USS Tarawa (LHA 1) - Naval Cruise Book

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oNE or MANY PILES... IOINING FORCES A U ff Beginning work on this pile caused Sailors and Marines join forces to o - many to wonder if Iraq had come up load the mail from an LCU- When with a revolutionary battle strategy: they called this a Working party, 'fhel' THE MAIL FRONT! forgot about the PARTY! AT TIMES WE L NGE D F R C NTACT FR M H ME T AY WAS N T NE F T1-1 sEfH At first the mail trickled in A little bit here and there, with an air of competition over who received the best package or Whose spouse sent the best cookies n this day EVERYONE got mail and A L T OF IT' Not a soul onboard would have ever imagined the out pouring of support we would receive from home in the form of endless packages and letters Normally mail comes to ships in the Gulf from Bahrain via Vertical On Board Delivery faka VODJ a CH 53 loaded to the gills On our deployment the beach det in Bahrain became so inundated with packages and letters for LCU. The result of this move was the incredible all hands effort to load, sort and disseminate all of this mail in just over a day a A i y iyru is a V. JA . ,,p-V V LV gi A. Vg! Vp: V pV'Vp R TARAWA ARC? sfhgfyaywei had to DISSEMINATION BEGINS! As the mail makes its way from the well-deck to the hangar, sailors and marines stand ready to sort and de' liver.

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PULL! This sailor is passing over the shotline, which will be the guide for the fueling hoses and probes. SLINGING THE CHOW! More often than not, TARAWA WOLIIC1 simultaneously bring on stores via VERTREP while refueling alongside, saving time alongside. PULLIN' UP TO THE DRIVE-THRU! Over six months at sea means a lot of fuel and stores for TARAWA. At one point, UNREPS were how we mea- sured time! These pictures were taken by the SAR helicopter as they awaited the commencement of VERTREP. THE ELoAT1NG 7-11 NEVER LET Us DQWN' N T S