USS Staff (AM-114) was an Auk-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.

During the first three weeks in June, Staff swept mines off the Gulf of Oran, returning to the Mers El Kébir anchorage each night.

Between 24 June and 1 July, she divided her time between patrols, exercises, and mine sweeps; then joined Task Force 85 at anchor in Mers El Kébir.

On the 16th, during an engagement with shore batteries, Staff struck a mine and sustained extensive damage in the forward engine room and suffered a number of casualties.

On 18 October, SS Moose Peak towed her out of Oran, and they joined GUS-18 for the voyage to the United States.

On 25 March 1944 she sailed from New York to Plymouth, England, for temporary duty with the U.S. 12th Fleet, supporting the invasion of Normandy.

On 8 June 1944 off Utah Beach, Staff came to the assistance of the destroyer Glennon (DD-620)**, which had struck a mine, and grounded.

The minesweeper escorted a convoy of LST's to Nakagusuku Wan (Buckner Bay), Okinawa, then put into Kerama Retto on 6 June.

On the 25th, Staff returned to Buckner Bay and, on 1 September, sailed in company with six other mine-craft and four smaller vessels to conduct the initial sweep of the Kyūshū approaches.

Staff stood out again on 21 September and headed for Bungo Suido to conduct further sweeps in the Japanese home islands, this time in the waters between Kyūshū and Shikoku.

On 14 January 1952, Staff was recommissioned at San Diego, California and sailed – via Acapulco, Mexico, the Panama Canal, and Guantanamo Bay – to Charleston, South Carolina, and Norfolk, Virginia.

She resumed operations along the eastern seaboard during the winter of 1952 and 1953; then, on 21 April 1953, put to sea to join the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean.

Her name was struck from the Navy List on 1 March 1967 and her hulk sold to Southern Scrap Metals Co. of New Orleans, Louisiana, on 17 November 1967.