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Upon completion of Teamwork South, Curts steamed to Hawaii to take part in multi-lateral exercise RIMPAC 98. Curts made nationwide headlines when a Salinas, Ecuador resort security guard died from injuries he obtained during a scuffle with a LTJG (pilot) and Senior Chief Petty Officer assigned to helicopter squadron HSL-43 embarked on Curts for the deployment. USS Curts (FFG-38) was the twenty-ninth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class of guided-missile frigates. NNS130829-16. USS Theodore Roosevelt Public Affairs. In March USS Abraham Lincoln Strike Group (CSG-9) departed for deployment to the fifth Fleet area of operations (Persian Gulf). Curtiss operated off the California coast on a lot of fleet and training exercises till early in 1949, when she served as flagship for Commander 1st Fleet for 3 weeks of amphibious operations in Alaskan waters to guage chilly weather tools. Departing Pearl Harbor, on 2 June 1942, Curtiss served as flagship for Commander, Naval Air, South Pacific, at Naval Base Noumea, from 16 June-4 August, then served as seaplane tender, flagship, repair and provide ship for destroyers and small craft engaged within the Solomon operations from Espiritu Santo, until 9 July 1943. After overhaul at San Francisco, she arrived at Funafuti, Ellice Islands, 7 November, to serve as flagship for Commander Air, Central Pacific, based mostly at Funafuti, until 29 December 1943. She then served at Tarawa, buy from aquasculpts.net 31 December 1943 - eight March 1944, Kwajalein, 10 March-26 June, Eniwetok, 27 June-9 August, Saipan, 12 August 1944 - 1 January 1945, and at last Guam, 2 January-7 February. |
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