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ASW – Anti-Submarine Warfare. ASWO – Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer. AT – Annual Training (U.S. Navy Reserve, type of active duty orders, typically less than 30 days) AT – Aviation Electronics Technician [1] ATS – Auxiliary, Towing and Salvage, class/type of ship. AUTEC – Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center.
National Emergency Command Post Afloat. Northampton underway in 1959. The National Emergency Command Post Afloat ( NECPA) was part of the United States government's Continuity of Operations plans during the 1960s. It was one-third of a triad composed of airborne, ground, and sea-based assets. [1]
6 SH-60F / HH-60H ASW helicopters. USS Wasp (LHD-1) is a United States Navy multipurpose amphibious assault ship, and the lead ship of her class. She is the tenth USN vessel to bear the name since 1775, with the last two ships named Wasp being aircraft carriers. She was built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton in Pascagoula ...
Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO ( STRIKFORNATO) is a naval command of Allied Command Operations of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It is part of the NATO Force Structure. [1] STRIKFORNATO is commanded by the Commander of the United States Sixth Fleet, and it is the only command capable of leading an expanded maritime task ...
Overview. Naval Surface Force Atlantic is one of the U.S. Navy type commands.It consists of more than 70 ships, 25 separate organizations, and 25,000 personnel. The command was created on 1 July 1975 by the consolidation of the previous Commander, Amphibious Forces, Atlantic Fleet (COMPHIBLANT), Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Forces, Atlantic Fleet (COMCRUDESLANT), Commander, Service Forces ...
Senior Officer Present Afloat, usually referred to as SOPA, is a U.S. Navy term to indicate the most senior officer present in a harbor occupied by more than one U.S. Navy vessel. That officer is essentially commander of all U.S. Navy operations afloat in the harbor, and is responsible to civilian authorities for the action of the ships and the ...
(As this is a Department of Defense/Department of the Navy regulation, no further 10 U.S. Code authority, other than already cited above, is required for the Secretary of the Navy, who supervises both the U.S Navy, and the U.S. Marine Corps, as well as the U.S. Coast Guard whenever it is assigned to the Department of the Navy, to specify that ...
Afloat forward staging base variant [5] USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB-3), (formerly USNS Lewis B. Puller (T-ESB-3), and (T-MLP-3/T-AFSB-1) prior to that) [17] [18] is the first purpose-built expeditionary mobile base vessel (previously classified as a mobile landing platform, and then as an afloat forward staging base) for the United States Navy ...