 U.S. Senate's Montfort Point, the first landing platform ship, was christened at Nazco shipyards in San Diego. The ship is named in honor of Camp Montfort Point in North Carolina, the site where the first African-American Marines were trained. I deal personally with a lot of the original Montfort corners and I listen to their stories and I understand the sacrifices and the struggles that they went to and by them going through that it made it a lot easier for me from Montfort Point would serve as a floating base for amphibious operations and operate as a transfer point between large ships and small landing craft. This is just not black history or a marine court history. This is American history and the world needs to know about the man of Montfort Point. Reporting for San Diego, I'm Petty Officer Carlos Vasquez II.