Nassau (LHA 4) - Naval Cruise Book

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I r I F l 'D' ' DECEMBER 1987 1-3 3 4-5 5-9 10 12 13-14 14-17 15 16 17-21 21-31 JANUARY 1988 3-8 8-27 28 FEBRUARY 1988 2 2-21 22-26 27 MARC 4-6 6-11 13-16 16-27 28 ll 1988 Training Highlights Combined surface and heliborne assault with force-on- force, free-play with Spanish at Sierra de Retin, Spain. Battery E and Weapons Company conducted live-fire training and BLT conducted 15km hike. Backloaded aboard shipping. Arrived Tangier, Morocco for port visit and joint plan- ning with Royal Moroccan Armed Forces. Attached Royal Moroccan Naval Infantry Company. Conducted rehearsal landing 25km East of A1 Hoceima, Morocco. Surface assault by Company E and Moroccan Naval Infantry Company 40km East of Al Hoceima in support of African Eagle 88. General offload of BLT 25km East of Al Hoceima and conducted small unit training, live-fire and cross train- ing. Battery E conducted artillery raid at Al Hoceima Air- field for Moroccan VIPs. Company G conducted heliborne destruction raid vi- cinity of base camp. Backloaced aboard shipping. Port visits in Palma de Mallorca and Valencia, Spain. Departed ports of call and proceeded to Haifa, Israel Training ashore 15km East of Tel Aviv, 15km hike and Physical Readiness Training. Departed Haifa, Israel. Arrived Marseilles, France. Conducted offload and proceeded to Camp de la Cour- tine, France for live-fire training. Backloaded aboard shipping. Arrived Lisbon, Portugal and staged equipment for Desnailing in preparation for TransLant. Departed Lisbon and proceeded to operating area for Galera 88. Combined surface and heliborne assault with the Por- tugese Infantry and conducted cross-training in sup- port of Galera 88. Turnover in Rota, Spain and completed preparations for TransLant. Outchopped from Rota and TransLant. Disembarked from Amphibious Squadron 2 at More- head City. WE'RE HOME!

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