Sea Story Sundays: The Day GMSN Brown Pooped
Sea Story Sundays: The Day GMSN Brown Pooped Oh, liberty stories. Every sailor worth his salt has one. That one time a sailor got caught banging a hooker in the middle of Texas Street in Busan at 2 p.m. The time your shipmate got busted by NCIS trying to sell meth to...
Leak Classified Material, Go to Prison (or Run for President)
Leaking classified material is a long, proud tradition in the Navy. When you've got incredibly disgruntled 20-somethings right next to nuclear reactors, the odds that one of them is going to try and sell invaluable military secrets to the Chinese approaches one pretty...
Navy Purple Heart Hero: John H. Willis
Purple Heart Recipient John Harlan Willis: American Badass World War 2 is known among military enthusiasts as “that one time everybody became total badasses and fought the frickin’ Nazis.” A number of noteworthy names are recorded in the history books, but since this...
4 Ways Sailors Lead From the Front
The term “deckplate leadership” gets thrown around a lot, even more so since the advent of CPO 365. There’s a big deal made out of being an enlisted leader, and for good reason. If you think it’s a bunch of crap, you haven’t worked for a bad chief. Knowing how to...
Discover the Tradition of the Purple Heart
The Purple Heart. You've seen it on license plates, knew it was for troops injured in conflict. But did you know its history? Do you know the long, proud tradition of this great award? The History of the Purple Heart The tradition of the Purple Heart began with the...
3 Ways to Keep CO’s Mast From Ending Your Career
Ah, good ol’ Captain’s Mast. There’s a myriad reasons you can go, and more often than not it seems like you’re going to lose a rank and half of two month’s pay when you do. It’s often for stuff you couldn’t get in trouble for on the outside, but you’re not on the...
Navycrow.Com Goes To Fleet Week
Navycrow.Com Goes To Fleet Week. Nothing like the site of tall masted ships sailing down the Willamette right in the middle of downtown Portland, Oregon. It is a site that happens only once a year and when it does it is something special. Portland, OR a growing...
PT 109: The story of LTJG John F. Kennedy the Accidental Hero.
LTJG JOHN F. KENNEDY PT-109 was a PT boat (Patrol Torpedo boat) last commanded by LTJG John F. Kennedy (later President of the United States) in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Kennedy's actions to save his surviving crew after the sinking of PT-109...
The Service Flag: The Story of the Families Left Behind.
SERVICE FLAG Our Nation has been at war now for going on 15 years, the longest period of conflict in our Nation’s History. Throughout this time countless brave men and women have worn the cloth of our Nation and followed her banners into combat. To recognize the...
Navy Cooks: Burning Toast and Saving Lives since 1797
Navy Cooks: A Brief History Navy Cooks are one of the oldest rates in the US Navy, their official beginning can be found in the Continental Navy beholden of the title of simply “Cook”, this later evolved into “Ship's Cook” in 1838 denoting their seafaring employment...
American Military Memorial Coin
MEMORIAL DAY The American Military Families know that Memorial Day is not about backyard BBQ, neighborhood swimming pool openings, or mattress sales. Rather this is a most somber holiday where we mark the occasion to take pause from our busy lives and recognize our...
Hull Techs of the US Navy: The Snipe Saga Continues
THE BEGINNING OF HULL TECHS The historical reference of the Ship’s Engineering Department can be traced back to the days of wooden sailing ships and the sail makers whose job it was quite literally to make the sails which would then drive the ship, along with the...