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5 unusual facts about Naval Reserve


Bertram Wyatt-Brown

He joined the Armed Services and served from 1953 to 1955, becoming a lieutenant junior grade in the Naval Reserve.

Pennsylvania Navy

In April 1889, the Pennsylvania Naval Militia would be reconstituted as one of many organized state naval militias which were the predecessors to the modern day Naval Reserve.

Ships that served with this militia until the creation of the Naval Reserve included the protected cruiser USS Chicago (1885) which served from 26 April 1916 to April 1917 and the ironclad USS Wolverine (IX-31) which served for 11 years making summer training cruises for the Naval Reserve.

United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School

Candidates were required to enlist in the Naval Reserve and following a one-month indoctrination course as apprentice seaman, they attended a three-month course in the midshipmen's school.

The candidates were listed as apprentice seamen in the Naval Reserve of the United States in a class designated as V-7.


Emory S. Land

Admiral Land was also instrumental in overseeing the establishment of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, located in Kings Point, New York as a commissioning source for officers entering the Merchant Marine and Naval Reserve in World War II.

Enoch Barton Garey

In September 1924 Garey brought the nation's first Naval Reserve program to St. John's as a pilot program to test the scheme for the Navy, (The US Naval Academy in Annapolis would not begin issuing bachelor's degrees until 1933).

James L. Herdt

After leaving active duty in 1974, Master Chief Herdt enlisted in the Naval Reserve serving in various Selected Naval Reserve units while attending Kansas State University.

James S. Free

Free served in the U.S. Navy in the Caribbean and Pacific during World War II and retired from the Naval Reserve as a captain in 1968.

Milton Orville Thompson

He remained in the Naval Reserve during college and continued flying, in Navy aircraft and in crop dusters and forest-spraying aircraft.

Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove

Following WWII and into the Cold War, it became an operational and training base for aviation activities of the Naval Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard, Army Reserve and Army National Guard.

Naval Air Station Olathe

The base was decommissioned on October 29, 1969 and the air station was officially closed in July 1970 with the understanding that the Navy could retain thirteen buildings for non-flying Naval Reserve aviation programs as Naval Air Reserve Center Olathe.

Reese Air Force Base

During the post-war years, the base was used as a meeting place for National Guard, Air Reserve, and Naval Reserve units.

Sidney Janis

Janis joined the Naval Reserve in 1917 and took courses to complete his high school diploma.

Tom Clancy's Op-Center

It is headquartered in a nondescript, two-story building located near the Naval Reserve flight line at Andrews Air Force Base that used to be a ready room, a staging area for crack flight crews.

United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower

The Seapower Subcommittee has jurisdiction over all U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, including non-tactical air programs, and the Naval Reserve forces.

VP-94

VP-94 was initially established in 1970 as part of a Navy initiative for the majority of combat aviation units in the then-Naval Reserve (now Navy Reserve) to be organized as front line commissioned units with their own aircraft and support equipment.

William Duane Benton

Benton served as a captain in the U.S. Navy/Naval Reserve from 1972 to 2002, and as judge advocate in the U.S. Navy from 1975 to 1979.


see also

Albert Harris

Albert T. Harris (1915–1942), lieutenant in the Naval Reserve and Navy Cross recipient

Éric Mercier

He served as liaison officer and administrative assistant at the Canadian Forces Naval Reserve in 1999 and 2000, then as public communications officer attached to the headquarters of the Naval Reserve in 2000 and 2001.

Francis Flaherty

Francis C. Flaherty (1919–1941), United States Naval Reserve officer and Medal of Honor recipient

Frederick T. Weber

During the ensuing winter, Seaman 2d Class Weber successfully completed elimination flight training at the Naval Reserve Aviation Base, Kansas City, Kansas; and, on 27 July 1939, he was appointed an aviation cadet in the Naval Reserve.

Herbert Hugo Menges

Herbert Hugo Menges, born in Louisville, Kentucky 20 January 1917 enlisted in the Naval Reserve as seaman second class at Robertson, Missouri on 3 July 1939.

HMCS Donnacona

In 1943, the new name of the Naval Reserve division was chosen to be used as the name of the ship featured in the film Corvette K-225, featuring Randolph Scott and Ella Raines.

HMCS Prevost

HMCS Prevost is a Naval Reserve unit commissioned Her Majesty's Canadian Ship, of the Canadian Forces Naval Reserve based in London, Ontario.

HMCS Unicorn

HMCS Unicorn is a shore-based Naval Reserve Division of the Royal Canadian Navy based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

HMS Calliope

HMS Calliope, one of fourteen Royal Naval Reserve units, is a "stone frigate" situated on the Gateshead bank of the River Tyne, between the Tyne Bridge and the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.

Mark C. Hunter

Andrew Lambert, “Review of Mark C. Hunter, To Employ and Uplift Them: The Newfoundland Naval Reserve Unit sic, 1899-1926,” Mariner’s Mirror 96, no. 1 (February 2010): 116-117.

Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps

Sixty Naval Reserve Freshmen were accepted at each of the original units at the University of California, Berkeley, Northwestern University, University of Washington, Harvard University, Yale University, and Georgia Institute of Technology.

Nick Tredennick

In parallel to his professional career, Tredennick served as a pilot with the U.S. Air Force (active, reserve, and National Guard) from 1970–1984, attaining the rank of Major, as Aerospace Engineering Duty Officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1986-2000 at the rank of Captain, and on the Army Science Board from 1994–2001 and 2006 to present.

Peter C. Newman

He joined the Royal Canadian Navy reserve in 1947 as an Ordinary Seaman and later reached the rank of Captain, having served in the naval reserve for 50 years.

Philip Drucker

The main Olmec expeditions were in 1940-42 when he worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology in Washington, D.C. His first Olmec period ended when he joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1942, seeing active service until 1945.

Ricardo Salgado

He has a degree in Economics from the Higher Institute of Economic and Financial Sciences of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (1969), and did his Military Service in the Portuguese Navy, on the Officer Training Course of the Naval Reserve.

William B. Ault

On 5 August 1939, less than a month before the start of World War II in Poland, Ault assumed command of the Naval Reserve Aviation Base, Kansas City, Kansas, a billet in which he served into 1941.