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| | MSC 2003 in Review -- Prepositioning Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20) |
 | | John U.D. Page remained on station in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, while her sister ship, MV Staff Sgt. Edward A. Carter Jr., began a scheduled cargo maintenance period at the Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point, N.C. Both ships are long-term charters operated for MSC by commercial mariner crews. |
 | | An M-88 armored recovery vehicle makes its way up the stern ramp of large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off ship USNS Watkins. |
 | | The large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off ships of Afloat Prepositioning Ship Squadron Four had begun supporting what would become Operation Iraqi Freedom much earlier than other MSC ships. |
| www.msc.navy.mil /annualreport/2003/pm3.htm (1236 words) |
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