With Go-Bags Always Packed, Virginia-Based Sailors Go to Ends of the Earth to Keep Navy Supplied
Sailors at the Navy’s only active-duty cargo-wrangling unit are ready to embark on a mission on 72 hours’ notice.
Source: military.com
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Sailors at the Navy’s only active-duty cargo-wrangling unit are ready to embark on a mission on 72 hours’ notice.
Sailors at the Navy’s only active-duty cargo-wrangling unit, at Cheatham Annex in Yorktown, keep their go-bags packed, ready to go on a mission on 72 hours notice — missions that can take them to the ends of the earth.
All in all, the Cheatham Annex sailors moved nearly 7 million pounds of supplies — some 503 pieces of cargo including containers, vehicles, construction materials, electronics equipment, and also a modular building — over the past few months.