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Type,
class: Amphibious Assault Ship (general purpose);
America
class / Flight 0 Builder: Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA STATUS: Awarded: June 1, 2007 Laid down: April 27, 2009 Launched: June 4, 2012 Christened: October 20, 2012 Commissioned: October 11, 2014 IN SERVICE Homeport: San Diego, California Namesake: America Ships Motto: BELLO VEL PACE PARATUS (prepared in war or in peace) Technical Data: see: INFO > America class Amphibious Assault Ship - LHA |
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 Pacific Ocean - October 2019  Pacific Ocean - October 2019  armament details - RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) - Mk-29 ESSM SAM launcher - Mk-38 25mm machine gun system - Mk-15 CIWS  Pacific Ocean - October 2019  Pacific Ocean - October 2019  Pacific Ocean - October 2019  Pacific Ocean - October 2019  Pacific Ocean - October 2019  Pacific Ocean - October 2019  USS America fires a RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) - Pacific Ocean - October 2019  F-35B Lightning II (VMFA-122) is landing on the flight deck - Pacific Ocean - September 2019  F-35B Lightning II (VMFA-122) operations - Pacific Ocean - September 2019  F-35B Lightning II (VMFA-122) operations - Pacific Ocean - September 2019  Pacific Ocean - August 2019  Pacific Ocean - August 2019  Pacific Ocean - August 2019  Pacific Ocean - July 2019  undated  change of command ceremony - June 2019  returning to San Diego, California - February 2018  returning to San Diego, California - February 2018  returning to San Diego, California - February 2018  returning to San Diego, California - February 2018  January 2018  with VMM-161(REIN) embarked - Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - January 2018  Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - January 2018  with VMM-161(REIN) embarked - Pacific Ocean - January 2018  PASSEX with USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) - Pacific Ocean - January 2018  with VMM-161(REIN) embarked - Makassar Strait - January 2018  with VMM-161(REIN) embarked - Apra Harbor, Guam - January 2018  with VMM-161(REIN) embarked - Changi Naval Base, Singapore - December 2017  with VMM-161(REIN) embarked - Changi Naval Base, Singapore - December 2017  with VMM-161(REIN) embarked - Arabian Gulf - November 2017  with VMM-161(REIN) embarked - Arabian Gulf - November 2017  with VMM-161(REIN) embarked - Arabian Gulf - November 2017  Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates - November 2017  approaching Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates - November 2017  5th Fleet AOR - November 2017  helm and leehelm on the bridge - November 2017  air traffic control center - 5th Fleet AOR - November 2017  central control station (engineering) - October 2017  with VMM-161(REIN) embarked - Gulf of Aden - October 2017  with VMM-161 (REIN) embarked - Eilat, Israel - October 2017  5th Fleet AOR - October 2017  5th Fleet AOR - October 2017  radar terminal in the combat information center (CIC) - 5th Fleet AOR - October 2017  with VMM-161(REIN) embarked - Gulf of Aden - September 2017  with VMM-161(REIN) embarked - Gulf of Aden - September 2017  Singapore - August 2017  Singapore - August 2017  approaching Singapore - August 2017  with VMM-161(REIN) embarked - South China Sea - August 2017  Malaysia - August 2017  Pacific Ocean - July 2017  Pacific Ocean - July 2017  Pacific Ocean - July 2017  departing San Diego - July 2017  CERTEX - Pacific Ocean - June 2017  Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) - May 2017  Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) - May 2017  with F-35B Lightning II fighter jets embarked - November 2016  November 2016  November 2016  November 2016  November 2016  November 2016  November 2016  San Diego Fleet Week - September 2016  San Pedro, California - September 2016  Los Angeles Fleet Week - August 2016  Los Angeles Fleet Week - August 2016  Los Angeles Fleet Week - August 2016  Los Angeles Fleet Week - August 2016  Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - August 2016  Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - August 2016  Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - August 2016  Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - August 2016  during exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  during exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  during exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  during exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  during exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  during exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  during exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  during exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - July 2016  arriving at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - June 2016  Pacific Ocean - June 2016  Pacific Ocean - June 2016  Pacific Ocean - June 2016  Pacific Ocean - June 2016  Pacific Ocean - June 2016  Pacific Ocean - June 2016  Pacific Ocean - June 2016  Pacific Ocean - May 2016  Pacific Ocean - May 2016  trials - February 2015  arriving at her new homeport - San Diego, California - October 16, 2014  commissioning ceremony - San Francisco, California - October 11, 2014  prepared for commissioning - San Francisco, California - October 10, 2014  San Diego, California - September 2014  San Diego, California - September 2014  San Diego, California - September 2014  San Diego, California - September 2014  Pacific Ocean - September 2014  Pacific Ocean - September 2014  Pacific Ocean - September 2014  Pacific Ocean - September 2014  Callao, Peru - September 2014  Pacific Ocean - September 2014  off Chile - August 2014  Strait of Magellan - August 2014  South Atlantic Ocean - August 2014  South Atlantic Ocean - August 2014  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - August 2014  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - August 2014  Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - July 2014  departing Pascagoula, Mississippi for her journey to the US west coast via Magellan Straits - July 2014  custody transfer ceremony - Pascagoula, Mississippi - April 10, 2014  returning to Huntington Ingalls Shipyard from acceptance trials - Pascagoula, Mississippi - January 31, 2014  returning to Huntington Ingalls Shipyard from acceptance trials - Pascagoula, Mississippi - January 31, 2014  returning to Huntington Ingalls Shipyard after completing sea trials - Pascagoula, Mississippi - November 9, 2013  outfitting at Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi - June 2012 construction images:        |
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USS America (LHA 6): The U.S. Navy awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation's Ingalls Shipyard Division a $2.4 billion fixed-price incentive contract for the detailed design and construction of LHA-6, primarily at the company's shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The production decision was made in January 2006 and construction of LHA-6 began in December 2008. Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter announced in June 2008 that the ship would be named America. The keel-laying ceremony was held on 17 July 2009 with delivery originally planned for August 2012. The ship was launched on 4 June 2012, and christened on 20 October. She took to the sea for the first time on 5 November 2013, for five days of builder's sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico, and completed acceptance sea trials in February 2014. America departed in commission without ceremony from Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on 11 July 2014 in transit to its homeport of San Diego, California. The ship earned commission status after the crew successfully completed the light-off assessment, anti-terrorism force protection certification and crew certification. America arrived at Rio de Janeiro on 5 August, and the local press was invited to a guided visit that happened the next day. She arrived at her home port of San Diego, California on 15 September 2014. During transitions around South America, America's mission was to connect with regional allies, conducting joint exercises with Colombia, Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Chile, and Peru involving security and communications operations, as well as medical asset coordination and mission planning activities. The ship carried three SH-60 Seahawk helicopters of HSC-21 and four MV-22 Ospreys of VMX-22, which flew into countries and transported distinguished visitors to the ship. It is planned to embark the F-35B JSF for America's first operational deployment. USS America was commissioned on 11 October 2014 in San Francisco as part of the activities of San Francisco Fleet Week 2014. The Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Ray Mabus was the featured speaker. source: wikipedia America Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) deployment: From July 7, 2017 to February 2, 2018 USS America deployed with 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) - 15th MEU(SOC) and Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (reinforced) 166 - VMM-161(REIN) to 5th and 7th Fleet Area of Operations (AOR). Squadrons: VMM-161 / HMH-462, det. / HMLA-169, det. / VMA-214, det. / HSC-23, det. |
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