The Navy has a floating barracks that is somehow worse than living on an actual ship
They lack a means of propulsion, armaments, or soul.
By Kyle Gunn Updated Jul 26, 2021 7:48 PM
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The Navy has a floating barracks that is somehow worse than living on an actual ship
The Navy’s newest berthing barge, Auxiliary Personnel Lighter (APL) 67 sailed away from VT Halter Marine’s shipyard this week en route to Naval Base San Diego. APL 67 will eventually be delivered to Yokosuka, Japan.
Life on a Navy ship is not known for being a comfortable and enjoyable experience. It is crowded, loud, smelly, and generally miserable. But if the U.S. military teaches you anything, it is that things always have the potential to get worse.
Enter the Auxiliary Personnel Lighter (APL), the Navy’s solution for temporarily housing sailors when their warships are uninhabitable because of repairs, giant fires, or anything else that would keep them ashore for longer than usual.
Also known as a Berthing and Messing Barge, the floating barracks is essentially an 82-meter long gray-white building the Navy can place on the water that has no means of propulsion, armaments, or soul.
The Navy’s newest berthing barge, APL-67, sailed from VT Halter Marine’s Mississippi shipyard this week en route to Naval Base San Diego for its eventual delivery to Yokosuka, Japan.
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