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The United States Navy
Written by Mitch
Monday, 11 January 2010 03:00
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United States Navyis the sea branch of the United States designated for naval and amphibious warfare. Impressingly, the United States Navy is the largest in the world ,where in it is greater than 13 of the largest other Naval forces combined.

The main mission of the U.S. Navy is to protect the United States and its allies ensuring that they can move freely in the oceans, and to protect our country against the enemies. Development of aircraft, tactics, weapons and naval combat and services are also under the primary tasks of the US Navy.

History:

The US Navy can be traced back to the Continental Navy (formed during the American Revolution) and was soon disbanded after the war. Our constitution granted a legal sanction for the seaborne military by giving the Congress the power to “provide and maintain a navy”. In 1974, The Naval act was formed thus the US Navy was formed.

Components of the US Navy:

There are basically nine components to the operating forces of the US Navy:

  • Pacific Fleet
  • Fleet Forces Command
  • Naval Forces Europe
  • Naval Network Warfare Command
  • Operational Test and Evaluation Force
  • Naval Special Warfare Command
  • Military Sea Lift Command
  • Naval Forces Central Command
  • Navy Reserve

The United States Navy’s Official Seal

The official seal of US Navy is composed of the Anchor, American Bald Eagle and Background of the sea and the sky. It also bears the inscription “Department of Navy” at the top and “United States of America” at the bottom separated on each side by a mullet and within a rim in form of a rope. The inscriptions, mullet, rope and edges of annulet in the seal are all in gold.

The land in the insignia symbolizes the Navy’s supporting shore facilities and the fleet’s amphibious strike capabilities. In the earlier seal design, the wording used was “Navy Department” it was changed into “Department of Navy” in order to embrace the whole world-wide operations afloat, ashore and others.

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USS Barry DDG-52
Written by Mitch
Monday, 04 January 2010 23:06
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USS Barry (DDG-52) is named after the “Father of the American Navy” — Commodore John Barry. The ship is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer which was commissioned in 1992.

As of 2008, Barry is one the three ships to have won the prestigious Battenberg Cup three times. (Battenberg Cup is given annually as a symbol of excellence to the best ship/submarine in the United States Navy Atlantic Fleet). In 2004 Barry also received the Arleigh Burke Fleet Trophy as being the most improved ship in the Atlantic Fleet.

USS Barry recently marked the centennial celebration of the Great White Fleet. Over 100 years ago the “Great White Fleet” made history; it made a 43,000 mile journey that included 20 port calls on six different continents that lasted from December 1907 until February 1909.

The USS Barry struck port in Malta, one of the locations that the historic Great White Fleet visited; this is to commemorate the anniversary of the historical event.

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Military “Dog Tags”
Written by Mitch
Wednesday, 12 August 2009 21:25
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Military personnel have different ways to identify and distinguished them as a part of the Military. This may come in form of insignias from different branches, patches, logos and the likes. This goes with their pride of being a part of the Military and being able to serve our country and its people.

One of the distinguishing marks of the Military is that personnel wear a “Dog Tag”. Dog Tag is the informal name for identification tags worn by military personnel.  Wearing of dog tags is required to soldiers in the field. Since dog tags come in two pieces, there are  two identical copies of information. In an event that the wearer is killed, the first tag is collected for notification, while the second one remains with the body when the condition of the battle does not allow casualties to be recovered immediately.

History of Dog Tags

  • The Civil War provided the first recorded incident of American soldiers ensuring their identities would be known in case of death. The methods vary depending on the soldier’s initiative.
  • The commercial sector saw the demand for identification method and provided products. E.g. “Soldier’s Pin”—made of silver and gold with inscriptions of individual name and unit designation.
  • In 1899, the first official advocacy of issuing identification took place. Chaplain Charles C. Pierce (tasked to establish the Quartermaster Office of Identification in the Philippines, recommended inclusion of an “identity disc”, this is to answer the concerns for the need for standard identification.
  • The Army Regulations of 1913 made identification tags mandatory, and by 1917, all combat soldiers wore aluminum discs on chains.
  • By World War II, the circular disk was replaced by the oblong shape familiar to us today, generally referred to as “dog tags”.

These are some of the formats use by the Military:

USAF Format 1

  • Surname, first name, middle initial
  • Social Security Number, followed by “AF” indicating branch of service.
  • Blood Group
  • “blank”
  • Religion

USAF Format 2

  • Surname
  • First name and middle initial
  • Social Security Number, followed by “AF” indicating branch of service.
  • Blood Group
  • Religion

USMC

  • Surname
  • First and middle initials, blood group
  • Social Security Number with no dashes, but spaced
  • Branch (“USMC”):*Gas mask size
  • Religious preference (or “NO PREFERENCE”) or medical allergy if red medical tag.

US Navy

  • Surname, first name, middle initial
  • “blank”
  • Social Security Number with no dashes or spaces followed immediately by branch blood group
  • “blank”
  • Religion

US Army

  • Surname
  • First name, middle initial
  • Social Security Number
  • Blood type
  • Religion

USCG

  • Surname, first name, middle initial
  • Social Security Number with no dashes or spaces followed immediately by branch
  • blood group
  • “blank”
  • Religion

Trivia: The U.S Army stopped using the term “Dog tags” and replaced it with “I.D tags” .

There are other ways to identify a Military personnel. And more than that we should commemorate the services that they have rendered for us. The issuance of “dog tags” because of the need for identification  in case of death in war, shows us that Military personnel have their lives at stake for the country.

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