To: Strategerist
U.S.N.S. stands for United States Navel Ship. It is not owned by the Navy, but by the government. Some of the older ships were once operated by the Navy, but were decommissioned and given to MSC/Military Sealift Command out of Virginia, if I remember.
26 posted on
07/16/2012 5:37:10 PM PDT by
msc164
To: msc164
It might not have looked like one, but at least it behaved like one...
27 posted on
07/16/2012 5:48:58 PM PDT by
Cvengr
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