Through 1959 and 1963 , '' Fort Snelling '' continued her training operations with marines in the Caribbean and on the Carolina coast . In April 1965 , Fort Snelling was ordered to the Dominican Republic as part of a task force which included the USS Boxer ( LPH-4 ) , USS Rankin ( AKA-103 ) , USS Wood County ( LST-1178 ) , USS Ruchamakin ( APD-89 ) , USS Yancey ( AKA-93 ) and USS Raleigh ( LPD-1 ) . Its main mission along with the task force was to deploy marines to evacuate U.S. , Canadian and British citizens . Some 14,000 marines participated . In 1966 , while returning from a Mediterranean deployment , '' Fort Snelling '' was assigned as task group commander of the Navy 's Palomares Incident recovery operations . Because of her large well deck , '' Fort Snelling '' carried the deep diving submarine '' Aluminaut '' . In addition , Fort Snelling also deployed the small submarine Alvin from its flight deck via its cranes . In 1966 , she participated in the extraction of U.S. Marines from the Dominican Republican crisis
Palomares Incident
1966 Palomares B-52 crash
USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30)