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2. USS New Orleans (LPD-18) - Wikipedia

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   Armament. 2 × 30 mm Bushmaster II guns for surface threat defense; 2 × RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers for air defense & missile defense. USS New Orleans (LPD-18), a San Antonio -class amphibious transport dock, is the fourth commissioned ship of the United States Navy to be named after the city of New Orleans, Louisiana .

3. USNS Comfort - Wikipedia

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   USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) is a Mercy -class hospital ship of the United States Navy . Comfort ' s duties include providing emergency, on-site care for U.S. combatant forces deployed in war or other operations. Operated by the Military Sealift Command, Comfort provides rapid, flexible, and mobile medical and surgical services to support Marine ...

4. Seabee - Wikipedia

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   Marine Corps. USMC historian Gordon L. Rottman wrote "that one of the biggest contributions the Navy made to the Marine Corps during WWII was the creation of the Seabees". In exchange, the Corps would be influential upon the CB organization and its history.

5. German Navy - Wikipedia

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   The German Navy was originally known as the Bundesmarine (Federal Navy) from 1956 to 1995, when Deutsche Marine (German Navy) became the official name with respect to the 1990 incorporation of the East German Volksmarine (People's Navy). It is deeply integrated into the NATO alliance. Its primary mission is protection of Germany's territorial ...

6. USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) - Wikipedia

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   20 AV-8B Harrier II attack aircraft. or. 20 F-35B Lightning II stealth strike-fighters. 6 SH-60F / HH-60H ASW helicopters. USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) (landing helicopter dock) is a Wasp -class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy. The ship was named for the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II. The ship was commissioned in 2001 and is in ...

7. Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth - Wikipedia

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   Currently based aircraft are Navy C-40 Clipper transports of the Naval Air Reserve, Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters of the Air Force Reserve Command and C-130 Hercules airlift aircraft of the Texas Air National Guard, and Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet strike fighters and KC-130 Hercules aerial refueling and transport aircraft of the Marine ...

8. USS Gunston Hall (LSD-44) - Wikipedia

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   USS Gunston Hall (LSD-44) is a Whidbey Island -class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship to be named for Gunston Hall, the Mason Neck, Virginia, estate of George Mason, one of Virginia's Revolutionary figures, and "Father of the Bill of Rights ". Gunston Hall was laid down on 26 May 1986, at the Avondale ...

9. USS Hershel "Woody" Williams - Wikipedia

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   USS Hershel "Woody" Williams (ESB-4) (formerly USNS Hershel "Woody" Williams (T-ESB-4)) is a Lewis B. Puller -class expeditionary mobile base (ESB), currently in service with the United States Navy. The ship is also a sub-variant of the Montford Point -class expeditionary transfer dock (ESD). [10] The ESDs are operated by the Navy's Military ...