News July 3rd 2014

Pago Pago, American Samoa native serves aboard USS Harry S. Truman

Pago Pago, American Samoa native serves aboard USS Harry S. Truman

July 3rd, 2014

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jasmine Laumoli is a legalman aboard the Norfolk-based ship, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Named in honor of former President Harry Truman, the carrier is longer than 3 football fields, at nearly 1,100 feet long.  The ship is 252 feet wide and weighs more than 100,000 tons.  Two nuclear reactors can push the ship through the water at more than …