US Navy's Military Sealift Command to Lay Up 17 Ships and Increase Their Labor Pool
US Navy's Military Sealift Command to Deactivate 17 Ships to Free Up Personnel
August 27, 2024
In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - discusses the US Navy's Military Sealift Command to lay up 17 ships and use their crews to increase the labor pool and maintain their fleet of underway replenishment ships.
⚓This was Story #5 in this week's What the Ship (Episode 107) ⚓
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Navy Could Sideline 17 Support Ships Due to Manpower Issues
https://news.usni.org/2024/08/22/navy...
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