CPO Tim Dickey 276928 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>This is to honor our 239th birthday. Please share your favorite contribution, memory, or reason why the Navy was where you chose to serve. 2014-10-13T22:03:12-04:00 CPO Tim Dickey 276928

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>This is to honor our 239th birthday. Please share your favorite contribution, memory, or reason why the Navy was where you chose to serve.

2014-10-13T22:03:12-04:00 2014-10-13T22:03:12-04:00 MSgt Private RallyPoint Member 276937

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Two weeks spent on the LPD Cleveland. My first experience aboard a ship.

2014-10-13T22:21:02-04:00 2014-10-13T22:21:02-04:00 1LT David Moeglein 276981

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Army Navy Game 2001!

2014-10-13T23:31:31-04:00 2014-10-13T23:31:31-04:00 SCPO Private RallyPoint Member 279539

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="215692" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/215692-cpo-tim-dickey">CPO Tim Dickey</a> Making Chief, followed by passing along my Chief Anchors, making Senior Chief.

2014-10-15T19:25:00-04:00 2014-10-15T19:25:00-04:00 PO1 Private RallyPoint Member 280347

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Coming off my first cruise in 1977 - USS John Young (DD-973) - realizing I had found my calling of going Haze Grey and Underweigh!

2014-10-16T11:51:33-04:00 2014-10-16T11:51:33-04:00 MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca 280349

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Watching my equipment from Somalia being loaded on the ship for the voyage home.<br /><br />Talking to a WWII veteran who served all of the war on the USS Massachusetts from the first shot in the Atlantic to the last shot in the Pacific.

2014-10-16T11:52:49-04:00 2014-10-16T11:52:49-04:00 PV2 Private RallyPoint Member 280492

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>When Army beat them! LOL Just kidding! Much respect for the Navy!<br />Happy Birthday US Navy!

2014-10-16T13:13:24-04:00 2014-10-16T13:13:24-04:00 1SG Private RallyPoint Member 280549

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Not enlisting!!<br /><br />LOL

2014-10-16T13:57:18-04:00 2014-10-16T13:57:18-04:00 SPC David S. 280557

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Not being in the Navy!<br /><br />Settle down. Settle down. Don't get your signal flags in a bunch.

2014-10-16T14:04:06-04:00 2014-10-16T14:04:06-04:00 LTC Paul Labrador 280931

<div class="images-v2-count-1"><div class="content-picture image-v2-number-1" id="image-10888"> <div class="social_icons social-buttons-on-image"> <a href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rallypoint.com%2Fanswers%2Fsound-off-what-is-your-favorite-navy-memory%3Futm_source%3DFacebook%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_campaign%3DShare%20to%20facebook' target="_blank" class='social-share-button facebook-share-button'><i class="fa fa-facebook-f"></i></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Sound+off%21++What+is+your+favorite+Navy+memory%3F&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rallypoint.com%2Fanswers%2Fsound-off-what-is-your-favorite-navy-memory&amp;via=RallyPoint" target="_blank" class="social-share-button twitter-custom-share-button"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i></a> <a href="mailto:?subject=Check this out on RallyPoint!&body=Hi, I thought you would find this interesting:%0D%0ASound off! What is your favorite Navy memory?%0D%0A %0D%0AHere is the link: https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/sound-off-what-is-your-favorite-navy-memory" target="_blank" class="social-share-button email-share-button"><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i></a> </div> <a class="fancybox" rel="de082b1fd795442362516e90fb88225a" href="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/010/888/for_gallery_v2/26141_1445241253460_3629815_n.jpg"><img src="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/010/888/large_v3/26141_1445241253460_3629815_n.jpg" alt="26141 1445241253460 3629815 n" /></a></div></div>When the Navy RIP/TOA'd with us at the end of OIF1..... ;o)

2014-10-16T19:03:22-04:00 2014-10-16T19:03:22-04:00 PO2 Private RallyPoint Member 281300

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>When it comes to why I joined the navy I would say listening to my great uncle tell his WWII war stories while he was in the navy. My favorite memory since I joined my first homecoming there is nothing like it.

2014-10-16T23:29:47-04:00 2014-10-16T23:29:47-04:00 PO1 Russell Henson 281456

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Getting my wings while deployed onboard USS Inchon w/HM15 back in '99

2014-10-17T03:23:57-04:00 2014-10-17T03:23:57-04:00 2014-10-13T22:03:12-04:00