📸 🇺🇸 USS Mount Whitney enters the Black Sea: After a port visit in Istanbul 🇹🇷, U.S. Sixth Fleet flagship, Blue Ridge-class amphibious command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20), also serving as the Afloat Command Platform (ACP) of Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO), transited Istanbul strait today, November 4, 2021 and entered Black Sea, following USS Porter and USNS John Lenthall.
Forward-deployed to Gaeta, Italy, Mount Whitney was built in 1970 at Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia 🇺🇸.
