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                                    THIRD READING


          Bill No:  SCR 17
          Author:   Block (D), et al.
          Introduced:2/4/15  
          Vote:     21  

           SUBJECT:   Navy Reserve Day


          SOURCE:    Navy Region Southwest


          DIGEST:  This resolution commemorates March 3, 2015, as the  
          100th anniversary of the United States Navy Reserve.


          ANALYSIS:   This resolution makes the following legislative  
          findings:


          1.The Naval Appropriations Act dated March 3, 1915, established  
            a United States Naval Reserve to "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."

          2.Men and women of the United States Navy Reserve have trained  
            and served alongside their active duty counterparts in  
            California since World War I.

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

          4.Tens of thousands of sailors in the Navy's Reserve, along with  








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            their families, are presently living and serving in  
            California; and, for 100 years, California has demonstrated  
            its commitment to the Navy Reserve, and its sailors and  
            families, by being home to the following:

                 Military Ocean Terminal Concord
                 Naval Air Facility El Centro
                 Naval Air Station Lemoore
                 Naval Air Station North Island
                 Naval Air Station Point Mugu
                 Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake
                 Naval Auxiliary Landing Field San Clemente Island
                 Naval Base Coronado
                 Naval Base Point Loma
                 Naval Base Ventura County
                 Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme
                 Naval Outlying Landing Field Imperial Beach
                 Naval Postgraduate School Monterey
                 Naval Station San Diego
                 Naval Submarine Base San Diego
                 Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona
                 Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach
                 Navy Region Southwest


          This resolution commemorates March 3, 2015, as the 100th  
          anniversary of the United States Navy Reserve 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.


          FISCAL EFFECT:   Appropriation:    No          Fiscal  
          Com.:NoLocal:    No


          SUPPORT:   (Verified2/18/15)










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          Navy Region Southwest (source)






          Prepared by:Melissa Ward / SFA / (916) 651-1520
          2/18/15 15:59:34


                            SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE


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