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BEST NAVY SITES, OFFICIAL AND NON-OFFICIAL:
The Official Website of the United States Navy
Naval Historical Center - Historical information about the U.S. Navy officially written by the U.S. Government
NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
WASHINGTON NAVY YARD -- 805 KIDDER BREESE SE
WASHINGTON
DC 20374-5060
Frequently Asked Questions
The following are the most common topics for queries received by the Naval Historical Center. The answers,
comments and opinions given are those of the United States Navy officially and not necessarily those of the Association:
- Abbreviations, Glossary of U.S. Naval Abbreviations, 1949
- Abbreviations Used for Navy Enlisted Ratings, 1970
- Aces, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps
- African Americans and the U. S. Navy
- Aircraft Carriers, historical data on
- Aircraft in current Naval Aviation Inventory; photos, data and drawings
- Aircraft in current Naval Aviation Inventory; squadrons that fly them
- Aircraft Drawings
- Aircraft Markings, U.S. Navy
- Alabama, CSS
- Alligator, USS
- Alcohol in the Navy
- Alphabet, Phonetic, and Signal Flags
- The U.S. Navy and the Amistad
- Armed Guard, Naval
- Astronauts, Chronology of Space Mission involving Navy and Marine Corps, 1961- April 1981
- Aviation Insignia, Places that Sell Aviation Patches
- Aviation Squadron Lineages
- Awards and Medals
- Ball Caps
- Battle Streamers, U.S. Navy
- Bells on Ships
- Bermuda Triangle
- Bibliography Series
- Biographies of Navy personnel
- Birthday of the U.S. Navy
- Birthplace of the U.S. Navy
- Book Dealers
- Boxer Rebellion, China 1900-1901
- Brashear, Carl, Master Chief Boatswain's Mate
- "Brass Monkey"
- "Bravo Zulu"
- Burial at Sea
- Casualties: U.S. Navy, Coast Guard Vessels, Sunk or Damaged Beyond Repair in War
- Casualties: U.S. Navy Ships Lost in Selected Storm/Weather Related Incidents
- Casualties: U. S. Navy and Marine Corps Personnel Killed and Wounded in wars, conflicts and incidents with hostile forces 1775-present
- Casualties, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Personnel, World War II
- Certificates for Crossing the Line, Plank Owners,and Other Unoffical Ceremonies
- Chief of Naval Operations, list of officers serving as
- Chief Petty Officer
- Christening, Launching, and Commissioning of U. S. Navy Ships
- Code Talkers, World War II
- Code Words, World War II
- Combat Demolition Units
- Commissioning Pennant
- Conflicts involving U.S. Navy
- Constitution, USS
- Construction Battalions
- Crew Member Information
- Crossing the Line, Certificates, Documents, Eyewitness Accounts
- Crossroads, Atomic Tests at Bikini in 1946
- Cruise Books
- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- Customs and Traditions: a bibliography
- D-Day, the Normandy Invasion, 6-25 June 1944
- Dates in Naval History
- Decatur, Stephen
- Deck Logs of Navy Ships
- Destroyers Transferred to Great Britain under Destroyer for Bases Agreement
- Dining In/Dining Out
- Disestablishing, Deactivating, and Decommissioning Commands, Guidance for
- Diving in the U.S. Navy; a Brief History
- Documents, Historic, Relating to U.S. Navy
- "Dog Tags," Personal Indentification Tags
- Earhart, Amelia
- Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. Navy General Order No. 4
- Exercise Tiger, Normandy Training Exercise
- Exploration/Expeditions
- Family Members Serving Together at Sea
- Father of the U.S. Navy
- Flag, U.S. Navy
- Flag Sizes
- Flags and Pennants, Information on U.S. Navy Use of
- Fleet Admirals
- Flight 19, Loss of
- Flogging
- "Frocking" of Naval Personnel
- German Espionage and Sabotage Against the U.S. During World War II
- Grenada, Operation Urgent Fury, Oct-Nov 1983
- Great White Fleet
- Honors to President George Washington
- Humanitarian
- H.L. Hunley, submerged wreck of
- Hurricanes and Typhoons: The Effect of Cyclonic Winds on U.S. Naval Operations.
- Hymn, Navy, "Eternal Father, Strong to Save,"
- Iwo Jima Flag Raising .
- Indianapolis, USS, (CA-35); Loss of, 30 July 1945
- Jones, John Paul
- Kosovo: U.S. Navy Lessons Learned During Operation Allied Force, 1999
- Maine, USS, Sinking of, 1898
- Manila Bay, Battle of, 1 May 1898
- Marine Corps Historical Center
- Medals, Campaign and Service
- Medal of Honor, Navy & Marine Corps Recipients
- Merchant Ships and Merchant Mariners during World War II -Research Sources
- Merchant Ship Photography
- Midway, Battle of, 4-7 June 1942
- Military Goods Dealers
- Miller, Doris "Dorie" Pearl Harbor hero
- Motion Picture Information
- National Security and Military History: Research Guide
- Native Americans in the U.S. Navy
- Navy Cross
- Navy Department, Establishment of the
- Navy Numbers (FPO) World War II to disguise mail addresses
- NC-4, The First Flight Across the Atlantic
- Normandy Invasion, 6-25 June 1944
- Nuclear Testing
- Nurses in the U.S. Navy:
- Officers, Famous in the U.S. Navy, 1794-1815, Select Reading List
- Official Service and Medical Records
- Operation Tiger, Normandy Training Exercise
- Oral History: A Guide for Conducting Naval Historical Interviews
- Oral History: Creating a Personal Memoir of Your Naval Service
- Oral History: Recollections of World War II Experiences
- Patches, Navy: A Select Bibliography
- Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
- Persian Gulf, U.S. Navy and the
- Personal Indentification Tags, "Dog Tags"
- Personal Memoir, How to Create
- Personnel Records: Service and Medical
- Personnel Strength of the Navy 1775-present
- Philadelphia Experiment
- Photography, U.S. Navy
- Photographers, Commercial
- Plank Owners
- Pirate, USS, (AM-275); Loss of, 12 Oct 1950
- Port Chicago Naval Magazine Explosion, 17 July 1944
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Claims
- Precedence of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps
- Presidents who Served in the U.S. Navy
- Presidential Ship Visits
- Prisoners of War, World War II
- Proximity Fuse
- PT Boats: Information and a Select Bibliography
- Q-Ships (anti-submarine vessels disguised as merchant ships)
- Quonset Huts
- Ratings (Jobs) of Enlisted Personnel in the U.S. Navy
- Recipes, Navy
- Regulations, historic naval
- Researchers, Commercial
- Reunion Sources
- Reunion-Veteran Organizations
- "Rocks and Shoals"
- USS Scorpion, USS, (SSN-589); Lost on 22 May 1968
- S-33, USS, (SS-138)
- Seabees, History of Naval Construction Battalions
- Seal, U.S. Navy
- Secretary of the Navy, Individuals serving as
- Ship's Bell
- Shipboard Life in the 19th Century
- Ship Force Levels, 1886-present
- Ships: Launching and Commissioning
- Ships, U.S. Navy: Histories
- Ships, U.S. Navy: Lost and Damaged in Action during Wars
- Ships: U.S. Navy: Lost in Selected Storm/Weather Related Incidents
- Ships, U.S. Navy and Coast Guard: Lost or Damaged Beyond Repair during World War II
- Ship Naming in the United States Navy
- Ship Plans
- Ship Study, Sources
- Ships' Deck Logs
- Ships' Patches
- Signal Flags
- Somers, brig, 1842
- Squalus, USS (SS-192): The Sinking, Rescue of Survivors, and Subsequent Salvage, 1939
- Submarine Battle Flags of World War II
- Submarines, U.S. Navy: Losses, Selected Accidents, and Selected Incidents of Damage Resulting from
Enemy Action
- Submerged Aircraft and Ships; Navy Department Policy
- Sullivan Brothers
- 21-gun Salute
- Tecumseh, USS
- Terrorism, Research Guide
- Thresher, USS, (SSN-593); lost on 10 April 1963
- Titanic, RMS
- Tokyo Bay Surrender Ceremony, 2 September 1945
- Tonkin Gulf, Crisis, August 1964
- Tsunami (Tidal Wave) Disasters and the U.S. Navy
- Tulip, USS
- Typhoons and Hurricanes: The Effect of Cyclonic Winds on U.S. Naval Operations
- U-2 and Aircraft Carrier Deployment
- U-505, Capture of
- U-571
- U-1105, submerged wreck of
- UFO Research Guide
- Uniforms, naval
- VT Fuze or Radio Proximity Fuze
- Wars and Conflicts of the U.S. Navy
- Washington, George, Honors to the President
- Washington Navy Yard history
- Weather Related Incidents
- Women in the U.S. Navy
- Z-Grams
- Zumwalt, Elmo Jr., Admiral
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - The official information Site for the U.S. Navy Memorial in Washington, DC. You can also try
their Navy Log for finding lost shipmates. The latter database is growing substantially (Nobody lists everybody, keep in mind)
and if you find who you're looking for, you can write to them and they will pass your letter on to that person, if they have
their address on file.
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TIP > To join the Navy in Wausau, Wisconsin, call
the Association's Recruiter of the Year,
Petty Officer Jeremy Hanke, USN at 715.842.1631.
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT SITES:
The White House - Find out what the President has been up to today, in his own words
The Official U.S. Department of State Website
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FINDING LOST RECORDS, AWARDS AND SHIPMATES
ACCESSING YOUR RECORDS
APPLYING FOR YOUR BENEFITS:
Department of Veterans' Affairs - The United States Navy Veterans Association is officially recognized as a Partner with VA
in their approved Veterans Service Organizations program
Home Page - Everything you ever
wanted to know about military pay.
The Association recommends veterans seeking VA guaranteed home loans in the following states, initial or
re-financing, contact the mortgage agent listed:
Florida - Jason Trotman, Premier Mortgage, 813.391,5005
Texas - Kevin M. Frederick, Jeff Neal Group, 214.261.5000
Army veterans and their families can have an easier time tracking and receiving medals and decorations thanks
to an automated system used by the Clothing and Heraldry Product Support Integration Directorate (PSID). The Web-based system
eliminates extensive paperwork, reduces processing time and has capabilities such as allowing each veteran the opportunity
to find out the status of his or her request or make address changes online. These types of inquiries that used to be handled
telephonically or by letter can be entered online at http://veteranmedals.army.mil. Award criteria and background for the different service medals can also be found on the Website. Requests for
medals are initiated through the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis.
Eligible veterans or the next-of-kin of a deceased veteran from any service branch can request medals
from NPRC at http://vetrecs.archives.gov/.
National Personnel Records - National Archives and Records Administration - Everything you could possibly need to know about military
records. This means YOU!
Still can't find your own records or awards? - this is the best advice we can give
To verify your Navy service to a prospective employer by phone, have the employer call Navy
OPM, Washington at 202-606-0500. Make sure the employer has the information from your DD-214, your DOB and your SSN ready.
The Association has received for many years, and does receive now, many telephone calls from prospective
employers seeking to verify U.S. naval service of an employee applicant.
So, commencing in 2005, we are starting a new free public service for U.S. naval veterans: The
Association, on its Washington D.C. HQS telephone number (202) 736-1725, will verify by live voice your naval service if you
like, indefinitely , or for a specific period of time specified by you, after you register your information with us.
To do this we need the same information Navy OPM or St. Louis needs, either:
(1) Your DOB and SSN, or
(2) An email attachment copy of the front of your DD214, which can be emailed as an
attachment to Linda West, our Assistant Director for Public information, at West@NavyVets.org.
You can also use any of the contact means listed on our Contacts Us Page to provide the necessary information. Letters should be addressed Attn: Employment Verification Section.
Unfortunately, we can't do this any other way. Your information needs to be verified with our sources
at Navy OPM in Washington or with St. Louis. It takes about two weeks from receipt of your information to accomplish this
verification. This process may deter a lot of people from this service but there is no other way the Association can accomplish
it.
Once you're registered, you're registered for life.
We do not need either an address or telephone number from you for this public service we perform for
naval veterans, and , if you apply,
(a) The Association will not, under any circumstances, sell or distribute your identification or information
to any other person or entity whatsoever;
(c) The Association will not use your information to contact you regarding Association membership or
contribution drives.
If you want to find a lost buddy, or someone who was in the Armed Forces you're searching
for, just by accessing the viewers of this Website and the membership of the United States Navy Veterans Association,
then just leave your message in the "Searching For..." Guestmap immediately below. You can either place yourself on the Guestmap,
or you can place the hometown or the last siting of the person you're seeking.
You can also use this facility to search for loved ones lost in natural disasters hitting the United
States:
Like to find a lost Navy buddy, and don't have all the required information for a SF 180? Go here. ---- We got tired of searching
the web for the best free locator services, only to see those sites, on average, go down every 3 months or so. This is currently
one of the largest, if not the largest, locator service on the Web, with free name searches, but you do have to pay for detailed
information: you cannot access this site from a public library computer and you must also have a little above average computer
skill to operate the registry. ----There is no such thing as a service which "lists everybody." ---- USNVA neither distributes,
sells or leases its membership list, or its donor list, for that matter, to the public or to any vendor.
Military.com - This is also a pretty good free site for getting some generic information about present or past Navy or military
members. Go to their "Finding Lost Buddies" page.
Free Reunion Finder
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ASSOCIATION FAQS:
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The following
is a list of Frequently Asked Questions received from calls and e-mails.
Q. How can I replace my lost medals?
A. Veterans are entitled to one replacement
set of their medals. The standard form SF 180 Request Pertaining to Military Records, is recommended for requesting medals and awards. Provide as much information
as possible and send the form to:
Bureau of Naval Personnel
Liaison Office
Room 5409, 9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63132-5100
Q. How can I get copies of my Service Record or copies of my DD
214 Discharge papers?
A. The National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St.
Louis offers an electronic method for veterans to obtain documents from their official stored record.
The new web-based application system will provide better service by eliminating the mail room process. To access this new
application system, go to www.vetrecs.archives.gov
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Use the online
military personnel records request system to create a customized order form to request information from your, or your relative’s,
military personnel records. You may use this system if you are:
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A military veteran,
or
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Next of kin of
a deceased, former member of the military (The next of kin can be any of the following: surviving spouse that has not remarried,
father, mother, son, daughter, sister, or brother.)
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If you are not
the veteran or next of kin, you must complete and mail the Standard Form 180 (SF180) or write a letter to request records.
You can obtain the SF180 from the web site.
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A military veteran
or next of kin may use either the online application system or mail the SF180.
The point
of contact is the Navy Liaison Office, Room 3475, N-34, Military Personnel Records, National
Personnel Records Center,
9700 Page Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63132, phone 314-538-3135. Requests must
be submitted in writing using Standard Form 180 any you can call for this or download it from their website at: www.nara.gov/regional/mpr.html.
Q. I need to purchase some uniforms items for an upcoming ceremony.
Who can I order them from?
A. Active duty and retired personnel can order uniforms and components through the Navy Exchange Uniform
Support Center at 1 800-368-4088.
Personnel who did not retire from the service can also get uniform components through the Navy Exchange, but must be able
to produce a DD214 or other proof of service.
Q. I'd like to contact someone about my ship receiving an award which
I didn't get. Who can I ask about this?
A. The point of contact is:
Chief of Naval Operations
Awards and Special Projects Branch (Code N09B33)
2000 Navy Pentagon
Washington,
DC 20350-2000
Q. Who do a ask about whether or not I can wear my Navy uniform to ceremonies after I leave the
Navy?
A. The point of contact is the
Navy Uniform Board
Code N09BU
2 Navy Annex
Washington, DC 20370
Phone
703-614-5075/6
Q. How would
I go about locating a person who is on active duty in the Navy?
A. The Bureau of Naval Personnel has a web site at
www.bupers.navy.mil. This is a good place to start.
Q. A Navy retired friend of
mine recently passed away and his widow is trying to find out who to call for information on benefits. Who should she call?
A. Suggest starting with Retired Activities information for Navy ( 1-800-255-8950 ) or for Marines ( 1-800-336-4649
)
Q. Who can I contact about POW/MIA issues.
A. Some points of contact are: Department of Defense POW/MIA Affairs-703-602-2102; National League of Families of
American Prisoners Missing in Southeast Asia-202-223-6846; Task Force Omega, Inc-602-979-5651; VVA National POW/MIA Committee-202-628
2700 ext.118 and Advocacy and Intelligence Index for POW/MIA-516 567-9057.
Q. Where can I find a listing of all
Navy Reunion Groups?
A. There is no single source of information on reunion groups,
however, the Navy Memorial Foundation now has a listing of approximately 3400 groups and the last known point of contact for
them. When the groups keep the Foundation advised, they update this list to include where their next reunion is being held.
If you're looking for a specific group, you can try searching their list at:
http://www.navymemorial.org/reunion_db.php
or you can contact the Memorial at 202-737-2300 ext. 720 or e-mail
at sales@navymemorial.org.
Q. I'm trying to locate a phone number for Arlington National Cemetery.
Can you help me?
A. General Information for Arlington
Cemetery is 703-697-2131, Cemetery Administrator-703-695-3191, Burial
Arrangements-703-695 3250/3255.
Q. Where's a good place to get general information about the Navy online?
A.
The Navy web site at www.navy.mil is a good source of general information and has links to many other related
areas.
Q. Who can I talk to about flying flags over Navy Memorials.
A. Take a look at the Navy's website
at "www.staynavy.navy.mil" and look under Ceremonies. There is information on flying flags at many different places.
Q.
Where can I get information on Burials At Sea?
A. The Navy's Mortuary Affairs Office # is 1-800-876-1131.
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private, pro-patriotic site. It does not have the quality of the Association's Newstands' commentary but, on the other hand,
our Newstands do not report daily news to you.
United States Navy Veterans Association Newsblog - Enter your own story; chat about stories; read other people's news; and
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