Tag: Birthday

  • Happy Birthday MilVets and Patriots!

    Happy Birthday MilVets and Patriots!

    How the time flies. It’s been 4 years since Uni and I launched MVAP as a place for Veterans and other like-minded people to connect and converse.

    We did a ‘soft launch’ at the end of June, but the official launch was 4 July2020. This was the launch post:

    Since that first official post, there have been more than 500,000 site visits and several million page views. Not too shabby for a small site. And we have you, Dear Constant Reader, to thank for it. As a small reminder, we do have a push notification system up and running on the site. You may need to disable your ad blocker to see it. But seeing as we do not serve any ads on the site (I know, I know there are ads in the comments, but they aren’t ours and we don’t have a choice about them being there unless we want to pay a couple of grand a year for the paid disqus plugin), it won’t affect anything if you do.

    While we’re on the subject of thanks, I need to extend mine to the team here;

    AuntiE, for her daily conversation posts, her timely political posts and her patience;

    WhyNot, for ensuring posts get tagged and getting – and keeping – the conversations going;

    Chance, for sharing his insights with us all;

    Walt Mow, for putting up with this editor messing with his pieces before publishing

    And most of all, our Publisher Rogue Unicorn for making this hot mess possible.

  • Happy Birthday Army

    Happy Birthday Army

    Today, 14 June, marks the 248th birthday of the US Army. On that date in 1775, the Continental Congress authorized ten companies of expert riflemen. That makes the Army the senior service predating the Navy (13 OCT 1775) and the Marine Corps (10 NOV 1775).

    The oldest Regular Army infantry regiment, the 3d Infantry Regiment, was constituted on 3 June 1784, as the First American Regiment.

    Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Gen. James C. McConville, second from left, Secretary of the U.S. Army Christine E. Wormuth, center, and Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael A. Grinston, cut the birthday cake with Miles Avery, left, a Make a Wish recipient, during the Army Birthday Festival Formal Ceremony at the National Museum of the United States Army, Fort Belvoir, Va., June 10, 2023. The event commemorated the 248th Birthday of the U.S. Army. (Henry Villarama/U.S. Army)

    The Army has participated in every American conflict from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War to the World Wars to the Global War on Terror and many more in between.

  • Happy Birthday Navy

    Happy Birthday Navy

    Today marks the 247th year since the Continental Congress established a Naval Force to fight the British. The debate over challenging the Royal Navy was a fierce one, but George Washington ended the debate when he commissioned the USS Hannah to raid British merchant shipping. On 13 October 1775 the Continental Navy authorized the purchase of two small, armed merchant vessels.

    It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

    — George Washington 15 November 1781, to Marquis de Lafayette

    Following the Revolutionary War, the fledgling country couldn’t afford a navy and the last vessel of the Continental navy, Alliance, was sold. The country would be without a navy until 1797, when the USS Constitution, Constellation, and United States were commissioned.

    Naval power . . . is the natural defense of the United States.

    John Adams

    The Navy has grown since its humble beginnings. The service now consists of 296 combatant vessels, 2464 aircraft and 346,200 sailors.

  • Happy Birthday

    Happy Birthday


    Today is the Marine Corps birthday.