[Nitro]

This poem always strikes me right in the heart, I hope you enjoy it as well!

[LibKill]

Yes, we can always count on our "Blue Jackets".

I spent two years on Navy ships in a Marine Detachment.

I know the Navy pretty well. They toil until there is nothing left to give and then somehow they give some more.

The American Sailor is a worthy inheritor of a proud tradition.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

Go get them, guys.

[starxmtn]

Thank you Nitro. My daughter just began her 18th year in the US Navy and my son has begun his 16th year. This poem touched my heart. Many words from different people have touched me in the last few days, while terroristic acts from others have made my blood boil. God Bless America

[Britton J Wingfield]

I tried to get a hold of a recruiter today, but will have to try again tomorrow. Maybe someone here can answer a question for me:

I am wanting to go back into the reserves, and am wondering if I would have to repeat basic training. I was in 88-94, plus 2 years of inactive reserve. I was honorably discharged as an E-5. I just turned 31.

I know I'd lose stripes going back in, of course, but I'm not sure about the bootcamp issue. Anybody have any idea?

[CWOJackson]

Bravo Zulu!

[timydnuc]

Wonderful post! I used to call them "rustpickers" I won't do that anymore. It was a intraservice joke anyway. In VietNam on several battles, we called for Army Artillary and couldn't get it. We called for the Navy and we got anything we wanted. It's amazing what they can do with those big assed guns. But, the rounds coming in will scare the beeeJesus straight out of you, the enemy, and any tigers that happen to be in the neighborhood! The explosion was good enough, but the incoming sound was like God screaming at you.

Let me tell you though...them rust pickin' suckers could shoot! Saved my ass more than once! Very good considering that they were lobbing those puppies nearly 20 miles!! Nerves O steel! You've got to give it to those rust pickers...damn fine shots!

Here's to the Navy.....!

[ValerieUSA]

Thank you, I printed it out for my oldest son who just finished Navy boot camp and myself and his younger brothers.

[quietolong]

Bump

[Nitro]

BUMP!!

[RaceBannon]

My Mom and my Dad were sailors in WWII.

[RonDog]

BUMP!

[cynicom]

Sailors??? Those guys in funny little hats and pants that haul Marines around????

[Nimitz]

Me thinks Kennedy said it best, "Any man in this century when asked what he did to make his life worth while can reply with a great deal of pride and satisfaction, "I served in the United States Navy."" No truer words have been spoken.

USS Bluefish

USS South Carolina

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower

9 years

Regards Fellow Bluejackets!

[philman_36]

I am Democracy's servant and I will serve her honorably ever again
And this is exactly what is wrong with this!
I am no servant of "democracy" and I'm insulted as an American Sailor!
This ain't no damned "demobcracy"!
It's a Republic!
whoever wrote it probably didn't even look at the Constitution, much less read it

[aomagrat]

Navy Bump!

[Nitro]

Ping, my first post!!

[NorCoGOP]

US Navy veteran BUMP

[RaceBannon]

My Mom and my Dad were Navy in WWII

[Colt .45]

"Without a strong Navy, we can do nothing definitive." - George Washington, Father of Our Nation. These words echo down through the generations, and had it not been for the Navy during WW2, we would've not won the war in the Pacific.

My first all time favorite quote is from John Paul Jones during his battle with the Guerrier " No Sir, I have not yet begun to fight".

My second most favorite line, as an Airedale is "Scratch one Jap Flattop!" Said by CDR. Wade McCluskey during the Battle of Midway.

Second most favorite line is from the Spanish American War, this one was said during the Battle of Manila Bay - "You may fire when ready Gridley!"

[Long Cut]

Navy Pride Bump, from an Airdale to a Blackshoe!!!!

ORION...The Mighty Hunter