NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — When the Pentagon announced on July 18 the conclusion of the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore system (JLOTS) humanitarian aid pier mission in Gaza, Department of Defense (DOD ...

Every day, said Miller, there were as many as 1,000 trips that troops and other personnel made from ship to boat to pier to port and back ... U.S.-built floating pier backdropped by the Gaza ...

FILE - U.S. Army soldiers stand next to trucks arriving loaded with humanitarian aid at the U.S.-built floating pier Trident before reaching the beach on the coast of the Gaza Strip, June 25 ...

The trip over and back could take ... routinely hammer the pier. Turns out, said the Army official, there was a Gaza surf club, and its headquarters was near where they built the pier.

But the front end of this is the United States, doing the thing the United States ... as Israel and Hamas continue negotiating toward a cease-fire. And the pier, which cost $230 million to deploy, has ...

But the front end of this is the United States, doing the thing ... toward a cease-fire. And the pier, which cost $230 million to deploy, has been put back in storage. Transcript provided by ...