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Left: Crewmembers carry supplies aboard the Crowley-managed USNS PFC Eugene A. Obregon dry cargo ship. the region for training. And, as a result of the 2006 U.S./Japan "Roadmap for Realignment Implementation Agreement," Crowley was responsible for the transport and delivery of three gantry port cranes to Apra Bay, Guam, in support of the U.S. military's shift in operations from Okinawa. The company has also carried military relief cargoes to Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Central America and has been involved in various military tows, assists and even scuttling of disabled, scrapped or retiring aircraft carriers, battleships and the like. Throughout the years, Crowley has helped with clean up and equipment removal following Desert Storm; served as the U.S. Postal Service's contracted carrier for mail deliveries between the U.S. and the Virgin Islands; delivered 12,000 tons of aggregate and sand to Kwaljalein Atoll from Masan, South Korea for the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers' construction of a motor pool facility; transported modular office buildings, locker rooms and containers for Schofield Barracks in Oahu; and even helped clear Johnston Island of human habitation for its return to a bird sanctuary as it was originally deemed by President Coolidge. The Service Today In 2015, Crowley streamlined its service offerings through the formalization of government services as a new, stand- alone business segment. Consolidating the group now allows Crowley, and its personnel, to better serve customers in this unique contracting segment. "Establishing this new, focused business group helps Crowley to enhance its services for the government – a uniquely distinct customer base," said Todd Busch, senior vice president and general manager, technical services. Establishing this new, focused business group helps Crowley to enhance its services for the government – a uniquely distinct customer base." transporting goods and materials to support the resupply of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line installations. The project, was part of a radar and defense communication system located in remote areas along the Alaskan coastline, in the Bering Sea and the Aleutians – a small chain of islands separating the Bering Sea from the Pacific Ocean. For 40 years, under contract with the Navy Superintendent of Salvage (SUPSALV), Crowley has supplemented the Navy's salvage, diving, and search and recovery capabilities in the Pacific Ocean. Some of the projects have been very high profile, including the Air Alaska wreck recovery, and the recovery and relocation of Ehime Maru, which sank when it was struck by a Navy submarine practicing an emergency surfacing maneuver off the coast of Hawaii. Other jobs have included varying degrees of ship salvage engineering, wreck removal, oil spill contingency planning, and development and modification of salvage firefighting equipment. "Our work has taken our assets and personnel from the most remote part of the DEW line at Fort Yukon in Alaska to Soto Cano in Honduras to Johnston Atoll in the middle of the Pacific and around to Apra Bay in Guam," said Golonka. For example, Crowley provided a myriad of logistics services to the U.S. base in Soto Cano, Honduras, which was originally opened in 1984 to counter the regional Soviet destabilization in Nicaragua, but is now home to Joint Task Force Bravo and serves to coordinate the deployment of troops to 10