Word: mayport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy sent its Charleston-based ships to seato avoid Hugo, while crews were called yesterdayto their ships at Mayport Naval Station nearJacksonville for a possible move...
...injured were transferred to the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, which steamed to Mayport, Fla. From there they were flown to the Naval Hospital in Jacksonville. The other crewmen were taken to Mayport by the Carr and flown to the Charleston Air Force Base, where they arrived yesterday afternoon...
...Pentagon spokesman in Washington, Lt. Col. Jim Jannette, said the USS Paul and USS Capodanno were in the Naples port at the time of the blast. The Capodanno's home port is Newport, R.I., and the Paul is from Mayport, Fla. Also in the Naples port was the USNS Kaiser, a Navy fueling vessel with a mainly civilian crew, he said...
...Administration defended American presence in the gulf as vital to the nation's security. "Were a hostile power ever to dominate this strategic region and its resources," Reagan said at the memorial service at Mayport Naval Station, "it would become a choke point for freedom -- that of our allies and our own." Weinberger stressed that if the U.S. backed down, the Soviets would move in. "We simply cannot allow the Kremlin to have its will over this region," he said last week. "We will not be intimidated. We will not be driven from the gulf." Indeed, Moscow pre-empted...
...memorial service for the victims will be held Friday at the Mayport Naval Base in Florida...