Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Factoid of the day

PHOTO: Myrlie Evers-Wilson, the widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers and ship sponsor of Military Sealift Command dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS Medgar Evers, breaks the traditional bottle of champagne against the ship's hull during the ship's christening ceremony Nov. 12 at the General Dynamics NASSCO Shipyard in San Diego.

Medgar Evers was a veteran of World War II and buried in Arlington cemetary.

They just named a supply ship after him Story
more about these ships HERE

These ships are pre positioned in distant areas to resupply the US Navy at sea, but I am most familiar with them because they also have delivered food and supplied in times of emergency to places in remote Asian/Pacific areas.
Japanese earthquake
Nias, Indonesia
The Philippines.

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