#floating dock

Wooden Pier in Lake

Arab bloggers specializing in military and security:

The US has placed a C-RAM system for intercepting rockets (like the one in the US Embassy in Baghdad) as well as an M-Lids type system designed to intercept drones on the floating American dock in Gaza.

Is this considered boots on the ground?

The ship needed some repairs, and by the indulgence of the captain, who was pleased with my conduct, I, who required so much instruction in the nature and cause of her defects, was allowed to be absent while they were made good. By this oversight, I lost all that improvement which I should have gained by close attention to the unrigging or shipping of the ship; the manner of returning her stores; taking out her masts and ballast, and seeing her taken into dock; the shape of her bottom, and the good or bad qualities which might be supposed to accelerate or retard her movements.

— Frederick Marryat, Frank Mildmay (The Naval Officer)

View of workers posing with the HMS Urgent while being rebuilt on the HM Floating Dock Bermuda in Bermuda, 1877.