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USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) was the lead ship of her class and type and the first amphibious assault ship to be designed and built from the keel up as a dedicated helicopter carrier. She carried helicopters and typically embarked USMC elements of a Marine Amphibious Unit (MAU)/later Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) principally the Aviation Combat ...
General Order No. 1 (Gulf War) General Order No. 1 was a general order issued by General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. to United States Central Command in the Middle East during the Gulf War (Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm). The order contains provisions restricting the behavior of troops and was intended to show respect to the laws of ...
5 × 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns. USS McKee (AS-41), named after Andrew McKee, was the third Emory S. Land -class submarine tender built by the Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle, Washington for the United States Navy. The USS McKee was a mobile support and repair facility with the capability of providing simultaneous ...
Flight deck and enclosed hangar for up to two medium-lift helicopters. USS John Rodgers (DD-983), a Spruance -class destroyer, was the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the three generations of the Rodgers family who served in the navy. John Rodgers was laid down on 12 August 1976 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Desert Shield and Desert Storm: A Chronology and Troop List for the 1990–1991 Persian Gulf Crisis, report from Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College; KUWAIT HAS ALL BUT STOPPED SHIPPING CRUDE TO THE U.S. FOR FIRST TIME SINCE AFTERMATH OF SADDAM HUSSEINS INVASION IN 1990
The magazine was free of charge. The publisher was the former Naval Media Center in Washington, D.C. Shortly before the magazine's demise, publication operations moved to Defense Media Activity in Fort George G. Meade, Maryland in August, 2011. All Hands Magazine was brought back as a digital web-based publication in February 2013. It can be ...
Naval boarding action is an offensive tactic used in naval warfare to come up against (or alongside) an enemy watercraft and attack by inserting combatants aboard that vessel. The goal of boarding is to invade and overrun the enemy personnel on board in order to capture, sabotage, or destroy the enemy vessel.
USS Germantown (LSD-42) is the second Whidbey Island -class dock landing ship in the United States Navy. She is the second navy ship named after the Revolutionary War Battle of Germantown. Germantown was the first ship in the class to serve in the Pacific. The amphibious ship 's mission is to project power ashore by transporting and launching ...