Enjoying me and my son being members of the S.W.Johnson Fire Company #1
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Video of the USS MT Whitney (LCC-20) that I once served on sailing with a sister ship to the USS Klakring (FFG-42) that I served on - I love Seeing these two ships sail together even though its not the Klakring but the USS Carr (FFG-52) and is 13 years after I was discharged from the Mt Whitney - I was onboard USS Mt Whitney in the balloon room when the balloon room door almost fell off into Norfolk Bay - One hinge held the six ton door from falling off - The door banging against the back of the ship echoed all over Norfolk Naval Base
Operation Earnest Will (Iran)
From Month/Year
July / 1987
To Month/Year
August / 1990
Description Operation Earnest Will (24 July 1987 – 1 August 1990) was the American military protection of Kuwaiti-owned tankers from Iranian attacks in 1987 and 1988, three years into the Tanker War phase of the Iran–Iraq War. It was the largest naval convoy operation since World War II.
The U.S. Navy warships that escorted the tankers, part of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, were the operations' most visible part, but U.S. Air Force AWACS radar planes provided surveillance and U.S. Army special-operations helicopters hunted for possible attackers.
Other U.S. Navy vessels participated in Operation Earnest Will. They were then under the command of the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet which had primary responsibility for combat operations in the Persian Gulf region. The numerous ships used in Operation Earnest Will mostly consisted of Battleship Battle Groups, Carrier Battle Groups, Surface Action Groups and ships from the Pacific's Third and Seventh Fleets and the Mediterranean-based Sixth Fleet. They generally operated in and near the Gulf for parts of their normal six-month deployments.
This was the first tactical operation of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) that involved Navy SEALs, Special Boat Units, and 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) ("Nightstalkers") aviators all working together.
