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To: Eric in the Ozarks
I crossed the Pacific six times between 1951 and 1961 in the “Army’s Navy.”

Can you guess its actual name ?

"Army's Navy" is really confusing.

25 posted on 10/13/2013 10:20:49 AM PDT by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: submarinerswife

It began life as the Army Transport Command. Was renamed MSTS and given to the US Navy, but was never staffed, to my knowledge, by American sailors.

Naming all the ships for Army generals and a few presidents gave it the nickname Army’s Navy.


30 posted on 10/13/2013 11:29:50 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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