Post by Sailor on Mar 29, 2012 8:10:35 GMT -8
Navy ship made with 9/11 steel deploys
A Navy warship built with steel salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center left Norfolk on Tuesday on its maiden overseas deployment.
The amphibious transport dock New York is part of a three-ship group that will spend at least six months patrolling the Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Gulf, training alongside the military forces of various allies and responding to political and humanitarian crises.
The amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima and the dock landing ship Gunston Hall, which along with the New York make up what the military calls an amphibious ready group, also departed Tuesday from Norfolk Naval Station and Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, respectively.
Cmdr. Will Herrmann, commanding officer of the New York, is a native of Long Island - and nephew of a New York City firefighter. He said the ship represents everything the nation has overcome since the 9/11 attacks. Its bow incorporates more than 7 tons of steel taken from the rubble of the twin towers.
More here:
hamptonroads.com/2012/03/navy-ship-made-911-steel-deploys
USS New York (LPD 21) in New York.
www.navsource.org/archives/10/09/10092164.jpg
A Navy warship built with steel salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center left Norfolk on Tuesday on its maiden overseas deployment.
The amphibious transport dock New York is part of a three-ship group that will spend at least six months patrolling the Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Gulf, training alongside the military forces of various allies and responding to political and humanitarian crises.
The amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima and the dock landing ship Gunston Hall, which along with the New York make up what the military calls an amphibious ready group, also departed Tuesday from Norfolk Naval Station and Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, respectively.
Cmdr. Will Herrmann, commanding officer of the New York, is a native of Long Island - and nephew of a New York City firefighter. He said the ship represents everything the nation has overcome since the 9/11 attacks. Its bow incorporates more than 7 tons of steel taken from the rubble of the twin towers.
More here:
hamptonroads.com/2012/03/navy-ship-made-911-steel-deploys
USS New York (LPD 21) in New York.
www.navsource.org/archives/10/09/10092164.jpg