The U.S. Navy marks 247 years of service.

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The U.S. Navy marks 246 years of service.

The U.S. Navy turns 245 years-old today. On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress commissioned two ships, each with eighty sailors, “for intercepting such transports as may be laden with warlike…