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The private sector could soon own a Navy ship
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3-13-2009 7:45 PM
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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://moaablogs.org/inside/2009/03/disaster-response/"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>The private sector could soon own a Navy ship to lay the hull of its own disaster-preparedness fleet. </SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://moaablogs.org/inside/2009/03/disaster-response/"><SPAN>A certain Virginia senator, on behalf of a constituent, has asked Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano about the possibility that the <A href="http://www.tarawa.navy.mil/default.aspx"><EM>USS Tarawa</EM> (LHA-1)</A><SPAN> </SPAN>could be turned over to an emergency-preparedness nonprofit to commence a second career as a “mobile, state-of-the-art disaster-response platform.” </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://moaablogs.org/inside/2009/03/disaster-response/">In a three-page manifesto, the Virginia-based constituent outlined a plan somewhat akin to maritime pre-positioning — but in private hands. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://moaablogs.org/inside/2009/03/disaster-response/">The <EM>Tarawa</EM> would become a part of the Maritime Emergency Preparedness Project.<SPAN></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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