his wife Ruby, attended ceremonies where Jack's story was placed in the mast of a US Ship.
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Please click on his picture for the story of an American hero Thomas B. McGuire, JR.
Born: August 1,
1920
Having completed his mission Lt. Col.
Page was free to return to the safety of Hamhung but chose to remain on the
plateau to aid an isolated signal station, thus being cut off with elements
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The Purple Heart
Our Nation's First Military Award
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on medal for full details
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Superior Life
Insurance for You
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You're Coming Home
I'm crying again, but different tears
These last five months have felt like years
But you're on your way home, and soon you'll be
where you belong, back here with me!
I've thought about what I would say
When I picked you up that awaited day
But nothing came but I love you...
And then I would stare and be happy and cry!!!!
I feel as though you've been gone for years
I've cried so many saddened tears
But now when I look back and see
They've all been worth you coming home to me!!!!!!
I'm proud of what and who you are
The fact that you went so very far
I can feel the pain that you've all been through
Because I was back here feeling it too!!!
But the future is brighter, now we both can see
And I hope you know what you mean to me
I'm awaiting your arrival with excitement so great
All I can say is that plane better not be late!!!
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Enlisted Women
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"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."
Omar Nelson Bradley
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You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam. Your infantry unit is 8-1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the outnumbered MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.
You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again.. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a
helicopter, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't seem
real, because no Medi-Vac markings are on it....
Ed Freeman is
coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying
his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered
not to come. He's
coming anyway.
And he drops it
in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on
board. Then
he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses.
And, he kept coming back.... 13 more times..... And took about 30 of you
and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last August 2008 at the age of 80, in Boise, ID.
May God rest his soul.
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VA Enhances
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1.- What did the Marquis de Lafayette, America's Revolutionary War ally, name his only son?
2.- Who were Michael Strank, Harlon H. Block, Franklin R. Sousley, Ira Hayes, Rene Gagnon and John H. Bradley, and how have they been memorialized?
3.- Why was actor Paul Newman disqualified from the Navy's pilot-training program during World War II?
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Ossie Phillips,
POW, Bischofhopfen. Showers not working - Johnny and I went to Commandant to get showers going - heated water all had hot showers - many had lived dirty possibly for months because couldn't get it to work. Just lay on grass in group of 50.
Radio loud - heard Churchill say "the war would finish at midnight". 2pm 8th May 1945. Close to toilets - still had Red Cross parcels - eg. tea. Took door off toilet for fire to heat water for tea. Prisoners stripped wood off - building gone between guard walking around. Buried wood under greatcoats. Guard couldn't believe it.
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Hello Shipmates
Anyone still got their Pea-Coat? It is believed to come from the Dutch word 'pij', which was a coarse, woolen cloth. Another possible origin lies in the fact that early Navy coats were made from a heavy material called, 'pilot cloth', hence, 'P-Coat'.
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Please pray for our men and women who are fighting for our security and peace.
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Answers to:
1.-
What did the Marquis de Lafayette, America's Revolutionary War ally, name his
only son?
A: George Washington
Lafayette.
2.- Who
were Michael Strank, Harlon H. Block, Franklin R. Sousley, Ira Hayes, Rene
Gagnon and John H. Bradley, and how have they been memorialized?
A: They were the six
servicemen who raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi o Iwo Jima during
World War II-- and who are memorialized in the dramatic 78-foot-high Iwo Jima
Monument in Arlington, Virginia.
3.- Why
was actor Paul Newman disqualified from the Navy's pilot-training program during
World War II?
A: Newman's dazzling
blue eyes are colorblind.
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are so many ways we can support our men and women in service. Some take very
little time and expense. Why not look to see how you can help uplift and show
your support to our troops. Click above.
"Though I walk in the
midst of trouble, Thou wilt revive me; Thou wilt stretch forth Thy hand against
the wrath of my enemies, and Thy right hand will save me."
~ Psalm 138:7~
Please pray for protection
for
our men and women in the Armed Forces:
Scott, Kyle, Jeff, Dan, Lon
P.,
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Alex B., John R., Frank G.,
Bryan M., Jeff D., Debra R.,
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Shaun M., Matthew A., Christina,
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