May 2013 Issue of MSC's Sealift Magazine http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us Wed, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 Sat, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 webmaster@msc.navy.mil PDF version of May 2013 Sealift Magazine http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/Sealift-2013-05.pdf http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/Sealift-2013-05.pdf Wed, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 To the casual observer, Afloat Forward Staging Base (Interim) USS Ponce (AFSB(I) 15), may appear to be just another haze gray Navy vessel operating in the 5th Fleet area of responsibility, but a look inside the skin of the ship reveals something much different than the standard U.S. Navy military crew and a challenge for traditional thinking; leading a unique hybrid Navy and Military Sealift Command civil service mariner crew. http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/ponce.htm http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/ponce.htm Wed, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 Navy ships and personnel assigned to Military Sealift Command transported U.S. Marine Corps combat equipment and supplies to Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines, in support of exercises Freedom Banner and Balikatan, March 21-26. http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/philippines.htm http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/philippines.htm Wed, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 U.S. Marine Corps pilots from the Okinawa-based "Dragons" of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron VMM-265 conducted flight operations with MV-22B Ospreys aboard USNS Sacagawea (T-AKE 2) in early April 2012 - the first-of-its-kind training with the dry cargo/ammunition and Maritime Prepositioning Force ship. http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/ospreys.htm http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/ospreys.htm Wed, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 Active-duty Navy and civil service personnel, along with 30 deployed Reserve Sailors from MSC-affiliated units, completed their role in exercise Key Resolve, March 21. http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/keyresolve.htm http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/keyresolve.htm Wed, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 Accompanied by azure blue skies and a stiff breeze, the Navy christened and launched its newest oceanographic survey ship, USNS Maury (T-AGS 66), the last of its class at VT Halter Marine's shipyard in Moss Point, Miss., in a traditional Navy ceremony March 27. http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/maury.htm http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/maury.htm Wed, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 The National Conflict Resolution Center presented USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) with the prestigious 25th annual Peacemaker Award during a March 14 ceremony in San Diego. http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/mercy.htm http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/mercy.htm Wed, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 "Relieve the watch..." http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/perspective.htm http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/perspective.htm Wed, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 News from MSC Headquarters http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/DChighs.htm http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/DChighs.htm Wed, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 News from MSC Norfolk http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/compass.htm http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/compass.htm Wed, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 News from MSC's Sealift Logistics Command, Atlantic http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/lantlines.htm http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/lantlines.htm Wed, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 News from MSC's Sealift Logistics Command, Pacific http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/pacbriefs.htm http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/pacbriefs.htm Wed, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 News from MSC's Sealift Logistics Command, Europe http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/eurnews.htm http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/eurafnews.htm Wed, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 News from MSC's Sealift Logistics Command, Far East http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/fehails.htm http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/fehails.htm Wed, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 News from MSC's Sealift Logistics Command, Central http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/centcurrents.htm http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2013/May/centcurrents.htm Wed, 1 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400