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Naval Militia to Guard Ports in Virginia?

Citizen

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You guys are great!

Thanks for the photo of my own personalship, VirginiaPlanter, and the historical info. Great stuff! I can see me on harbor patrol now.

Cutlasseson deck andM14s in the rigging, Tomahawk? What an imagination!
 

DoubleR

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OK. Being a Virginia native and going back to the 1600's, in Virginia,here's a link to the "Virginia Navy". Thanks for ressurecting this thread! ...and as an added bonus-a CSA Naval uniform. I suppose he's naval artillery, since the sash is red.

hillhouse.jpg
 

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Citizen wrote:
You guys are great!

Thanks for the photo of my own personalship, VirginiaPlanter, and the historical info. Great stuff! I can see me on harbor patrol now.

Cutlasseson deck andM14s in the rigging, Tomahawk? What an imagination!
The purpose of the M-14s is prevent any opportunity for diplaying my lack of swordsmanship.
 

SFDoc

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Citizen wrote:
You guys are great!

Thanks for the photo of my own personalship, VirginiaPlanter, and the historical info. Great stuff! I can see me on harbor patrol now.

Cutlasseson deck andM14s in the rigging, Tomahawk? What an imagination!
Hope this makes up for being shorted on your ship. Jones' Marine Raid
 

SquaredAway

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SFDoc wrote:
Citizen wrote:
That would be so cool!!

Where do we sign up? :)

I nominate Longwatch for Regimental CO! (I understand that in those days the officers were elected by the troops.)

I wonder if it will be a "dry" navy? Naval personnel need their grog, ya know.

Lets start working on a dress uniform design. Anybody got any pictures of CSA marines?

Oh, crap. I just realized. The General Assembly can't get a simple transportation bill to the Governor. They'll never agree on money to build ships.

That's OK. We'll be the envy of every Marine on base.

"Who are those guys in those too cool uniforms?"

"VAMC. You can address them as "Marine", but you need to be polite." :)
With our GA you would end up with this
 
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