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This week’s Military Sealift Command “Ship in the Spotlight,” is the Military Sealift Command chartered Motor Vessel (MV) Cape Hudson. MV Cape Hudson recently supported exercise Super Garuda Shield 2025, a joint multinational exercise featuring joint and combined training across multiple domains, which showcases the ability of U.S. and allied forces to work together in the Indo-Pacific. The U.S. Army’s 835th Transportation Battalion, 599th Transportation Brigade, Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC), out of Okinawa, Japan, oversaw the offload of approximately 165 pieces of equipment and containers from Cape Hudson at the port of Bandar Lampung, Indonesia, as part of the exercise. "Cape Hudson [played] an essential role in port operations by delivering equipment and supplies that [kept] the exercise moving," said U.S. Navy Capt. David L. Reyes, commodore, MSC Far East. "This offload [demonstrated] how critical maritime logistics are to sustaining the mission and ensuring our joint forces can operate at full strength." Cape Hudson is part of the Ready Reserve Force fleet, a subset of vessels within the Maritime Administration's National Defense Reserve Fleet ready to support the rapid worldwide deployment of U.S. military forces.