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steamboat

Posted 2009-02-28 5:14 PM (#24689)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1814

Location: Boydton, Virginia

Subject: USNS ships

It seems to this land-lubber that the USNS ships are doing really "Yoemans" work since 9-11. In the years prior, I read that they had a hard time getting crews to man them and that maintenance really lagged. I guess this is one positive aspect of the 2 wars, that the USNS fleet is back at sea. They may be the only Merchant Marine fleet left flying the American flag!!
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Roy Ator

Posted 2009-02-28 6:24 PM (#24691 - in reply to #24689)

Great Sage of the Sea

Posts: 892

Location: Palo Pinto County, Texas

Subject: RE: USNS ships

Interesting topic for a submariner's BBS. In August 1953, when the truce was signed at Panmunjom(sp), I was a passenger on the USNS General W. O. Darby (TAP 127), from Yokohama to Seattle returning from my 19 month deployment with mucho Korean experience. [Included service on a DDR, a PF and about 90 days as a patient in USNH #3923 in Yokosuka.]

My final duty was with OTSU-2 embarked on the USNS Range Sentinel T-AGM-22 ('71 - '73) out of Port Canaveral.

Edited by Roy Ator 2009-02-28 6:25 PM

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