AOR Replacement & the Joint Support Ship (Merged Threads)

[Underway]

Also seeing Cdr Creasy made me chuckle. That guy has personality to spare, and was recently CO of Sea Training Pacific. I haven't sailed with him per say but my few interactions with him were fairly positive.

 

[FSTO]

Landon is a unique egg for sure.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Can't recall if this was already mentioned here. This will be useful in many places.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1803501988757348765

 

[KevinB]

Can't recall if this was already mentioned here. This will be useful in many places.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1803501988757348765

A motorized barge is new technology?

 

[Underway]

A motorized barge is new technology?

No. New to use I guess. Its basically a type of Mexeflote

 

[Colin Parkinson]

No. New to use I guess. Its basically a type of Mexeflote

New again to us, I recall us having some for WWII.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Looks like a useful piece of kit to have!!

 

[FJAG]

I went to Fort Eustis back in 1980 to visit with one of the US Army Transportation Battalion (Terminal) who are responsible for over the shore logistics operations. This particular battalion operated Landing Craft Utility something like this one.

It has a crew of fourteen (and yes there are sleeping and kitchen facilities for them on board in two rooms (8 and 6 I think)) which allowed mixed sex crews. The capacity for the one I was on was two M60 tanks and is commanded by a warrant officer. The battalions have been downsized a bit but there's a significant USAR component to them. They have a range of roughly 1,200 nm but generally work just ship to shore with ships offloading by crane into them.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

It's the army that is responsible for the Gaza pier, not their fault that the operation shows the deep lack of funding and interest by both the Army High Command and the USN. Plus the utterly stupid location they are forced to use. The only good thing is that it is publicly embarrassing the US and hopefully leads to more funding for this unsexy but critical capacity.