USS Rushmore (LSD-47) is a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was the second navy ship to be named for the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She is the seventh ship in her class of dock landing ships and the fourth ship in that class to serve in the United States Pacific Fleet.
The USS Rushmore at NS Pearl Harbor during RIMPAC (2004).
U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo is a United States Navy base, in Sasebo, Japan, on the island of Kyūshū. It provides facilities for the logistic support of forward-deployed units and visiting operating forces of the United States Pacific Fleet and designated tenant activities.
Logo displayed on the front gate of US Fleet Activities-Sasebo, Japan
USFA Sasebo looking south, 2008
Cmdr. Mark Lukken plots a course on the chart table aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD-2), SASEBO, Japan (8 June 2010)