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USS TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY QAVB-2, PORTABLE AIRBASE AFLOAT TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY was conceived by the Navy to provide repair and maintenance facilities for deployed patrol squadrons without the need of permanent overseas air bases. Her mission requires her to beach anywhere an airfield exists or wherever a bulldozer can scrape out a runway, unload her instant air station of 16 mobile vans, and be in full operational readiness in less thanfour hours. Each van, highly mobile like the modern American house trailer, has within its walls equipment designed to do a specific job.'For example, there are vans for weather forecasting, aircraft machinery repair, electronic repair, supply parts, and communications. TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY underwent conversion from LST to AVB at the Charleston Naval Shipyard, S.C., and now has the ability to house the 16 large vans, crash equipment, fuel trucks, and other auxiliary equipment and vehicles necessary for airbase operations, plus quarters for a 180 man aircraft squadron in addition to the ship's company of 14 officers and 256 men. Fixed air bases require great expense for construction with the risk that ever-changing governmental policies might preclude their use. Additionally, there is a possibility of these fixed airbases being targets for missiles, or being overrun by enemy forces. There are 161and- based' patrol squadrons currently attached to the Naval Air Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Patrol aircraft are unable to operate from carrier decks due to their enormous size and the lengthy runways required. The P-2 and P-3 aircraft flown by these squadrons have thejob of continual surveillance of the ocean areas of the Atlantic. Long-range ocean search, remote localization and attack, long-range rescue, mining, and convoy escort are but a few of the ,jobs only land-based, maximum range, air- craft such as the P-2 and P-3 can fulfill. It is of prime importance that naval forces on patrol have the ability to maintain watch of the seas. Land-based patrol planes supported by the TALLAHATC HIE COUNTY have the ability to maintain reconnaissance over the entire Mediterranean Sea. '
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