Is there interest in my creating a table of NAVY Veterans in honor of the Navy's specially anniversary today? TO ALL NAVY VETERANS, THANK YOU!

10/13/2025 | vanity

[rktman]

My dad (career O-6) swore me in summer of 1967. Count me in.

[BenLurkin]

ping

[Mathews]

GMC(USN), Ret. 1988-2008

[mairdie]

Great idea! Let’s us clap for a lot of Freepers who served. Clapping here!

[Owen]

FYI folks, veteran totals are down to about 7% of the adult US population.

When you run into 4 of them in random locales, be suspicious.

[ransomnote]

do you want me to add in an end date to your service or just note it as you write it? :D

[NEMDF]

Though I don’t qualify as “military family”, per se, I have these links: My dad was US Army in mid 1950s, Husband USMC late 1960s, his dad USMC WWII Pacific, my son and 2 stepsons USMC Iraq War, my son-in-law US Army Afghanistan and later DoD contract employee Kenya/Somalia.

No Navy vets, but some bona fide heroes in there.

[Mariner]

1977 - 1987
VQ-3
USS Tarawa
USS Benjamin Stoddart
NAVCAMS Westpac
NAVCOMMSTA Puget Sound
SERE Warner Springs

[GMMC0987]

GMMC0987, U.S. NAVY, 1969-1991, GMMC (Ret.) Chief Gunner’s Mate (Missile)

[dadfly]

never a vet, but add my congratulations on 250 and thanks to all our Navy vets.

[The Klingon]

Career Navy 1981-2007 O-6 Surface Warfare. USS Tarawa LHA-1, USS Hayler DD-997, USS Pensacola LSD-38 (Desert Shield/Storm, USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71, USS Harlan County LST-1196

[power2]

1979 -1985

MM1/SS.. NUC MM, Leading ELT

USS Flasher SSN-613

San Diego, Vallejo (Ship yard)

Thanks for doing this.

[Red Badger]

Happy Birthday, Squids!.................

[mairdie]

>>FYI folks, veteran totals are down to about 7% of the adult US population. When you run into 4 of them in random locales, be suspicious.

Good advice, generally, but Free Republic isn’t random. It brings patriots out of the corners.

[Jim Robinson]

USN 1965-1969 Interior Communications Electrician. DD806, DD945, DD716

[atomic_dog]

1974-1984
EM1(SS) nuclear,
USS Greenling (SSN-614) New London, Charleston
USS Los Angeles (SSN-688) Norfolk, Pearl Harbor
USS Omaha (SSN-692) Pearl Harbor
Naval Submarine Training Center Pearl Harbor
1986-1993
LT (O-3) (Surface Warfare)
USS Harold E. Holt (FF-1074) Pearl Harbor

[Bonemaker]

Like hell you don’t qualify! You’re in madam!😃

[Bonemaker]

Good start...welcome Navy! Let me know when you start working on the Air Force.

[JBW1949]

DC2PO (Damage Controlman 2nd Class Petty Officer) 1967-1974...

USS Puget Sound AD38...USS Yosemite AD19...