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Godspeed the John Glenn
Sunday, February 2, 2014 6:55
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Sailing on one of its first trial runs, the Navy’s second MLP (Mobile Landing Platform) picked up a trio of seals. “Not Navy SEALS,” said John Glenn, the ship’s namesake as of its christening on Saturday (Feb. 1), but “three actually, sea-going seals that were on the deck and they didn’t want to get off!” The ship, which leverages ‘float-on/float-off’ technology, can partially submerge to facilitate the movement of cargo and craft for combat and humanitarian missions. (The marine mammals ultimately had to be prodded to leave the deck of the ship.)
Source: http://www.collectspace.com/index.html#0201140745
