what year was the navy chief established?
William J. Fallon
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 The Navy gradually developed a reputation for having the most highly developed technology of all the U.S. services . The 1950s saw the development of nuclear power for ships , under the leadership of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover , the development of missiles and jets for Navy use and the construction of supercarriers . The USS Enterprise was the world 's first nuclear @-@ powered aircraft carrier and was followed by the Nimitz @-@ class supercarriers . Ballistic missile submarines grew ever more deadly and quiet , culminating in the Ohio @-@ class submarines . 

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 As a result of a large number of command officers being fired for failing to do their job properly , in 2012 the Chief of Naval Operations ( CNO ) ordered a new method of selecting command officers across the Navy . 

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 The United States Navy claims 13 October 1775 as the date of its official establishment , when the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the Continental Navy . With the end of the American Revolutionary War , the Continental Navy was disbanded . Under President George Washington threats to American merchant shipping by Barbary pirates from 4 north African Muslim States , in the Mediterranean , led to the Naval Act of 1794 , which created a permanent standing U.S. Navy . The original six frigates were authorized as part of the Act . Over the next 20 years , the Navy fought the French Navy in the Quasi @-@ War ( 1798 – 99 ) , Barbary states in the First and Second Barbary Wars , and the British in the War of 1812 . After the War of 1812 , the U.S. Navy was at peace until the Mexican – American War in 1846 , and served to combat piracy in the Mediterranean and Caribbean seas , as well fighting the slave trade . In 1845 , the Naval Academy was founded . In 1861 , the American Civil War began and the U.S. Navy fought the small Confederate Navy with both sailing ships and ironclad ships while forming a blockade that shut down the Confederacy 's civilian shipping . After the Civil war , most of the its ships were laid up in reserve , and by 1878 , the Navy was just 6 @,@ 000 men . 

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 Despite his new office , Radford was soon recalled to Washington to continue hearings on the future of the U.S. military budget . He became a key figure in what would later be called the " Revolt of the Admirals " , which took place during April 1949 when the supercarrier USS United States was cancelled . 

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 At the end of World War I , the United States Navy had almost 500 @,@ 000 officers and enlisted men and women and in terms of personnel was the largest in the world . Younger officers were enthusiastic about the potential of land @-@ based naval aviation as well as the potential roles of aircraft carriers . Chief of Naval Operations Benson was not among them . He tried to abolish aviation in 1919 because he could not " conceive of any use the fleet will ever have for aviation . " However Roosevelt listened to the visionaries and reversed Benson 's decision . 
