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USNI News
April 24, 2018
KUALA LUMPUR — The U.S. Navy's Logistics Group Western Pacific/Task Force 73 is looking at new ways of using the Expeditionary Fast Transport ... for the United States Navy how to really maximize the utility of the EPF, and we're finding some really useful missions for these ships,” Gabrielson said.
USNI News
April 13, 2018
The Navy has created yet another Requirements Evaluation Team to look at filling a future fleet need, this time to analyze its need for a hospital ship and ... The Expeditionary Sea Base ships, such as USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB-3) operating in U.S. 5th Fleet today, have already experimented with bringing onÃâà...
USNI News
April 3, 2018
ABOARD EXPEDITIONARY SEA BASE USS LEWIS B. PULLER – U.S. 5th Fleet is experimenting with one of the Navy's newest warships with a .... Puller arrived in 5th Fleet in August and was promptly commissioned as a warship, whereas it had previously been a Military Sealift Command ship with aÃâà...
Department of Defense
March 30, 2018
Exercise Obangame Express 2018, which is sponsored by U.S. Africa Command, is designed to improve regional cooperation, maritime domain awareness, ... The USS Mount Whitney, the command ship for U.S. 6th Fleet, will participate in the exercise and could be used for a wide variety of scenarios,Ãâà...
Stars and Stripes
March 29, 2018
The exercise gave the Mount Whitney, 6th Fleet's command ship, a chance to use its new computerized communications systems installed during a recent $45 million overhaul. The ship's ... Hosted by U.S. Africa Command, Obangame is the largest of three yearly maritime-policing exercises. The other twoÃâà...
The Drive
January 22, 2018
The Blue Ridge class, which is made up of two ships, USS Blue Ridge and USS Mount Whitney, are in some ways the most antiquated of US Navy ships, .... Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet, Vice Adm. Doug Crowder speaks to reporters aboard amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) along withÃâà...
The Dubrovnik Times
December 31, 1999
The flagship of the United States Sixth Fleet, “USS Mount Whitney,” is currently undergoing repairs in the Croatian shipyard “Viktor Lenac. ... The Rijeka shipyard has already carried out two projects on the USS Mount Whitney and the command ship joins two other US Navy ships in the Viktor Lenac yard,Ãâà...
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