My unit: Military Sealift Command Northern Persian
Gulf Det. 105
All I will say is that we have had parts of our
unit mobilized to active duty continuously since 9/11 through the present. By
my (completely unofficial) count this has included service on 4 continents and
a whole lot of different countries. I have recently been 'demoted' from Command
Chief Petty Officer to lowly Ensign and am finally home from 360 days of
mobilization.
What do we do? Remarkably much the same that was done a century ago. Read about U.S. Naval Port Officers
in the Bordeaux Region: 1917-1919.
pages 1-30
and pages 31-60.
The following are just a few pictures of what
I or others in my unit have have been doing the last several years.
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My commissioning as Ensign, US Naval Reserve aboard the USNS Catawba berthed in Bahrain. November 2003 |
USNS Brittin pierside in the port of Ash Shuaybah, Kuwait. |
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Me at Exercise Bright Star - November 2001 - Egypt |
Strategic Sealift, a defintion. |
Think hitting a deer is bad? |
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These
goats were waiting patiently at this stop sign in the center of downtown
Salalah, Oman.
