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10/12/2023

Craig B. Wibberley
Aug. 7, 1981–Oct. 12, 2000

Craig Bryan Wibberley was born on Aug. 7, 1981 in Hagerstown, Maryland, to Thomas and Patricia Wibberley.

He graduated from Washington County Technical High School and Williamsport High School in 1999, and enlisted in the U.S. Navy on July 20, 1999.

After completing Basic Training in Great Lakes, Illinois, on Sept. 24, 1999, he was a student at Surface Warfare School Command, also in Great Lakes. He reported to USS Cole (DDG 67) on Nov. 10, 1999.

Wibberley was killed in the line of duty when a terrorist bomb was detonated along the port side of the ship while it was refueling in Aden, Yemen, on Oct. 12, 2000.

Seaman Apprentice Wibberley was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Navy Unit Commendation, and the rank of seaman.

05/27/2022

From 2018 Sharpsburg Memorial Day Parade

05/30/2021

At today's Sharpsburg Memorial Day Parade

11/07/2020

News from NHQ
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05/02/2020

Blue Angels and Thunderbirds flying over DC area

12/24/2017

11/11/2017

11/05/2017

In the fall of 1966, Master Chief Gunner’s Mate Delbert Black was in a hospital recovering from an appendectomy. When he heard the Navy was looking for a Senior Enlisted Advisor, he called his wife, Ima, to ask if he should put in an application.

11/02/2017

*Editor’s Note: The following content was reproduced from Uniforms of the United States Navy 1776–1898 and 1900–1967. This content provides a chronological survey of Navy uniforms. For text of historic uniform regulations and articles on specific uniform items, please consult the Navy Department Lib...

10/28/2017

The creation of Navy Day commemorated the birth of one of the U.S. Navy's stalwart supporters and celebrated the sea service.

10/25/2017

Two-hundred-and-five years ago today, on October 25, 1812, the USS United States, under the command of the brilliant Stephen Decatur, came upon, attacked, and captured the HMS Macedonian. Decatur’s capture of the British frigate was the second of several ship-to-ship actions during the War of 1812 that demonstrated the young US Navy’s ability to punch far above its weight.
Before his victory over the Macedonian, Decatur had already earned a reputation as one of the most daring naval commanders in the Age of Sail.
As a young lieutenant in 1804, Decatur had led a detachment of United States Marines into the harbor of Tripoli in North Africa and destroyed a captured American warship in order to deprive the Barbary Pirates of its use. None other than Horatio Nelson called Decatur’s raid “the most bold and daring act of the age.”
https://www.civilwar.org/learn/articles/naval-engagements-war-1812

10/21/2017

On this day, 220 years ago, USS Constitution was launched into the Boston Harbor and commissioned as an active duty warship in the United States Navy. However, her story began long before this day.

When the American Revolution ended, the new government of the United States decided to auction off its last ship, a frigate named Alliance, for a sum to help pay the national debt. With this act, the Continental Navy ceased to exist. Without the protection of a Navy the merchant ships of the United States became easy targets for pirates. The Barbary Corsairs of North Africa attacked our merchant ships with little rest in between. For a while the government of the United States did not want to build a navy. The pirates would not stop attacking us and something had to be done. In March of 1794, President George Washington signed an Act to Provide a Naval Aramament, authorizing the construction of six frigates. Constitution would become one of those six.

In the summer of 1795, Constitution's keel was laid in Edmund Harrt's shipyard in Boston. Two years later, her hull was completed and she was deemed ready for launch. On September 20, 1797, a crowd gathered to watch Constitution and at approximately 11:20 am the ship's constructor, Col. George Claghorn, gave the order to launch her. She moved down her launch ramp 27 feet, but would not budge past that. Two days later, on September 22, 1797, Claghorn tried again. Constitution moved an additional 31 feet down her launch ramp but did not enter the Boston Harbor. One month later, on October 21, 1797, Claghorn tried again and this time Constitution made it into the water.

Yesterday, USS Constitution and her crew got underway for her first cruise into the Boston harbor since 2014 in commemoration of the ship's launching 220 years ago, as well as the United States Navy's 242nd birthday.

Due to her crew's tireless dedication to keeping her protected and preserved, "Old Ironsides" is the last of the six original U.S. Navy frigates still standing and holds the title, Oldest Commissioned Warship Afloat in the World. Happy birthday USS Constitution!!!!

(Photo from USS Constitution Museum)