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USS Green Bay (LPD-20) is a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock. She is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city and bay of Green Bay, Wisconsin . The contract to build her was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems of New Orleans, Louisiana , on 30 May 2000 and her keel was laid down on 11 August 2003.
191001-N-DX072-1086 CELEBES SEA (Oct. 1, 2019) Quartermaster 3rd Class Zachary Gladstone, from Branford, Connecticut, reads a surface contact bearing using a telescopic alidade on the starboard bridge-wing of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20) during an anchorage evolution as part of exercise Tiger Strike 2019.
When assigned under the operational control of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (15th MEU), it becomes the Logistics Combat Element (LCE) providing expeditionary combat logistics support to all supported elements of the Marine Expeditionary Unit. CLB-15 has two sister MEU CLBs also based out of Camp Pendleton: CLB-11 and CLB-13.
USS New Orleans (LPD-18) USS Green Bay (LPD-20) USS Rushmore (LSD-47) USS Ashland (LSD-48) Mine Countermeasure Squadron SEVEN; USS Patriot (MCM-7) USS Pioneer (MCM-9) USS Warrior (MCM-10) USS Chief (MCM-14) Naval Beach Unit SEVEN; Assault Craft Unit ONE, Detachment Western Pacific; Assault Craft Unit FIVE, Detachment Western Pacific
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Green Bay, after the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USS Green Bay (PG-101) was a patrol gunboat launched in 1969, and in 1975 was transferred to the Hellenic Navy and renamed HS Tolmi (P-229) USS Green Bay (LPD-20) is an amphibious transport dock launched in 2006
On 17 September 2012, the 15th MEU was deployed with the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group (USS Peleliu, USS Green Bay, and USS Rushmore as a theater reserve and crisis response force throughout the U.S. Central Command and the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. The unit returned to Camp Pendleton 13 May 2013.
The USS Rushmore at NS Pearl Harbor during RIMPAC (2004). Rushmore deployed in 1999 with the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (11th MEU). During this deployment, Rushmore participated in Exercise Iron Magic with the United Arab Emirates and Exercise Red Reef with Saudi Arabia.
The first American women enlisted into the regular armed forces were 13,000 women admitted into active duty in the U.S. Navy during the war. They served stateside in jobs and received the same benefits and responsibilities as men, including identical pay (US$28.75 per month), and were treated as veterans after the war.