USS Yellowstone (AD-41)

During this deployment, the Repair Department, under simulated wartime conditions, completed over 100 jobs during a three-day anchorage in Scapa Flow, Scotland.In 1984, Yellowstone deployed for a second time for NATO exercise United Effort-Teamwork "84", Yellowstone completed over 300 jobs, sending "Tiger Teams" of repair personnel to other ships and providing logistic support by transferring repair parts and supplies and pumping fuel and water to ships of the task force.Dedicating more than 119,088 man-hours throughout her four-month deployment, Yellowstone crewmembers completed more than 3,400 jobs through 17 major alongside repair availabilities on ships and 45 fly-away teams.During the Gulf War, the destroyer tenders Yellowstone (AD-41), and Acadia (AD-42) were deployed to provide the logistic requirements of a sustained naval presence.Based in the Red Sea port of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Yellowstone provided critical repair and rearming capability to the fleet.
Yellowstone servicing the USS Thomas C. Hart off Norway, 1984.
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