For other ships with the same name, see USS Supply.

USNS Supply (T-AOE-6), ex-USS Supply (AOE-6), is the lead ship of the Supply-class fast combat support ships.[1] She was commissioned in 1994 and decommissioned in 2001, after which she was transferred for service with the U.S. Military Sealift Command.

Operational history

U.S. Navy service

Supply was laid down on 24 February 1989 and was launched on 6 October 1990. She was commissioned in the United States Navy as USS Supply (AOE-6) on 26 February 1994 at Naval Air Station, North Island in San Diego, California. After her initial outfitting in San Diego, she sailed to Norfolk, Virginia via the Panama Canal and Caribbean Sea, arriving on 7 August 1994.

Military Sealift Command service

Navy Petty Officer fires a supply line to the USNS Supply in the Baltic Sea, June 16, 2020, during Baltic Operations, an annual maritime exercise in the region.

After service in the U.S. Navy from 1994 through 2001 as USS Supply (AOE-6), she was decommissioned and her weapons systems were removed, then she was transferred on 13 July 2001 to the Military Sealift Command, which designated her USNS Supply (T-AOE-6). Like other fast combat support ships, she is part of MSC's Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force.

In 2014, Supply put into BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards in Mobile, Alabama for repairs.

In 2017, Supply put in for repairs in Boston, Massachusetts.[citation needed]

On 6 May 2022, Supply conducted an underway replenishment (UNREP) with cruiser USS San Jacinto (CG-56).[2]

On 4 September 2024, Supply was awarded the Navy Unit Commendation for her support of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) Carrier Strike Group during Operation Prosperity Guardian. [3]In which the crew of the Supply provided tens of thousands of pallets of critical supplies and millions of gallons of fuel.

Al Qaeda target

USNS Supply was allegedly the target of Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) in 2014.[4] AQIS claimed through Twitter and other social media forums that the AQIS attack on Pakistan Navy frigate PNS Zulfiquar was intended to attack USS Supply (sic). AQIS report contradicts the official Pakistan Navy account of the attack which states that the frigate was attacked by AQIS at the Naval Dockyard in Karachi. AQIS claims that PNS Zulfiqar crew were involved in the attempt to take over the ship at sea for attacking USS Supply and its unnamed naval escort.

References

  1. ^ USNS Supply-class Factsheet
  2. ^ "USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: May 23, 2022". usni.org. 23 May 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  3. ^ "USNS Supply Receives Navy Unit Commendation". DVIDS. Retrieved 2025-02-17.
  4. ^ Thomas Joscelyn (Sep 29, 2014). "Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent claims attacks on Pakistani ships were more audacious than reported". The Long War Journal.

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