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.”
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Pronouns for everyone!
Run by grinning idiot Lisa Franchetti now....
Our aircraft carriers are judged by beancounters in their green eyeshades as hopelessly vulnerable at the outset of a hot war.
National assets all, the rest of the world
involuntarily trembles, and marvels.
If they silently keep the peace on the world’s oceans and sealanes for decades on end, are they not worth the investment, and the risk?
This Guy will take its seaborne brawler little brother too. For two small.
> the U.S. Navy remains the world’s largest by tonnage <
I’m not quite sure if that’s a meaningful statistic.
It reminds me of the Soviet steel mills in Stalin’s day. Managers were rewarded for increasing production. So they produced things like huge steel nails. These nails upped the tonnage numbers but weren’t very useful in the real world.
So many of them just got dumped in a lot behind the mill.
Alexander Banerjee? Are the Hindoos taking Western names now?
This has to still be a huge deterrent.
God Bless America!!!!
AMEN!!
God Bless our Sailors!
That is the PLA’s Navy.
I believe the first United States fighting vessel, the sloop United States, was actually owned and crewed by private citizens. It attacked British and colonial vessels (in one case incorrectly).
Providence November 5, 1776: Whereas Benjamin Pierce Commander of the Sloop United States did on 19th September capture on the high seas and send into the Port of Warren the brigantine Polly, Robert Nelson Master and Owner from North Carolina and whereas it appears that the brigantine was not employed in any illicit trade, but on the contrary, that the said Nelson? intentions can in no way be proved to be inimical to the American States, and that he was bound to Lisbon (with permission from the Provincial Convention of North Carolina)...
USS Bonhomme Richard burns up dockside in San Diego, California.
The "most powerful navy." /sarc
Who has a more powerful navy than America?
Who has a more powerful navy than America
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all the countries with a refueling oiler/tanker
our navy’s oiler is currently run aground with a sheared off rudder post.
so,., we got a navy only till all the carrier group ships run out of fuel.
nuke subs is only viable ships left
the carriers will soon be sitting ducks.
we only had 1 oiler
thanks obama and lynchmobocrat party.
.....is anyone old enough to remember that now-defunct recruiting slogan, “The Navy - not just a job but an adventure” or something quite similar.....? today’s Navy is not my Navy of some 60 years ago....we didn’t have DEI and CRT and all that crap back in that day.....
Yup - “Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash” was supposed to be a joke about the Royal Navy, not a recruiting poster for the U.S. Navy.
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