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USNS Brunswick (T-EPF 6)

USNS BRUNSWICK is the 6th SPEARHEAD - class Expeditionary Fast Transport and the fourth ship in the Navy named after the city in Georgia. She is presently kept in a reduced operating status and can be made ready for tasking within forty five days of notice to support fleet operations.

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Crew List:

This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USNS BRUNSWICK. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.

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USNS BRUNSWICK History:

USNS BRUNSWICK (T-EPF 6) is the sixth ship of the SPEARHEAD-class expeditionary fast transports, built by Austal USA at Mobile, Alabama, as an aluminum catamaran designed for high-speed intra-theater lift. She was laid down with her keel authentication on December 2, 2014, as JHSV 6 under the original Joint High Speed Vessel program and later redesignated an expeditionary fast transport, becoming T-EPF 6. BRUNSWICK was christened at Mobile in early May 2015 and launched on May 19, 2015, then completed fitting out and sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico. During builder's and acceptance trials she demonstrated full-power runs, high-speed maneuvering, aviation operations on the flight deck, and cargo handling in the mission bay. The Navy accepted and placed her in service with Military Sealift Command on January 14, 2016, and she entered non-commissioned service as USNS BRUNSWICK (T-EPF 6) with a civilian MSC crew and a small embarked military detachment.

In 2016, BRUNSWICK operated from the U.S. East Coast while she completed shakedown and initial operational employment. Operating primarily from Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, she refined procedures for rapid roll-on/roll-off vehicle movements, container handling and helicopter operations, and conducted logistics runs in support of fleet and joint commanders. From May 6-8, 2016, she made a namesake visit to Brunswick, Georgia, mooring at the city's waterfront during the Blessing of the Fleet festival, opening to visitors and formally linking the new ship with her namesake community.

On January 30, 2017, BRUNSWICK began a seven-year forward deployment to the Western Pacific under Military Sealift Command, operating mainly in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility with additional tasking in the 5th and 3rd Fleet areas. Based from forward hubs such as Saipan, she provided high-speed lift between major fleet bases and smaller or shallow ports, supporting exercises, logistics movements and theater-security-cooperation activities with regional partners.

In 2018, she served as a primary platform for PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP 2018, embarking multinational teams of medical personnel, engineers and civil-affairs specialists for humanitarian assistance and disaster-relief preparedness missions in the Indo-Pacific. She repeated this role in 2019 during PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP 2019, operating alongside USNS FALL RIVER (T-EPF 4) and using her mission bay and flight deck as the main afloat base for medical engagements, small engineering projects and civil-military training ashore in island nations and Southeast Asian ports. Throughout her forward deployment she regularly visited regional ports, conducted subject-matter exchanges with partner navies and civil agencies, and provided fast sealift for exercises and presence operations across the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean.

In 2023, BRUNSWICK was reassigned briefly to crisis-response duty in the Red Sea region. As fighting spread in Sudan, she was sent to Port Sudan to support non-combatant evacuation operations. In late April, she embarked roughly 300 civilians from multiple nations, including American citizens and their families, and transported them across the Red Sea to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, demonstrating how an expeditionary fast transport normally used in the Indo-Pacific could quickly be employed as an evacuation and humanitarian lift platform, using her open decks and passenger spaces to move several hundred people in a single transit.

Her long Western Pacific deployment concluded in early 2024. On February 1, 2024, BRUNSWICK completed a homeport and hub change from Saipan back to Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, Virginia, formally ending her seven-year forward assignment. Since then, she is kept in a reduced operating status and can be made ready for tasking within forty five days of notice to support fleet operations.

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