As always, ship tours start at 10:00am.

9:45am, a perfect Thursday morning in San Francisco and still no line to visit USS Somerset.

San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock

The ship was named after UA Flight 93 that departed SF and crashed in Somerset County.

This year the tours were surprisingly well organized; no more free roaming around the ship.

On the good side, we were able to visit the bridge.

The bridge, of course, looked very modern and hi-tech.

“I do not want to sound crazy, but I flew one of these 40 years ago”

I guess the guy on the right was a pilot during the Vietnam War and I am sure helicopters do not change that much, at least on the outside.

And it is always good to be a captain.

LPD-25 is a fairly small ship but still 14 stories high, and capable of launching two MV-22s simultaneously.

It is good that streets have names here.

A very important room; I think they call it CIC or Combat Information Center.

Not sure where Marines sleep on the ship, but I spotted quite a few of them.

Great posture, officers.

And so that the ship does not get stolen, the entire motorized SF police department was waiting for us at the exit.