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Meet the 'Backbone of the Navy': The sailors who keep things running aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln
CLANK, CLANK, CLANK … The overwhelming power is hard to describe as a 30-ton Mark 2 Navy Stockless anchor and its over ... Boatswain's Mates (BM), one of the Navy's oldest original ratings ...
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A second mate explains how cargo ships 'race to anchor' outside backlogged ports and vie for spots in weeks-long lines
A merchant marine said the shipping crisis has turned leisurely trips between nearby ports into races. Second mate Bryan Boyle ... process has become a "race to anchor" for some.