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| | USNS Yano named (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | USNS Yano is one of 19 large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off ships, called LMSRs, which will be built or converted at U.S. shipyards by the year 2001 in response to the need for expanded sealift capability identified in a congressionally-mandated study done in the early 1990s. |
 | | USNS Shughart (T-AKR 295) and USNS Gordon (T-AKR 296), the first two conversion LMSRs, were delivered to MSC last year and presently are undergoing shakedown off the U.S. East Coast in preparation for joining the MSC fleet. |
 | | USNS Yano honors Sergeant First Class Rodney J.T. Yano of Kailua Kona, Hawaii, a Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in Vietnam in 1969 while serving as a helicopter crew chief with the Air Cavalry Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. |
| www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/970122-press4.htm (600 words) |
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