Navy Captain Ralph Ward delivers remarks to audience members during the Navy Birthday Celebration onboard the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum, Oct. 14. The celebration commemorates the Navy's 236th birthday, when the Continental Congress established the procurement, fitting out, manning and dispatching of armed vessels in 1775. Ward is the Joint Base Charleston deputy commander. (U.S. Navy photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Brannon Deugan)

Seaman Andrew Jacobson and retired Navy Captain Bert Howard cut the cake celebrating the Navy's 236th birthday onboard the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum, Oct. 14. In keeping with naval custom, the youngest and oldest Sailor at the ceremony receive the honor of cutting the birthday cake with a cutlass. Jacobson joined the Navy in June 2011; Howard joined in 1951 and retired in 1979. (U.S. Navy photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Brannon Deugan)