Wounded Warrior Project

From a shipmate:

Wounded Warrior Project
Surface Navy Association
GreaterWashington Chapter

For the past two years, the Greater Washington Chapter of the Surface Navy Association has conducted a campaign to assist our wounded shipmates recovering at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD.  We collected more than 800 DVDs for the Sailors and [...]

It Happened On This Date (More or Less)

August 15
1845 – U.S. Naval Academy established at Annapolis, MD on former
site of Fort Severn,
1895 – Commissioning of Texas, the first American steel-hulled
battleship. Texas served off Cuba during the
Spanish-American War and took part in the naval battle of
Santiago. Under the name of San Marcos, she was sunk in
weapon effects tests in Chesapeake Bay in 1911. [...]

It Happened On This Date (More or Less)

August 12
1812 – USS Constitution captures and destroys brig Adeona.
1918 – SECNAV approves acceptance of women as yeoman (F) in
U.S. Navy.
1942 – USS Cleveland (CL-55) demonstrates effectiveness of radio-proximity fuze (VT-fuze) against aircraft by successfullydestroying 3 drones with proximity bursts fired by her five inch guns.
1944 – LT Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., USNR, the older [...]

Navy Shoots Down Ballistic Missile in Test Off Hawaii

HONOLULU (AP–From FoxNews) — The U.S. military intercepted a ballistic missile Thursday in the first such sea-based test since a Navy cruiser shot down an errant satellite earlier this year.
The military fired the target, a Scud-like missile with a range of a few hundred miles, from a decommissioned amphibious assault ship near Hawaii’s [...]

John McCain’s Sons

Talk about putting your most valuable where your mouth is! Apparently this was not ‘newsworthy’enough for the media to comment about. Can either of the other presidential candidates truthfully come close to this? …. Just a question for each of us to seek an answer,and not a statement.
You see…character is what’s shown when the public [...]

Gary Sinise Rocks Pentagon, Supports Troops

Story by Fred W. Baker III
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON – Award-winning actor and part-time rocker Gary Sinise and the “Lt. Dan Band” jammed for a standing-room-only crowd in the courtyard of the Pentagon this month.
“Rocking at the Pentagon,” Sinise exclaimed mid-set for a much-appreciative audience.
The band played for the 4th Annual America Supports You Military [...]

Happy Memorial Day

May we never forget our veterans and what they have done for all of us…
Best Wishes for a very happy and thankful Memorial Day!

Why Veterans Reunite
“I now know why men who have been to war yearn to reunite. Not to tell stories or look at old pictures. [...]

Today is Armed Forces Day

President Harry S. Truman led the effort to establish a single holiday
for citizens to come together and thank our military members for their
patriotic service in support of our country.
On August 31, 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the
creation of an Armed Forces Day to replace separate Army, Navy, Marine
Corps and [...]

Memorial Day

Memorial Day goes back to 1868 when General John A. Logan, Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, when he issued his famous Order No. 11 of May 6, 1868, directing that the graves of the war dead be decorated with flowers and appropriate ceremony on May 30th of that year.
This May [...]

US Navy Successfully Shoots Down US Spy Satellite

WASHINGTON — A missile launched from a Navy ship successfully struck a dying U.S. spy satellite passing 130 miles over the Pacific on Wednesday, a defense official said. Full details were not immediately available.
It happened just after 10:30 p.m. EST.
Two officials said the missile was launched successfully. One official, who is close to the [...]