Nassau (LHA 4) - Naval Cruise Book

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w I COMB T CARGO OFFICE The Combat Cargo OfHce and staff aboard NASSAU is a group of special assistants to the ship's Operations OfHcer. Headed by Captain Hoover Ileftj and aided by GYSGT Heath- erly fabovej and GYSGTSchaufenbuh1 Knot picturedj, they are instrumental in the embarkation and debarkation of troops aboard ship for an amphibious operation. This involves the loading, stowing and securing of equipment, trucks, tanks and jeeps for transit to an objective area, and the subsequent un- A loading of the personnel and equipment during the assault. In addition to these, they also handle the billeting and messing of troops, keeping track of on- and offloads, and also act as liaison with troop units ashore.

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if 'I W W UCLEUS LA DI FORCE STAFF fl From left to right: MAJ Mullarkey, OfHcer in charge, MGYSGT Yench, MSGT Wood, SSGT Marucha, SSGT Gibson, SSGT Sadler, MSGT Donnelly, MSGT joseph, MSGT Macht, MGYSGT Howard, MSGT Caldwell. The Nucleus Landing Force Staff INLI-'51 was activated on july 10th, 1979 as a special staff section under the Com- manding General, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic. The staff established perma- nent residence aboard NASSAU on Au- gust 15th of that year, and has subse- quently deployed with the ship during operational and training commitments. The primary duties of the NLI-'S con- sist of providing embarked troops of a landing force with an interface between cognizant staff sections of the landing team and the ship's automated services, offices, and divisional work centers to which they may need to go for services or assistance. In addition, they integrate and train landing force communications personnel in the use of the ship's com- munications equipment. Each staff member assigned aboard NASSAU receives basic and advanced training in the Management Informa- tion System IMISj at the Fleet Combat Training Center Pacific, Point Loma, California. The total strength of the NLI-'S is one Major, as ofHcer in charge, and nine en- listed Marines ranging from Master Ser- geant to Staff Sergeant. These members of the NLFS have been trained and are proHcient in areas such as Administra- tion, intelligence, communications, 10- gistics and operations. These professionals are the points of contact for the embarked troops and units to use when they first arrive aboard ship, and throughout an operation they will be in contact with them to make every phase of an operation and a de' ployment run as smoothly as possible. NLI-'S members are a signed to the ship on a permanent basis as a regfllaf tour of duty. Because they are familiar with both Navy terminology and proce- dures, as well as with Marine CorpS needs and terminology, they perform ,H valuable job in making all NASSAUS operations and commitments with Biff' barked Marine troops perform at their best. S 4.14 ,, . W ,WW W ,, ,.,,,, .,.,,,. ,, W.. ...,. .,,,.....,,-