1990-1999

• Aug. 1990 Maritime Prepositioning Ships, Afloat Prepositioning Ships and Fast Sealift Ships all activated immediately following President Bush's Aug. 7 deployment order to the Persian Gulf. Virtually all equipment and supplies had to be transported by ship, a distance of 8,700 miles from the U.S. East Coast to the offloading ports in Saudi Arabia
• Sept. 1990 By Sept. 30 MSC had shipped more than 2 million measurement tons of dry cargo and 821,000 long tons of petroleum products around the world.
• 1991/End of the Gulf War Sealift to the Gulf was the largest and fastest logistics operation to a single operation area in the history of warfare.
• Oct. 1991 MSC Supported Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational relief effort providing food and other critical supplies to Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq.
• 1991 MSC ships and personnel helped evacuate U.S. dependants following the Mt. Pinatubo eruptions in the Philippines.
• May 1991 MSC supported the Navy amphibious ships providing relief during the Bangladesh flood.
• 1991 MSC receives a Navy Unit Commendation for strategic sealift mission in support of Gulf War operations.
• August 1992 MSC ships provided relief supplies to the victims of Hurricane Mitch in southern Florida.
• 1992 MSC ships provided drinking water and other relief materials to the victims of Typhoon Omar in Guam.
• October 1992 Former-USS combat stores ship USNS Concord was delivered to MSC. Four more Mars class combat stores ships were delivered through 1994. USNS Mars and USNS San Diego have since been deactivated.

  Oiler USNS Yukon conducts a dual underway replenishment with guided missile destroyer USS Millius and guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens in late September. All three ships were forward deployed in support of Maritime Intercept Operations to the Persian Gulf.

• December 1992 - May 1993 MSC ships supported Operation Restore Hope by providing equipment, sustainment cargo, water and fuel to the people of Somalia. By the end of FY93 561,000 tons of cargo were deployed to Somalia and 60,000 tons of petroleum products were offloaded by MSC tankers at Mogadishu.
• 1993 MSC NFAF ships provided logistics support to Navy combatants enforcing the United Nations embargo of Haiti.
• May 1994 MSC activated hospital ship USNS Comfort aboard which more than 2,300 Haitian migrants were rescued and processed at sea. MSC ships rescued migrants at sea, established tent camps providing food, shelter and medical care to Haitian refugees by supporting Operation Sea Signal, Operation Support Democracy and Operation Uphold Democracy in and around the Caribbean.
• July 1994 MSC supported Operation Provide Relief which assisted refugees from Rwanda's civil war.
• Summer 1995 MSC activated two Ready Reserve Force roll-on/roll-off ships to support British peacekeeping forces in Bosnia.
• 1995 MSC prepositioning ships deterred Saddam Hussein's potential aggression by transporting cargo to the Gulf Area during Operation Vigilant Warrior and again during Operation Vigilant Sentinel.
• January 1995 MSC ships delivered fuel to North Korea providing oil for North Korea's oil burning generators while nuclear powered generating plants capable of producing weapons grade petroleum were being replaced.
• July 1995 MSC ships delivered metal cutting equipment to dismantle the former Soviet Union's arsenal of chemical weapons in accordance with the Threat Reduction Treaty between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union.
• 1996 MSC ships transported military and Federal Emergency Management Agency vehicles, portable kitchens, water and medical supplies to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, to assist with Hurricane Marilyn clean up efforts.
• 1996 MSC ships transported vehicles and ammunition to Croatia to support NATO troops in Operation Joint Endeavor.
• 1997 MSC ships supported United Nations and NATO forces with provisions to ships in support of operations in Bosnia.
• 1997 USNS Catawba participated in the salvage of a downed helicopter and towed three barges that were seized during the maritime interdiction operation overseeing the embargo of Iraq in the Persian Gulf.
• August 1997 USNS Narragansett rescued fishermen off the coast of Singapore.
• 1998 MSC hauled relief cargo to the victims of Hurricane George in Puerto Rico and Antigua.
• November 1998 - February 1999 MSC carried Army and Air Force medical and construction equipment to help rebuild the infrastructure and aid the people of Central America after Hurricane Mitch's devastation.
• 1998 Combat stores ship USNS Saturn provided proper burial at sea for 34 bodies discovered and recovered in the Gulf of Aden. The United Seaman's Service awarded Saturn and her crew the Mariner's Plaque and Mariner's Rosettes at a national ceremony in New York.
• 1998 Fleet tug USNS Narragansett rescued four Sumatran fishermen in the southeast Pacific Ocean.
• 1998 Oiler USNS Yukon aided a disabled fishing vessel that was adrift for five days in the Straits of Malacca, providing food, water and tow.
• 1998 Ammunition ship USNS Kilauea took a disabled Greek merchant vessel under tow saving her from grounding on the Ulithi Atoll in the western Pacific.
• March 1999 MSC off-loaded combat equipment and supplies in Croatia to support U.S. peacekeeping forces in the Bosnia and Herzegovina Federation.
• April 1999 USNS Walter S. Diehl saved eight Indonesian fishermen in the Indonesian Ocean near the island of Java.
• March-May 1999 MSC kept NATO forces battle ready as they provided vital logistical support for the combatant forces involved in Operation Noble Anvil. MSC also transported equipment and supplies to assist some of the more than 400,000 ethnic Albanian Kosovo refugees. MSC tankers transported jet fuel to sustain air strikes.
• May 1999 MSC oceanographic survey ship USNS Pathfinder rescued 25 Ecuadorian sailors 200 miles off the coast of Ecuador.
• April 1999 MSC's USNS Catawba saves eight Iranian sailors in the Persian Gulf.
• June 1999 USNS Bob Hope and USNS Soderman transported combat equipment and supplies for U.S. peacekeeping forces in Kosovo.