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First Navy Jack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Navy_Jack
This is so significant. The history of the first Navy Jack is sketchy as fuck. The first time it ever was flown on an American ship with 1975-6, in celebration of our Bicentennial. Then, right after 9/11, the same SECNAV from 1976, calls up and suggests the whole Navy change their flag while fighting, "Muh war on terror," and the Navy is like, "Muh Ok" WTF???' So, as of 4 Jun 2019, the US Navy (and her magnificent connections to other "Navies") is returned to original management. #POTUS
Here's how it went down from Wikipedia:
On 31 May 2002[6] Navy Secretary Gordon England issued SECNAV Instruction 10520.6, directing all warships and auxiliaries of the U.S. Navy to fly the First Naval Jack as a "temporary substitution" for the Jack of the United States "during the Global War on Terrorism". This was based on a late 2001 post-9/11 suggestion from retired Captain Brayton Harris (who in 1975 and 1976 had been Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy for the bicentennial). Most vessels made the switch on September 11, 2002, the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
This directive only applied to commissioned vessels of the U.S. Navy, to include the previously excluded USS Constitution. Commissioned vessels of the U.S. Coast Guard designated as "United States Coast Guard Cutter" ("USCGC") and USCG patrol boats, vessels of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, and the predominantly civilian-manned vessels of the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command designated as "United States Naval Ship" ("USNS") would continue to fly the Jack of the United States from their jackstaffs while moored or at anchor.
This First Navy Jack, along with the Serapis flag, is also featured on the crest of the Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53).[7]
On 21 February 2019, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson announced the blue Union Jack will return to Navy ships, restoring the 1980 practice of reserving the First Navy Jack to the longest active status warship.[8]
Other U.S. Navy uses
Since 11 September 2002, U.S. Navy installations and facilities ashore have been allowed but not required to fly the First Navy Jack from multi-halyard gaff-rigged flagpoles when the United States ensign is also flown.
The First Navy Jack has also been authorized for wear as a patch by sailors and naval officers on flight suits and certain versions of the Navy Working Uniform (NWU), including sailors and naval officers wearing the Army Combat Uniform (ACU) while assigned to and serving with Army units, at the discretion of the local Army commander.[9][10] For the NWU and ACU, the patch is typically worn on the opposite sleeve as the U.S. flag.
During the War in Afghanistan, U.S. Navy sailors and officers assigned to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were authorized to wear the First Navy Jack on their MultiCam-patterned Army Combat Uniform (ACU) on the right sleeve, below the U.S. flag. [11]
Non-military uses
Like other snake flags, the First Navy Jack has been used by non-Navy people in protest or commemoration. For example, opponents to a smoking ban in Franklin, Indiana, fly Navy Jacks outside their homes and businesses.[12] A First Navy Jack flag was also placed at a makeshift memorial on Boylston Street after the Boston Marathon bombings.[13][14]