Happy Birthday US Navy

[FuzzyWuzHe]

Happy 243rd Birthday US Navy (actually tomorrow).

[trike lady]

Three cheers for the finest Navy in the world. Happy 243rd U.S.N.

[MDO]

A tip of the cap to the U.S. Navy.

I always tell people I wasn't in the Navy, I was in the Submarine Service.

[Rev Ray]

It was drummed in our heads,that we were not sailors,we were North American Fighting Blue Jackets. HAPPY BIRTHDAY NAVY!

[Ozarker]

Cheers

Anchors Away!

[Fearless]

[SubDude]

Hello,

I'm still a newbie here, posted in introduce yourself (Howdy from San Angelo Texas).

Anyway I remember my Company Commander yelling and having us yelling the very same we are "North American Fighting Blue Jackets" out on the grinder in San Diego CA. circa 1981

I think I may have given away that I'm getting old, I guess.

Thanks for the post,

David Hilton Ret. USN ETC/SS

It was drummed in our heads,that we were not sailors,we were North American Fighting Blue Jackets. HAPPY BIRTHDAY NAVY!

[NC Triker]

You think you are getting old. I was on that same grinder in 1967.

[SubDude]

Hello,

I guess you were breaking it in for me then, I mean it when I say Thanks for your Service. (No Joke)

David Hilton

You think you are getting old. I was on that same grinder in 1967.

[Rmitchell55]

I remember walking/running around those grinders in San Diego during the summer of 1964. Most of RTC San Diego is now civilian housing. The O club is now a restaurant called "The Corvette Diner" with a nice 1959 Corvette sitting in the entry way. During my time in the Navy I was on three surface craft and 4 submarines.

[oldprowler]

Well since y'all are showing your age, I was on that grinder on 18 September of 1957. Exactly 7 days after my 17th birthday.

USN Retired

[SubDude]

I knew they had shutdown the base out there, and San Diego was always growing too.

I grew up in Riverside Ca, but lived in San Diego as a child.

Best of luck to you, and ride safe,

David Hilton Ret. ETC/SS

I remember walking/running around those grinders in San Diego during the summer of 1964. Most of RTC San Diego is now civilian housing. The O club is now a restaurant called "The Corvette Diner" with a nice 1959 Corvette sitting in the entry way. During my time in the Navy I was on three surface craft and 4 submarines.

[Retired Army]

I was attending a joint school and the Navy instructor told us it was difficult to teach because there was no water there. We had to show him the way to the drinking fountain. Happy birth day sailors and thanks for your service.

[Peter A.]

You think you are getting old. I was on that same grinder in 1967.

I did it 1965..........what shame it is GONE.......but I did attend Grandsons Marine graduation just down the street, last July.......I SALUTE ALL military!