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Navy in Norfolk Sending Two More Ships to Aid Katrina Victims
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - The Navy is sending two more ships from Hampton Roads today to help provide relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
An aircraft carrier, the USS Harry S. Truman, and the dock landing ship Whidbey Island are getting ready to get under way today from Norfolk Naval Station. The Truman will serve as the command center and staging base in the Gulf of Mexico.
It will carry additional helicopters from Jacksonville, Florida to help provide rescue operations. Four other ships left Hampton Roads yesterday, and the amphibious assault ship Bataan is already off the Gulf Coast.
The Navy also sent the combat support ship Arctic from New Jersey.
This report gives a little more details.
The big warship, which was to depart Norfolk, Virginia, later on Thursday, would provide a major naval command post in the Gulf of Mexico, helping coordinate the actions of nearly a dozen other warships and supply vessels, including two Navy helicopter assault ships.
The Navy dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island also is leaving Norfolk to join the relief effort, the Navy said. Whidbey Island will bring the capability to employ a movable causeway to the region, the Navy said. Many bridges were destroyed when Hurricane Katrina hit the region on Monday.
The military hospital ship Comfort is scheduled to depart Baltimore in the coming days to provide an offshore floating medical center with 12 operating rooms and up to 1,000 beds.
The Truman is 1,092 feet (333 meters) long and is capable of carrying more than 80 aircraft, including large helicopters. The Navy said it would carry additional helicopters from Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida to support search-and-rescue efforts.
The crew of up to 5,000 on the carrier would bring to nearly 35,000 the number of National Guard and active duty military troops committed to the biggest domestic relief effort ever mounted by federal agencies in the United States.
There also are nearly 8,000 sailors and other active duty troops committed to the effort, most of them aboard ships or flying air support missions.
Dozens of helicopters are also being used to help rescue trapped citizens in flooded New Orleans and to help provide food, water and other relief for destroyed coastal sections of Louisiana and Mississippi.
That should make about 9 huge naval ships that will be helping out! Yay!!! I wish them "God's Speed"
Navy in Norfolk Sending Two More Ships to Aid Katrina Victims
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - The Navy is sending two more ships from Hampton Roads today to help provide relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
An aircraft carrier, the USS Harry S. Truman, and the dock landing ship Whidbey Island are getting ready to get under way today from Norfolk Naval Station. The Truman will serve as the command center and staging base in the Gulf of Mexico.
It will carry additional helicopters from Jacksonville, Florida to help provide rescue operations. Four other ships left Hampton Roads yesterday, and the amphibious assault ship Bataan is already off the Gulf Coast.
The Navy also sent the combat support ship Arctic from New Jersey.
This report gives a little more details.
The big warship, which was to depart Norfolk, Virginia, later on Thursday, would provide a major naval command post in the Gulf of Mexico, helping coordinate the actions of nearly a dozen other warships and supply vessels, including two Navy helicopter assault ships.
The Navy dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island also is leaving Norfolk to join the relief effort, the Navy said. Whidbey Island will bring the capability to employ a movable causeway to the region, the Navy said. Many bridges were destroyed when Hurricane Katrina hit the region on Monday.
The military hospital ship Comfort is scheduled to depart Baltimore in the coming days to provide an offshore floating medical center with 12 operating rooms and up to 1,000 beds.
The Truman is 1,092 feet (333 meters) long and is capable of carrying more than 80 aircraft, including large helicopters. The Navy said it would carry additional helicopters from Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida to support search-and-rescue efforts.
The crew of up to 5,000 on the carrier would bring to nearly 35,000 the number of National Guard and active duty military troops committed to the biggest domestic relief effort ever mounted by federal agencies in the United States.
There also are nearly 8,000 sailors and other active duty troops committed to the effort, most of them aboard ships or flying air support missions.
Dozens of helicopters are also being used to help rescue trapped citizens in flooded New Orleans and to help provide food, water and other relief for destroyed coastal sections of Louisiana and Mississippi.
That should make about 9 huge naval ships that will be helping out! Yay!!! I wish them "God's Speed"