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HEADLINE: Navy unveils ship for speedy troop transport CAPTION: The U.S. Navy is showing off the USNS Spearhead, the service's first high-speed aluminum vessel designed to ferry troops and military equipment. The ship was built in Mobile, Alabama, and it's currently docked in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Feb. 11) AP TELEVISION St. Petersburg, Fla. -- Feb. 11, 2013 1. Wide shot of ship docked 2. Zoom of ship 3. Shot of Captain Douglas Casavant exiting a door on the ship 4. SOUNDBITE: Captain Douglas Casavant: "The primary mission of this ship is rapid intra-theater transport of troops and equipment. Under peacetime situations we can also be asked to provide disaster relief for humanitarian missions. A lot of things still need to be figured out. Not so much that we don't understand the ship but that the capabilities of this are so great and so flexible that we're able to do a lot of different missions just from this single platform depending on how the mission is configured. 5. Wide shot of the ship 6. Wide shot of the side of the ship 7. Medium shot of the inside of the ship 8. Shot of Casavant talking in a room in the ship 9. Shot of the seating area 10. SOUNDBITE: Captain Douglas Casavant: "It feels like a normal ship when we're going slow, and when we're going slow that's 22, 23 knots, that's our economical cruising speed. But when we're going fast it feels very much like you're flying in an airplane." 11. Medium shot of Casavant at the controls on the bridge 12. Tight shot of Casavant's hands 13. Tight shot of some knobs 14. Tight shot of some controls 15. Tight shot of controls 16. SOUNDBITE: "Aluminum is primarily due to light weight. If you had built the ship out of steel, like traditional ships, the weight would be so great there's no way we could gain the speed without putting enormous engines on board here and the fuel consumption and the cost associated with that would be astronomical. 17. Wide shot of the flight deck 18. Medium shot of a lifesaving buoy 19. Tight shot of engine 20. Tight shot of lines 21. Tight shot of Casavant on deck 22. Shot of Casavant walking up stairs 23. Shot of Casavant talking on the bridge STORYLINE: The USNS Spearhead is the Navy's first Joint High Speed Vessel. It was built in Mobile, Alabama and is docking in St. Petersburg, Florida for a few days so top military brass at MacDill Air Force Base and Central Command can tour the ship. The vessel is designed for rapid intra-theater transport of troops and military equipment. It is a 338-foot long catamaran that can transport 600 tons of troops, vehicles, supplies and equipment. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ddc938f5ac36dfea9b499c38b617d403 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork