Posted on 05/25/2024 3:31:23 PM PDT by SJackson
Hundreds of people from Ashdod and neighboring areas gathered on the city’s beach on Saturday to see a US army vessel that had become stuck on the beach next to a piece of the floating pier that the US built recently to bring aid to Gaza. The vessel, LCM 8558, is a landing craft.
The US Army and the IDF worked together during the late afternoon to try to find a solution for the beached vessel. A front loader dug out sand from beneath its large propellers.
Then, the front loader was attached to the starboard bow of the vessel to try to pivot the watercraft to free it. Low tide prevented this from working.
Eventually, the USAV Matamoros, a US naval ship, arrived offshore to try to help. As the sun set, the IDF attempted to help with a drone to bring a line out to the Matamoros. This did not work, because the current carried the line too strongly, and the drone was not strong enough. Later, men attempted to swim the line out to the waiting vessel.
Meanwhile, the landing craft remained marooned on the beach. This was a rare example of the ability of the US and Israel to work in real-time to free a vessel like this. It is likely the first time in history that a US army vessel has been grounded on a beach on the coast of Israel.
US completes construction of the aid pier The US Army sent vessels to build a floating pier in March. It took them until late April to arrive.
The pier was built near Ashdod and then towed off the coast of Gaza, where it became operational in early May, allowing trucks to bring pallets from it to shore.
> I never knew the army had their own navy. <
I didn’t either. But I must admit that it’s pretty clever. If it confuses us, it must certainly confuse our enemies.
In fact, I now urge the US Air Force to form its own tank divisions and its own submarine service. That would drive the ChiCom analysts crazy.
Turning a disaster into a catastrophe. Trickle down incompetence.
Not exactly Mulberrys or the Berlin Airlift;
course those were evil cis white males
Speaking of Biblical, Ashdod is where the Philistines initially took the Ark of the Covenant when they captured it. They took it into the temple of Dagon and the next day they found the statue of Dagon had fallen on its face. The next day the statue had fallen again and his head and hands had broken off. Then the people of Ashdod were afflicted with tumors so they sent the Ark to another Philistine city (see I Samuel 5.1-8).
At least we are providing some entertainment for the locals.
The stupidest idea of the entire Biden administration. And very dangerous too.
Your FR Post SHOULD read : “US Army Finally has ‘BoAts on the Ground’ in Gaza in the Most Humiliating Way Possible”
“I never knew the army had their own navy.I never knew the army had their own navy.”
Corp of Transportation, US Army, has an interesting array of ships.
And we think we have a shot in a Pacific war against China?
Our political and military leadership needs to get serious about being able to perform the kind of logistics operations that could be necessary if a serious conflict arises.
Actually yes. There is a lot of incompetence, corruption and bungling in China too.
The army also has a railroad!
My post was meant to be funny. Looks like nobody got the joke.
The Army has one of the largest navies in NATO, currently 132 ships and water craft.
In WWII the Army had a bigger navy than the Navy.
http://www.usmm.org/armynavy.html
People also don’t know that the Army did the vast majority of the beach landings and the fighting in the Pacific, the Army’s Pacific losses were about equal to the entire WWII losses for the Navy and Marines combined.
I’m thinking that God didn’t want this floating pier helping Hamas. The thugs don’t deserve any help.
The Army has their own Air Force too LOL, about 4000 rotary and fixed wing aircraft. Also their own drones.
$315,000,000 of our money. Heads need to roll for this.
[ssapro #9] I never knew the army had their own navy.[Leaning Right #21] I didn’t either. But I must admit that it’s pretty clever. If it confuses us, it must certainly confuse our enemies.
[Right_Wing_Madman #25] Yes, and the army actually has more boats than the navy.
A bunch of transport ships does not make a navy. As the Army braintrust has recently discovered, its ability to engage in contested logistics is sorely lacking. Contested logistics is trying to deliver supplies while a Russia or China is trying to stop you. The Army ships are for Army logistics in uncontested waters.
Does the Army have a fleet of combat warships to transport about a million men and equipment across an ocean without being sunk? What does an Army transport ship do when an enemy warship or submarine shows up?
Links only due to source, Army Times and Defense News.
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Thanks I didn’t know about that.
I went to Matamoros it wasn’t so bad, but that was 40 years ago; I don’t hear anything good about the place nowadays.
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