Photo By Petty Officer 2nd Class Joshua Fulton | 160301-N-OU129-052 LAEM CHABANG, Thailand (Feb. 29, 2016) A Marine from Combat...... read more read more
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LAEM CHABANG, Thailand – Civilian mariners, Honeywell contractors and Marines from Combat Logistics Battalion 3 began conducting a backload of equipment used in Exercise Cobra Gold 2016 (CG-16) from Military Sealift Command (MSC) Maritime Prepositioning ship (MPS) USNS 1st Lt. Jack Lummus (T-AK 3011) here Feb. 29, bringing a successful close to the exercise.
The backload consisted of returning 129 pieces of equipment discharged from the Lummus Feb. 1 in support of CG-16, an annual multinational and joint-theater security cooperation exercise co-sponsored by the Kingdom of Thailand and the United States with more than two dozen participating partner nations, making it one of the largest military exercises in the Asia-Pacific region.
The Lummus, a part of Maritime Prepositioning Ships Squadron (MPSRON) THREE, delivers ready-to-use Marine Corps equipment and supplies on a moments notice to preplanned exercises and contingency operations. The backload ensures that CG-16 ends successfully and that the Lummus is prepared to fulfill its next mission as an MPS.
“The backload is very important,” explained Staff Sgt. Daniel Beers of Combat Logistics Battalion 3. “It is the very end of Cobra Gold, and it is important because all the way up to this part we have done everything successfully. Getting everything back onboard, handing it back over to Honeywell, keeping the gear in the right order that we received it...it's very important to give it back the way we got it.”
The Lummus’ is scheduled to deploy to the Philippines to support Exercise Balikatan following the completion of the backload. Beers explained that by reloading the gear correctly onto the Lummus, the Marines and civilians close out Cobra Gold by starting Balikatan properly.
“So what we are doing is setting it up for Balikatan,” said Beers. “Yes, it was important for us to backload the gear from Cobra Gold back to the way we received it. We are trying to give it properly to the next exercise, for Balikatan. So today what we are doing is setting up the gear in each well deck, so that when the time comes for Balikatan, the receiving crew will have an easier time on the offload. It’s one force helping another.”
For more information, photos, and stories about the Cobra Gold exercise, including past iterations, please visit the official Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/ExerciseCobraGold
For more news from Military Sealift Command, visit www.navy.mil/local/MSC
| Date Taken: | 03.01.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 03.02.2016 19:44 |
| Story ID: | 190685 |
| Location: | LAEM CHABANG, TH |
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