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The guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill and the Argentine navy Espora-class frigate ARA Gomez Roca perform tactical maneuvering exercises. Bunker Hill is participating in Southern Seas 2010, a U.S. Southern Command-directed operation that provides U.S. and international forces the opportunity to operate in a multi-national environment. [...]
Cmdr. Leonard Remias, left, commander of Provincial Reconstruction Team-Kunar, reads the promotion orders for Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Darsean M. Sharpe to petty officer 2nd class. Sharpe, a native of Atlanta, earned a combat promotion for his outstanding support to the Provincial Reconstruction Team while under austere conditions and hostile fire. Sharpe competed for two [...]
Landing craft air cushion 21, also known as an LCAC, from Detachment Western Pacific Assault Craft Unit 5, enters the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) while in port in Yokosuka, Japan, on June 14, 2009. U.S. Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit are boarding the Essex in preparation [...]
Members of a USS Gettysburg visit, board, search and seizure team and a U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement vessel approach a suspected pirate mothership after responding to a merchant vessel distress signal while operating in the Combined Maritime Forces area of responsibility as part of Combine Task Force 151 in the Gulf of Aden, May [...]
USN Buys Another Of Them Funny Little Ships
by James Dunnigan
April 23, 2009
The US Navy has ordered a second LCS (Littoral Combat Ship) from Lockheed Martin. This came after the first ship of this design, the USS Freedom (LCS 1), completed its sea trials, and made its way from Lake Michigan, via a network of narrow [...]
