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Navy Marine Corps Intranet. The Navy/Marine Corps Intranet ( NMCI) is a United States Department of the Navy program which was designed to provide the vast majority of information technology services for the entire Department, including the United States Navy and Marine Corps .
The former Charleston Naval Base has been transformed into a multi-use Federal Complex (231 acres) with 17 government and armed forces tenants, as well as homeport for 6 Roll-On/Roll-Off (RORO) Military Sealift Command Ships, 4 Coast Guard National Security Cutters, and 2 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Research Ships.
Mark 54 lightweight torpedo. Aircraft carried. 2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters. USS Mason (DDG-87) is an Arleigh Burke -class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named in honor of the Black crewmembers who served on board USS Mason (DE-529) during the period of racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces.
2 × Rolling Airframe Missile. 6 × 0.5 in (12.7 mm) M2HB machine guns. Aviation facilities. 2 helicopter landing spots, no hangar. USS Rushmore (LSD-47) is a Whidbey Island -class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was the second navy ship to be named for the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Mission. Implement policies, develop regional strategies and plans, prioritizes resources and provides services, direction, and oversight through assigned U.S. Marine Corps Installations in order to support the Operating Forces, tenant commands and activities.
The ship was subjected to return fire on several occasions, but each time countered enemy batteries. On 19 December 1967, Newport News exchanged fire with 20–28 separate shore batteries, simultaneously, off the coast of North Vietnam. During this engagement, over 300 enemy rounds bracketed the cruiser's position, but she suffered no direct hits.
The nuclear-powered USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) was contracted on 29 March 1988, and the keel was laid on 13 March 1991 at Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia . The ship was christened on 11 November 1993, in honor of Senator John Cornelius Stennis (D-Mississippi) who served in the Senate from 1947 to 1989.
USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, and the lead ship of her class.One of the largest warships in the world, she was laid down, launched, and commissioned as CVAN-68, "aircraft carrier, attack, nuclear powered", but she was later redesignated as CVN-68, "aircraft carrier, multi-mission, nuclear-powered", on 30 June 1975, as part of a fleet-wide realignment ...