Us Navy Facts

USS Constitution just led more than 50 tall ships into Boston Harbor. She's 228 years old, and still an active-duty US Navy warship crewed by real sailors. In July 2026, she fired a 21-gun salute off Castle Island. Then she led ships from 21 countries past more than a million spectators. Old Ironsides is still on duty.

Operation Magic Carpet turned Navy warships into giant floating dorms. The mission: bring 8 million WWII troops home. Nearly 370 Navy ships took part in the Pacific, with bunks stacked up to five tiers high on hangar decks. USS Saratoga alone carried more troops than any other ship in the fleet: 29,204 men. Flight decks built for fighter planes were packed wall to wall with veterans, finally sailing home.

Tom DeLonge left Blink-182 in 2015 to chase his obsession with UFOs. The world mocked him for it. His group, To The Stars Academy, published three US Navy cockpit videos in 2017 and 2018. The Pentagon officially declassified those same three videos in April 2020. It confirmed real Navy footage of phenomena still marked unidentified. He was right years before the Pentagon admitted it.