LMSR debuts during JLOTS exercises off Camp Pendleton coast
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (USTCNS) --- If loaded to full capacity, it can carry more than $1 billion worth of military equipment. It can be loaded within 96 hours and deployed at a moments notice to any hot spot around the world.
On Sept. 12, USNS Seay weighed anchor of the coast of Camp Pendleton, Calif., ready to show off nearly 390,000 square feet of military mobility and rapid response capability.
The 950-foot-long Military Sealift Command large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off ship was a key player, along with MSC controlled Ready Reserve Force ships SS Cape Mohican, SS Chesapeake and SS Grand Canyon State, during the joint-logistics-over-the-shore, or JLOTS, portion of Exercise Turbo Patriot 00 Sept. 13-17.
More than 1,000 personnel from the U.S. armed forces and the U.S. Maritime Administration participated in the JLOTS exercise-part of the ongoing Turbo Patriot 00, a major defense transportation exercise that began Aug. 6 and will be completed Oct. 7.
During the JLOTS portion military personnel working together with civilian mariners simultaneously transported Army equipment via ocean and land routes from the Army's 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii, to the Army National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif.
USNS Seay was used as the primary off-load platform for the exercise and was anchored about one and a half miles off the coast of Camp Pendleton. Seay used both 110-ton twin pedestal cranes to lower her side ramp to connect her side port platform to the lighterage or small barges moored below.
Seay periodically had to lift the ramp from atop the lighterage or small barges to avoid damage from five to ten foot ocean swells. When conditions allowed, more than 175 heavy armored vehicles were driven off the side ramp onto the lighterage, then transferred to shore.
Seay, delivered in March 2000, rivals an aircraft carrier in length, but it's compact crew of 30 U.S. merchant mariners working under contract for Military Sealift Command is significantly smaller than an aircraft carrier's crew of more than 5,000 military personnel.
Offshore Sea Barge, or SeaBee, ship SS Cape Mohican, crane ship SS Grand Canyon State and offshore petroleum discharge tanker SS Chesapeake, normally kept in reduced operating status by the Maritime Administration as part of the Ready Reserve Force, were also activated for the exercise. Grand Canyon State transported and off-loaded 200 containers onto lighterage to an elevated causeway to the beach.
Chesapeake is a tanker outfitted with an offshore petroleum discharge system that can deliver 309,000 barrels of fuel from up to four miles offshore. Assembly of the discharge system is a long and tedious process.
First, Chesapeake deployed a beach terminal unit, which is essentially a transfer point for the offshore hose to meet with on shore hoses, which in turn fill fuel bladders at mobile Army or Marine Corps fuel terminals for further distribution to the combat forces ashore.
Chesapeake then filled its starboard or right side ballast tanks with water causing the entire ship to list 14 degrees to one side, allowing the single anchor leg mooring, or SALM, -- an eight hundred and fifty ton platform with a hose connected to Chesapeake's fuel tanks-to slide overboard.
Meanwhile, modified landing crafts or small boats pieced a hose together from the beach terminal unit out to the sunken SALM. Once the hoses were connected, the SALM is filled with water and sunk.
The Chesapeake then moored to a buoy attached to the SALM and a hose was run from the ship to the submerged portion of the SALM.
The entire process took about seven days. Chesapeake pumped 450,000 gallons of fresh water as simulated fuel to the Army's inland petroleum distribution system and the Marine Corp's amphibious assault bulk fuel system.
JLOTS exercises such as this train our U.S. forces and civilian mariners to work together and develop flexible, well integrated strategies so that U.S. military forces will be ready to deploy worldwide in support of U.S. interests in war torn areas or areas with undeveloped ports. (FROM MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS).
On Sept. 12, USNS Seay weighed anchor of the coast of Camp Pendleton, Calif., ready to show off nearly 390,000 square feet of military mobility and rapid response capability.
The 950-foot-long Military Sealift Command large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off ship was a key player, along with MSC controlled Ready Reserve Force ships SS Cape Mohican, SS Chesapeake and SS Grand Canyon State, during the joint-logistics-over-the-shore, or JLOTS, portion of Exercise Turbo Patriot 00 Sept. 13-17.
More than 1,000 personnel from the U.S. armed forces and the U.S. Maritime Administration participated in the JLOTS exercise-part of the ongoing Turbo Patriot 00, a major defense transportation exercise that began Aug. 6 and will be completed Oct. 7.
During the JLOTS portion military personnel working together with civilian mariners simultaneously transported Army equipment via ocean and land routes from the Army's 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii, to the Army National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif.
USNS Seay was used as the primary off-load platform for the exercise and was anchored about one and a half miles off the coast of Camp Pendleton. Seay used both 110-ton twin pedestal cranes to lower her side ramp to connect her side port platform to the lighterage or small barges moored below.
Seay periodically had to lift the ramp from atop the lighterage or small barges to avoid damage from five to ten foot ocean swells. When conditions allowed, more than 175 heavy armored vehicles were driven off the side ramp onto the lighterage, then transferred to shore.
Seay, delivered in March 2000, rivals an aircraft carrier in length, but it's compact crew of 30 U.S. merchant mariners working under contract for Military Sealift Command is significantly smaller than an aircraft carrier's crew of more than 5,000 military personnel.
Offshore Sea Barge, or SeaBee, ship SS Cape Mohican, crane ship SS Grand Canyon State and offshore petroleum discharge tanker SS Chesapeake, normally kept in reduced operating status by the Maritime Administration as part of the Ready Reserve Force, were also activated for the exercise. Grand Canyon State transported and off-loaded 200 containers onto lighterage to an elevated causeway to the beach.
Chesapeake is a tanker outfitted with an offshore petroleum discharge system that can deliver 309,000 barrels of fuel from up to four miles offshore. Assembly of the discharge system is a long and tedious process.
First, Chesapeake deployed a beach terminal unit, which is essentially a transfer point for the offshore hose to meet with on shore hoses, which in turn fill fuel bladders at mobile Army or Marine Corps fuel terminals for further distribution to the combat forces ashore.
Chesapeake then filled its starboard or right side ballast tanks with water causing the entire ship to list 14 degrees to one side, allowing the single anchor leg mooring, or SALM, -- an eight hundred and fifty ton platform with a hose connected to Chesapeake's fuel tanks-to slide overboard.
Meanwhile, modified landing crafts or small boats pieced a hose together from the beach terminal unit out to the sunken SALM. Once the hoses were connected, the SALM is filled with water and sunk.
The Chesapeake then moored to a buoy attached to the SALM and a hose was run from the ship to the submerged portion of the SALM.
The entire process took about seven days. Chesapeake pumped 450,000 gallons of fresh water as simulated fuel to the Army's inland petroleum distribution system and the Marine Corp's amphibious assault bulk fuel system.
JLOTS exercises such as this train our U.S. forces and civilian mariners to work together and develop flexible, well integrated strategies so that U.S. military forces will be ready to deploy worldwide in support of U.S. interests in war torn areas or areas with undeveloped ports. (FROM MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS).
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