Uptown Secuity Cargo Operations
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[Ward Brewer] The former emergency responder is the CEO of Beauchamp Tower Corporation, a non-profit organization with a bold and brilliant idea: convert obsolete, scrapyard-bound military vessels into a fleet of state-of-the-art disaster response ships that can be on-site after a major natural disaster like last yearÃ’s Hurricane Katrina in a matter of hours instead of days. Many of the challenges Beauchamp Tower Corporation have been document Operation Enduring Service on the OES Project Weblog.
Retired Navy veterans such as Mars-class combat stores ships and other obsolete but still-capable cargo ships will be refitted to provide complex emergency communications support that can replace cell phone and radio towers lost in a hurricane, so that on-shore first responders can answer rescue calls even if the local phone and radio systems are destroyed.
These same ships, crewed by the Coast Guard Auxiliary and supported by disaster-aid groups, can bring in hundreds of emergency-response personnel to a disaster zone and provide them housing so that lodging on-shore can be dedicated to the victims of the storm, while bringing thousands of tons of supplies. Each ship will also be capable of distilling, bottling, and shipping thousands of gallons of water and over 100 tons of ice to shore each day.
This humanitarian fleet, what a blog called this Salvation Navy will have far more disaster-response capability than anything currently in use by either FEMA or the military, and here's the kicker it actually saves taxpayers money.
Cincinnati Change added onto that the plan of action to create two fleets that would act as the first African American lead Professional Military Company who would be a contractor to the US government through Operation Enduring Service (OES) which would use these ships. As of the 30th of July 2006 Cincinnati Change has extended the right hand of fellowship to create through a faith based partnership a new company called Uptown Security which will do this action with OES. we have contacted the office of management and Budget and have received direction that we are following in the creation of a for profit company called Uptown Security as a Ohio company based in Cincinnati.
This new company Uptown Security would provide for the construction of over 10 million homes in Africa and the Middle East along with a million homes in the America's through through a AID contract. At the same time we will be creating a million homes (for first responders) in the United States under a federal contract. We will start with housing for 100,000 people within 150 days under a contract proposal as a modification to already establishedgovernment contractst and includes authority and budget granted to the United States Department of Homeland Security, starting 1 October 2006. Cincinnati Change has hired Hargrove Engineering to plan this out.
In part, we would create our FleetCargo Operations around the AFS-1 Mars Combat Stores Ship
The combat stores ship is a class of U.S. Navy ship. They provide supplies, including frozen, chilled and dry provisions, and propulsion and aviation fuel to U.S. Navy combatant ships that are at sea for extended periods of time. Under our plan of action these ships will be among the first full time public private sector faith based partnership supply chain that will stretch from the east and west coast of the United States to around the world.
We will carry relief supplies, general cargo, construction materials, building products, raw materials, students, volunteers, medical personal, and a wide variety of ship to ship stores as American flvesselsessals.
Mars was the first of a new class that was intended to replace three types of supply ships: the AF, AKS, and AVS. Two innovations were Boeing UH‑46 helicopters and an automatic highline shuttle transfer system to make a rapid transfer of supplies possible.
The mission of the combat stores ship is to conduct underway replenishment in support of operating forces by providing refrigerated stores, dry provisions, technical spares, general stores, fleet freight, mail and personnel by alongside or vertical replenishment means.
The AFS-1 Mars Combat Stores ships conduct underway replenishment in support of operating forces by simultaneously providing refrigerated stores, dry provisions, technical (including aviation) spares, general stores, fleet freight, mail, personnel and other items from five station (two starboard and three port). Under our operations they will conduct UNREP for 64 hours per week. Crews will be flown to operational base operations in Liberia.
UNREP hours are considered to commence with "first line over" and terminate with "last line clear." They conduct vertical replenishment in support of operating forces by providing refrigerated stores, dry provisions, technical (including aviation) spares, general stores, fleet freight, mail, personnel and other items from other units or temporarily assigned by periods normally not to exceed 32 hours per week. This includes the time from the setting of flight quarters to securing from flight quarters.
USNS Concord (T-AFS 5) became the first of five Navy Mars class ships to be transferred to Military Sealift Command on Oct. 15, 1992. Mars followed on Feb. 1, 1993, USNS San Diego on Aug. 11, 1993, USNS San Jose on Nov. 2, 1993 and USNS Niagara Falls on Sept. 23, 1994. San Diego was deactivated on Dec. 10, 1997, and Mars was deactivated on Feb. 12, 1998. Mars was decommissioned on 19 February 1998, and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Mars was struck from the Naval Register on 24 May 2004.
We will now ask the president of the United States to allow us to create a fleet operations that will support the reconstruction efforts of the United States around the world with 1,000 partners who will create a ten year plan of action and put 10 billion dollars into the effort. During that period we will build over 40 million sq. ft. of space with a million person workforce with 10,000 faith based partners and non governmental organizations.
MSC's combat stores ships provided logistical support to deployed carrier battle groups and amphibious ready groups, in addition to resupplying several U.S. embassies. During 1999 USNS Niagara Falls and USNS San Jose coordinated fuel and stores replenishments for carrier battle groups USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, USS John C. Stennis, USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Enterprise while in the Persian Gulf.
In addition, Niagara Falls supported efforts that were key to the successful U.S. strikes against terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Sudan. She also provided maritime assistance to ocean tug Ruby II, which needed fresh water and medical services. San Jose rescued 18 crew members from a sinking Panamanian vessel near Okinawa. Finally, USNS Concord provided contingency support off the Florida coast for the Space Shuttle Discovery launch.
Displacement
Light Displacement: 9852 tons
Full Displacement: 17381 tons
Dead Weight: 7529 tons
Length
Overall Length: 581 ft
Waterline Length: 530 ft
Beam
Extreme Beam: 79 ft
Waterline Beam: 79 ft
Draft
Maximum Navigational Draft: 27 ft
Draft Limit: 28 ft
Speed
20 knots
Power Plant
Three boilers with steam turbines
one shaft
22,000 shaft horsepower
Aircraft
Two UH-46 Sea Knight helicopters
Complement
Officers: 42
Enlisted: 445
Up to 2,000 houses to be built for crew who operates fleet year round in Empowerment Zone Cities. This operation will pump over 500 million dollars into the local economey over the next decade. Uptown Security will work with established governmental contractors in 20 states and their local governments to create reality of the plan of action being implimented by Operation Enduring Service. On August 2 2006 we will publically ask for the city of Cincinnati to hold hearings to determine if Cincinnati Change should be granted a contract based on their request to develop Uptown Security and provide jobs for over 1,200 seamen who will live in Cincinnati. We will have 800 students in our regional Maritime Academy in the 2007/8 school year.
Builder
Queen City Navy Partnership, LLC
[Ward Brewer] The former emergency responder is the CEO of Beauchamp Tower Corporation, a non-profit organization with a bold and brilliant idea: convert obsolete, scrapyard-bound military vessels into a fleet of state-of-the-art disaster response ships that can be on-site after a major natural disaster like last yearÃ’s Hurricane Katrina in a matter of hours instead of days. Many of the challenges Beauchamp Tower Corporation have been document Operation Enduring Service on the OES Project Weblog.
Retired Navy veterans such as Mars-class combat stores ships and other obsolete but still-capable cargo ships will be refitted to provide complex emergency communications support that can replace cell phone and radio towers lost in a hurricane, so that on-shore first responders can answer rescue calls even if the local phone and radio systems are destroyed.
These same ships, crewed by the Coast Guard Auxiliary and supported by disaster-aid groups, can bring in hundreds of emergency-response personnel to a disaster zone and provide them housing so that lodging on-shore can be dedicated to the victims of the storm, while bringing thousands of tons of supplies. Each ship will also be capable of distilling, bottling, and shipping thousands of gallons of water and over 100 tons of ice to shore each day.
This humanitarian fleet, what a blog called this Salvation Navy will have far more disaster-response capability than anything currently in use by either FEMA or the military, and here's the kicker it actually saves taxpayers money.
Cincinnati Change added onto that the plan of action to create two fleets that would act as the first African American lead Professional Military Company who would be a contractor to the US government through Operation Enduring Service (OES) which would use these ships. As of the 30th of July 2006 Cincinnati Change has extended the right hand of fellowship to create through a faith based partnership a new company called Uptown Security which will do this action with OES. we have contacted the office of management and Budget and have received direction that we are following in the creation of a for profit company called Uptown Security as a Ohio company based in Cincinnati.
This new company Uptown Security would provide for the construction of over 10 million homes in Africa and the Middle East along with a million homes in the America's through through a AID contract. At the same time we will be creating a million homes (for first responders) in the United States under a federal contract. We will start with housing for 100,000 people within 150 days under a contract proposal as a modification to already establishedgovernment contractst and includes authority and budget granted to the United States Department of Homeland Security, starting 1 October 2006. Cincinnati Change has hired Hargrove Engineering to plan this out.
In part, we would create our FleetCargo Operations around the AFS-1 Mars Combat Stores Ship
The combat stores ship is a class of U.S. Navy ship. They provide supplies, including frozen, chilled and dry provisions, and propulsion and aviation fuel to U.S. Navy combatant ships that are at sea for extended periods of time. Under our plan of action these ships will be among the first full time public private sector faith based partnership supply chain that will stretch from the east and west coast of the United States to around the world.
We will carry relief supplies, general cargo, construction materials, building products, raw materials, students, volunteers, medical personal, and a wide variety of ship to ship stores as American flvesselsessals.
Mars was the first of a new class that was intended to replace three types of supply ships: the AF, AKS, and AVS. Two innovations were Boeing UH‑46 helicopters and an automatic highline shuttle transfer system to make a rapid transfer of supplies possible.
The mission of the combat stores ship is to conduct underway replenishment in support of operating forces by providing refrigerated stores, dry provisions, technical spares, general stores, fleet freight, mail and personnel by alongside or vertical replenishment means.
The AFS-1 Mars Combat Stores ships conduct underway replenishment in support of operating forces by simultaneously providing refrigerated stores, dry provisions, technical (including aviation) spares, general stores, fleet freight, mail, personnel and other items from five station (two starboard and three port). Under our operations they will conduct UNREP for 64 hours per week. Crews will be flown to operational base operations in Liberia.
UNREP hours are considered to commence with "first line over" and terminate with "last line clear." They conduct vertical replenishment in support of operating forces by providing refrigerated stores, dry provisions, technical (including aviation) spares, general stores, fleet freight, mail, personnel and other items from other units or temporarily assigned by periods normally not to exceed 32 hours per week. This includes the time from the setting of flight quarters to securing from flight quarters.
USNS Concord (T-AFS 5) became the first of five Navy Mars class ships to be transferred to Military Sealift Command on Oct. 15, 1992. Mars followed on Feb. 1, 1993, USNS San Diego on Aug. 11, 1993, USNS San Jose on Nov. 2, 1993 and USNS Niagara Falls on Sept. 23, 1994. San Diego was deactivated on Dec. 10, 1997, and Mars was deactivated on Feb. 12, 1998. Mars was decommissioned on 19 February 1998, and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Mars was struck from the Naval Register on 24 May 2004.
We will now ask the president of the United States to allow us to create a fleet operations that will support the reconstruction efforts of the United States around the world with 1,000 partners who will create a ten year plan of action and put 10 billion dollars into the effort. During that period we will build over 40 million sq. ft. of space with a million person workforce with 10,000 faith based partners and non governmental organizations.
MSC's combat stores ships provided logistical support to deployed carrier battle groups and amphibious ready groups, in addition to resupplying several U.S. embassies. During 1999 USNS Niagara Falls and USNS San Jose coordinated fuel and stores replenishments for carrier battle groups USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, USS John C. Stennis, USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Enterprise while in the Persian Gulf.
In addition, Niagara Falls supported efforts that were key to the successful U.S. strikes against terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Sudan. She also provided maritime assistance to ocean tug Ruby II, which needed fresh water and medical services. San Jose rescued 18 crew members from a sinking Panamanian vessel near Okinawa. Finally, USNS Concord provided contingency support off the Florida coast for the Space Shuttle Discovery launch.
Displacement
Light Displacement: 9852 tons
Full Displacement: 17381 tons
Dead Weight: 7529 tons
Length
Overall Length: 581 ft
Waterline Length: 530 ft
Beam
Extreme Beam: 79 ft
Waterline Beam: 79 ft
Draft
Maximum Navigational Draft: 27 ft
Draft Limit: 28 ft
Speed
20 knots
Power Plant
Three boilers with steam turbines
one shaft
22,000 shaft horsepower
Aircraft
Two UH-46 Sea Knight helicopters
Complement
Officers: 42
Enlisted: 445
Up to 2,000 houses to be built for crew who operates fleet year round in Empowerment Zone Cities. This operation will pump over 500 million dollars into the local economey over the next decade. Uptown Security will work with established governmental contractors in 20 states and their local governments to create reality of the plan of action being implimented by Operation Enduring Service. On August 2 2006 we will publically ask for the city of Cincinnati to hold hearings to determine if Cincinnati Change should be granted a contract based on their request to develop Uptown Security and provide jobs for over 1,200 seamen who will live in Cincinnati. We will have 800 students in our regional Maritime Academy in the 2007/8 school year.
Builder
Queen City Navy Partnership, LLC
