On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 12:07:19 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
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On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 06:59:03 -0400, PocoLoco
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On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 00:35:05 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
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On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:22:31 -0400, PocoLoco
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On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 00:19:20 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
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On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:11:48 -0400, PocoLoco
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On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 22:24:38 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
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Army National Guard Combat Support Vessel. I have no idea what is
does and there wasn't any Guard types around to answer a few
questions.

I will find out though - maybe tomorrow.

http://www.swsports.org/images/woods...batsupport.jpg

http://www.swsports.org/images/woods...portbridge.jpg

http://www.swsports.org/images/woods...upportdata.jpg

http://www.swsports.org/images/woods...orttrailer.jpg

That's a bridge erection boat, used by Engineers when constructing floating
bridges. It's also used as the prime mover for four or five floating bridge
sections being used as rafts. May also be used as a utility boat.

Know what - that makes perfect sense because the local Army National
Guard unit is an Engineer Battalion and they have all that fancy pants
bridge building stuff in the equipment yard at their Armory.

Good enough - thanks for the info.

Amazing what you can learn on the newsgroup.

There ya go. Blow a kiss to those guys (and girls) next time you drive by.

Um....I don't think so.

It's not like I don't appreciate them and all, but they are Army.

Maybe they'd give you a ride in their boat!

Maybe, but they are still Army. :)

I heard an interesting factoid a year or so ago when I was talking to
a former ship's captain during a navigation refresher course - my
sextant skills needed some sharpening.

Anyway, I was surprised to learn that he had been a Captain in the
Army - not a Company commander type Captain, but a ship's Captain. He
said something about the United States Army having the second or third
largest navy in the world. Something like that anyway.

The Army, especially the Corps of Engineers, has a pretty large fleet. One of my
jobs was an advisor to Reserve and National Guard units in California. One of
the units was an Army Reserve diving detachment in San Diego. The unit consisted
of around 12 people, all of whom were *supposed to be* (another story) qualified
divers.

Somehow, they had also scrounged a boat. The unit was not supposed to have a
boat, but they'd convinced powers that be that they needed one.

This is what they had:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...22.HTM#Fig2-10

What they used it for was weekend trips off the coast - scuba diving and
lobster hunting!

I ended up being a real bad guy for this outfit, but I learned a lot (to me)
about diving while getting them grounded!
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."