New York - The USS New York is a very different ship than the one that left New Orleans four weeks ago. She's now loaded with hundreds of Marines and several tanks and hovercrafts.
She has been a bee hive of activity all day. Thousands of New Yorkers lined up Thursday to visit the 700-foot-long ship builty in Avondale.
Among the Marines onboard, Travis Leroux, a Archbishop Rummel graduate from Metairie. Leroux has been in the Marines for only a year, but now drives a tank positioned onboard of the New York.
Leroux will be among 900 crew members on hand when the ship is commissioned on Saturday. Workers from Avondale will visit the ship Friday.
