Posted:
July 12, 2013
The following is excerpted from an article released by Military Sealift Command. The USNS Montford Point is manned in all licensed positions by American Maritime Officers and is operated for MSC by Ocean Ships, Inc., as will be the other mobile landing platforms being built.
USNS Montford Point (MLP 1) departs San Diego today for Naval Station Everett, Wash. Montford Point is the Navy's first mobile landing platform, delivered to the Navy in San Diego May 14 and expected to be fully operational in fiscal year 2015.
The ship, crewed by 33 contract mariners working for a company under charter to Military Sealift Command, will perform system tests during the voyage to its temporary lay berth. Montford Point is scheduled for final contract trials in September, with its core capability set installed later this year.
The Navy's second MLP, John Glenn, had its keel laid in December, with completion and delivery expected in March 2014.
The MLP class of modular, flexible ships belongs to MSC's Maritime Prepositioning Force as a mobile sea-base option that provides our Navy fleet with critical afloat capability supporting the flexible deployment of forces and supplies. Contract mariners will operate and navigate the MLP ships on behalf of the Navy and Marine Corps.
"Montford Point will provide the key link - 'the pier in the ocean' - that will permit the military to engage in true seabasing sustainment of equipment and supplies to our troops ashore, from beyond the horizon," said Mike Touma, assistant engineering officer in MSC's Prepositioning Program.
Navy's first mobile landing platform departs San Diego
The following is excerpted from an article released by Military Sealift Command. The USNS Montford Point is manned in all licensed positions by American Maritime Officers and is operated for MSC by Ocean Ships, Inc., as will be the other mobile landing platforms being built.
USNS Montford Point (MLP 1) departs San Diego today for Naval Station Everett, Wash. Montford Point is the Navy's first mobile landing platform, delivered to the Navy in San Diego May 14 and expected to be fully operational in fiscal year 2015.
The ship, crewed by 33 contract mariners working for a company under charter to Military Sealift Command, will perform system tests during the voyage to its temporary lay berth. Montford Point is scheduled for final contract trials in September, with its core capability set installed later this year.
The Navy's second MLP, John Glenn, had its keel laid in December, with completion and delivery expected in March 2014.
The MLP class of modular, flexible ships belongs to MSC's Maritime Prepositioning Force as a mobile sea-base option that provides our Navy fleet with critical afloat capability supporting the flexible deployment of forces and supplies. Contract mariners will operate and navigate the MLP ships on behalf of the Navy and Marine Corps.
"Montford Point will provide the key link - 'the pier in the ocean' - that will permit the military to engage in true seabasing sustainment of equipment and supplies to our troops ashore, from beyond the horizon," said Mike Touma, assistant engineering officer in MSC's Prepositioning Program.