resurrected thread!
Once again, I check in with my (now much older) thread, for anyone following along and anyone else just now checking in! Today, I find myself on another brand new class of warship...The USS San Antonio!
The short version of my life since the last update: I attended training for boarding suspicious vessels back in January 2008, and now on deployment I recently was told to go over to the San Antonio (LPD-17) and help them out...even though they don't REALLY need the help, but here I am all the same now. I even got to ride in a helicopter for the first time in my life - something I have been curious and hopeful to do. I expect to be back home next spring.
For Navy fans, the San Antonio is the first of a new class of amphibious assault ships. It can carry about 600 marines along with their vehicles as well as landing craft and helicopters to deliver them to the beach.
Once again, I check in with my (now much older) thread, for anyone following along and anyone else just now checking in! Today, I find myself on another brand new class of warship...The USS San Antonio!
The short version of my life since the last update: I attended training for boarding suspicious vessels back in January 2008, and now on deployment I recently was told to go over to the San Antonio (LPD-17) and help them out...even though they don't REALLY need the help, but here I am all the same now. I even got to ride in a helicopter for the first time in my life - something I have been curious and hopeful to do. I expect to be back home next spring.
For Navy fans, the San Antonio is the first of a new class of amphibious assault ships. It can carry about 600 marines along with their vehicles as well as landing craft and helicopters to deliver them to the beach.