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January 2006
In this Issue:
1. Naval Historical Foundation Teams With NavyChief.com
2. Chief Exhibit at the Navy Museum
3. Chief Bike Project Build Update
4. 1Navy.com Site Review
5. The Ship's Store
6. Photo Contest - Win $50 Store Credit!
7. This Month in U.S. Navy History
8. Subscription Information
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Happy New Year, Shipmate!
To our new subscribers, Welcome Aboard! From all of us at NavyChief.com, we hope that 2005 held blessings for you and your families, and that 2006 will bring you abundant opportunities, success, and happiness.
2006 promises to be very exciting for the CPO community with a new exhibit in the works at the Naval History museum and great progress on the much-anticipated Chief Bike. Read on!
Sincerely,
The NavyChief.com Staff
1. Naval Historical Foundation Teams with NavyChief.com
The Naval Historical Foundation selected NavyChief.com as the lead vendor and web site developer for the Navy Museum in Washington DC at the Washington Navy Yard. NavyChief.com has already launched the online Navy Museum Gift Shop at http://www.navymuseumgiftshop.org. Sales from the new site will benefit the Navy Museum.
CAPT Todd Creekman (Ret) and YNC Andre Dyson (Ret) of the Naval Historical Foundation met with Chief Jeff Hobrath (Ret), Mr. Dwayne Schwarz, and AKC Andy Galligan (Ret) of NavalTees, LLC (parent company of NavyChief.com) in early December to discuss the details and put together a foundation for future Museum projects and fundraising opportunities.
"This is an exciting and logical move by our company to join forces with the Naval Historical Foundation. It is truly an honor for us to be a partnered with an organization whose sole purpose is to preserve our naval heritage," said Hobrath.
Check out the huge selection of products now available at:
www.navymuseumgiftshop.org
2. Chief Exhibit at the Navy Museum
NavyChief.com has met with the Navy Museum in Washington DC to develop a Navy Chief Exhibit to honor the CPO Heritage. Expect to hear more about this exciting project over the next several months.
3. Chief Bike Project Build Update
The Chief Bike project is becoming a reality. JAX Custom Cycles in Jacksonville, FL has been selected as the builder and the process has begun to build the bike. More to follow soon so stay tuned! To help with the project be sure to check out the Official Chief Bike products!
4. 1Navy.com Site Review
Look around the spaces for Sailors studying for advancement exams or getting some timely advice from an online mentor, and you're likely to find that they're logged on to 1Navy.com, the creation of Navy Reservist YN2 Marta Martin. More than just a bulletin board, 1Navy.com offers motivational reading, Navy rating mentors, advancement study materials on CD-ROM, online quizzes for Basic Military Requirements (BMR) and Military Leadership, and much more.
Martin created the site in February 2002, two months before she began Naval Reserve boot camp. It quickly grew into a forum where she and her team of volunteer mentors (many of them from the CPO community) receive a combined 200 e-mails each week from active and reserve Sailors. The site's mission: "To Motivate, Encourage, and Inspire Sailors."
As of December 26, 2005 Martin and her family were still evacuated from their New Orleans residence due to hurricane Katrina, temporarily residing in Tennessee. True to form, though, 1Navy.com continued its mission and Martin even added a hurricane page to assist military evacuees with news and information.
More information at: http://www.1navy.com
5. The Ship's Store
See our New Products page where we post the new stuff online first!
Check out our wide selection of challenge coins and the custom coin request page.
Build Your Own Shirt - NavyChief.com's easy way for you to build and order a unique shirt using some of our stock art! Select your choice of shirt style, color, size, and images. Over 88,000 possible combinations!
Visit the Build Your Own Shirt Page
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Magnetic Ribbons
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CPO Ribbons
Many to choose from! Check out the blue ribbons! A portion of the proceeds from the blue ribbons goes to the CPO Scholarship Fund.
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6. Photo Contest!
NavyChief.com Photo Contest
Send in a picture of yourself wearing NavyChief.com apparel to qualify for a drawing where the best picture is awarded $50.00 in NavyChief.com store credit. The NavyChief.com staff will select the top 10 photos submitted and place them in an online photo album with a voting poll. Our web visitors will vote for their favorite picture, and the picture with the most votes wins!
Send pictures in JPEG (.jpg) format via e-mail to store@navychief.com. We'll send a notice when the contest begins.
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7. This Month in U.S. Navy History
1783 - Hostilities cease between Great Britain and the United States
1861 (December) - Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor, the Nation's highest award, for Naval personnel.
1862 - Launching of first turreted warship, USS Monitor
1900 - U.S. (CDR Taussig in USS Bennington) takes formal possession of Wake Island
1911 - First aircraft landing on board a ship, USS Pennsylvania by Eugene Ely
1914 - School for naval air training opens in Pensacola, FL.
1916 - First enlisted flight training class at Pensacola, FL
1917 - Navy places first production order for aerial photographic equipment
1953 - Landings tested on board USS Antietam, the first angled-deck carrier
1955 - USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the first nuclear-powered submarine, casts off lines at 1100 and sends message "underway on nuclear power"
1956 - Establishment of first Navy nuclear power school at Submarine Base, New London, CT
1960 - Launch of first fully-guided flight of Polaris missile at Cape Canaveral (flew 900 miles); Bathyscaph Trieste descends to deepest part of the ocean, Marianas Trench
1961 - Lieutenant Commander Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. becomes first African-American to command a combat ship, USS Falgout
1962 - Navy SEAL teams established
1968 - Tet Offensive begins in Vietnam
1981 - Era of Enlisted Naval Aviators ends when last pilot retired
1989 - Aircraft (VF-32) from USS John F. Kennedy shot down 2 hostile Libyan Migs
1991 - Operation Desert Storm, liberation of Kuwait from Iraq, begins. Helos from USS Leftwich and USS Nicholas recapture first Kuwaiti territory from Iraqis
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