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USN Reserve Birthday
March 3, 2022
In 2015, The Navy Reserve celebrated its 100th birthday, with observations held service-wide. Since the Navy Reserve birthday is not a federal holiday, no closures or stand-downs are commonplace, but there are normally birthday events held at individual Navy Reserve units, Reserve HQ, and at the Navy Memorial in Washington D.C.
This reserve branch got its formal start on March 3, 1915 when it was known as the Federal Naval Reserve. This would last until 1916 when the Reserve was reorganized and re-christened the United States Naval Reserve Force. At the start of World War One, approximately 8,000 reserve members served, but by war’s end those numbers swelled to 250,000, according to Navy.mil.