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execute this MYP." The FY18-22 ships will continue the


Flight III confi guration incorporating the Air and Missile Defense Radar/AN/SPY6(V)1 which satisfi es the Navy's critical need for an enhanced Integrated Air and Missile Defense capability. With the appropriate approvals from


Congress the Navy intends to award MYP contracts later this fi scal year.


Truman: A City at Sea


By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jordan Twiss, USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Public Aff airs


ATLANTIC OCEAN (NNS) -- Weighing more than 90,000 tons, this mighty warship can eff ortlessly glide through water at more than 30 knots. The self-suffi cient, nucle- ar-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) is a steel marvel. It's a store, restaurant, police station,


nuclear power plant, water plant, airport and home to more than 5,000 people. What makes all of it possible? How


can they feed all these Sailors for extended periods of time? What if equipment fails? What if they can't receive more supplies?... Easy, we make our own. The most vital element on Earth which


makes life possible is H20. Truman is capa- ble of creating a massive 400,000 gallons of


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water on average per day. Truman's reactor department is able


to turn saltwater into potable water, which enables the engineering department to use it in a variety of ways throughout the ship. "The water does so much for us," said


Master Chief Machinist's Mate Ramon Marte, Truman's engineering department leading chief petty offi cer. "It goes to our air conditioning, which can be for the comfort of our Sailors, or to keep our machinery from overheating. The list goes on-and-on." Marte said the water goes through a


six-stage distillery plant that then makes it viable for human consumption. With nearly an endless supply of water, and Sailors with vast naval knowledge, it's not easy to deter the Truman from completing its mission. Truman has the supplies to fi x almost


any mechanical issue in almost any situation the ship could face, including the ships with whom they deploy. "Not only are we prepared for our own


repairs, just a couple days ago we fl ew some Sailors off of our ship so they could help make mechanical repairs on a diff erent ship," said Marte. "There aren't a lot of ships that have the technical expertise or person- nel that we have." "We're basically a strike group interme-


diate repair activity," said Cmdr. Michael Thompson, Truman's chief engineer. "We can self-sustain the entire ship, we can do anything from welding to braising, fi xing AC plants to fi xing air-conditioning in diff erent areas throughout the ship. We do our part to keep this 5-star restaurant, 5-star hotel, warfi ghting machine going." Each department has its own specifi c


procedures to put into action should the ship be in a position where pulling into port or receiving more supplies is not possible. "My division alone has enough storage


compartments to hold hundreds of thou- sands of pounds of food," said Culinary Spe- cialist 2nd Class Daryl Smith. "If a situation were to occur where we couldn't restock, we


have plans in place to make sure our supplies last."


The supplies Truman keeps on-hand


is a long list that covers everything from broccoli to ballcaps. "We make sure the crew has everything


they need on board in terms of personal needs," said Ensign Bryan Prohaska, Tru- man's Supply S-3 division offi cer. "We have toiletries, personal snacks, anything they could need on a daily basis. Not only does this help keep the Sailors mission ready, but it also raises morale, which is always important." Truman, the winner of the 2016 Battle


"E" Effi ciency award, has answers for not only supplies, but almost every other situa- tion.


"We're ready to go," said Chief Master-


at-Arms Caitlin Swenson, security depart- ment's operations leading chief petty offi cer. "We're always ready and we have a really good, dedicated, highly-trained team on this ship. We prepare for countless situations in numerous locations." Truman's security department has Sail-


ors from multiple departments throughout the ship temporarily assigned duty (TAD) to them while in-port. Once the ship goes underway, most of those TAD Sailors go back to their original division.


"I believe fully that if we were put in a


bad spot while underway, everyone who is or has been in security would be ready to react the way we trained them to." said Swenson. With the training staying constant, Tru-


man's ability to remain self-suffi cient doesn't seem likely to end anytime soon. Truman is currently underway con-


ducting its composite training unit exercise (COMPTUEX), the fi nal stage of pre-de- ployment workups for the strike group. For USS Harry S. Truman, the evolution caps off more than seven months of training to ensure the ship and crew are ready to deploy.


Navy Submits 30-Year Ship Acquisition Plan


From Navy Offi ce of Information


WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Department of the Navy submitted the long-range ship


Boat And Ship Yard News - 1940-42 Continued from Page 21.


One of the pre-eminent boatbuilders in


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New England was the George Lawley & Son Corp., which was established in 1866. They were located in Neponset, MA and over their 75 years had built almost 1,200 vessels of all types: sail, power, wood or steel and up to 230-feet in length. Unfortunately, by the mid-1940s they would be out of business. At W. S. Carter in Friendship they


launched the 80-foot dragger SANTA GEM- MA for Anthony La Rosa, of Everett, MA on 13 October. She is a new design with a Friendship-type bow with small rake and a little fl are and she sports a round stern. She has an oak keel, frames and planking and her decks are of native pine. Her dimensions are 80-feet by 17 feet 4 inches with a fi sh capac- ity of 80,000 pounds. She is powered with a 160-hp Atlas diesel, which was installed at the W. Scott Carter Shipbuilding Co. in Waldoboro. This is the largest boat turned out by this yard. They now have the keel laid for a 65-foot dragger for Capt. Cleveland G. Burns of New Bedford. Another of the 10 draggers for the F. J.


O’Hara & Sons, Inc. was launched from the Maine Shipyards Corp. in South Portland on 25 October. GEORGETOWN is the last of the six 58 footers and now just two 82-foot- ers remain unfi nished from the contract. She will be skippered by Capt. Bernard Moran


of Deer Isle. On 16 December, the Morse yard in


Thomaston launched the 100-foot dragger GOLDEN EAGLE, the largest vessel ever built at the yard. She is built of oak and sports a plumb stem and round stern with a whaleback. She is powered with a 300- hp Cooper-Bessemer diesel. Capt. Robert Fralic will be her skipper. Morse had another launching two days


later, when the dragger PHILIP & GRACE hit the water of the St. Georges River. She was built for Capt. Philip Curcuru, of Gloucester, MA. She is 96 feet by 20 feet by 10 feet and has a fi sh hold capacity of 145,000 pounds. She is a Morse design with the exception of the whaleback and is yawl rigged. For power, she has a 300-hp Atlas diesel. She will be towed over to the Snow yard in Rockland where her engine will be installed and she will be returned to be outfi tted and should be ready for fi shing in February. Since 1935, this yard has turned out 21 large draggers and gives employment to 25 workers. Now under construction at the yard is a 65-foot mail boat for Capt. Earle Starret of Thomaston and she will be used on the Thomaston-Port Clyde-Mon- hegan-Boothbay Harbor line. She will be powered with a 125 hp Fairbanks-Morse diesel.


In the next issue we will fi nish up the war years: 1943-1945.


acquisition plan to Congress Feb. 12. The 30-Year Ship Acquisition Plan is a Congressionally-mandated report which de- scribes the Department of the Navy's long- range shipbuilding plans for 2019-2048. This year's report focuses on meeting the Navy's baseline acquisition requirements needed to build the Navy the Nation Needs (NNN) and sustaining the domestic indus- trial base to meet that aim. In support of the National Defense


Strategy's stated goal of achieving a more lethal, resilient and agile force, the plan serves as a roadmap to reach a 355-ship fl eet by the early FY2050s, potentially quicker with an aggressive investment of resources. The plan pursues acquisition strategies to build ships more quickly and aff ordably and places top priority on sustaining the industrial base now and for the future. Ulti- mately, the plan supports the Navy's overall eff ort to build the Navy the Nation Needs to protect the homeland, defend the interests of America and its allies abroad, and preserve America's strategic infl uence around the world.


This plan addresses the Navy's most


critical shipbuilding needs by: Building CVNs four years apart after CVN 82 instead of fi ve to support a 12-ship CVN force. Building 12 Columbia-class SSBNs in sup- port of the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and STRATCOM deterrence requirements. Establishing a stable profi le of two per year Attack Submarines (SSN). Establishing a stable profi le of 2.5 per year Large Surface Combatants (DDG), plus an additional ship in FY2022. Establishing a stable profi le of two per year Small Surface Combatants (LCS, FFG) starting in FY2022, accommo- dating the transition to FFG(X). Increasing the pace for amphibious ship production to support a 12-ship LHD/LHA force and mod- ernized lethality in FY2033, FY2036 and FY2039. Addresses the candidate long-term replacement for the NNN payload-based submarine, fi lled mid-term by Virginia Pay- load Module (VPM).


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