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NAVSUP, mission partners support USS Harry S. Truman CSG during Neptune Strike 2022
NAS SIGONELLA, Italy (Feb. 2, 2022) Naval Aircrewmen assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Beach Detachment 1 load mail and packages destined for HST Carrier Strike Group (HSTCSG) crewmembers. The HSTCSG participated in the NATO-led activity Neptune Strike 2022, Jan. 24-Feb. 4, 2022. (U.S. Navy photo by Joe Yanik)
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NAVSUP, mission partners support USS Harry S. Truman CSG during Neptune Strike 2022
NAS SIGONELLA, Italy (Feb. 2, 2022) Naval Aircrewmen assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Beach Detachment 1 load mail and packages destined for HST Carrier Strike Group (HSTCSG) crewmembers. The HSTCSG participated in the NATO-led activity Neptune Strike 2022, Jan. 24-Feb. 4, 2022. (U.S. Navy photo by Joe Yanik)
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NAVSUP, mission partners support USS Harry S. Truman CSG during Neptune Strike 2022
NAS SIGONELLA, Italy (Feb. 2, 2022) Naval Aircrewmen assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Beach Detachment 1 load mail and packages destined for HST Carrier Strike Group (HSTCSG) crewmembers. The HSTCSG participated in the NATO-led activity Neptune Strike 2022, Jan. 24-Feb. 4, 2022. (U.S. Navy photo by Joe Yanik)
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NAVSUP, mission partners support USS Harry S. Truman CSG during Neptune Strike 2022
NAS SIGONELLA, Italy (Feb. 2, 2022) Naval Aircrewman Mechanical 2nd Class Timothy Pinckert, assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Beach Detachment 1, opens a container of mail destined for HST Carrier Strike Group (HSTCSG) crewmembers. The HSTCSG participated in the NATO-led activity Neptune Strike 2022, Jan. 24-Feb. 4, 2022. (U.S. Navy photo by Joe Yanik)
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NAVSUP, mission partners support USS Harry S. Truman CSG during Neptune Strike 2022
MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Dec. 18, 2021) Logistics Specialist 3rd Class Caycee Pannal, from Guyton, Georgia, scans mail in the hangar bay of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) during a replenishment-at-sea, Dec. 18, 2021. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Sixth Fleet area of operations in support of naval operations to maintain maritime stability and security, and defend U.S., allied and partner interests in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication 3rd Class Tate Cardinal)
Photo by: Seaman Apprentice Tate Cardinal
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NAVSUP, mission partners support USS Harry S. Truman CSG during Neptune Strike 2022
MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Dec. 18, 2021) Machinist Mate (Nuclear) 2nd Class Jackson Bowen, from Bakersfield, California, sorts mail in the hangar bay of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) during a replenishment-at-sea, Dec. 18, 2021. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Sixth Fleet area of operations in support of naval operations to maintain maritime stability and security, and defend U.S., allied and partner interests in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication 3rd Class Tate Cardinal)
Photo by: Seaman Apprentice Tate Cardinal
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NAVSUP, mission partners support USS Harry S. Truman CSG during Neptune Strike 2022
AUGUSTA BAY, Sicily (Feb. 4, 2022) Capt. Daniel Prochazka, commanding officer of the Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20), right, greets Capt. Douglas MacKenzie, commanding officer of NAVSUP FLC Sigonella, as the ship makes port in Augusta Bay, Sicily, Feb. 4, 2022. Neptune Strike is a long-planned activity to enable NATO to command and control a U.S. carrier strike group to provide assurance and deterrence for the collective defense for the alliance. Mount Whitney is the U.S. 6th Fleet flagship, homeported in Gaeta, and operates with a combined crew of U.S. Sailors and Military Sealift Command civil service mariners. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Scott Barnes)
Logisticians assigned to Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Sigonella and its mission partners delivered aviation fuel and more than 800 pallets containing mail, food provisions and cargo to crewmembers of HSTCSG through strategic locations at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy, and Naval Support Activity Souda Bay, Greece in support of the NATO-led activity Neptune Strike, Jan. 24-Feb. 4, 2022.
"Our command's logistics mission sets focus on ensuring Warfighters, both ashore and afloat, operating across U.S. Naval Forces Europe/Africa have the supplies and repair parts they need to execute their mission, particularly during activities like Neptune Strike, for which readiness is of utmost importance," said Capt. Douglas MacKenzie, NAVSUP FLCSI commanding officer. "We realize that moving Warfighters' mail in and out of the area of responsibility plays a significant role in sustaining positive morale aboard CSG ships whose crewmembers are away from their families. High morale means sustained focus on successfully completing all mission objectives."
Neptune Strike 2022 highlighted the natural evolution of NATO's ability to integrate the high-end maritime warfare capabilities of a carrier strike group to support the defense of the Alliance. Neptune Strike 2022 accomplished the long-planned handover of command and control of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (CSG) from U.S. Sixth Fleet (SIXTHFLT) to Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO) and the wider Alliance.
"The capability of SIXTHFLT and STRIKFORNATO combined staffs to enable a handover of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group demonstrates the power and cohesiveness of our maritime forces and the NATO Alliance," said Vice Adm. Gene Black, commander, SIXTHFLT and STRIKFORNATO. "NATO's command and control of a CSG is the result of decades of Alliance maritime interoperability."
Neptune Strike 2022 is the execution phase of a long series of activities known as Project Neptune, conceptualized in 2020. The activity focuses on overcoming the complexities of integrating command and control of a carrier strike group to NATO.
SIXTHFLT, headquartered in Naples, Italy, conducts the full spectrum of joint and naval operations, often in concert with allied and interagency partners, in order to advance U.S. national interests and security and stability in Europe and Africa.
STRIKFORNATO, headquartered in Oeiras, Portugal, is Supreme Allied Commander Europe's (SACEUR) premier, rapidly deployable and flexible, maritime power projection Headquarters, capable of planning and executing full spectrum joint maritime operations.
FLCSI is one of NAVSUP's eight globally-positioned commands that provides for the full range of solutions for logistics, business and support services to the Navy, Joint and Allied Forces across 14 enduring and forward operating sites; forward contingency and cooperative security locations in 13 countries in Europe and Africa.
(Editor's note: U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa / U.S. Sixth Fleet Public Affairs contributed to this article)
