The United States Navy from the rank of 3rd class Petty Officer to Master Chief wear with pride on their sleeves what is affectionately known as crows. In actuality they are Eagles but like the many generations of tradition and excellence the US Navy and its sailors have adopted this long standing theme.
After many years of working with hundreds of First Class Petty Officer associations, Second Class Petty Officer associations and Junior Enlisted Associations the request came in to the design team of Vision-Strike-Wear.Com that a design would be created for more specifically the Crows of the US Navy. Display it with pride. Wear it with honor and give it detail and a look of professionalism that members of the US Navy would find compelling is what the Navy sailors asked for.
Like the thousands of custom military designs for shirts and apparel the US Navy Crow design also provided the sailors with the ability to further customize the design by changing the text adding a command, ship or other information that would make it specific to their unit, fcpoa, jea or scpoa.
Then came a call for the US Navy squadrons to have their crow displayed with the proper insignia and Vision-Strike-Wear.Com updated it.
The United States Navy Submarine Insignia created for our US Navy dolphins for these incredible sailors and the warships they serve aboard.
The Surface Warfare insignia with its importance and connection to the suface fleet of the US Navy was also developed to ensure our surface Navy could also acquire their Navy crows for the ships, command, surface squadrons and activities they have been involved in and wear a detailed crow design on theor Navy shirtrs, hoodies, dry fits, tanks tops and more!
The US Navy crow design began as a design request from the USS Gettysburg and its FCPOA and later became a design worn and welcomed by dozens of US Navy ships following. If you and your ship, submarine, squadron, or comman would like a similar detailed and quality design created by Vision-Strike-Wear.Com let us know by clicking the custom military design icon below.
It has been a pleasure to custom design for the the United States Navy and over the course of 2014 we have been honored to have worked with a variety of CPOA’s, FCPOA’s, SCPOAs, SCAs and USN Commands all over the world, warships of the line, Naval Air Stations, VBSS Teams, SEAL teams, Navy Seabees from Gulfport, MS and around the world, deployment designs for US Navy personnel serving in remote destinations from Souda Bay to Andros Island, Bahamas.
This year has been filled with with colorful and detailed designs and motivational pride building custom US Navy designs which Vision-Strike-Wear.Com has been excited to participate with these incredible units on. Nothing is more fun than participating in the creating of custom shirt development for our men and women in uniform. The following designs were created for the United States Navy and its associations and commands.
VP-40 Squid Shirt
Tin Can Sailor Popeye Shirts
VP-40 Ordnance Shirts for the US Navy
USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT CVN-71 AIMD Shirts
USS Halsey Heavy Damage Shirt
US Navy CPO 365 Shirts
NSTCP det GUAM CHIEFS Shirts
NAVY USS WINSTONS CHURCHILL Eng Dept Shirts
NAVY AUTEC Bahamas Mars Invades custom US Navy shirt
NAVY AUTEC Bahamas Airdale Submarines custom US Navy shirt
NAVY FCPOA USS LEYTE GULF custom United States Navy shirt
NAVY FCPOA USS Halsey DDG-97
NAVY SCPOA USS Peleliu
NAVY USS Lewis and Clark SSBN-644 custom design
Coastal Riverine CPO 365 Custom Navy design
NAVY AO VFA-213 Black Lions custom Navy shirt design
United States Navy JB San Antonio US Navy shirt design for Christmas fundraising.
The United States Navy custom shirt design for Andros Island, Bahamas. Received a call from the unit less than 24 hours later that they completely sold out of their first custom US Navy shirt order and needed to place a brand new order. 24 hours old and sold out!
The USS Leyte Gulf, CG Quid and First Class Petty Officer Association design created for the crew on this amazing warship.
We Rise Above the Rest To Keep The Fleet At Its Best! A US Navy Custom Military Shirt design.
USS Halsey Heavy Damage custom Arleigh Burke design for the Tin Can Sailors aboard this amazing US warship!
FACSFAC Custom US Navy shirt design for their FCPOA!
CPO 365 Norfolk, Virginia ushers in the brand new Navy Chief Selectees with this custom US Navy shirt design.
NAS Corpus Christi and the First Class Petty Officer Association requested this custom Navy design from Vision-Strike-Wear.Com.
The FCPOA USN Custom design for the crew aboard the USS Princeton.
Popeye Tin Can Sailor All Men AAre Created Equal Then A Few Become Destroyer Sailors custom design for the Tin Can sailor Association. Part of a collection of custom Tin Can Sailor designs that has spanned over 4 years of US Navy shirt creativity that has fostered one of the strongest and msot successful relationships between the Tin Can Sailor Association and Vision-Strike-Wear.Com. Each year VSW Donates a design to this wonderful organization in support of their fundraising efforts which has cultivated into thousands of sales over these many years.
This Popeye shirt design is licensed and approved by King Features, the license and trademark holder of the Popeye brand with whom Vision-Strike-Wear.Com proudly has the license for. It is a pleaure to work with King Features bringing new Popeye designs to the forefront.
Not every design VSW creates becomes a custom US Navy shirt. Sometimes they become pins like the one displayed above created for the Tiger Cruise for the sailors, family and frinds of the USS Bataan during their Tiger Cruise.
The Airwolves of HSM-40 received this custom United States Navy shirt design for their FCPOA!
The Seabees of Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit Two Zero Two and their FCPOA received this custom US Navy shirt.
Navy Munitions Command Detachment Bahrain! The Logisitics Specialists, Gunner’s Mates and Yeoman of the US Navy participated in this custom USN shirt design for their unit.
Logistics Task Force or referred to as LTF-5 was a custom Navy design requested by the this amazing group stationed in Qatar.
A sketch created for the 1st Classes of the United States Navy Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach. The begnning stage of great custom art starts with a great sketch. Color and additional details are added later.
US Navy veterans often contact Vision-Strike-Wear.Com requesting a patch be created or design for their motorcycle club jackets. The design above for the USS Lewis & Clark is an example of oneof these custom US Navy designs.
A custom USN design for the Second Class Petty Officers of the USS Peleliu.
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NAVY Coastal Riverine Group TWO-2 design created for their CPO 365 program ushering in a new generation of US Navy Chiefs.
A custom US Navy design created for the Aviation Ordnancemen of VFA-213 The Black Lions. IYAOYAS!
The US Navy Chiefs and US Marine Corps collaborated on this design for NAVY Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training!
Designed for the Chief’s Mess abaord the only US Navy ship named and honored after the US Navy Chief Petty Officer, The USS Chief!
NAVY VFA-106 Det Key West custom Navy shirt
USS Cole DDG-67 FCPOA Shirts
NSA Souda Bay Greece FCPOA Shirts
FCPOA NAS Corpus Christi FCPOA Custom US Navy Shirts
USS Oscar Martin FCPOA Shirts
USS Princeton CG-59 Shirts
VFA-211 FCPOA custom US Navy shirts.
US Navy Logistics Task Force Bagram Sand Sailors deployment shirts
USS Wayne E Meyer Logistics Specialist Shirt
Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit Two Zero Two Shirts
VAW-121 Bluetails FCPOA Shirts
US Naval Computer and Telecom Station Far East FCPOA
Navy Chief Petty Officer Tested Tried Trued Shirt
Navy Munitions Command Detachment Bahrain Shirt
CVWP FCPOA Shirt
USS Chief MCM-14 Minesweeper Chiefs Mess Shirt
USS SAMUEL B ROBERTS Sonar Tech Shirts
NOSC West Palm Beach Florida US Navy FCPOA Shirt
NCHB-14 Fuels Logistics Task Force 5 Deployment Shirt
US Navy FCPOA Autec Andros Island Bahamas Shirt
NAVY FCPOM Naval Station San Diego Shirts
US Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Cuba Shirt
SCPOA USS Bunker Hill CG-52 Shirts
Davey Jones USS Makin Island LHD-8 Shirt
New Orleans Chief Initiation NALO Shirt
USS Washington SSN-787 Wardroom Shirts
NMCB-11 Funeral Detail Seabees Shirt
Gunpowder Pete 2nd Amendment Shirt
Region Mid-Atlantic Reserve Component Command Shirt
US Navy Chief CPO 365 NAS Pensacola Shirt
USS Pinckney DDG-91 FCPOA Shirt
RTC Great Lakes US Navy Shirt
NAS Whidbey Island FCPOA Shirt
NRD San Diego Globe Shirt
US Navy Recruiting District Philadelphia Shirt
COMLCSRON One FCPOA Shirt
Surface Warfare Officer’s School Command Hawaii Shirt
USS Fort McHenry LSD-43 FCPOA Shirt
USS Virginia SSN-774 Submarine Shirt
VFA-31 Tomcatters Shirt
H-60 Navy Instructor Design
JIOC Hawaii FCPOA Shirts
USS Makin Island 1st Class Shirts
USS Helena SSN-725 Submarine Shirt
US Navy Logistics Task Force Bagram Sand Sailors Shirt
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There is A murder in the United States Navy. A Murder of Crows! Navy petty officers the crows of the fleet! The United States Navy Petty Officer is the rising leadership in the USN. They are proven leaders developing additional skills that will propel them into the ranks as future Chief Petty Officers. They participate in JEAs, SCPOAs and FCPOAs, working with their local communities and engage in everything from fundraising activities to donating their time to schools and other worthy causes. They serve in the United States Navy constantly refining their skills within their rates and begin the passage of leadership working and educating lower ranked sailors in a variety of activities and training through their example of hard work, dedication and constant development.
The custom and unique Navy Petty Officer designs created exclusively at Vision-Strike-Wear.Com are offered exclusively for the US Navy Petty Officers both past and present. These Navy Petty Officer crow military designs, shirts and apparel were created out of honor and respect to the core leadership of our naval warriors. They are our finest! Let your US Navy crow fly with these detailed United States Navy Petty Officer Crow shirts!
A NAVY PETTY OFFICER’S CREED
“I am a Petty Officer in the United States Navy, the strongest Navy in the world. I have the distinct privilege of being a leader of the finest Sailors anywhere. As such, I owe my Sailors leadership that they can depend on, trust, and follow.
I will neither fear nor shun responsibility and I am always responsible for my actions. I am always fair and impartial when dealing with my Sailors; remembering not to accept full credit for “A Job Well Done” without proper recognition of my Sailors first.
I am loyal to my subordinates, peers, and those officers appointed over me. I cannot favor either; my integrity must be beyond reproach.
I will fully support all Navy Regulations and Articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. I have the duty to correct and report all violations of these regulations that govern my Navy.
I instill Esprit de Corps throughout the Petty Officer grades in the Navy; bearing allegiance to each other. I owe all of the above not to just myself, but to the United States, to my Navy, and to the Sailors who work for me.” (Source: Militaryauthority.Com)
Our United States Petty Officers also serve aboard US Navy submarines and in their spare time they play a mobile game app designed just for them!
Dive Dive!
Navy petty officers the crows of the fleet. Check out the latest Petty Officers donning their peacoats and “dixie” cups ala squid style! Another featured design created during October in celebration of US Navy and its Birthday this month! Release the Crows!
Birthdays, promotions, naval history, specials and balls! It is a month that celebrates the 239th Birthday of the United States Navy and honors its men and women both past and present, its veterans, prior service, naval warriors and is a time to recognize the accomplishments of the greatest naval power in the history of the world.
Over many years custom naval tees have displayed the courage and dedication felt in the hearts of American sailors and we salute these incredible military naval designs in anticipation of the many exciting things this month foretells.
What are the Top US Navy designs ever? Let’s start!
The USS Halsey gets into the top Navy list. This lady brings her A game to the US Navy fleet!
When the Navy works as a team with the other military branches it sets the standard of excellence.
Then of course their are those that are part of the IYAOYAS red shirt community. High explosive sailors.
Shellback?
The Junior Enlisted Sailors and their JEA Associations have asked for top custom military naval tees over the years. They too wanted a squid that was aggressive and removed all doubts as to whom Owned The Seas!
Then there are the US Navy squadrons and in one case the Black Lions of VFA-213 who clearly has been a part of the top 50 Navy designs!
No one commands the seas like Trident except the United States Navy!
When the USS Maine calls for a design then designs come flying faster than a Trident Missile out of the vertical launch tube of a Boomer!
From the biggest of the US Navy ships to the smallest there is a Top 50 Navy design waiting for you!
The FCPOAs of the United States Navy asked for a design that displayed in sepia style the bold Spartan look along with their crows!
Guantanamo Bay Cuba gets into gear with a highly colorful custom US Navy shirt design for their Junior Enlisted Association!
AUTEC The Bahamas! The US Navy’s Area 51!
VFA-31 Tomcatters get in on the action of being one of the more popular US Navy shirt designs!
SWOS Pearl Harbor gets on the board with this colorful military design!
IYAOYAS community in Okinawa design!
PACOM Hawaii gets their design thrown into the top designs!
Check out some great mobile game apps during US Navy October Birthday and Appreciation Month!
You cannot beat a great submarine game like Dive! Dive!
You will not find a lion, bear or tin man here! What you will find are more aggressive things that hunt ships and submarines at day, at night, in the air, on land and at sea.
The most modern naval power, the United States Navy, has had its mascots over the years. Animals that help define the character or attitude of a special group of US Navy sailors.
So the next question is what do you have when you find a murder, congregation, shoal and tribe massed together?
Petty Officers in the United States Navy are the oldest of the ranks found within the United States Navy! They are proven leaders. They have advanced their careers by providing proof that they are tough both mentally and physically and can handle the rigors of duty both in a command on shore or fighting the seas with their shipmates in the waters, oceans and seas of the world.
Identified as connected as crows the Petty Officers wear eagles above their rank chevrons but tradition in the Navy has them identified instead as crows. The crow is the Petty Officer and the Petty Officer is the crow!
The crow genus makes up a third of the species in the Corvidae family. The members appear to have evolved in Asia from the corvid stock, which had evolved in Australia. The collective name for a group of crows is a flock or a murder.
Recent research has found some crow species capable of not only tool use but also tool construction.Crows are now considered to be among the world’s most intelligent animalswith an encephalization quotient approaching that of some apes.” (Source: Wikipedia)
So what we have is one of the most intelligent animals on Earth that hunts in packs called a murder!
For decades other military branches have tried to issue insults at our US Navy sailors by calling them squids. Truth is you might poke fun at a squid but would you really want to piss it off! Nope! They will drag you down faster that a turbo jet to the oceans depths then grasp you and tear you to bits! So for those of us who have used the word to define American sailors we suggest thinking twice.
Meet Mr Squid!
“The giant squid remains largely a mystery to scientists despite being the biggest invertebrate on Earth. The largest of these elusive giants ever found measured 59 feet (18 meters) in length and weighed nearly a ton (900 kilograms).” (Source: National Geographic)
The US Navy and it days of running landing craft up to beaches, launching attacks from offshore and firing salvos to help pin an enemy down on a beachhead while US Marines engage enemy pillboxes and fortified emplacements has been the calling of the US Navy and its host of amphibious forces. Hello Gator Navy!
Seen what a alligator can do?
So when a group of Alligators get together it is called a congregation.
More facts about alligators
“An alligator is a crocodilian in the genusAlligator of the family Alligatoridae. The two livingspecies are the American alligator (A. mississippiensis) and the Chinese alligator (A. sinensis). In addition, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains. Alligators first appeared during the Oligocene epoch about 37 million years ago.
The name “alligator” is probably an anglicized form of el lagarto, the Spanish term for “the lizard”, which early Spanish explorers and settlers in Florida called the alligator. Later English spellings of the name included allagarta and alagarto.” (Source: Wikipedia)
The Goat Locker!
Since April 1st, 1893 the United States Navy has maintained a backbone of proven leaders and sailors who are not made. They are built! These are the toughest, most well trained sailors that have ever commanded. They are the leadership and experience of the US Navy! They are the goats!
Between crows, squids, alligators and goats the United States Navy has an arsenal of the most experienced, well trained and dangerous men and women that protect America across the word’s seas and oceans and man the finest and most powerful navy in the history of naval warfare!