USS Anchorage (LPD 23)
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Homeport: Naval Base San Diego, CA
USS Anchorage (LPD-23), the seventh San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Anchorage, Alaska and the first U.S. Navy ship to be commissioned in Alaska.
The San Antonio-class is the first class of ship equipped with a state-of-the-art fiber-optic Shipboard Wide Area Network (SWAN). Its design provides computer and network access linking every manned space on the ship, to include troop/crew berthing. The SWAN’s design also allows for future growth over the life of the ship as technology advances. Over 760 SWAN drops (i.e. access points) will support computer workstations or other uses throughout the ship.
Anchorage's keel was laid down on September 24, 2007 at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana, then owned by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems. The ship was launched on February 12, 2011. She was christened two months later, May 14 - the first ship christened by Huntington Ingalls Industries since Northrop Grumman spun off its shipbuilding divisions as a separate company. The ship's sponsor is Annette Conway, wife of former Marine Corps Commandant General James T. Conway. The ship was formally delivered and accepted by the US Navy on September 17, 2012.
On November 21, 2012 the Pre-Commissioning Unit Anchorage (LPD 23) moored pierside for the first time at her homeport in San Diego during a homecoming ceremony.
The Anchorage was commissioned on May 4, 2013 in her namesake city ...
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USS Anchorage supports HM-14 airborne mine countermeasures training, RIMPAC July 23, 2014
Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 2nd Class Oliverjay Espina directs a Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 aircraft aboard amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD 23) off the coast of San Diego during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014. Twenty-two nations, 49 ships, six submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 26 to Aug. 1 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2014 is the 24th exercise in the series that began in 1971.
(U.S. Navy Photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Elena Pence/Released)
Wide view of the pier at which USS Anchorage off-loaded the Orion capsule at Naval Station San Diego, December 8, 2014...
photo credit by: Kevin Balrd
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Comment by NavyDads Co-Admin, Gary on July 2, 2014 at 9:29am
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USS Anchorage 4th Annual Picnic
Anchorage MWR hosted its 4th Annual Command Picnic for the Sailors and their family members. The Sailors and their family enjoyed food, drinks, music, sporting events, and a face painter. Also in attendance was Anchorage's Family Readiness Group...
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The 2013 Russell Egnor Navy Media Awards are out!
Congratulations to MC1 Aramis Ramirez for 1st Place Graphics - digital art,"Commissioning Anchorage." Job well done!
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Newell Welcome to Anchorage Nation! How long has Daniel been onboard?
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Many Thanks Guys!!
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Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on May 30, 2014 at 7:44pm
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I'm likin' it Gary----Bravo Zulu!
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So proud of my Son ABH2 Espina! BZ and to all who advanced HOOYAH!
Promotions are one of the best things about command! I am so proud to have advanced all these Sailors! Some of them have been with us since the beginning and others just a few months, but regardless of their time onboard they are all proud members of Anchorage Nation and it was my honor to pin new collar devices on all of them. Well done shipmates!
Cdr Joel Stewart
Commanding Officer
U.S.S. ANCHORAGE (LPD 23)
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Replenishment at Sea...
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USS Anchorage (LPD 23) achieves training goals, returns home...
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher Lindahl
SAN DIEGO – San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23) arrived in her homeport of San Diego, April 18, after disembarking Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF), ASEAN, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF).
Anchorage arrived after a vigorous 31-day underway involving a wide assortment of ongoing at-sea training evolutions and hosting the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, and other defense ministers from the Association of Southeastern Asian Nations (ASEAN), during part of the ASEAN defense forum.
“We showed the capabilities of the Navy-Marine Corps team in a physical manner,” said Lt. Col. Mark T. Donar, commanding officer, SPMAGTF-ASEAN. “We were able to showcase our equipment and the Navy’s ability to bring our equipment to the forefront.”
Anchorage conducted training in nearly every aspect of Navy readiness including flight deck operations, well deck operations, medical response training, combat systems training, and engineering casualty training. Anchorage also hosted a variety of Sailors from her sister ship, USS Green Bay (LPD 20), and amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) to gain qualifications and train in an at-sea environment.
Boatswain’s Mate 1st Class Nicholas Treser, assigned to Green Bay and embarked on Anchorage, led a team of six Sailors as they worked on gaining such qualifications as: underway lookout, helmsman, lee-helmsman, line handler, well deck petty officer-in-charge, and more.
“It was a great training opportunity,” said Treser. “It allows Green Bay to have more flexibility with their watch standing and enhanced the overall qualification level of their deck department.”
Essex Sailors got an opportunity to train on the flight deck, with four receiving landing signalman, enlisted qualifications and three receiving tractor driver qualifications.
The air department was also able to certify approximately 40 pilots and crew from the Marine Corps and Army with their deck landing qualifications, landing and launching Army CH-47 Chinooks and Marine MV-22 Ospreys, CH-53 Super Stallions, AH-1W Super Cobras, and UH-1Y Iroquois helicopters.
“The fact that Marines and Sailors from other ships can combine with our own flight deck crew and crash and salvage teams to work seamlessly makes the whole flight deck operational process something to be proud of,” said Yeoman 3rd Class Pedro Samame, assigned to Anchorage’s crash and salvage team. “We all worked together and I feel like it was a total success.”
USS Anchorage (LPD 23) is the seventh San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship. She was built at the Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding site in Avondale, La. She was delivered to the U.S. Navy on Set. 17, 2012 and was commissioned in her namesake city of Anchorage, Alaska, May 4, 2013. She is homeported in San Diego.
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After a lot of vigorous training and some great sea time, Anchorage has arrived back in San Diego!
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Networking On-the-Move goes afloat...
April 15, 2014All Networking On-the-Move-equipped Assault Amphibious Vehicle testing was conducted within a realistic, operational framework. This included transitioning of the NOTM-AAV in and out of surf, traveling extended distances in differing sea states and terrain surfaces, and the boarding and disembarking from the USS Anchorage, the amphibious transport dock ship shown here operating off the coast of Camp Pendleton, Calif. (Photo by Wil Williams, U.S. Marine Corps)
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