The U.S. Navy: Much More Than A Bunch Of Ships

The United States Navy is a very integral part of theships are used to carry men, vehicles, and planes, like
United States Armed Forces. The U.S. Navy hasaircraft carriers, and amphibious assault ships. Other
played many crucial parts in our nations history. Theships are used to attack warships, and can even be
U.S. Navy has been the master of the seas for aused to launch attacks on land targets as well. These
very long time. Ever since World War I there has nottypes of ships include battleships, cruisers,
been a navy in the world that can compete with us.destroyers, and frigates. The U.S. Navy also has
However the U.S. Navy was dealt a tremendous blowsubmarines which can be used to carry out
during World War II when a naval base was attackedunderwater missions that include research, rescue,
at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 8th, 1941. Thisand other specific wartime missions.
was a very brutal attack that the Japanese made onMany people realize that these ships are part of the
the U.S. Navy, but they did not cripple our forces.U.S. Navy, but quite a few people do not realize that
The U.S. Navy rebounded from that attack and wentthe Navy also has over 4,000 airplanes that it can
on to help defeat Japan, Germany, and Italy to enddeploy. Probably the most famous squadron of
World War II. Many people think of the U.S. Navy asairplanes in the world is the U.S. Navys flight
just a bunch of ships that wait off shore and stopdemonstration squadron known as the Blue Angels. I
the other countrys ships from doing anything.remember seeing the Blue Angels when I was a kid
However this is not the case, the U.S. Navy has aand being amazed that they could fly in a formation
wide array of equipment that help to support theso close to one another without crashing. The next
Armed Forces carry out the attack plan designed bytime someone tells you that the U.S. Navy is just a
our country.bunch of ships; you can tell them the Navy is much
The U.S. Navy does have many different types ofmore than that.
ships that are used during wartime. Some of these