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Upon completion of Teamwork South, Curts steamed to Hawaii to participate in multi-lateral exercise RIMPAC 98. Curts made nationwide headlines when a Salinas, Ecuador resort security guard died from accidents he acquired throughout a scuffle with a LTJG (pilot) and Senior Chief Petty Officer assigned to helicopter squadron HSL-forty three 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 quite a few fleet and coaching workout routines until early in 1949, when she served as flagship for Commander 1st Fleet for three 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-four August, then served as seaplane tender, flagship, repair energy and fat burning supply ship for destroyers and small craft engaged within the Solomon operations from Espiritu Santo, till 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, from 31 December 1943 - 8 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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