NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY SOUDA BAY, Greece – Logisticians assigned to Naval Provide Techniques Command Fleet Logistics Middle Sigonella (NAVSUP FLCSI) and their mission companions at Naval Help Exercise (NSA) Souda Bay Greece coordinated the loading of cargo, mail and meals provisions to USNS Provide (T-AOE 6) on the Marathi NATO Pier Advanced, Could 3, 2022.
USNS Provide departed the pier with 18 pallets of milk equaling 6,000 gallons after the cargo onload, delivering the provisions to the Harry S. Truman Service Strike Group (HSTCSG) throughout a replenishment-at-sea (RAS), Could 7, 2022.
“The customer support and adaptability demonstrated by our NAVSUP FLCSI workforce at NSA Souda Bay was vital for the mail and provisions load to USNS Provide,” mentioned Bong Cabling, NAVSUP FLCSI govt director. “Specifically, our customs clearance brokers labored with Greek officers to clear the milk and contemporary frozen provisions earlier than a nationwide vacation.”
The RAS this month is the newest of a number of replenishments for HSTCSG because it arrived within the Mediterranean Sea in December. In February, NAVSUP FLCSI and its mission companions supported the replenishment of HSTCSG from strategic places at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy, and NSA Souda Bay in assist of the NATO-led exercise Neptune Strike.
“NAVSUP FLC Sigonella has been vital to our success all through this complete deployment,” mentioned Cmdr. Autumn Daniel, USS Harry S. Truman’s provide officer. “They’ve performed a key function in holding our Sailors fed and wholesome, together with holding us materially prepared.”
The HSTCSG has been on a scheduled deployment within the U.S. Sixth Fleet space of operations in assist of naval operations to take care of and generate maritime stability and safety for the U.S., and Allied and Companion pursuits in Europe and Africa. Learn extra about HSTCSG’s presence within the Mediterranean Sea right here.
Truman, flagship of the Harry S. Truman Service Strike Group (CSG), together with the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS San Jacinto (CG 56); Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Gonzalez (DDG 66), USS Cole (DDG 67), USS Bainbridge (DDG 96), USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) and USS Mitscher (DDG 57) have supported NATO enhanced Air Policing missions and nationwide and Alliance pursuits throughout their time in theater, bolstering the protection of the NATO Alliance. They’ve been joined at numerous factors in deployment by NATO Allied and companion ships, together with the Norwegian Royal Navy Fridjof Nansen-class frigate HNoMS Fridjtof Nansen (F310) and Italian Navy Bergamini-class guided-missile frigate ITS Carabiniere (F 593).
Fritdjof Nansen not too long ago indifferent from the HSTCSG after a cooperative workup cycle and deployment with the strike group for the previous eight months.
USNS Provide is one in all Army Sealift Command’s quick fight assist ships whose capability to replenish ships at-sea offers higher flexibility to stay underway for prolonged durations of time.
NAVSUP’s mission companion in Greece, NSA Souda Bay, is an operational ashore base that permits U.S., allied, and companion nation forces to be the place they’re wanted and when they’re wanted to make sure safety and stability within the U.S. European, Africa, and Central Command areas of duty.
FLCSI is one in all NAVSUP’s eight globally-positioned instructions that gives for the total vary of options for logistics, enterprise and assist providers to the U.S. Naval, Joint, NATO and Allied Forces throughout 14 enduring and ahead working websites; ahead contingency and cooperative safety places in 13 international locations in Europe and Africa.
(Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jamica Johnson, Service Strike Group 8 Public Affairs contributed to this story)
