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    USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43) is a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was named for Fort McHenry, in Baltimore, Maryland...
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    seapowermagazine.org. 11 December 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2022. "USS Fort McHenry Decommissions After 33 Years of Service". www.navy.mil. 28 March 2021...
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    role, embarked aboard the amphibious ship USS Fort McHenry. The HSV Swift was scheduled to join Fort McHenry in Africa in November 2007. In 2012, Task...
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    was assigned sooner. The USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), consisting of Iwo Jima, USS New York and USS Fort McHenry relocated to Mayport between...
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    deployment along with several ships including USCGC Mellon, USS Salvor, USS Fort McHenry, and USS McCampbell. The deployment was centered on an annual exercise...
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    that Tortuga would be forward-deployed to Sasebo, Japan to replace USS Fort McHenry. Tortuga arrived in Sasebo 31 March 2006 for turnover and assignment...
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    The Battle of Fort Henry was fought on February 6, 1862, in Stewart County, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. It was the first important victory...
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    Iwo Jima shifted homeport to Mayport. In January 2015, Iwo Jima, USS Fort McHenry and USS New York were positioned off the coast of Yemen on standby to evacuate...
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    ships of Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) ALFA – USS Okinawa, USS Ogden, USS Fort McHenry, USS Cayuga and USS Durham steamed near the Kuwaiti island Umm al...
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    (1999–2008) USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49) (2002–2011) USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43) (1995–2006) USS Tortuga (LSD-46) (2006–2013) USS San Bernardino (LST-1189) USS Epping...
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    (USS Germantown, USS Fort McHenry, USS Gunston Hall) Newport class (USS Manitowoc, LST-1180. USS Peoria, USS Frederick, USS Cayuga, USS Saginaw, USS Spartanburg...
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    final disposition pending. USS Elrod (FFG-55) Oliver Hazard Perry Frigate Stricken, final disposition pending. USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43) Whidbey Island Dock...
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    Command Element, while the ARG consisted of USS Bataan, USS Carter Hall and USS Fort McHenry. 150 Marines aboard USS Gunston Hall joined the MEU, originally...
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    an Iraqi hospital. In late August 2016, Marine AH-1W Cobras flying from USS Wasp started flying combat missions over Sirte, Libya against the Islamic...
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    construct USS Whidbey Island, an amphibious support transport ship. Lockheed delivered the Whidbey Island-class ships USS Germantown and USS Fort McHenry in...
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    resistance of Baltimore's Fort McHenry during bombardment by the Royal Navy inspired Francis Scott Key to compose the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", which later...
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    three ships of the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group—USS Iwo Jima, USS New York, and USS Fort McHenry—steamed into the Mediterranean, each conducting separate...
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    USS Whidbey Island (LSD-41) [I] USS Germantown (LSD-42) [A] USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43) [I] USS Gunston Hall (LSD-44) [A] USS Comstock (LSD-45) [A] USS Tortuga (LSD-46)...
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    Battalion, 17th Cavalry Brigade, began training on the AH-64A in April 1986 at Fort Hood, Texas. Two operational units with 68 AH-64s first deployed to Europe...
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    Anchorage class (USS Anchorage, USS Portland, USS Pensacola, USS Mount Vernon) Whidbey Island class (USS Germantown, USS Fort McHenry, USS Gunston Hall)...
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    million. The warships were USNS Sioux, USS Tuscaloosa, USS Fort McHenry, USS Schenectady, USS Rushmore, and USS Reid.[citation needed] Royal Malaysian...
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    Timor became 191st member of United Nations in 2002. 2004 – USS Essex and USS Fort McHenry deploy to Indonesia in support of Operation Unified Assistance...
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  • Siege of Fort Henry (1777), during the American Revolutionary War, in Virginia Siege of Fort Henry (1782), in the same place in Virginia Fort McHenry, Maryland...
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    typhoons. From January through March 2005, HMM-262 deployed aboard USS Fort McHenry and USS Essex as part of Joint Task Force-536 in support of Operation Unified...
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    China Sea, with the United States, Australia, and France. JS Ōsumi and USS Fort McHenry on 5 February 2006 JS Ōsumi on 7 March 2007 JS Ōsumi on 9 May 2010...
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    was the first African-American woman to command a United States Navy ship, USS Rushmore, and the first to achieve two- and three-star rank. In 2006, she...
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  • ships decommissioned in 2021. "USS Louisville (SSN 724) Decommissioned". DVIDS. Retrieved 2023-05-08. "USS Fort McHenry Decommissions After 33 Years of...
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    dock landing ship USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43) (pictured) serving as its flagship and accompanied by the high-speed support ship USS Swift (HSV-2). En route...
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    Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune sailed on the USS Bataan (LHD-5), USS Carter Hall (LSD-50), and USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43); while 3,000 United States Army soldiers...
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  • VA) USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43) (NS Mayport, FL) USS Gunston Hall (LSD-44) (NAB Little Creek, VA) USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) (NAB Little Creek, VA) USS Tortuga...
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