A RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile is launched from USS Shiloh ( CG-67 ) | USS Shiloh, a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser | Ticonderoga-class cruiser.

* 1861 – American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.

* 1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U. S. submarine sunk in accident.

* Destroyer Tender ( US Navy Hull Classification: AD ), support ships to aid the operation of a fleet of destroyers

The AIM-7 Sparrow medium range missile ( MRM ) was purchased by the US Navy from original developer Howard Hughes

Link-4 datalink capability allowed US Navy Tomcats to share information with the E-2C Hawkeye AEW aircraft, and during Desert Shield in 1990, the Link-4A was introduced and allowed the Tomcats to have a fighter-to-fighter datalink capability, further enhancing overall situational awareness.

Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.

* Users: US ( U. S. Navy ), Iran ( IRIAF )

However, before RAT-C reached initial operational status in 1960 aboard the large US Navy destroyer-leader Norfolk, its name was changed to the present ASROC.

Most other US Navy and allied navy destroyers, destroyer escorts, frigates, and several different classes of cruisers only carried the one ASROC ' matchbox ' MK 112 launcher with eight ASROC missiles ( although later in service, some of those missiles could be replaced by the Harpoon anti-ship missile ).

To replace the Embraer P-95 Bandeirulha in the maritime patrol duties, 12 Lockheed P-3A Orions have been bought from US Navy surplus and eight ( with an option for a ninth ) of them are being upgraded by EADS CASA in Spain, the remainder are to be used as spare parts source.

To carry out the plans of power projection that Brazil wants to run, the expenditure will cost more than US $ 138 billion, within the Navy alone.

* Several US Navy ships have been named the or the, the latter being a French translation of his penname " Poor Richard ".

Two aircraft carriers, and were simultaneously in commission and in operation during World War II, and Franklin therefore had the distinction of having two simultaneously operational US Navy warships named in his honor.

Sir Edward Grey replied through the American ambassador that the incident could be grouped together with the Germans ' sinking of the SS Arabic, their attack on a stranded British submarine on the neutral Dutch coast, and their attack on the steamship Ruel, and suggested that they be placed before a tribunal composed of US Navy officers.

The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy not related to combat occurred when USS Cyclops, under the command of Lt Cdr G. W.

US Navy Avengers, similar to those of Flight 19.

The US Navy warship Lexington visited the atoll in late 1915 and advised evacuation of all inhabitants, but the governor, Captain Arnaud, declared that evacuation was not necessary.

Almost immediately after Álvarez's death, four women and seven children ( the last survivors ) were picked up by the US Navy gunship on July 18, 1917.

* USS Columbus, various ships of the US Navy

The main outcome of the US Navy submarine missile project was the SSM-N-8 Regulus missile, based upon the V-1.

# Blockade: Use the US Navy to block any missiles from arriving in Cuba.

However, Army units in the United States would have had trouble fielding mechanized and logistical assets, while the US Navy could not supply sufficient amphibious shipping to transport even a modest armored contingent from the Army.

A US Navy P-2 Neptune | P-2H Neptune of VP-18 flying over a Soviet cargo ship with crated Ilyushin Il-28 | Il-28s on deck during the Cuban Crisis.

* Construction Electrician ( US Navy ), a Seabee occupational rating in the U. S. Navy

The US military has specialized units, which can respond to a bioterrorism event ; among them are the US Marine Corp's Chemical Biological Incident Response Force and the U. S. Army's 20th Support Command ( CBRNE ), which can detect, identify, and neutralize threats, and decontaminate victims exposed to bioterror agents.

This demonstration not only was the last JATO performance of the squadron, but also the final JATO profile of the entire US Marine Corps.

A checkpoint manned by the Lebanon | Lebanese army and United States Marine Corps | US Marines, 1982.

The atoll shelters the ships of the US Marine Pre-positioning Squadron Two.

Five of these vessels carry supplies for the US Marine Corps sufficient to support a Marine Air-Ground Task Force for 30 days: USNS Button, USNS Kocak, USNS Lopez, USNS Stockham, and USNS Fisher.

* US National Marine Fisheries Service Gray Whale web page

* US Marine Corps Ground Defense Force ( GDF ) ( 1977-2009 )

This Naval Infantry functions similar to the US Marine Infantry which traditionally assault land objectives from water born assault platforms.

These US Army Intrinsic Action ( later called Operation Desert Spring on 1 October 1999 ) rotations and US Marine Corps EAGER MACE rotations conducted combined training with the Kuwaiti Land Forces and other coalition partners.

Intense attacks against U. S. and Western interests, including two truck bombings of the US Embassy in 1983 and 1984 and the landmark attacks on the U. S. Marine and French parachute regiment barracks on October 23, 1983, led to an American withdrawal, while the virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army in February 1984 was a major blow to the government.

" He is interred at Arlington National Cemetery where his headstone reads " Lee Marvin, PFC US Marine Corps, World War II ".

Examples of this include European Unifight, the US Army's Combatives system developed by Matt Larsen, the Israeli army's kapap and Krav Maga, and the US Marine Corps's Marine Corps Martial Arts Program ( MCMAP ).

The HK416 recently won a testing competition for the US Marine Corps Infantry Automatic Rifle program and entered final testing as the M27 in summer 2010.

However, in November 2011, leaders of the US Marine Corps announced they will stay with current M4 Carbines and M16A4s and not adopt an IC competition winner.

A US Marine fires a fully automatic 9mm Glock pistol # 9x19mm Parabellum | Glock 18 machine pistol with a shoulder stock during a small arms weapons course.

In the US Marine Corps there is a drink called mojo derived from mixing any liquor you have and fresh fruits, oranges, lemons, etc.

* 1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.

* Sweetman, Jack ; " American Naval History: An Illustrated Chronology of the US Navy And Marine Corps, 1775 – present ".

The counter-attack was led by the United States ; the 1st Division of the US Marine Corps landed on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in August 1942.