WASHINGTON — House lawmakers are trying a new approach to recapitalizing the nation’s strategic sealift fleet, after recent efforts to push the Defense Department and the Transportation Department to invest haven’t yielded much progress. The Maritime Administration, housed under the Transportation Department, is responsible for overseeing fleets of government-owned and industry-owned ships that could moveContinue reading “Ships assigned to the Maritime Administration’s Ready Reserve Force are moored in Alameda, Calif., on Sept. 28, 2016. These 40-year-old-plus steam ships are maintained to be ready for deployment in five days or less. (Petty Officer 2nd Class Billy Ho/U.S. Navy)”
Monthly Archives: June 2022
SANTA RITA, Guam (June 23, 2022) Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) pulls into Naval Base Guam for a scheduled port visit.
Seaman Artur Reykhman, from New York, secures a mooring line on the fantail as Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) pulls into Naval Base Guam Sailors haul in line on the fantail as Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) pulls into Naval Base Guam Ronald Reagan, theContinue reading “SANTA RITA, Guam (June 23, 2022) Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) pulls into Naval Base Guam for a scheduled port visit.”
SOUTH CHINA SEA (June 10, 2017) The guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) takes part in a passing exercise with ships from the Royal Australian Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. During the June 8-10 exercise, the ships completed meneuvering events, helicopter operations, personnel exchanges, gunnery exercises and air defense training. Participating ships included Sterett, HMAS Ballarat, JS Izumo, JS Sazanami, and HMCS Winnipeg. (Royal Australian Navy photo by LSIS Bradley Darvill)
SOUTH CHINA SEA (June 10, 2017) The guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) takes part in a passing exercise with ships from the Royal Australian Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. During the June 8-10 exercise, the ships completed meneuvering events, helicopter operations, personnel exchanges, gunnery exercises and air defense training. ParticipatingContinue reading “SOUTH CHINA SEA (June 10, 2017) The guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) takes part in a passing exercise with ships from the Royal Australian Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. During the June 8-10 exercise, the ships completed meneuvering events, helicopter operations, personnel exchanges, gunnery exercises and air defense training. Participating ships included Sterett, HMAS Ballarat, JS Izumo, JS Sazanami, and HMCS Winnipeg. (Royal Australian Navy photo by LSIS Bradley Darvill)”
PACIFIC OCEAN (June 23, 2014) The Military Sealift Command (MSC) hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) while in formation with ships en route for exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), the world’s largest multinational naval exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Will Gaskill/Released
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USS Washington transits the Atlantic following her postwar refit & overhaul at the Boston Navy yard in early 1946. Note the vast majority of her light AA batter has been removed, leaving her decks relatively uncluttered – From the US Naval Archive
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