14 January 2025 Yama Sakura 87 Recently, the Mission Command Training Program (MCTP) supported the U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC) combined exercise known as Yama Sakura 87 (YS87), which was a trilateral exercise with two multinational allies tied to USARPAC’s Operation Pathways...
23 March 2020 Pacific Pride Soldiers Planning to Promote Preventative Health in Palau Palau -- 1984th United States Army Hospital-Pacific, under the 9th Mission Support Command, headquartered in Fort Shafter Flats, Honolulu, Hawaii is partnering with the University of Hawaii, Manoa to host a three-day leadership camp focusing on preventative health for the youth population of Palau...
05 September 2018 Maritime Prepositioning Ships Squadron 3 Conducts Group Sail PACIFIC OCEAN -- Maritime Prepositioning Ships Squadron (MPSRON) 3 successfully conducted their third underway multi-ship group sail training exercise, Aug. 19-24, off the coast of Saipan and Guam.Although this was the third group sail event, this was the first time many of the ship’s captains and...
30 April 2019 Military Sealift Command’s USNS Guam christened in Okinawa NAHA, Japan - Military Sealift Command (MSC) christened the high-speed transport USNS Guam (T-HST 1) during a ceremony at Naha Military Port in Naha, Japan, April 27.Key speakers were U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry B. Harris Jr.; Guam Rep. Michael San Nicholas; Lt. Gen. Eric M. Smith,...
26 July 2021 Rappahannock, Alan Shepard drill with Australian Navy during Talisman Sabre CORAL SEA -- USNS Rappahannock (T-AO 204) and USNS Alan Shepard (T-AKE 3) participated in exercise Talisman Sabre 21 (TS21), a large-scale, bilateral military exercise between Australia and the United States, which began July 18 off the northeast coast of Australia.“Providing maritime logistics to...
12 August 2015 Senior Republic of Korea Navy Official Visits USNS Montford Point BUSAN, Republic of Korea (NNS) -- A senior official from the Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy visited one of Military Sealift Command's newest class of Maritime Prepositioning Force ships, the mobile landing platform USNS Montfort Point (MLP 1), Aug. 8.Vice Adm. Hyun-Seong Um, commander, ROK Fleet,...
08 January 2019 Military Sealift Command Team Gets Operation Deep Freeze Cargo Underway PORT HUENEME, Calif. -- The Military Sealift Command (MSC) charter ship MV Ocean Giant is en route to Antarctica after recent cargo operations in Port Hueneme in support of the annual Operation Deep Freeze (ODF) resupply mission.Beginning in late December, a team from MSC including Navy Reservists...
05 August 2021 Military Sealift Command supports U.S. Navy’s Large Scale Exercise 2021 SAN DIEGO - Military Sealift Command (MSC) fleet replenishment oiler USNS Yukon (T-AO 202) and dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE 11) will participate in the Pacific portion of the U.S. Navy’s Large Scale Exercise 2021.Yukon and Chambers will provide logistics services...
23 July 2018 USNS Mercy Returns Home Following Pacific Partnership Mission SAN DIEGO - Military Sealift Command (MSC) hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) returned to San Diego today, to a welcoming of family and friends, following its support of the humanitarian mission to Southeast Asia, Pacific Partnership 2018.The ship’s crew, composed of MSC civil service mariners...
08 October 2015 SEACAT: A Southeast Asian Multilateral Powerhouse Amidst recent calls for more multilateralism in our traditionally bilateral exercises, Southeast Asia Cooperation And Training (SEACAT) stands tall as the only multilateral information sharing exercise of its kind in Southeast Asia. A relatively small exercise when compared to goliaths like COBRA...