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I'm helping some of my deck buddies grease down a cable, used in UNREPS. I forget what that stands for now, I think it meant underway Replentishment At Sea.
I was stationed on the USS Niagara Falls AFS 3. It's currently being used by civilian Merchant Marines. It includes probably about 35 U.S. Naval Personnel, and about 300 civilian Merchant Marines.
The Niagara Falls is a supply ship that supplies anything and everything to the fleet, all while out to sea.
There's not to many nations that understand the concept of what we did, or better yet, how we did it.
To transfer all that cargo, from amunition, to water, fuel, clothing, produce of all kinds, snacks and everything else you can think of, we had it on board ship.
During war times and peace times the Russians would spy on this process of replentishing all the fleet while at sea. They would come up from behind us in a Submarine to find out how we did this transfer of cargo while underway. I'm not sure, but I don't think they know to this day how we transfer cargo at sea.
Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/50321
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