Shreveport (LPD 12) - Naval Cruise Book

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adventurous sailors to ride their bicycles up the high hills of El Yunque Rain Forest. The ship was again under- way ll24, 03 March, travelling around Viegues Island to Navy Base, Roosevelt Roads, due to ocean depths, where she moored l708, 04 March. A brief party Cbeer on the pierl, and the ship was underway 0646, 05 March, to guard UNREP of the other three ships in our formation. While the other three ships in our formation made their separate courses to Morehead City in an exercise designed to see if we could be detected, the SHREVEPORT paused for a day C09 Marchl to anchor off GREEN Beach off the western coast of Vieques, and land a liberty party via embarked troop boats. The ship was underway l9ll, with l266.5 miles to Morehead City, anchoring at 0558, and mooring at 0939, l4 March, to off-load the Marines, and was underway l4l2 the same day, mooring port side to Pier l2, Navy Base Norfolk, at l022, l5 March. The ship moved the next day to Army Pier 2, South Annex, for collision repairs, was underway 06 April to load ammunition, and underway 0957, l3 April, for the second half of CARIB 2-7l, anchoring at 06l9 and mooring 0838, l4 April to re-load BLT 276. She departed l555 the same day. A The second half of CARIB 2-7l was filled with much activi- ty. The ship anchored off Viegues Island T355, l8 April, but was underway l454, 20 April, for a liberty period at Navy Station, Roosevelt Roads, leaving 0757, 25 April, and returning the same day to Viegues to participate in VERITAS V, a joint U.S.-Brazilian ex- ercise. The Bra- zilian Marines vi- sited SHREVEPORT 26-27 April, and D-Day landing took place 28 April. Lt General AXTELL, Commanding General FMFLANT, was pre- -+ve sent on SHREVEPORT K' during the opera- tion. After a PHIBRON TWO sailing regatta in which the captains and executive officers of each ship participated in vari-

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quised as a Sailor. Discovered during volt 4 dvhal amination.H The Shih WGS Undefwdy f 0'l' l'leQU?S, MTW ziliif in Rasta anchored 0706, 14 February' 'H 5 C'lf M' Harbor, Panama, later WO was underway the next day at l635, but steamed in a circle outside Cristobal all of the l6th. On l7 February, the l,OOOth safe helo landing was made by Lt J. J. KAVALE, USN, of HC4, Det 32, in his HH-2 helicopter designated HSCOOTER SIX SIX.H The next day the shi E 0riHU to Pier ll li i 9 L h x gi l c X L H lf4.ln A n. a-f p passed through Boca chan into a harbor large enough to hold the wiolf U fleet and moored 0854, starboard side to Pier l mort o1 Car e gena, Colombia, location of an interestinu hi io La Poia on a cino qena made hian 063l and moored to Pier Dlayri a rhall Q W with sai r THC underway from burma O Fehruiry ini wh rout: ha a slvqhi rolli lil if ,C -. -U .J 23 lfhyuirv div Ihr lm c .V I lfl 16C t 1447 fri tolli Ray at a 5 than four hours later the sh' 7 2. lflr Less , lU was aqa Ll an moored starboard side to Berth B. Fernanroz Feder dy, SGH JUHH, Puerto Rico. Ty. F. A - som d' ' ' i io stay in in liin ena e lVlSlOnS to have Parties at Luuuillo RflLH 'Il c Hui I gg .

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ous maneuvers with the SHBEVEPDRT BLUL team, lGd by the Captain coming out in first place, the ship partlC1DGFEd the next week, 0l - 06 May, in VENUS II, 5 J0l0t exefclse with Venezuelans. Rear Admiral Delgado, the Venezuelan senior Marine Corps 0fficer, toured SHREVEPORT 03 May. 04 May was both R and DuDay, and the shin was underway 060l. 05 May for St. Thomas Island, mooring starboard side to Nest Indian Dock, Charlotte Amalie, at 0945 the same day, for a one-day visit, long enough for practically everyone aboard to purchase his one gallon of tax-free liouor to be brought back to the States Cwhich may only be done by vis- iting one of the Virgin Islandsl. The ship was underway l50l, 06 May, conducted an UNREP with USS MILWAUKEE on O9 May--the same day Haiphong Harbor was mined, and moored at Morehead City, l4l3, ll May. Most of the embarked Marines of BLT 2X6 moved aboard USS NASHVILLE and Major General Fred HAYNES, CG, 2nd MARDIV, embarked USS SHREVEPDRT to- gether with his staff of about a dozen bird and light col- onels for six days while the ship particiiited l ith if El Oflfl W about 20 other ships in EXDAN V. The ship went to General Quarters at 2200, l7 Ma ' y, as we entered a simulated mine field, anchored off 0nslow Beach 0239 and remained at G0 all of l8 May until the Marines departed that afternoon. The ship moored l046 2l V - , say, port side to Pier 3, Navy Base, Norfolk. SHREVEPDRT was out 05 June to load ammunition. and depar- ted l2 June at 0746 with emba . rked Midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, on NATRONLANT 72, with 2,361 miles to go before ' ' ' . arriving at Santa Marta Island, NzoreS, where she anchored l006, 20 June, off Vila do Porto to off-load some CB gear while some ' ' , two bars of the quiet l'ttl t Sa11OrS V1SitQd the On1y g i i e ow . Tl sl 0830 21 June and aft n ie iip was underway Change, d Q , , ef proceeding through the English an the Limfgorden moored 0932 l 2 I 9 ' ,,-, LU , ' . borg, Denmark. while at the veri f ' ' ne at Nal i ith its i y riendly town, w'