13OCT07: Navy Birthday

You can find it in your old Honors and Ceremonies study guide, or read it in SECNAV Instruction 5720.44A, Events for the Internal Community.

Or take my word for it: It's the Navy's 232nd birthday.

After years of performing at annual Navy Birthday balls, concerts, ceremonies, parades, we handed over our batons, trombones and piccolos to a younger, more energetic corp of MUs. Those of us who saw the CINCLANT Ceremonial Band at the last reunion know: They are worthy to step into our shoes.

Happy Birthday, shipmates. It's good to be one of the guests of honor for a change.