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NortonPete · PO2 Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Posts: 385

I was alerted to this on the Redstate blog.

On Friday, October 13, 1775, meeting in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress voted to fit out two sailing vessels, armed with ten carriage guns, as well as swivel guns, and manned by crews of eighty, and to send them out on a cruise of three months to intercept transports carrying munitions and stores to the British army in America. This was the original legislation out of which the Continental Navy grew and as such constitutes the birth certificate of the navy.

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3rd gen Navy · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:07 am Post subject:

Hoo Yah!
Smith
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Sean G. Smith,
RN, BSN, EMT-B, U.S. Navy, 1994 - 2003.
BS Biology, Business Administration, Nursing
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!!!!!! LET THE WILD RUMPUS BEGIN !!!!!!

NortonPete · PO2 Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Posts: 385

My Father-in-law was the Chief Petty Officer of PC1129. (Harold Van Nostrand.)
After 2+ years at sea he contracted Malaria in the Phillipines (Luzon) and was returned to the States just 2 weeks
before PC1129 became a victim of numerous Japanese suicide boats and was sunk.

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l28/NortonPete/pc1129.jpg