scholarly journals Efficacy of Medical Operations and Layout Planning Onboard Nontraditional US Navy Vessels at High Seas

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron Lindemann ◽  
Tuan Hoang ◽  
Eric Pierce ◽  
Reginald Franciose ◽  
Mathew Pena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Damage Control ◽  
Link Analysis ◽  
Emergency Rooms ◽  
Delivery Of Care ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Navy ◽  
Naval Ship ◽  
Surgical Teams ◽  
In Transit ◽  
High Seas

Abstract Introduction: Attempting to expedite delivery of care to wounded war fighters, this study aimed to quantify the ability of medical and surgical teams to perform lifesaving damage control and resuscitation procedures aboard nontraditional US Navy Vessels on high seas. Specifically, it looked at the ability of the teams to perform procedures in shipboard operating and emergency rooms by analyzing motion of personnel during the procedures. Methods: One hundred and twelve damage control and resuscitation procedures were performed during a voyage of the US Naval Ship Brunswick in transit from Norfolk, Virginia, to San Diego, California. The ability of personnel to perform these procedures was quantified by the use of motion link analysis designed to track the movement of each participant as they completed their assigned tasks. Results: The link analysis showed no significant change in the number of movements of participants from the beginning to the end of the study. However, there was a learning effect observed during the study, with teams completing tasks faster at the end of the study than at the beginning. Conclusion: This shows that the working conditions aboard the US Naval Ship Brunswick were satisfactory for the assigned tasks, indicating that these medical operations may be feasible aboard nontraditional US Navy vessels.

The Benefits and Cost Impact of Aluminum Naval Ship Structure

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (01) ◽  
pp. 35-49
Author(s):  
Thomas Lamb ◽  
Nathaniel Beavers ◽  
Thomas Ingram ◽  
Anton Schmieman
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
Steel Structure ◽  
Cost Comparison ◽  
Aluminum Production ◽  
Ship Structure ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Navy ◽  
Naval Ship ◽  
Total Life

Due to budget pressure and a growing diversity of mission requirements, the US Navy is in need of affordable and operation-flexible ships. This paper presents an acquisition and total life cycle cost comparison of steel and aluminum equivalent naval ship designs. A common perception is that aluminum ships cost significantly more than steel ships. This paper illustrates that even though the cost of the equivalent aluminum ship structure is 40% more than the steel structure, the equivalent aluminum naval ship can be built within just 7.5% of the acquisition price of the steel ship. This is possible because of the cascading benefits of the aluminum ship's significantly lighter weight. Advances in aluminum technology and new facilities in the shipyards for aluminum production are further improving the acquisition cost of aluminum ship. From a total life cycle cost perspective, aluminum ships enjoy a clear advantage over steel ships, the details of which are provided in this paper. Based on the findings presented in the paper, it is suggested that the US Navy should consider broadening its use of aluminum ships.

Navigating the Proliferation Security Initiative and Informal Sponsorship

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Reich ◽  
Peter Dombrowski
Keyword(s):  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Global Campaign ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Navy ◽  
Proliferation Security Initiative ◽  
The Military ◽  
Chemical Materials ◽  
High Seas

This chapter examines an informal variant of a sponsorship strategy. It focuses on the case of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), a global campaign designed to combat the smuggling of nuclear, biological and chemical materials and related component parts. The chapter begins with an vignette involving the interception of a North Korean vessel on the high seas suspected of carrying missile technology by a member of the US’ Seventh Fleet – and the vessel’s return to its home port. The chapter then describes and explains the military importance of the PSI, the informal coalition’s (numbering 130 states) rejection of American leadership, and yet the pivotal role nonetheless played by the US Navy in collaboration with a variety of countries.

scholarly journals Preparing Austere Maritime Surgical Teams for Deployment During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic: Is It Time to Change the Training Pipeline?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego A Vicente ◽  
Obinna Ugochukwu ◽  
Michael G Johnston ◽  
Chad Craft ◽  
Virginia Damin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Damage Control ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
Damage Control Resuscitation ◽  
Medical Department ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
Surgical Teams ◽  
Compare And Contrast

ABSTRACT Introduction Navy Medicine's Role 2 Light Maneuver (R2LM) Emergency Resuscitative Surgical Systems (ERSS) are austere surgical teams manned, trained, and equipped to provide life-saving damage control resuscitation and surgery in any environment on land or sea. Given the restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the previously established pre-deployment training pipeline for was modified to prepare a new R2LM team augmenting a Role 1 shipboard medical department. Methods The modified curriculum created in response to COVID-19 related restriction is compared and contrasted to the established pre-deployment R2LM ERSS curriculum. Subject Matter Experts and currently deployed R2LM members critically evaluate the two curricula. Results Both curricula included the team R2LM platform training and exposure to cadaver based team trauma skills training. The modified curriculum included didactics on shipboard resuscitation, anesthesia and surgery, shipboard COVID-19 management, and prolonged field care in austere maritime environments. Conclusions We describe Navy Medicines R2LM ERSS capability and compare and contrast the standard R2LM pre-COVID-19 curriculum to the modified curriculum. Central to both curricula, the standard R2LM platform training is important for developing and honing team dynamics, communication skills and fluid leadership; important for the successful function austere surgical teams. Several opportunities for improvement in the pre-deployment training were identified for R2LM teams augmenting shipboard Role 1 medical departments.

Immersive terrain: the US Navy, Sealab and Cold War undersea geopolitics

Area ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 332-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Squire
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Navy

Use of Polysiloxane Coatings for Topside Applications on US Navy Ships

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Peter Ault ◽  
Pete Lockwood ◽  
Robert Cloutier ◽  
David Kinee
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
High Durability ◽  
Marine Industry ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Navy ◽  
Oxidation Resistant ◽  
Marine Applications ◽  
Type V

Polysiloxane coatings are the most recent high performance coatings developed to take advantage of the heat and oxidation resistant properties of silicone-based materials. Commercially available polysiloxane coatings predominately consist of organic-inorganic siloxane materials (though some pure siloxane materials are available). Recently, the US Navy has approved polysiloxane coatings as “High Durability” in their specification for exterior weather resistant coatings (MIL-PRF-24635 Type V and VI). Navy approval comes after over 20 years of industry development of polysiloxane coatings for high performance industrial and marine applications, yet issues remain with their cost-effective implementation in the Navy fleet. This paper will review experiences of the offshore and marine industry with polysiloxane coatings and provide an update on the Navy adoption of the technology.

A Duet for Sailors and Pansies: Queer Archival Work and Male Same-Sex Dancing in Follow the Fleet (1936) and Other Depression-Era Films

2021 ◽  
pp. 186-213
Author(s):  
David Lugowski
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Hollywood Films ◽  
Production Code ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Navy ◽  
Mass Entertainment ◽  
Archival Work ◽  
Depression Era

This chapter explores a queer all-male dance lesson for partnered sailors in the Fred Astaire–Ginger Rogers musical Follow the Fleet (1936), using archival research (scripts, Production Code Administration records) and comparative textual and contextual analysis. It raises the queerness of Rogers and Astaire before exploring two intersecting axes. The association of sailors with queer behavior and effeminate “pansies” occurs in military scandals, paintings, and Depression-era Hollywood films, including Sailor’s Luck and Son of a Sailor (both 1933). The queerness of male same-sex dancing arises in ballet and in film, including Suicide Fleet (1931). Various institutions criticized or attempted to censor such representations, but they also found acceptance. The US Navy, for example, wanted the comical dance lesson removed from Fleet; instead, it was only rewritten, suggesting the inability to remove queerness from culture and its essential role in mass entertainment.

Tumblehome Ships - From Greek Triremes to the Zumwalt

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Forrest Roddy
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
Steam Power ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
Damage Stability ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Navy ◽  
Major Loss

After almost a century the US Navy has reintroduced tumblehome into the design of naval combatants. This paper discusses some of the reasons tumblehome was originally designed into ships and why it served it owners well for many centuries. The transition from sail to steam power a little over a century ago led to a variety of problems with the combatant ships designed with tumblehome where the lack of damage stability caused a major loss of life as these ships sank so quickly. During World War I ships designed with tumblehome fell out of favor and some of the ships were actually modified to remove the tumblehome from the design. These changes in the design of tumblehome ships are discussed in this paper.

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