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One Douglas Dolphin (Naval designation RD-2) was procured by the U.S. Navy as a transport for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. [1] Although never used by Roosevelt, this was the first aircraft procured for transport of President of the United States, it was available from 1933 to 1939. [2] Columbine II in 1990.
Navy One is the call sign of any United States Navy aircraft carrying the president of the United States. [ 1 ] There has only been one aircraft designated as Navy One: a Lockheed S-3 Viking , BuNo 159387 , assigned to the "Blue Wolves" of VS-35 , which transported President George W. Bush to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the ...
Commodore was an early title and later a rank in the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard and the Confederate States Navy, and also has been a rank in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps (NOAA Corps) and its ancestor organizations.
1 Main Circuit (1MC) is the term for the shipboard public address circuits on United States Navy and United States Coast Guard vessels.This provides a means of transmitting general information and orders to all internal ship spaces and topside areas, and is loud enough that all embarked personnel are (normally) able to hear it.
The rank of commodore admiral was established as the Navy's one-star admiral rank after over forty years during which all promoted Navy and Coast Guard captains were advanced directly to the two-star position of rear admiral, but were still paid as one-star officers in the pay grade of O-7 while in a "rear admiral, lower half" category.
S-3B Viking "Navy One" on USS Abraham Lincoln, May 2003 On 1 May 2003, US President George W. Bush flew in the co-pilot seat of a VS-35 Viking from NAS North Island , California, to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast; while the carrier was well within range of helicopters, it is believed that the S-3 was used as a ...
Stop-loss was created by the United States Congress after the Vietnam War. Its use is founded on Title 10, United States Code, Section 12305(a) which states in part: "... the President may suspend any provision of law relating to promotion, retirement, or separation applicable to any member of the armed forces who the President determines is essential to the national security of the United ...
The Stop Our Ship (SOS) movement, a component of the overall civilian and GI movements against the Vietnam War, was directed towards and developed on board U.S. Navy ships, particularly aircraft carriers heading to Southeast Asia. [1]