USNS Mercy

“The crew at Warship Cam on X posted these photos of USNS Mercy departing from the Alabama shipyard. Here she is being backed out of the slip right now.”

“And the word I am hearing right now from sources is that Mercy has been tagged to sail from Alabama and potentially be the ship that's going to go up to Greenland. Yes, there looks like a one of the two hospital ships is about to go.”

“Viger Marine in Portland, Oregon is awarded a $89 million firm fixed price contract for a 185day calendar day shipyard availability for the regular overhaul and dry dock availability of military seal of commands hospital ship USNS Mercy with work potentially going up to $90 million. This will be performed in Portland beginning March 20th and ending September 20th, 2026.”

“Viger Marine in Portland, Oregon is awarded a $89 million firm fixed price contract for a 185 day calendar day shipyard availability for the regular overhaul and dry dock availability of military seal of commands hospital ship USNS Mercy. This will be performed in Portland beginning March 20th and ending September 20th, 2026.”

“All the way down to EPF-14, are all laid up in what's called force generation risk reduction status with the ships being clustered together and minimally crewed. Why are they in that situation? Because military seal of command is desperately short of crew members.”

“And let me be clear, these are tiny little ships compared to a ship like the Comfort or the Mercy. These have no way near the capabilities that they have, but they can get in the smaller ports.”