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Bollinger Houma Shipyards lays keel for T-ATS 10

26 March 2024

With members of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in attendance, a keel laying ceremony for the future USNS Muscogee Creek Nation (T-ATS 10), the fifth ship in the Navy’s Navajo class of Towing, Salvage, and Rescue vessels was held at Bollinger Houma Shipyards, March 20, reports the Navy’s Program Executive Office Ships.

Sponsors Geri Wisner, Attorney General of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation; Nicole Foster, wife of Rear Admiral Calvin Foster; and Muscogee (Creek) Nation Principal Chief David Hill...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/bollinger-houma-shipyards-lays-keel-for-t-ats-10/

Navy Issues $144M Award to Austal USA to Build Yard’s First Steel Ships

6 October 2021

An artist rendering of the future USNS Navajo (T-TATS-6). US Navy Photo

The Navy issued a $144.6 million contract to Austal USA to build two of the service’s Navajo-class towing, salvage and rescue ships, the first steel ships for the Alabama yard, the service announced this week.

The service awarded the detail design and construction contract on the last day of Fiscal Year 2021, but did not announce the contract until Tuesday.

“On September 30, 2021 the Navy awarded a $144.6 million contract to...

https://news.usni.org/2021/10/06/navy-issues-144m-award-to-austal-usa-to-build-yards-first-steel-ships

Navy COVID-19 Teams Assisting Navajo Nation as Army North Expands Support Mission

18 January 2021

U.S. Public Health Service Lt. Cmdr. Jennifer Manning, right, deputy incident commander, Northern Navajo Medical Center, speaks with U.S. Navy medical providers during their hospital orientation at the Northern Navajo Medical Center, Shiprock, N.M., on Dec. 18, 2020. US Army Photo

As states across the U.S. braced for a winter resurgence in COVID-19 cases, some Navy medical personnel got mid-December deployment orders to an unusual destination: Navajo Nation.

Twenty Navy nurses and four...

https://news.usni.org/2021/01/18/navy-covid-19-teams-assisting-navajo-nation-as-army-north-expands-support-mission