United States Navy Military Sealift Command, 2 Vinyl Stickers, Eagle Anchor

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United States Navy
Military Sealift Command
MSC
2 Vinyl Stickers
U.S. Navy Military Transport
7" Large Vinyl Sticker
4" Vinyl Sticker
New and unused
I ship promptly and pack with firm backing
The United States
Navy's
Military Sealift Command
(
MSC
) is an organization
that controls the replenishment and military transport ships of the Navy. 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 comission
(with a USS prefix), have hull numbers as an equivalent commissioned ship would have
with the prefix
T-
and are primarily civilian manned by either civil service mariners or
contract crews as is the case of the special mission ships. Some ships may have Navy
or Marine
Corps personnel on board to carry out communication and special mission
functions, or for force protection. Ships on charter or equivalent, retain commercial colors
and bear the standard merchant prefix
MV,
SS,
or GTS, without hull numbers.
Eight programs compose Military Sealift Command: Fleet Oiler (PM1), Special Mission (PM2),
Strategic Sealift (PM3), Tow, Salvage, Tender, and Hospital Ship (PM4), Sealift (PM5), Combat
Logistics Force (PM6), Expeditionary Mobile Base, Amphibious Command Ship, and Cable Layer
(PM7) and Expeditionary Fast Transport (PM8).
MSC reports to the Department of Defense's Transportation Command for defense transportation
matters, to the Navy Fleet Forces Command for Navy-unique matters, and to the Assistant
Secretary
of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition) for procurement policy and oversight matters.