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Home port. A vessel 's home port is the port at which it is based, which may not be the same as its port of registry [1] shown on its registration documents [2] and lettered on the stern of the ship's hull. [3] In the cruise industry the term "home port" is also often used in reference to the port in which a ship will take on / change over the ...
Mark 54 lightweight torpedo. Aircraft carried. 1 × Sikorsky MH-60R. USS Russell (DDG-59) is an Arleigh Burke -class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is the second ship of the USN to carry the name Russell and is named for Rear Admiral John Henry Russell and his son, Commandant of the Marine Corps John Henry Russell, Jr.
4 × 20 mm AA guns. 4 × 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns. USS Emory S. Land (AS-39) is a United States Navy submarine tender and the lead ship of her class. She was named for Admiral Emory S. Land . The ship provides food, electricity, water, consumables, spare parts, medical, dental, disbursing, mail, legal services, ordnance, and any parts or ...
NNS. Thunder. (F90) USCGC Chase (WHEC-718) was a Hamilton -class High Endurance Cutter of the United States Coast Guard. She was laid down on October 26, 1966, at Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans, launched on May 20, 1967, and commissioned on March 11, 1968. Chase is the fourth of twelve Hamilton class, 378-foot (115 m) cutters, and the third ...
BAE Systems Mk 110 57 mm gun. 4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) guns (2 aft, 2 forward) Evolved SeaRAM 11 cell missile launcher. Mission modules. Aircraft carried. 2 × MH-60R/S Seahawks. USS Jackson (LCS-6) is an Independence -class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy, and the first ship to be named for Jackson, the capital of Mississippi.
Makin Island. (LHD-8) USS Makin Island (LHD-8), a Wasp -class amphibious assault ship, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Makin Island, target of the Marine Raiders ' Makin Island raid early on in the United States' involvement in World War II . Makin Island ' s task is to embark, deploy, and land elements of a Marine ...
Aircraft carried. Launch or land. two CH-53E Super Stallion. two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. four CH-46 Sea Knight. four AH-1 SeaCobra or. four UH-1 Iroquois helicopters. USS New York (LPD-21) is a San Antonio -class amphibious transport dock, and the fifth ship of the United States Navy named after the state of New York.
The NMCI contract took over the Navy's legacy computers and charges the Navy for the use of the legacy computers and the NMCI computers that can't be used for most developing. How's that for government waste? The NMCI acronym I came up with years ago is, "Never Manage Computers Intelligently". -- Mikejapp 16:32, 7 August 2007 (UTC)