Appendix C 
MOBILE OCEAN BASING SYSTEM 
by 
D. A. Davis and J. J. Hromadik 
Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory 
Presented at the First International Conference on Offshore Airport 
Technology, Bethesda, Maryland; April 29-May 2, 1973. "Mobile," as 
represented in the acronym, "MOBS," for this 1973 paper has been 
replaced in the basic 1989 study by "Modularized" as being more 
applicable to large scale MOBS concepts envisioned for a Strategy of 
Discriminate Deterrence, circa 2000.) 
(Geil 
