NCPOA News letter January 2025

 

NCPOA Officers and email addresses

President: PRCS Lowell Heath  senorchief43@yahoo.com

Vice President: ENC Clifford Hatfield  sttoters@hotmail.com

Secretary/Treasurer: PRC Earl Young  earl55k@yahoo.com

 

Presidents Message:  

Our  2026 reunion in April will be an election.  Members must be present to vote and put their name for contention for an Office.   All offices are available. I will not  be running for any office.  We would like to thank all members for their loyalty and cooperation.

 Treasurer’s Report:

Checking Account Balance January 2025 $3034.21

Savings Account Balance January 2025 $11584.48

Certificate Balance January 2025 $20690.68

Secretary’s message: Feel free to contact me at 850-936-2442 earl55k@yahoo.com.  Use the  form on last page of the newsletter to renew/join.  Make checks payable to NCPOA.  Send NO CASH in the mail.  The dues is $10 per  year.  If you move, change email address or phone number, please contact us to keep the Roster current. 

Taps Notifications:  RIP  We Have The Watch

Membership Status

Current Membership : 

Active members.174 / 106  Life Members, 

New Members gained Welcome Aboard:

 

Website  ADDRESS  www.ncpoa.club

 Our webmaster is AKCM Gary Scheidt.

Facebook: 

National CPO’S is our page, request to join. 

 

Window Decals:

Contact PRC Earl Young  earl55k@yahoo.com  850-936-2442  

 

 

Famous Navy Quotations

“I have not yet begun to fight!”

  Captain John Paul Jones said this during the famous battle between Bonhomme Richard and Serapis on 23 September 1779. It seems that some of Jones' men cried for surrender, but not John Paul Jones. Captain Richard Pearson of Serapis asked Jones if he had surrendered. Jones uttered the immortal words: "I have not yet begun to fight!" 

 

Don't give up the ship!”

Tradition has it that Captain James Lawrence said these heroic words after being mortally wounded in the engagement between his ship, the U.S. frigate, and HMS Shannon on 1 June 1813. As the wounded Lawrence was carried below, he ordered "Tell the men to fire faster! Don't give up the ship!"

 

 

“We have met the enemy and they are ours…”

 Oliver Hazard Perry’s immortal dispatch to Major General William Henry Harrison after the Battle of Lake Erie, 10 September 1813, "We have met the enemy and they are ours-- two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop." The victory secured the Great Lakes region for the United States and ended the threat of invasion from that quarter.

 

“A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.”

President Theodore Roosevelt, 2 December 1902, second annual message to Congress.

 

“Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!”

Lieutenant Howell Maurice Forgy, USN (ChC), serving in the heavy cruiser USS New Orleans (CA-32) during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, is credited with coining the phrase. Lieutenant Forgy saw the men of an ammunition party tiring as they labored to bring shells to the antiaircraft guns. Barred by his non-combatant status from actively participating in keeping the guns firing, Lieutenant Forgy decided that he could add his moral support to the ammunition bearers through words of encouragement, and so patted the men on the back and said, "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!"

 

President John F. Kennedy  

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: ‘I served in the United States Navy.’”

 

 

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Mail to PRC Earl Young, 11229 Silverton Drive, Milton, FL 32583