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34 unusual facts about United States Navy Reserve


Aggressor squadron

With the exception of the NSAWC aircraft, all the US Navy and US Marine Corps adversary squadrons are Reserve Component units and aircraft belonging to the Navy Reserve and the Marine Corps Reserve.

Agudath Israel Etz Ahayem

A chaplain in the United States Navy Reserve, he had been stationed with the U.S. Navy in the Adriatic Sea in 1995, during the Bosnian War.

Andrews Field

In June 2006, the 316th Wing stood up under the command of AFDW as the new host unit for Andrews Air Force Base and its nearly 50 tenant units to include organizations from the U.S. Army, the Air Force Reserve Command, Air National Guard, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve and the Civil Air Patrol.

Benny Boynton

During World War II, Boynton served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy Reserve.

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).

Floyd Spence

Shortly after graduating from high school, he enlisted in the United States Navy Reserve,from which he retired in 1988 as a captain.

Frank Morrissey

Morrissey was the captain of the varsity team from 1918 to 1920 and served as head coach in 1918 when Charles Brickley left BC to join the United States Navy Reserve.

George Moraitis

In 2000, he retired from the Navy and joined the United States Navy Reserve, where he continues to serve, and attended the University of Florida College of Law, graduating with a law degree in 2002.

Harry Bisel

He was in the United States Navy Reserve from 1942 to 1978, and on active duty from 1943 to 1947.

Haskell Monroe

While working on his master's degree, he taught history at nearby Denison High School in Denison, Texas and served in the Navy Reserve.

Ira S. Nash

Nash currently serves as Commander in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy Reserve.

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.

John E. Braun

He then spent seven years on active duty with the Navy, and he continues to serve as a commander in the Navy Reserve.

In addition to his career with the Washington State Senate, he serves as the President of Braun Northwest and as an officer in the US Navy Reserve.

Jon Lundberg

He is a Captain in the United States Navy Reserve, and he also serves as Vice-President of the Rocky Mount Living History Museum.

Naval Air Station Fallon

In addition to transferring the NSAWC squadron, a Navy Reserve adversary squadron, Fighter Squadron Composite THIRTEEN (VFC-13), the "Saints," was also permanently relocated from its former base at NAS Miramar to NAS Fallon.

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.

Nick Gabaldon

After serving in the Navy Reserve during World War II, Nick enrolled in Santa Monica College, where he divided his time between pursuing his studies, surfing and working as a lifeguard.

O. Milton Gossett

Before joining Compton Advertising as a copywriter in 1949, Gossett served in the United States Naval Reserve from 1943–1946, received a degree in mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in 1944, and attended the Northwestern University Midshipman School from 1947–1948.

Prescott Prince

Prescott Prince (born November 15, 1954) is an American lawyer and officer in the United States Navy Reserve.

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.

Republican and conservative support for Barack Obama in 2008

RepublicansforObama.org was founded in December 2006 by John Martin, a US Navy reservist.

Richard Barthelmess

He enlisted in the United States Navy Reserve during World War II, served as a lieutenant commander, and never returned to film, preferring instead to live off his investments.

Richard Jadick

Jadick was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve, assigned as a battalion surgeon to the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment of the 2nd Marine Division from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Robert C. Smith

He served in the United States Navy Reserve from 1962 to 1965, and was on active duty from 1965 to 1967, including a year in Vietnam.

Robert Erwin Johnson

From 1951–52, he served again on active duty in the U.S. Naval Reserve, rising to Petty Officer First Class.

Sandy D'Alemberte

After military service as a lieutenant in the United States Navy Reserve, D'Alemberte studied on a Rotary Foundation fellowship at the London School of Economics.

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.

Victor Henningsen

He served in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean war zones as a midshipman, third and second mate in the merchant navy, finishing as Lt. (JG) in the United States Navy Reserve.

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.


Boise Airport

Gowen Field Air National Guard Base primarily refers to the military facilities on the south side of the runways, which includes Air National Guard, Army National Guard, and reserve units of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

Communication Moon Relay

Menzell was a staff member of the Harvard College Observatory and a former United States Navy Reserve commander, who proposed that the Navy undertake a program to use the Moon as a secure communications satellite.

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.

Frank Thompson

After a few years of practicing law, Thompson returned to the military and from August 1950 to January 1952, commanded the United States Navy Reserve Battalion 4-68 completing a seventeen-month tour of active duty, on the staff of the commander, Eastern Sea Frontier.

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.

Juan M. Garcia III

Garcia left active service in 2004, although he retained a position in the United States Navy Reserve as the Commanding Officer of Reserve Training Squadron 28 at Corpus Christi, Texas.

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 Intelligence Professionals

It is an association of active duty, retired and reserve officers, enlisted personnel, and civilians who serve or have served within the Naval Intelligence community, as well as those in certain other categories who qualify as a nonvoting Subscriber.

NORAD Tracks Santa

U.S. military units that have provided publicity for the program include the Northeast Air Defense Sector of the New York Air National Guard and the U.S. Naval Reserve Navy Information Bureau (NIB) 1118 at Fort Carson, Colorado.

QinetiQ 1

The current balloon flight record was set by Malcolm Ross (USNR) and Victor Prather (USN), who took the Strato-Lab V balloon to 34,668 m (113,740 ft) on May 4, 1961 above the Gulf of Mexico.

Uniform Code of Military Justice

Members of the military Reserve Components under Title 10 of the United States Code (Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, Marine Forces Reserve, and Air Force Reserve) or Title 14 of the United States Code, Coast Guard Reserve when not operating as part of the U.S. Navy, are subject to the UCMJ if they are either

William Seaman Bainbridge

A view years later he became Surgeon General of the American Boys' Brigade in the rank of Brigadier General and afterwards Assistant Surgeon of the US Naval Reserve.