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WARD,Sokola MASTRIANO,& SANTARSIERO,Rep. COMITTA, TARTAGLIONE, COSTA, MUTH, MARCH 28, 2023SON, AUMENT, ARGALL, GEBHARD, MARTIN AND REFMARCH 28, 2023ANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Urging the Secretary of the Navy to designate the City of Philadelphia and both banks of the Delaware River as the site of the main celebration of the 250th birthdays of the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps in October and November 2025.

WHEREAS,Schwartzkopf TheSens. United States Navy was founded in Pennsylvania on October 13, 1775, when the Second Continental Congress at Independence Hall in Philadelphia authorized its first ships;

andEnnis, WHEREAS,Lopez, LaterS. that year in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Continental Navy commissioned its first ship and granted its first commission to John Barry, the "Father of the American Navy";

andMcBride, WHEREAS,Pettyjohn, TheTownsend, SecondWalsh; Continental Congress in Pennsylvania commissioned Lieutenant John Paul Jones who, on the Delaware River, was the first to raise an American national flag, the Grand Union Flag, on a naval vessel;

andReps. WHEREAS, The United States Marine Corps was founded in Pennsylvania on November 10, 1775, when the Second Continental Congress at Independence Hall authorized the recruitment of two battalions;

andBaumbach, WHEREAS,Briggs TheKing, UnitedDukes, StatesGray, MarineHeffernan, CorpsK. was born later that year after its first commissioned officer, Captain Samuel Nicholas, held a recruiting drive in Tun Tavern in Philadelphia;

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and beWHEREAS, it further RESOLVED, That the Generalfirst Assemblyship of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania urge the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps to participatebe bycommissioned bringingas active-duty ships, aircraft, equipment and personnel that represent the UnitedU.S.S. States Navy and the United States Marine Corps;

andDelaware bewas itbuilt furtherunder RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to the Presidentorder of the UnitedContinental States,Congress thein UnitedPhiladelphia Stateson SecretaryDecember of13, Defense,1775 theand Secretarylaunched ofin theJuly Navy,1776 theand Commandantwas ofcommanded thefor Marinea Corpstime andby eachCaptain memberJohn ofBarry; the Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation.

20230SR0082PN0553and -WHEREAS, 3the -United States Marine Corps was founded in Pennsylvania on November 10, 1775, when the Second Continental Congress at Independence Hall in Philadelphia authorized the recruitment of two battalions;

and WHEREAS, the United States Marine Corps was born later that year after its first commissioned officer Captain Samuel Nicholas held a recruiting drive in Tun Tavern in Philadelphia;

and WHEREAS, the first United States Marine Corps amphibious operation, mounted from Pennsylvania, seized sorely needed gunpowder for the Continental Army;

and WHEREAS, the State of Delaware, at the port of Wilmington, played an important role in designing and building ships at the shipyards of Harlan and Hollingsworth and Pusey and Jones in the 19 century and added the shipyard of th Dravo in the 20 century;

and WHEREAS, the State of Delaware has contributed sons and daughters to lead the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps since their birth, including Commodore Jacob Jones, Commodore Thomas Macdonough, and Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont;

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01/18/2022 03:00 PM WHEREAS, the United States Navy commissioned the seventh ship to be named the U.S.S.

Delaware, on April 4, 2020, which is the SSN-791, as a Virginia Class Attack Submarine and which was also the first ship in the history of the United States Navy to be commissioned underwater;

and WHEREAS, the United States Navy's 250-year history should be celebrated by assembling ships, including the Pennsylvania State Flagship Niagara, from every major war the United States Navy has fought and the newest U.S.S.

Delaware;

and WHEREAS, this assemblage would be possible only in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania because Philadelphia has preserved the U.S.S.

Olympia, the sole surviving naval vessel of the Spanish-American War;

and WHEREAS, the United States Marine Corps' 250th birthday should be celebrated by rebuilding Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, drawing United States Marines from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and beyond.

NOW, THEREFORE:

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the 151st General Assembly of the State of Delaware, the House of Representatives concurring therein, that the General Assembly urges the Secretary of the Navy to designate Philadelphia and both banks of the Delaware River as the site of the main celebration of the 250th birthdays of the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps in October and November 2025.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the General Assembly urges the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps to participate by bringing active-duty ships, including the U.S.S.

Delaware;

aircraft;

equipment;

and personnel that represent the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that after final passage the Secretary of the Senate send copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, the United States Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Navy, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and each member of the Delaware Congressional Delegation.