President Trump: You've conquered raging oceans, and braved ferocious storms, to vanquish America's enemies on the high seas and distant shores. You've beaten mighty warships into twisted wrecks of steel. You've splintered vast armadas, and sent the mangled pride of empires seeking into oblivion. You've surged the waters, thick in danger, blood, brine, and through it all, the United States Navy has kept the Stars and Stripes soaring high and proud above those big magnificent waves.

President Trump: From the American Revolution until today, the story of the U.S. Navy is a tale of loyalty, sacrifice, and commitment, stretching back two hundred and fifty years.

President Trump: When the Continental Congress formed a fleet of just two ships in October, 1775, many scoffed at their chances against the most powerful empire on Earth. They didn't know the audacity and the grit of the American sailor.

President Trump: Over the generations, our Navy sailors raised Old Glory above the streets of Vera Cruz, sent the Spanish fleet to it's watery grave in Manila Bay, and buried the vicious German Wolfpacks at the bottom of the sea.

President Trump: From Midway to the Coral Sea, to Leyte Gulf, American sailors fought the most epic Naval battles in history, and at Normandy, the Navy led the greatest armada ever formed, to deliver the single largest invasion force the world has ever seen.

President Trump: Every sailor, aviator, submariner and shipmate in the Navy, inherits a tradition of excellence and daring power and glory, unmatched in the long saga of mankind's voyage on the sea. From that first ship, that schooner, Hannah, to the awesome sight of a modern carrier battlegroup underway, the U.S. Navy has always been the iron will of a proud and mighty nation, pushing forward through the currents, and over those big, beautiful waves. Through the spray of raging combat and the fog of Naval war, America's sailors have proven time and again, that our Navy does, just the best job there is. Anything having to do with sailing the oceans; there's nobody to compete. We own the skies, we stalk the depths, and we rule the sea like nobody has ever ruled the seas. From Boston Harbor to Hampton Roads. From the Philippine Sea, to the Red Sea. From the Guadalcanal, to the vast, great Atlantic Ocean, our sailors have seized triumph upon triumph. We don't know anything about defeat. We heaped honor upon honor, and carved greatness and splendor into the pages of history.