The Navy Log - Connect With Your Shipmates

What is the Navy Log?
For more than 20 years, the Navy Log has been the Permanent National Registry of Sea Service. It is a database that contains individual service profiles of more than 600,000 Navy, Marine Corps, Merchant Marines, and Coast Guard veterans. Veterans, or family members of veterans, can enter basic service information, like rate/rank, dates of service, duty stations, and awards. A picture can also be submitted to the Navy Memorial for inclusion in the Log.

What is the “new” Navy Log?
The new Navy Log still contains all 600,000 service profiles of Sea Service veterans. These profiles have not been deleted or changed—they remain fully intact here on www.navymemorial.org.  Joining the new Navy Log is still free.  But, the new Navy Log on www.navylog.org has been significantly expanded.

The power of the new Navy Log is its ability to link individuals together in a variety of groups. The original database has been updated to include a social networking option that allows Navy Log members to create personal profiles, search for and connect with each other, and create and join groups. A group can be a ship reunion group like the USS Fechteler, it can be a service community group like the Vietnam-Era Seabees, it could be a family group like the Navy Wives Club of Whidbey Island or it could be a group of Navy shipyard workers at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.  Now, anyone who has a passion for the Navy can join!

The new Navy Log will:

• Provide Navy Log users with more dynamic options to create their page—New features include unlimited photo and video uploading, space to write down memories, post blogs, links, news articles, calendars, and more!

• Give Navy Log users more control over their page—Navy Log users will be in charge of creating and changing their profile page and it will be uploaded onto the site automatically.

• Include members of the Navy community who were previously excluded—Anyone who is passionate about the Navy can join, like Navy kids whose dads were stationed on Guam from 1970 to 1975; Booz Allen Hamilton employees who served in the Navy; civilian employees of Naval Station Pearl Harbor; or shipmates who served on USS Guam.

If you click on the new Navy Log image on the Navy Memorial homepage, you will be directed to the new Navy Log page, where you can explore and join at no cost.

If you would like to access the original Navy Log with your individual Navy service profile, you can click on any of the options on the left-hand navigation list.

Over the next few months, we’ll be working to merge these two databases – the new Navy Log group pages with the service profiles on the original Navy Log.  Watch this space for updates!