Underway replenishment links
August 13th, 2009 | Aviation Foreign navies Military Sealift Command SEALs Ships Submarines | Posted by Phil Ewing
The fast combat support ship Arctic re-supplied the destroyer Winston S. Churchill and the carrier Harry S. Truman in January, 2008, much as today's links supply information to Scoop Deck readers // Navy
Palletized cargo carryin’, high-line riggin’, VERTREP stagin’, DFM pumpin’, fresh veggie deliverin’ links, pulling along side and ready to match RPMs so you can take on news and information:
- The remains of Capt. Scott Speicher are to return Thursday to Florida, 18 years after he was shot down over Iraq in the first Gulf War
- The lifeboat from the Maersk Alabama, where SEAL snipers ended the ship’s hostage standoff with three simultaneous shots, is to arrive soon at a SEAL/Underwater Demolition Team museum in Fort Pierce, Fla.
- A British play about the fate of the Russian guided missile submarine Kursk is to open soon in Edinburough, Scotland.
- A new captain is set to take command of the “battleship” Gonzalez, according to the Monitor newspaper of South Texas, although Scoop Deck prefers the term “destroyer.”
- The Navy is to christen its latest Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo and ammunition ship, the Matthew Perry, formerly known only by its hull number, T-AKE 9. Air Force Times reporter Bruce Rolfsen, one of Scoop Deck’s neighbors here at the Center of Excellence, remarked a moment ago that he thought it was funny the Navy has taken to naming ships for members of the cast of “Friends.”