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St. Louis accomplished the amphibious exercise in early January, spent 15 days in upkeep in Subic Bay, then headed north again for 2 months of shuttling males and cargo between Vietnam, Okinawa, and Japan. After completion of a large redeployment operation involving over 2,000 Marines and 22,000 tons of equipment in Quảng Nam Province, St. Louis visited Hong Kong and then moved to Subic Bay within the Philippines to participate in giant scale amphibious touchdown workouts during November and December. While within the Persian Gulf, Stump accomplished over forty boardings in assist of maritime interdiction operations and participated in eleven Persian Gulf Tomahawk exercises, including one as launch area coordinator. While operating within the Persian Gulf, the Truman battle group enforced United Nations sanctions in opposition to Iraq by diverting 22 vessels with greater than $5 million of suspected contraband cargo. 1.Eight million in injury to the hull, propellers, sonar dome, and forward mast. In May 1991, the St. Louis would take part in Operation Sea Angel in Chittagong Bangladesh after a powerful tropical cyclone struck the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh killing at least 138,000 folks and leaving as many as 10 million homeless.
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