Title: NAS Pensacola

Summary: Recognizes 100th anniversary of NAS Pensacola.

Full Text:
WHEREAS, with the site selected by Navy Captains William Bainbridge, Lewis Warrington, and James Biddle, construction on the Navy yard began in April 1826, and WHEREAS, years later, the Pensacola Navy Yard was decommissioned in October 1911 after many of its facilities,having been destroyed in the Civil War,were again devastated in the hurricane of 1906, and WHEREAS, with the enactment of the Naval Appropriations Act of 1911-1912, a provision for aeronautical development enabled the Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, to establish a board in 1913 that recommended the use of Pensacola's abandoned Navy yard as the site for the United Stat es Naval Aeronautical Station, and WHEREAS, with the approval of the board's recommendation, on January 20, 1914, the USS Mississippi and the USS Orion arrived in Pensacola Bay with the United States Naval Aviation program in order to establish the only United States aviation WHEREAS, since the first flight from the shore of Naval Air Station Pensacola on February 2, 1914, thousands of aviators have trained on its premises, furth er strengthening our armed forces to bravely protect our country, NOW, THEREFORE, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Florida: That Naval Air Station Pensacola, known as the "Cradle of Naval Aviation," is honored on the oc casion of its 100th anniversary and commended for its excellence in aeronautical military achievements.