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In a navy, a ship's home port is the port best suited to provide maintenance and restock weaponry particular to ships of that class and build. On conclusion of a tour of duty, a combat vessel returning to port will usually return to its home port. [citation needed] A single home port also makes it easier for family to visit sailors on leave .
Naval Station New York was a United States Navy Naval Station on Staten Island in New York City, closed in 1994. Opened in 1990, it was part of the Reagan administration 's Strategic Homeport program. The station had two sections: a Strategic Homeport in Stapleton where ships docked, and a larger section occupying Fort Wadsworth, where ...
The Department of the Navy has shown no desire to scale back or cancel the program. On 24 March 2006 the Navy exercised its three-year, $3 billion option to extend the contract through September 2010. In April 2006, users began to log on with Common Access Cards (CACs), a smartcard-based logon system called the Cryptographic Log On (CLO). In ...
USS California (SSN-781), is the eighth Virginia-class submarine, and the seventh United States Navy ship named for the state of California. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding (then called Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.) in Newport News, Virginia, on 14 August 2003. Construction began in December 2006.
USS Sentry (MCM-3), an Avenger -class mine countermeasures ship, is the second U.S. Navy ship of that name. Sentry was laid down on 8 October 1984 by Peterson Builders in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin; launched on 20 September 1986 and commissioned on 2 September 1989. In 1993, Sentry made a 6-month cruise to Europe, joining the Standing Naval Force ...
USS Porter (DDG-78) is an Arleigh Burke -class destroyer in the United States Navy. Porter is the fifth US Navy ship to be named after US Navy officers Commodore David Porter, Admiral David Dixon Porter ，and after Commodore William D. Porter (1808–1864) .This ship is the 28th destroyer of her class. Porter was the 12th ship of this class to ...
USS Illinois (SSN-786) is a Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine in the United States Navy.Named for the State of Illinois, she is the third vessel with the name, the previous two being battleships BB-7 and BB-65, which was never completed.
2 × MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS Mk III helicopters. USS Chosin (CG-65) is a Ticonderoga -class guided-missile cruiser serving in the United States Navy. She is named in honor of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir of the Korean War. [1] Commissioned in 1991, she is currently serving in the Pacific Fleet, based at Naval Base San Diego.