USS Jackson (LCS 6), the Navy's sixth Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), arrived at Naval Station (NAVSTA) Mayport, Florida, Dec. 11 for an extended stay for shipyard maintenance and at-sea testing off the Florida coast.

Jackson will remain in Mayport throughout spring and summer of 2016, and will be ultimately homeported in San Diego.

LCSs are fully reliant on distance support to fulfill logistics requirements. The Logistics Support Team (LST) from Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) San Diego will remotely order stores, repair parts, and subsistence for the ships while simultaneously managing financial documents.

NAVSUP FLC Jacksonville's LST Mayport will provide hazardous material support, and receive, store, and deliver material to the ships according to the deputy director of LST Mayport. LST Mayport and San Diego will work closely to ensure logistics requirements are fulfilled.

"This is a great test run for the newly formed LST Mayport and a tremendous opportunity to learn and establish ourselves," said Lt. Cmdr. Nate Edge, director, NAVSUP FLC Jacksonville detachment LST Mayport. "Our first Mayport homeported ship, USS Little Rock (LCS 9), is scheduled to arrive later in 2016."

Over the next few years, a total of eight littoral combat ships will be homeported at NAVSTA Mayport and will be supported by the NAVSUP FLC Jacksonville LST.

NAVSUP FLC Jacksonville delivers world-class, innovative, and unified operational logistics products and services for the Southeast Region and the U.S. Navy's 4th Fleet stakeholders ensuring mission integrity and operational readiness for the warfighter.

NAVSUP (FLC) Jacksonville, one of eight fleet logistics centers under NAVSUP Global Logistics Support (GLS), provides operational logistics, business and support services to fleet, shore and industrial commands of the Navy, Coast Guard, Military Sealift Command, and other Joint and Allied Forces. Services include contracting, regional transportation, fuel, material management, household goods movement support, postal and consolidated mail, warehousing, global logistics and husbanding, hazardous material management, and integrated logistics support.

NAVSUP GLS is comprised of more than 6,500 military and civilian logistics professionals operating from 105 locations worldwide providing an extensive array of integrated global logistics and contracting services to Navy, Marine Corps, joint operational units, and allied forces across all warfare enterprises.

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