Duty Calls: Delanson native helps keep Navy ships combat ready
Terry Brown
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A Navy reservist from Delanson has been mobilized to help keep ships combat ready.
Chief Petty Officer Michael Foster has a role in the largest mobilization of reservists in the Naval Sea Systems Command’s history, according to Danna Eddy, a Navy spokeswoman. Foster, a Delanson native and 2001 Hornell High School graduate, is helping to maintain and repair ships, and submarines at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine.
He is one of 2,200 enlisted reserve sailors and 240 reserve officers available from more than 75 units across the country for Surge Maintenance. The SurgeMain program mobilization is in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Eddy.