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Tags: <comics><marvel><dc>
Title: Are there any comic book heroes (DC or Marvel preferably) that served in the US Navy (not marines)?
Question: I have been looking all over the internet to answer this question and I can't find anything. There's plenty of Air Force superheroes, but I can't find any Navy.  This is the start of a gift idea for a friend of mine who is more into comics than I am. He recently joined the Navy and I thought it would be neat to get him some HeroClix characters that served in the Navy.

Answers:
sents: text: You might find this list of comic book members of the US Navy to be of interest though it looks incomplete and I can't vouch for its accuracy.
text: Also, DC's Skyrocket was a Naval Aviator.
text: There seem to be quite a few Naval villians, though.
text: The anti-Captain America was a Navy SEAL.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4025/Mark Beadles
score: 9
sents: text: Alpha One : A metahuman from a non-aligned DC Universe continuum, who gained his powers from a radiation accident while he was a sailor exposed to radioactive water.
text: He later gains superhuman abilities which make him appear to be as powerful as Post-Crisis Superman, replete with flight, super-strength, near-invulnerability, super-senses and energy projection from his eyes.
text: However he is sorely lacking in the excellent moral sense we associate with Superman.
text: He appears in a 12 issue maxi series called The Mighty.
text: Cover for The Mighty Issue #4 THE MIGHTY was a maxi-series that ran from ’09 to ’10 and its plot upped the stakes significantly in the usual relationship between a superhero and his human allies.
text: It’s about a regular cop in Section Omega, a special police unit that aides the operations of their world’s
text: only superhero, Alpha One.
text: However, when that hero starts becoming corrupt with his own power, the cop’s faced with the impossible challenge of trying to take down a godlike immortal when he, himself, has no superpowers.
text: Paramount is considering optioning this character into a movie .
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2765/Thaddeus Howze
score: 5
sents: text: First one that comes to mind would be DC comics's Firebrand Wikipedia profile You can find more info about this character here
text: If it's for a gift, i would recommend the first isues of the All-Star Squadron were this character is wounded during the Pearl Harbor attack
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14391/Grendel
score: 3
sents: text: When the members of the Justice Society decided they want to fight WWII in the military, almost all the male members joined the Army.
text: Except one.
text: Johnny Thunder joined the Navy.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/104541/Capitalmale
score: 3
sents: text: As far as I remember in the series: Superman: Red Son, Hal Jordan is part of the US Navy as commander , under the presidency of Lex Luthor, as a intent for fight back Superman.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/83055/riccs_0x
score: 1

Summary of the answers:
Johnny Thunder joined the Navy.  Also consider Alpha One: A metahuman from a non-aligned DC Universe continuum, who gained his powers from a  radiation accident  while he was a sailor exposed to radioactive water.  It is also worth mentioning Superman: Red Son, in which Hal Jordan is a US Navy Commander.
Hal Jordan and Johnny Thunder are part of the Navy. Moreover, Alpha One also discloses a hero who serves in the Navy.