06 February 2024 USNS Brunswick Returns Home after 7 Years in the Western Pacific NORFOLK, Va. – Military Sealift Command’s (MSC) sixth expeditionary fast transport vessel USNS Brunswick (T-EPF 6) shifted its hub port in Saipan to Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek – Fort Story, Va., Feb. 3, 2024. The evolution signified the completion of a seven-year forward...
13 April 2023 MSC Atlantic Changes Hands Military Sealift Command’s leadership in the Atlantic changed hands, when Navy Capt. James A. Murdock relieved Navy Capt. Daniel E. Broadhurst as commander of Norfolk-based Military Sealift Command Atlantic (MSC Atlantic) during a change of command ceremony held aboard Navy hospital ship USNS...
14 June 2022 Joint Partnerships: MSC Joins Forces for Exercise Turbo Distribution Recently, Army units from Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) and Navy units from Military Sealift Command (MSC) and Navy Cargo Handling Battalion One (NCHB-1) came together to train in U.S. Transportation Command’s Field Training Exercise (FTX) Turbo Distribution 22-4...
22 April 2022 Two Female Navy Reserve TACADs Led the Way for MV Endurance’s 18-day Voyage to Europe Operation Atlantic Resolve called on Military Sealift Command, in March, to charter American Roll-on Roll-Off Carrier (ARC) ship MV Endurance to load Army cargo at the Port of Beaumont, Texas in support of 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division’s deployment to Europe.Twenty-one...
08 April 2022 MSC Charters Motor Vessel to Load Critical Army Cargo in Beaumont, Embarks TACADs to Oversee the Voyage to Europe Military Sealift Command in March chartered MV Cape Washington (T-AKR 9961) to load U.S. Army cargo at the Port of Beaumont in Texas and embarked two tactical advisors (TACADs) to oversee the voyage to Europe.The 697-foot motor vessel loaded more than a dozen helicopters and 1,350 pieces of cargo...
16 December 2021 USNS John Lenthall Returns Home in Time for the Holiday Season Military Sealift Command’s Combat Logistics Force (CLF) fleet replenishment oiler USNS John Lenthall (T-AO 189) returns to Naval Station Norfolk December 16, after completing a five-month deployment overseas...
15 October 2021 94 Burlington Crewmembers Returned Home from a 3.5-month Deployment in USSOUTHCOM, Supporting two LCSs, Five Counter-Narcotic Operations, and Haiti’s Relief Effort Military Sealift Command’s tenth Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport vessel USNS Burlington (T-EPF 10) returned home to Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek – Fort Story, Va., Oct. 15, after a three and a half month deployment in U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command, U.S. Fourth...
06 October 2021 People, Mission, and Warfighting Effectiveness: Navy Captain Janice G. Smith Provides Insights into Her Journey to MSC’s COS Hail to Military Sealift Command’s chief of staff. Navy Capt. Janice G. Smith continues to raise the bar for Jamaican immigrants, African Americans, and women in the military, as she replaces Navy Capt. Hans E. Lynch as MSC’s COS, Oct. 7, just 40 days after relinquishing Military Sealift...
27 August 2021 Military Sealift Command Atlantic Changes Hands Military Sealift Command in the Atlantic changed hands when Navy Capt. Daniel E. Broadhurst relieved Navy Capt. Janice G. Smith as commodore of Norfolk-based Military Sealift Command Atlantic (MSCLANT) during a change of command ceremony held aboard USNS Comfort (T-AH 20)at Naval Station Norfolk,...
20 August 2021 70 USNS Comfort Crewmembers Earn Armed Forces Civilian Service Medals for NYC COVID 19 Relief Mission Capt. Janice G. Smith, Commodore, Military Sealift Command Atlantic, last month, presented civil service mariners assigned to MSC’s hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) in port on Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, with Armed Forces Civilian Service Medals for distinguished service while...
20 July 2021 MSC Delivers Cargo, Supplies in Support of 2021 Annual Pacer Goose Sustainment Mission Chartered by U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command, heavy lift container ship MV SLNC Magothy arrived Naval Station Norfolk July 16 and immediately began its loading operation for Thule Air Force Base in Greenland, located 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle...
21 September 2020 Fifteen Years in the Western Pacific: USNS Walter S. Diehl Shifts to Naval Station Norfolk Military Sealift Command’s fleet replenishment oiler USNS Walter S. Diehl (T-AO 193) shifted its hub port in Naval Station San Diego to Naval Station Norfolk, September 20, 2020...
08 September 2020 Mission Complete: 110 Civilian Mariners Return to Naval Station Norfolk Military Sealift Command’s Combat Logistics Force ship USNS Robert E. Peary (T-AKE 5) and the ship’s 110 civilian mariners (82 of whom live in the Hampton Roads area) returned to Naval Station Norfolk, after a seven month deployment in Second, Fifth, and Sixth Fleets, September 8, 2020...
19 June 2020 Army Major Pulls Back MOTSU’s Curtain to Reveal MSC’s Strategic Role Sprawled over 8,600 acres on the west side of the Cape Fear River, I am the largest military munitions terminal in the world, and the Army’s primary east coast deep-water port. I am Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point...
30 May 2020 The BIG3 Deliver On-time Mission Essential Services, Amid COVID-19 Crisis Marine Transportation Specialists (MTS) Dean Doolittle, Scott Denney, and Lawrence Dowsing...
28 May 2020 Mission Focused Despite Mixed Emotions About COVID-19 When Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf ordered millions of Pennsylvanians in late March to stay at home in order to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus, mission critical military personnel, like Chief Warrant Officer Three Timothy Camacho, continued to report to work...