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FLAG SHIPS MAKE REFUEL HISTORY
With the US Second Fleet--For the first time in U.S. Navy History,
the flagships of both the Second Fleet and Sixth Fleet have refueled
simultaneously while steaming in the Mediterraneans Sea.
The event took place after two days of conferences between Second
and Sixth Fleet Staff Officers a Poliensa Bay, Majorca.
The guided missile cruiser Uss Springfield (CLG-7) flagship of Vice
Admiral Charles K. Duncan, Commander Second Fleet and Commander of NATO'S
Striking Fleet Atlantic, was winding up a two-month deployment to several
European ports before returning to her home Port of Norfolk.
The USS Littlerock (CLG-4) is the flag ship of Vice Admiral William I.
Martin, Commander Sixth Fleet and NATO'S Striking Force South.
The refueling was done by the Fleet Oiler Uss Chikaskia (AO-54) a
member of Service Squadron Four, U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
Besides the first time the two Flagships had refueled together, it was
also the first time in a number of years that these two Three-Star Fleet
Commanders had gotten together to discuss the aspects of their various
operations. The meeeting was the last of several conferences with European NATO
and Navy Commands for thew Second Fleet staff before returning to
Norfolk. The European deployment took them to Portsmouth, England:
Amsterdam in the Netherlands: Lisbon, Portugal and Barcelona Spain.
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