The U.S. Army Vessel General Brehon B. Somervell (LSV-3) is a General Frank S. Besson, Jr.-class Logistics Support Vessel. The ship and its five class cohorts were built by VT Halter Marine, (formerly Moss Point Marine) of Gulfport, Mississippi. It is named for General Brehon B. Somervell, the Commanding General of the United States Army Service Forces in World War II. The vessel is currently home-ported in Tacoma, Washington, and is assigned to the 805th Transportation Detachment (U.S. Army Reserve).
Famous quotes containing the word general:
“The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of the Ozarks! He is the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the smallpox on his mother’s side!”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)