26 July 2024 20th Pacific Partnership Mission Prepares to Enhance Disaster Response Capabilities, Strengthen Ties in Indo-Pacific The underway Pacific Partnership 2024-2 (PP24-2) team embarked the Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport ship USNS City of Bismarck (T-EPF 9), July 26, 2024, led by Rear Adm. Mark A. Melson, the U.S. Pacific Fleet Executive Agent for Pacific Partnership, who will lead command and control...
24 July 2024 U.S. Navy, JMSDF Conduct Ships Qualification Training Military Sealift Command’s (MSC) commercial charter oiler MT Badlands Trader conducted ships qualification training (SQT) with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) oiler JS Hamana (AO-424), in which the ships performed a simulated consolidated cargo replenishment at sea (CONSOL), at sea West of...
14 July 2024 Ship Support Unit Guam Changes Leadership Military Sealift Command's Ship Support Unit in Guam transferred authority during a change of command ceremony at the base chapel onboard Naval Base Guam, July 12, 2024...
12 June 2024 Maritime Prepositioning Ships Squadron Two Changes Leadership DIEGO GARCIA, British Indian Ocean Territory–Capt. Aaron L. Helgerson relieved Capt. Nathan W. Fugate as commander of Maritime Prepositioning Ships Squadron Two during a change of command ceremony at headquarters, U.S. Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia, June 10, 2024...
29 May 2024 MSC CIVMAR and Influencer Explains Merchant Marine Life At-Sea through Viral Platform Vanessa Mongiovi is an influencer on the social media platform TikTok and has garnered almost 50 thousand followers with more than 418 thousand likes, as of May 30, 2024. Her biography teases visitors to ‘follow me if you are interested in being a merchant mariner’...
