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The 41 foot long, high-speed landing craft are replacing the Navy’s existing LCM-8 craft as part of the United States Navy's Improved Navy Lighterage System (INLS) in support of pre-positioned Marine Amphibious assault missions. Additional missions include supporting waterborne force protection, transportation of personnel and materials ...
PQS can refer to: Personnel Qualification Standard, a set of tasks and examinations in the United States Navy; Passive Q-switching; Parallel Quantum Solutions, a computational chemistry computer program; The Protein Quaternary Structure Server, an important resource in structural biology
Prevail had an overall length of 224 feet (68 m) and a length of 203 feet 6 inches (62.03 m) at its waterline. It had a beam of 43 feet (13 m) and a draft of 15 feet (4.6 m). The surveillance ship had a displacement of 1,600 tonnes (1,600 long tons; 1,800 short tons) at light load and 2,301 tonnes (2,265 long tons; 2,536 short tons) at full load.
GlobalSecurity.org: “Navy getting back into the riverboat patrol business in Iraq” (from Associated Press) Stars and Stripes: “Navy’s revived riverine squadron to patrol dam”, 2007-03-24; U.S. Navy Bureau of Personnel: Qualification requirements for the Riverine Force; Navy Times: “First riverine unit deploys to Iraq”, 2007-03-09
The Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship is a dock landing ship of the United States Navy.Introduced to fleet service in 1985, this class of ship features a large well deck for transporting United States Marine Corps (USMC) vehicles and a large flight deck for landing helicopters or V-22 Ospreys.
USS Chosin (CG-65) is a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser serving in the United States Navy. She is named in honor of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir of the Korean War . [ 1 ] Commissioned in 1991, she is currently serving in the Pacific Fleet , based at Naval Base San Diego .
Rear Adm. Donald Bullard, Commander, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC), displays the Expeditionary Warfare pin, during a ceremony on board U.S. Naval Base Guam. The design of the new pin encompasses the essence of enlisted expeditionary sailors, presenting the bow and superstructure of a Sea Ark 34' patrol boat from Inshore Boat Units superimposed upon a crossed cutlass and M16A1 rifle.
A combined U.S. Navy/U.S. Coast Guard VBSS team from USS Chosin (CG-65) and embarked MSST personnel inspects a suspected pirate dhow in the Gulf of Aden, November 2009. Visit, board, search, and seizure ( VBSS ) [ 1 ] is the term used by United States military and law enforcement agencies for maritime boarding actions and tactics.