Evidently the Philippine Marines stationed there subsist on Coca-Cola and Dunkin Donuts.As the Harnett County, “LST-821 earned one battle star for World War II service. Additionally, Harnett County earned nine battle stars, two awards of the Presidential Unit Citation, and three awards of the Navy Unit Commendation for the Vietnam War.” Who could have guessed when she was laid down in September, 1944, that having survived the Pacific War and Vietnam, she would would still be in service, the pivot of a geopolitical struggle in the South China sea nearly 70 years later.
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For you naval types, a story of a WWII LST, still on duty in the Phillipines.
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Re: Old 821
...and pork adobo I'm sure. 
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