BILL NUMBER: SCR 17	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Block
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Atkins)

                        FEBRUARY 4, 2015

   Relative to Navy Reserve Day.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 17, as introduced, Block. Navy Reserve Day.
   This measure would commemorate March 3, 2015, as the 100th
anniversary of the United States Navy Reserve.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, The Naval Appropriations Act dated March 3, 1915,
established a United States Naval Reserve, stating "There is hereby
established a United States Naval Reserve, which shall consist of
citizens of the United States who have been or may be entitled to be
honorably discharged from the Navy after not less than one four-year
term of enlistment or after a term of enlistment during minority. The
naval reserve shall be organized under the Bureau of Navigation and
shall be governed by the Articles for the Government of the Navy and
by the Naval Regulations and instructions."; and
   WHEREAS, Men and women of the United States Navy Reserve have
trained and served alongside their active duty counterparts in the
State of California since World War I; and
   WHEREAS, In 1926, the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps was
first established, entrusted to only six American universities
including the University of California; and
   WHEREAS, Former Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan (1947-1949)
made clear the importance of the Navy's Reserve, pointing out that
"Ten out of eleven Sailors in the Navy during World War II were Naval
Reservists. They made possible the rapid expansion of our naval
service into the largest the world has ever known-some three and a
third million. They had to learn their job the hard way, with a
maximum amount of training in a minimum period of time. Today the
Naval Reserve, profiting by its wartime experiences, is even better
prepared to help this Nation protect the peace."; and
   WHEREAS, Tens of thousands of Sailors in the Navy's Reserve, along
with their families, are presently living and serving in the State
of California; and
   WHEREAS, The State of California has, for 100 years, demonstrated
its commitment to the Navy Reserve, and its sailors and families, by
being home to the Military Ocean Terminal Concord, Naval Air Weapons
Station China Lake, Naval Air Station Lemoore, Naval Post Graduate
School Monterey, Naval Air Station Point Mugu, Naval Base Ventura
County, Navy Region South-West, Naval Air Station North Island, Naval
Base Coronado, Naval Station San Diego, Naval Submarine Base San
Diego, Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, Naval Outlying Landing Field
Imperial Beach, Naval Auxiliary Landing Field San Clemente Island,
Naval Base Point Loma, Naval Air Facility El Centro, Naval
Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme, and Naval Surface Warfare
Center, Corona; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby commemorates March 3,
2015, as Navy Reserve Day in the State of California and encourages
all Californians to take part in the ceremonies commemorating the
centennial, and urges that the necessary steps be taken to inform
Californians of the date of these ceremonies and the locations of
these events, so that all may have the opportunity to show the
importance of the United States Navy's Reserve; and be it further
   Resolved, That the United States Navy's Reserve, and the men and
women who serve therein, are to be commended for their century-long
service to the United States and friendship with the State of
California; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.