I hear the Navy has never actually gone to war. They park about 500 miles from it and shoot things in its general direction, and outsource the real work to the Marines.
Go Army. Beat Navy.
My late brother Gene would question your assertion. During WWII, while in the Navy, he was at Borneo, New Guinea and Okinawa. He was stationed aboard an LCP that drove onto the invasion beaches to provide covering fire for amphibious troops. The enemy did, of course, return fire.
Speaking of amphibious operations, do you know the largest such operation by U.S. prior to Normandy? If you do, you get an A+ in my online Civil War course.
It was the operation in November of 1861 in the Beaufort-Hilton Head Island corridor in South Carolina. The reason you don't hear much about it in the history books is that it was so massive and so successful that there were very few casualties (most on a Marine transport that sunk without hostile fire).
The U.S. Navy pulled into Beaufort harbor on the morning of 7 Nov 1861 and began shelling with a number of ships rotating in a circle in the harbor as marines and army were storming the beaches. The same for Hilton Head Island, except that the marines were not involved because of the mishap with the aforementioned transport. Though estimates differ, as the military records are somewhat ambiguous, it's estimated that the Federal fleet consisted of at least 18 warships with 55 supporting craft -- transports and supply ships -- led by Adm. S.E. DuPont
It was one of the few Civil War battles that involved the army, navy and marines in the same battle in a coordinated manner. Upon the appearance of this overwhelming armada, the Confederates simply fled. The locals to this day refer to it as the "great skedaddle." The only people remaining in the area were the blacks, who effectively became free immediately. This is why Lincoln left this area out of his exception list for the Emancipation Proclamation. Most areas of the Confederacy that were under Union control were exempt, because they were no longer "in rebellion." This area was not, so the blacks here, who had been living as free men and women for several years, were legally freed by the EP. There were a few other such areas, but in general the EP did not free any slaves in areas under Union control, including the border states. Strange irony, but that's another story.
The Union held that corridor for the rest of the war, and it was the staging area for much of the east coast blockade. If you visit HHI, you can still see the ruins of four Civil War forts there. The most interesting, to me, is Ft. Howell that was built by a USCT regiment to protect an African American village, Mitchelville, parts of which are still extant. The Old Fort Pub Restaurant is built on the grounds of another of these Union forts.
Aren't you glad that you asked? ;-)