Navy Reserve Birthday 2024
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I was a Navy reservist. My program was called 3x6 whereby I did bootcamp, A School, then 3 years active duty followed by 2 years active reserve and then 1 year inactive reserve. When I was on active duty I made every effort to be "squared away" with conduct which was beyond reproach. I'm afraid my active reserve time was not nearly so illustrious ... and to tell the truth I wasn't all that proud of my performance on active duty either. I feel that I always held back and did not do my utmost during my service in the Navy.
So this has caused me to engage enhanced support of my ship's Reunion Association in an effort to make meager amends for my failures as a sailor and I mail them a monthly check in addition to the dues to hopefully ensure they have adequate fundage for whatever comes up in the way of operating expenses.
Today is the Naval Reserve Birthday. It is observed each March 3rd in commemoration of the establishment of the United States Navy Reserve in 1915.
On March 3, 1915 legislation was enacted by congress to establish the Federal Navy Reserve. On April 6, 1917, it was renamed the US Naval Reserve Force. The Naval Reserve Force entered World War I with about 8,000 sailors, growing to 250,000 reservists by the end of the war. The Reserve also served in World War II comprising some 84% of the United States Navy manpower. Reservists also served in other major armed conflicts like Korea and Vietnam and the first Gulf war as well as in Bosnia and Kosovo. In 2005, our Naval Reserve Force was renamed to Navy Reserve.
Anyway — so I wasn't a stellar sailor as was my dad and two brothers. However, I have managed to squeak by with my pitiful attempts at making amends so that I don't feel quite as guilty about it all as I once did.
Happy Navy Reserve Birthday.
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