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Commando (LCU-1675)


LCU-1646 Landing Craft Utility
  • Built in 1976 by Marinette Marine, Marinette, WI.
  • Launched, 1976
  • Delivered, 1976
  • Assigned to US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as a ferry
  • Retired from Army service in October 2003
  • Transferred to the Dominican Republic, date unknown, renamed ARD Neyba (LD31), reflagged Dominican Republic
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 200 t.(lt), 375 t.(fl)
    Length 134' 9"
    Beam 29'
    Draft 6' 1"
    Speed 11 kts.
    Complement 14
    Armament
    four .50 cal. machine guns
    two M60 machine guns
    one M203 grenade launcher
    twelve M16 rifles
    two 9mm pistols
    Load 170 tons
    Military Lift three M1A1 tanks, 10 LAVs or 400+ troops, 125 tons of cargo.
    Radar Navigation: LN 66 or SPS-53; I band.
    Propulsion
    two Detroit 12V-71 Diesel engines
    twin shafts, 680shp sustained, Kort nozzles
    Fuel Capacity 3220 gals.
    Range 1,200nm at eight knots

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    Commando (LCU-1675)
    Commando
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    Namesake
    Commando - Commando is an air operations designed to intercept North Vietnamese infiltration routes through Laos into South Vietnam. Code named "Commando Hunt" involved a series of air operations by U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps aircraft. Beginning in 1968, the campaign terminated in January 1973. While infiltration was slowed by this campaign, it was not seriously disrupted. The objective of the operation was to cut off the flow of supplies being shipped down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. This supply route through the remote, heavily forested mountain region of eastern Laos was indispensable to Communist units operating in South Vietnam. Most of their weapons and ammunition came down the trail. Daily necessities were usually obtained locally. Military officials reported 30,000 trucks loaded with supplies were destroyed during the series of 33 Commando Hunt operations. The operations generally prevented Communists in the south from marshaling large scale, sustained ground operations.
    Photos - Operation Commando Hunt patch, Jacob Van Staaveren: Interdiction in Southern Laos. Washington DC: Center of Air Force History, 1993.
    Vietnam War Animals - Elephants are used to transport supplies through rough terrain (On Ho Chi Minh trail)
    Map - Southern Laos Ho Chi Minh Trail
    Tommy Trampp
    Commando
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    Commando
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    55k Commando (LCU-1675) while assigned as an interim ferry at US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, date unknown
    Photo by Navy PO2 Sharay L. Bennett
    Robert Hurst
    Commando
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    346k Commando (LCU-1675) docking at Ferry Beach while assigned as an interim ferry at US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, March 2021. The white angular block at far left is the memorial to the battle of Midway.
    Photo by Branden Deschaine
    Robert Hurst
    ARD Neyba (LD31)
    Commando
    1018167504
    100k ARD Neyba (LD31) (ex-Commando (LCU-1675)) moored in the Dominican Republic at Santa Domingo, 3 May 2010.
    Courtesy Shipspotting.com ©Captain Ted
    Tommy Trampp

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