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OS1 Mark Johnson
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OS1 Mark Johnson
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Sailor's Title: DESRON OPS ALPO
APO/FPO: FPO AP (Note 1*)
Added here: 19 June 2012
End date: 11 Oct 2012 (Note 3*)
Contact for approx number of Males: 66, Females: 32 (Note 5*)
Unit is from: Composite Unit (Note 6*)
We welcome OS1 Mark Johnson back!!  Old page is HERE.

Note: OS1 Mark Johnson was dropped from this list on 10 Nov 2012 due to 60 days of no contact.

11 Sep 2012:
Thanks for everything!

17 Jul 2012

Good afternoon!

We are off the coast in the Philippines, doing medical, veterinary, and dental missions with the locals, as well as the Chaplains and their folks participating in COMREL’s, or community relations. I have attached a couple of photo’s that are approved for release.

I am in the OPS (operations) department, and don’t get to go off the ship with the medical folks or the others, but it’s ok. We coordinate the movement of people, cargo, and the force protection for all the people coming and going ashore.

I get emails from home, telling me about all the great things that are being done on the ship, all the operations, surgeries, procedures, etc., but never get to see any of it firsthand. We are in the Operations Control Center and see monitors and white boards, tracking numbers.

With the small boats, helos, and partner nation ships, it is busy. There are a lot, A LOT of moving pieces in this puzzle and we are the ones who are trying to keep them all straight, and everybody accounted for and where they are supposed to be.

We have a partner nation group from Japan with one of their warships here, and it is really cool to see and work with them. Despite the language barriers, they are kind and helpful, and interesting to be around and work with. If you “google” the Oosumi, you can see their ship and the LCAC’s that they are providing to help move patients and staff back and forth. Although their ship seems HUGE at almost 600ft long, ours remains almost a whole football field longer. The MERCY is 894ft long, almost the size of a carrier.

The USNS MERCY is one of the two Hospital Ships of the Navy. Both ships are maintained by the Military Sealift Command and are part of the Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force (NFAF). We possess a surgery with 12 operating theaters, an intensive-care unit with 80 beds and 1000 further beds.

I never knew the MERCY existed until I was up for orders on her. It has been an interesting trip so far, and A LOT of adjustment to “living at sea”. I have a new respect for those Navy folks that do this every day. I don’t know if I could. I prefer the desert.

Our mail here is once in a blue moon, we have received mail once since we left Pearl Harbor, but when we do and you have questions or want pictures, I will do the best that I can to answer quickly.

Pacific Partnership has a blog thing that is updated each day (I guess), that outlines points of interest that are happening aboard and at the ports that we are working at. The link is here, and it has a lot of really neat stuff. http://pacificpartnership.wordpress.com/

This is the first time I have done a Navy deployment that was not “warfare”, and it is a new turn for me!

We received our first mail call since my initial posting, and there was mail for me! Yippee!!

Thank you Heather C. from Hot Springs, SD. It sounds like you have your hands full with the kids and your awesome pets, so thank you for taking a minute to write us!

Allison B. from Farmington CT, wow! You spend a lot of time and effort supporting troops all over the world! Don’t think for a minute that what you do is not appreciated! You are raising your sons to be responsible and patriotic adults, and THAT is important.

Jennifer G, from Deltona FL, OMG! You NAILED the package! Everything that you sent was grabbed up like kids on Christmas morning! Our night watchstanders hit that package the very same night it arrived and are so thankful, Thank you SO much!

Susan K, from St. Paul, thank you for your hygiene items! The foot powder and spray went in 30 seconds and is GREATLY appreciated (so was the deodorant, LOL). The snacks were evenly distributed, and were gone in seconds too!

And Kathi M, from Holy Spirit Church, thank you for the magazines, snacks, personal hygiene things, and the CANDY!! I am the oldest of the group, and everyone OWNED the candy as soon as it came out of the box!

It is nice to receive letters and packages from home. Most of us are single and don’t have a lot of folks at home writing or sending care packages, so it is VERY cool to receive surprises! from home! Although we have people going ashore at the mission ports, the areas that we are in are mostly desolate, and most times VERY impoverished. There are not exactly McDonalds, Walgreens, or 7-11’s on every corner. We see a lot of jungle, and not the urban kind J.

If you are interested in photos of something in particular, I can not guarantee, but I can try and post them here with my updates. It is the least I can do for all of you that are trying to help us.

Thank you all for reading my rambling here and for supporting us.

20 Jun 2012

19 Jun 2012
Hello again!

My lastest, greatest deployment is aboard the USNS Mercy for Pacific Partnership 12!

We are a mixture of Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and a slew of volunteers, NGO's, and partner nations.

We are doing a medical humanitarian aid mission which the Navy participates in each year, one year to Asia (ours) with the Mercy, and alternate years to South America with the Comfort.

I am attached to a group from Destroyer Squadron 7 which is handling OPS. We manage the movement of personnel, patients, and handle Force Protection for the ship and in port.

We have nearly XXXX folks aboard all total, but my group numbers just under XXXX. We are complied from a couple of different ships, as well as MANY reservists who were recalled to help the medical teams or in Operations like myself.

Shipboard life is not the fun that was promised... If you have seen my past posts while I was in the middle east, you will know that this is a totally new experience for me, and it has been if nothing else, different.

We have several berthing areas on the ship, with about 112 men or women in 10 different bays. It is tight. The "racks" are triple high bunk beds lined up in rows 8 deep. There is barely room to turn around, and the racks are called "coffin racks" for good reason!

There is a small ship store, but after 2 weeks, it is about cleaned out.

I feel bad, most of the younger ones with us have not packed for a 6 month cruise before and have pretty much ran out of all the essentials. Since "this isn't my first rodeo", I am helping where I can, but our mission ports are months apart which make supplies scarce.

We could really use some athletes foot spray or powder, deodorants, or just about any hygiene items that you can think of. You can use your imagination, its like a bunch of locker rooms with 122 each.

Snacks are almost non-existant since the store was wiped out, so ANYTHING would be GREATLY appreciated too, especially coffee.

Thank you all!

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