Monongahela (AO 178) - Naval Cruise Book

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Flight quarters L i G Flight Quarters, Flight Quarters. All hands man your Flight Quarters station. Wear no hats topside, throw no articles over the side. Stand clear aft of frame 62. Now Flight Quarters.

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I .n August, 1989, when the Coral Sea Battle Group was called upon to support U.S. National Policy in the Eastern Mediterra- nean, MONONGAHELA was sortied to Augusta Bay, Sicily to pick up fleet freight and mail for the forward deployed ships. In an unprecedented evolution, MONONGAHELA carried 440 pallets of supplies and mail to the rest of the battle group. As an oiler, MONONGAHELA does not have covered storage areas for large quantities of stores, and therefore, all of the cargo was staged on deck and transferred by cargo rig and helicopter upon rendezvous with the customer ships. m 1 ' Hp»— ' • a.:J » fl[-M ' HI