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Contents. USS Mount Whitney. USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) is one of two Blue Ridge -class amphibious command ships of the United States Navy and is the flagship and command ship of the United States Sixth Fleet. USS Mount Whitney also serves as the Afloat Command Platform (ACP) of Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO).
The Blue Ridge class is the first and only class of amphibious command and control ships to be specifically designed as such from the keel up. The Blue Ridge class resulted from almost seven years of planning and construction work. Under the designation SCB-248 (later SCB-400.65), the hull of the Iwo Jima -class amphibious assault ship was used ...
USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) is the lead ship of the two Blue Ridge-class amphibious command ships of the United States Navy, and is the flagship of the Seventh Fleet. Her primary role is to provide command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) support to the commander and staff of the United States Seventh Fleet.
Capt. Karl O. Thomas, commanding officer of USS Mount Whitney, leads Sailors, civilian mariners, and embarked U.S. 6th fleet staff members to conduct a foreign object debris walk down on the flight deck prior to the ship getting underway for flight quarters on 1 February 2010. Mount Whitney is the U.S. Sixth Fleet's flagship.
USS Mount Whitney is the Sixth Fleet flagship with its homeport Gaeta, Italy and operating in the Mediterranean. U.S. Naval forces entering the Mediterranean Sea have their operational control changed to being under Sixth Fleet. This change of command is always referred to as 'CHOPing,' an abbreviation for Change of Operational Control.
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