Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 17

Introduced by Senator Block

(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Atkins)

February 4, 2015

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 17—Relative to Navy Reserve Day.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SCR 17, as introduced, Block. Navy Reserve Day.

This measure would commemorate March 3, 2015, as the 100th anniversary of the United States Navy Reserve.

Fiscal committee: no.

WHEREAS, The Naval Appropriations Act dated March 3,
1915, established a United States Naval Reserve, stating “There
is hereby established a United States Naval Reserve, which shall
consist of citizens of the United States who have been or may be
entitled to be honorably discharged from the Navy after not less
than one four-year term of enlistment or after a term of enlistment
during minority. The naval reserve shall be organized under the
Bureau of Navigation and shall be governed by the Articles for
the Government of the Navy and by the Naval Regulations and
instructions.”; and

WHEREAS, Men and women of the United States Navy Reserve
have trained and served alongside their active duty counterparts
in the State of California since World War I; and

WHEREAS, In 1926, the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps
was first established, entrusted to only six American universities
including the University of California; and

WHEREAS, Former Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan
(1947-1949) made clear the importance of the Navy’s Reserve,
pointing out that “Ten out of eleven Sailors in the Navy during
World War II were Naval Reservists. They made possible the rapid
expansion of our naval service into the largest the world has ever
known--some three and a third million. They had to learn their
job the hard way, with a maximum amount of training in a
minimum period of time. Today the Naval Reserve, profiting by
its wartime experiences, is even better prepared to help this Nation
protect the peace.”; and

WHEREAS, Tens of thousands of sailors in the Navy’s Reserve,
along with their families, are presently living and serving in the
State of California; and

WHEREAS, The State of California has, for 100 years,
demonstrated its commitment to the Navy Reserve, and its sailors
and families, by being home to the Military Ocean Terminal
Concord, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Naval Air
Station Lemoore, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, Naval Air
Station Point Mugu, Naval Base Ventura County, Navy Region
Southwest, Naval Air Station North Island, Naval Base Coronado,
Naval Station San Diego, Naval Submarine Base San Diego, Naval
Weapons Station Seal Beach, Naval Outlying Landing Field
Imperial Beach, Naval Auxiliary Landing Field San Clemente
Island, Naval Base Point Loma, Naval Air Facility El Centro,
Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme, and Naval
Surface Warfare Center, Corona; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby commemorates
March 3, 2015, as Navy Reserve Day in the State of California
and encourages all Californians to take part in the ceremonies
commemorating the centennial, and urges that the necessary steps
be taken to inform Californians of the date of these ceremonies
and the locations of these events, so that all may have the
opportunity to show the importance of the United States Navy’s
Reserve; and be it further

Resolved, That the United States Navy’s Reserve, and the men
and women who serve therein, are to be commended for their
century-long service to the United States and friendship with the
State of California; and be it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.

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