Military Sealift Command

The Military Sealift Command (MSC) is a United States Navy organization that controls the replenishment and military transport ships of the Navy. The United States Military Sealift Command has the responsibility for providing sealift and ocean transportation for all US military services as well as for other government agencies. It first came into existence on 9 July 1949 when the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) became solely responsible for the Department of Defense's ocean transport needs. The MSTS was renamed the Military Sealift Command in 1970.

Military Sealift Command ships are made up of a core fleet of ships owned by the United States Navy and others under long-term-charter augmented by short-term or voyage-chartered ships. The Navy-owned ships carry blue and gold stack colors, are in service with the prefix USNS (United States Naval Ship), rather than in commission (a USS prefix), have hull numbers as an equivalent commissioned ship would have with the prefix T- and are civilian manned by either civil service mariners or contract crews (see United States Merchant Marine) as is the case of the special mission ships. Ships on charter or equivalent, retain commercial colors and bear the normal merchant MV, SS, or GTS without hull numbers.

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Pearl Harbor Memorial dedicated in Smyrna

The Beacon 08 Dec 2018

Friday. Dec 7, 2018 at 2.04 PM Dec 7, 2018 at 6.46 PM ... 7, on the anniversary of the 1941 attack that brought America into World War II ... Ground was broken Aug ... The donation of the anchor from the Military Sealift Command was arranged by Delaware Military Academy co-founder, retired Navy Command Master Chief Charles Baldwin ... 7," said Embert ... Robert E ... Sen ... ....

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Migrant deaths highlight African ills that US-led coalition aims to tackle

Stars and Stripes 03 Dec 2018

James Foggo, commander of Naval Forces Europe and Africa, at a seminar on how to strengthen Africa’s maritime security ... The U.S ... Thomas Waldhauser, head of U.S ... and 3 a.m., which means it would have been dark when they tried to signal the Trenton, making it difficult for the crew to spot a small boat in rough seas, Military Sealift Command said ... .......

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Britain boosts Bahrain presence, aiding US mission in the Persian Gulf

Stars and Stripes 03 Dec 2018

MANAMA, Bahrain — British sailors are working side-by-side with the U.S ... ally boosts its global military presence ... Guy Wadge told Stars and Stripes ... Maritime Component Command, the Brits new pierside facility berths include four mine countermeasure vessels and a support auxiliary ship similar to a Military Sealift Command replenishment ship ... military....

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China voices unease at U.S. ships in strait

Arkansas Online 30 Nov 2018

Monday's passage involved the guided missile destroyer USS Stockdale and the USNS Pecos, an oiler operated by the Military Sealift Command and used for refueling ... The 100 mile-wide waterway is split down the middle between Taiwan and China, but there is no international law restricting civilian or military shipping from passing through it....

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Whatever happened to the Navy midshipman who gave President Bush a bear hug? Discipline. Then redemption.

Capital Gazette 23 Nov 2018

He just reported as the squadron's executive officer a few months ago after a Navy career that included a deployment to the Middle East as the executive officer of the Norfolk-based guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio and most recently as the executive assistant to the commander of Norfolk-based Military Sealift Command....

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Whatever happened to the Navy midshipman who gave President Bush a bear hug? Discipline — ...

Stars and Stripes 22 Nov 2018

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China is opening its doors to a US carrier group after months of mounting tensions

Business Insider 20 Nov 2018

Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan is seen during a replenishment-at-sea with the Military Sealift Command's fleet replenishment oiler USNS John Ericsson in waters around Okinawa southwest of the Korean peninsula After months of rising tensions, during ......

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Wesley President Clark to keynote Pearl Harbor Memorial

The Beacon 14 Nov 2018

Tuesday. Nov 13, 2018 at 9.15 PM ... The Delaware Military Academy in Wilmington, an accredited Navy JROTC High School founded in 2003, will provide a color guard for the event. DMA school co-founder, retired Navy Command Master Chief Charles Baldwin, who procured the anchor from the Military Sealift Command, will also participate in the program ... ....

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BREVARD COUNTY HISTORY: Port Canaveral Culmination of A Long Awaited Dream

Space Coast Daily 12 Nov 2018

PART ONE OF A FIVE PART SERIES ... (Port Canaveral image). EDITOR’S NOTE. This is the first of a five part series about the history of Port Canaveral ... (Port Canaveral image) ... J ... Roger Dobson ... M ... A ... W ... The S/S Mormac Spruce, under charter to Military Sealift Command, docked at the Marginal Wharf and loaded cargo from Patrick Air Force Base destined for St....

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One of the victims of the Thousand Oaks shooting was a Navy veteran who survived last year's Las Vegas shooting

Business Insider 09 Nov 2018

A victim being carried from the scene of a shooting in Thousand Oaks, California, on Wednesday evening ... After completing his training in anti-submarine warfare, he served aboard the Military Sealift Command ocean surveillance ship USNS Able from April until December 2013 ... Here's everything we know about his military service ... ....

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US navy ship ignored sinking migrants' cries for help, say survivors

The Guardian 09 Nov 2018

Prosecutors in Sicily are examining allegations by shipwreck survivors that a US navy ship ignored distress calls and failed to assist them before their dinghy capsized ... “Military Sealift Command reaffirms that at approximately 1010 GMC on 12 June 2018, USNS Trenton’s watch officer visual observed a capsized raft and personnel floating in the ocean....

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When Dollars and Cents Trump Any Kind of Sense

Antiwar 31 Oct 2018

Three quarters of a trillion dollars in a single annual military budget ... Our ability to sealift troop transports quickly to destinations the world over keep us a definitive step ahead of Russia, a major power that cannot easily move military assets out of their region of influence ... This is an understandable part of any military’s budgeting process....

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The Jones Act is needed for our economy, national security and our war fighting capacity

The Hill 18 Oct 2018

Our military relies on privately-owned sealift capacity and ... Transportation Command and Federal Maritime Administration estimate that our country is now at least 1,800 mariners short of the minimum required for adequate military sealift, even with the Jones Act firmly in place....