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USS Brunswick (ATS-3)

 * Tow of USS Jason (AR-8) after collision with USS Willamette (AO-180), February 1986
 * http://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/12/us/collision-of-navy-ships-leaves-a-sailor-dead.html
 * Salvage operations at Majuro Atoll removing blockage to harbor entrance to the island of Jaluit, April 1989
 * Eruption of Mount Pinatubo, June 1991
 * Performing dive exercises in the Philippine Islands during initial eruptions, returned to Subic Bay Naval Station.
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQzGjGKdGvQ
 * Operation Fiery Vigil
 * Tow of USS Machinst (AFDB-8) to Pearl Harbor 3 April 1992
 * escorted by armed tug(s) for initial portion of journey
 * Generator failed due to faulty spring clips
 * Refueled in Kwajalein, and for some reason I am thinking Guam, too.
 * http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/2809.htm
 * Tow of Adept (AFDL-23) to Naval Base Guam 24 February 1992
 * http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/2823.htm
 * http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a3/adept.htm
 * http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-12531401/usn-drydock-make-little.html
 * Team Spirit '93
 * http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/dx/text/utility/speedx-v2n5.txt
 * Conducted search and recovery of MIA remains from the Mayagüez incident off the coast of Koh Tang, Cambodia (JFA 96-1C), November 1995
 * http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/personnel_recovery/newsletter_12_spring96.htm
 * http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=40539
 * Other, uncorroborated:
 * Currently the ROKS Kwangyang, Kwang-Yang or Gwangyang (ATS-28).
 * Harpoonex '92 (?) - tow sled (two mike boats welded together) lost in the Marianas Trench
 * Subsequent investigation (Hong Kong) and court martial of XO Lt. Stewart
 * Typhoon in Sasebo Harbor, 1991 or 1992
 * Yard work in Sasebo December, 1990 ... not sure of when it started or ended.
 * Change of home port from Pearl Harbor to Sasebo ... when?
 * Switchboard fire while anchored at Passer Puta, Indonesia, July, 1993
 * Port visit to Garden Island, New South Wales, 1992
 * Joint training exercise with ROK navy divers, 1991 or 1992.
 * Flooding of forward salvage storerooms, chain locker, paint locker and adjacent areas from water coming in through the chain tubes and the deck hatch of the upper forward salvage storeroom.
 * Commanding Officers:
 * Spence King
 * Stanley Takahashi
 * Ship
 * 10 & 20 ton cranes

Operation Fiery Vigil
NB: this article is incorrect, evacuees were also processed through Subic Bay Naval Station. The original article appears to be from http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/fiery_vigil.htm or http://www.patriotfiles.com/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=668&page=1, not a primary source but http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/batgru-72.htm
 * Evacuee transport (ship, evacuees carried, reference)

Presence possible but doubtful: USS Fife (DD-991) USS Hewitt (DD-966) USS Oldendorf (DD-972)

Supported by the USNS Hassayampa. USS Roanoke (AOR-7) USS Passumpsic (AO-107) - present but did not participate USS Niagara Falls (AFS-3)


 * Resources
 * http://www.andersen.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123059064
 * http://www.bmu1.navy.mil/site%20pages/history.aspx
 * Already used:
 * http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a2/abraham_lincoln.htm
 * http://www.stripes.com/01/sep01/ed092101f.html
 * http://www.history.navy.mil/download/history/part12.pdf
 * http://www2.afsoc.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-051228-013.pdf

USS Kauffman (FFG-59)
Using the USS Long Beach (CGN-9) more-or-less as a template.

I am approaching improving this article by the following method:

Using the command histories as primary sources.


 * 1) Build sections conducive to bullet pointing, i.e. Commanders and Milestones.
 * 2) Create bullet points
 * 3) Select only those that are significant over the course of the likely lifetime of the ship
 * 4) Keep them brief - the details can be laid out in the narrative sections
 * 5) Find source material where command histories are not available
 * 6) Wikify
 * 7) Wiki-references
 * 8) Citations
 * 9) Write narrative sections
 * 10) Find additional sources (official and news)
 * 11) Find, upload and include interesting pictures

History
On 12 August 1988 BM3 Kerekgyarto died instantly when the slewing arm davit (SLAD) for the ships boat broke from its mount and fell on him. A subsequent investigation revealed a faulty weld as the cause. The SLAD was installed during the 1988 ships reduced availability (SRA) period to serve the rigid hulled inflatible boat (RHIB) which replaced the motor whale boat.

1989 saw the Kauffman make her maiden Mediterranean deployment with the USS Coral Sea (CV-43), participating in ASW operations with the French Navy and Display Determination. The ports visited included Malaga, Spain, Villefranche, France, Catania, Sicily, Sevastopol, USSR, Istanbul, Turkey, Marseille, France, Palma, Spain, and Ibiza, Spain.

Early 1990 saw the Kauffman in an ships restricted availability (SRA) period where the #1A gas turbine generator and the Mk. 75 76mm gun mount were replaced. A Silver Cutlass Award was won for the Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist (ESWS) program, and the North Carolina Azalea Festival at Wilmington, North Carolina was visited. Kauffman then participated in BALTOPS with port visits to Helsinki, Finland, Kiel, Germany, Gdynia, Poland, Aalborg, Denmark.

During preparations for a forthcoming deployment the Kauffman visited Nassau, Bahamas and shortly after returning command changed to Commander Chapman, USN. 26 April Kauffman deployed on MEF (Middle East Force) 2-91 which included visits to Port Mahon, Spain, Muscat, Oman, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Mina Sulman, Bahrain, Genoa, Italy, Alicante, Spain.

Milestones
completed

1991:, this also included Exercise Indigo Serpent with the Royal Saudi Naval Forces| and Exercise Infinite Shadow with the Royal Jordanian Naval Forces

Commanders
completed