Sailors at the Navy’s only active-duty cargo-wrangling unit, at Cheatham Annex in Yorktown, keep their go-bags packed, ready to go on a mission on 72 hours notice missions that can take them to the ends of the earth.
All in all, the Cheatham Annex sailors moved nearly 7 million pounds of supplies some 503 pieces of cargo including containers, vehicles, construction materials, electronics equipment, and also a modular building over the past few months.