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Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Louis Rojas
Flight Operations USS Ponce
Commander Task Force 56
March 7, 2013 | 3:48
U.S. 5TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY, At Sea (Mar 7, 2013) Civil service mariners assigned to the Afloat Forward Staging Base (Interim) USS Ponce (AFSB(I) 15) conduct flight operations onboard the flight deck. Formerly
designated as an amphibious transport dock (LPD), Ponce was recently
converted and reclassified to fulfill a longstanding U.S. Central Command
request for an Afloat Forward Staging Base to be forward deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.
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