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World’s most powerful Navy celebrates 249 years of service
Stars and Stripes ^ | October 11th 2024 | Alexander Banerjee

Posted on 10/13/2024 7:48:45 AM PDT by Jacquerie

“Resolved, That 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...”

It was these words from an Oct. 13, 1775, resolution of the Continental Congress that established the U.S. Navy 249 years ago.

Two and a half centuries later, America’s naval service is the world’s most advanced. It counts over 330,000 active-duty sailors (including over 55,000 officers), 57,000 reservists and 219,000 civilians, on top of hundreds of ships.

Though the Navy initially formed in 1775, it functionally dissolved after the American Revolution ended. It was reestablished in 1794 amid threats to American merchant vessels, and permanently institutionalized with the creation of the Department of the Navy in 1798.

By the end of the World War II, its status as the world’s most powerful naval force was clear. Although the last decade has seen it surpassed by China in absolute ship numbers, the U.S. Navy remains the world’s largest by tonnage, due in large part to its unrivaled count of aircraft carriers.

Those serving in the world’s most powerful navy have been celebrating their heritage this month under the theme “Warfighting Strength and Readiness.”

(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; usn; usnavy
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To: Jacquerie

When the Navy was established, the National Guard was already 139 years old, and had fought the first combat of the Revolutionary war at Lexington and Concord.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world


21 posted on 10/13/2024 11:21:05 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: oldbill

Irrelevant.


22 posted on 10/13/2024 11:29:04 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: jdt1138

Yes....🧐🙁🥴...ughh...God Bless America for having a better navy than that bunch of rust buckets! Lol


23 posted on 10/13/2024 12:15:29 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: oldbill

braggart...😉


24 posted on 10/13/2024 12:16:27 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: TokarevM57

Not This Guy’s Navy of some 30 years ago either...but it can rise again.

Trump should de-integrate combatant vessels (men only).


25 posted on 10/13/2024 12:18:56 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: cuz1961

The 2012 30-Year Shipbuilding Plan called for the Kaisers to be replaced by 17 double-hulled vessels under the T-AO(X) program.[12]

John Lewis (T-AO-205) [A]
Harvey Milk (T-AO-206) [A][13]
Earl Warren (T-AO-207) [P] - under construction
Robert F. Kennedy (T-AO-208) [P] - under construction
Lucy Stone (T-AO-209) [P] - on order
Sojourner Truth (T-AO-210) [P] - on order
Thurgood Marshall (T-AO-211) [P] - on order
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (T-AO-212) [P] - on order


26 posted on 10/13/2024 12:24:14 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

Fleet Replenishment Oilers
USNS Big Horn
USNS John Ericsson
USNS Leroy Grumman
USNS Guadalupe
USNS Joshua Humphreys
USNS Henry J. Kaiser
USNS Kanawha
USNS Laramie
USNS John Lenthall
USNS John Lewis
USNS Harvey Milk
USNS Patuxent
USNS Pecos
USNS Rappahannock
USNS Tippecanoe
USNS Earl Warren
USNS Yukon


27 posted on 10/13/2024 4:39:57 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: one guy in new jersey

i stand corrected

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4267018/posts

Perfect Biden-HARRIS Metaphor:

Only

Navy Oiler in ME

Runs Aground, Springs Leaks.

so that carrier groupe is in a bad situation.

\/

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2024-09-24/usns-big-horn-15286129.html

...The USNS Big Horn is one of 15 replenishment oilers

Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2024-09-24/usns-big-horn-15286129.html
Source - Stars and Stripes

While three

new John Lewis-class oilers

have been delivered,

they have not yet

entered service.

Three are under construction

and

three more are under contract,

according to the Navy.

/\
so

15 total

1 grounded
3 delivered , not entered service

3 being built
3 to be built


28 posted on 10/13/2024 5:35:03 PM PDT by cuz1961
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29 posted on 10/14/2024 7:15:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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