USNS Carson City will have hometown captain

The USNS Carson City, a naval vessel now being built, will have leadership from Nevada’s capital and its keel will have a mayoral imprint as well.Those facts involving the USNS Carson City (JHSV 7) came to light Thursday through Mayor Robert Crowell via his communications with the captain-designate and with the Navy’s Program Executive Office for Ships.Crowell first heard from Capt. Robert Wiley, a Carson City resident of 23 years and the man who will captain the ship, and later from Alicia