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From: jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: US Navy Question
Summary: Land-Locked Ship?
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Date: 10 Apr 91 14:47:56 GMT
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From: jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov


>LLS-1 U.S.S. DESERT SHIP LLS-1
>My question, is this the way the Navy refers to it's land bases? Can someone 
>explain the designation please?

I think (he said as thin ice crackled underfoot) that this is a unique
designator that stands for something like Land-Locked Ship.  She's at
White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico.

--Joe