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THE BEGINNING OF HULL TECHS The historical reference of the Ship’s Engineering Department can be traced back to the days of wooden sailing ships and the sail makers whose job it was quite literally to make the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...
Navy Chiefs Vintage Goatlocker Challenge Coins
US Navy Chiefs: Straight Outta the Goat Locker! The rough, hewn and weathered look of this US Navy Chiefs Goatlocker Vintage Coin™ suggests experience, dedication, commitment and an overriding desire to maintain the highest level of service as a United...
First Class Petty Officers: The First Deckplate Leaders!
FIRST CLASS PETTY OFFICERS It is often said that the Chief Petty Officers run the US Navy, however they are not born a Chief so this sense of heritage and dedication of duty must have come from somewhere right? The US Navy Chief Petty Officer has a rich heritage...
US Navy Master-At-Arms
US Navy Master-At-Arms: Sheriffs of the Sea, the First Command Master Chiefs Navy Crow is pleased to announce the debut of their latest project to honor each and every rate within the World's Finest Navy. It is only fitting that the Master-At-Arms force, one...
US Veteran Coin: Paying Respect for those that have served.
Become one of the first ever to own this limited edition US Veteran Forever Will I Own The Title Coin. Since 1775 the men and women of America, the greatest country in all the land have taken up arms and sailed into harms' way to defend their homes against...
The Jolly Roger: Set sail with Navy Crow!
Jolly Roger: Fact or Fiction The original Jolly Roger black flag made popular in the book Treasure Island, and in TV shows such as Black Sails are much a figment of modern imagination more so than historical facts. The Golden Age of Piracy influenced by the constant...