Posted:
March 23, 2015
Captain Don Pigott, master on the USNS Pililaau, received the following message from Commodore Paul Harvey, Military Sealift Command Far East. The LMSR is operated for MSC by General Dynamics American Overseas Marine and is manned in all licensed positions by American Maritime Officers.
To Captain Pigott and crew of the USNS Pililaau. I wanted to express my absolute appreciation for your short-notice, yet flawless, execution of Exercise Cobra Gold. Your ship was called upon at the last minute for this mission and you adapted and performed marvelously. Your superb management of cargo operations was unsurpassed and I am especially grateful for your time and dedication to host and provide valuable shipboard cargo training to a number of U.S. Marines. Your efforts directly and significantly contributed to the overall success of the exercise. You are true professionals who perfectly demonstrate the motto of MSC: We deliver. BZ on a job exceptionally well done.
Officers, crew of USNS Pililaau commended for flawless service in Cobra Gold
Captain Don Pigott, master on the USNS Pililaau, received the following message from Commodore Paul Harvey, Military Sealift Command Far East. The LMSR is operated for MSC by General Dynamics American Overseas Marine and is manned in all licensed positions by American Maritime Officers.
To Captain Pigott and crew of the USNS Pililaau. I wanted to express my absolute appreciation for your short-notice, yet flawless, execution of Exercise Cobra Gold. Your ship was called upon at the last minute for this mission and you adapted and performed marvelously. Your superb management of cargo operations was unsurpassed and I am especially grateful for your time and dedication to host and provide valuable shipboard cargo training to a number of U.S. Marines. Your efforts directly and significantly contributed to the overall success of the exercise. You are true professionals who perfectly demonstrate the motto of MSC: We deliver. BZ on a job exceptionally well done.