Exhibition: Year of Navy Supply - Supporting the Force
Date: Saturday April 10, 2010 - Tuesday March 1, 2011
Time: 9:30a - 5:00p
Location: US Navy Memorial
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Supporting the Force: Navy Supply in Action - Ready for Sea, Ready Ashore
The United States Navy Memorial will opens its latest exhibit honoring the men and women of Navy Supply. Following on popular exhibits in recent years that have honored the Seabees, Navy Medicine and Navy Special Warfare, 2010 has been set aside to honor the Navy’s logistics, culinary and business specialists.
Navy Supply provides the “beans, bullets and black oil” that enable the US Navy to operate around the globe. Navy Supply touches the lives of every sailor with food, laundry, barbers, postal services, and ship’s stores. In 2009, Navy Supply provided 66 million meals and transported 50 million pounds of mail to personnel overseas!
The exhibit will feature ship models, rare historic artifacts including an 1841 Navy Purser’s uniform coat—the oldest known Navy Supply uniform—as well as a World War II WAVE uniform and the uniform and equipment worn by a Navy Advisor in the Vietnam War.
The exhibit will honor the sailors of Navy Supply who’ve given their lives in the Global War on Terror and those who’ve received the Nation’s top honors including
FREE and open to the public.