The USS Momsen is one of four Navy warships participating in this year’s Northern Edge training exercise. It got a warm welcome in Homer last week, with community members hosting a fish fry on the docks and boarding the ship for tours.
Anticipation ashore was high last week, as a large crowd of Homer residents — about half of them kids — gathered to greet the guided missile destroyer USS Momsen.
“It’s very loud when it gets fired, it shakes up the whole ship. But, this is one of our main weapons on the ship,” Teves said. “And of course, right behind it are our missile launchers.”The Momsen is one of the Navy’s 70 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, which specialize in combat at sea. It’s equipped with a variety of missiles, torpedoes, naval guns and automatic weapons to engage aircraft, ships, submarines and land targets.
A group of kids to the front of the tour surveyed the flat deck, and asked the question: “Where are the missiles?” The USS Momsen was first deployed in 2006. It’s named after Vice Adm. Charles B. Momsen, inventor of the Momsen lung — one of the first underwater oxygen tanks used by soldiers during World War II.
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