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Military Sealift Command’s Top Leader Visits USS Mount Whitney
September 20, 2019 — Christopher D. Thayer, U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) director, ship management, visited the U.S. 6th Fleet Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) in Gaeta, Italy, Sept. 19, 2019... MORE

USS Mount Whitney Visits Palermo, Italy
August 20, 2019 — The U.S. 6th Fleet (C6F) command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) made a scheduled port visit in Palermo, Italy, Aug. 19, 2019, during a designated staff embarkation... MORE

USS Mount Whitney Returns to Gaeta, Italy
July 31, 2019 — The Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) returned to Gaeta, Italy, after a three-month deployment July 30, 2019... MORE

Moored. Shift Colors – A Year in Review aboard USS Mount Whitney
March 6, 2019 — “Moored. Shift colors.” - Those words, heard countless times throughout the fleet, would normally signify nothing especially auspicious, just the end of another voyage. But, when they were used on the Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) at the end of its final underway of 2018, they capped off the end of an amazing year for the ship... MORE

Mount Whitney, forward-deployed to Gaeta, Italy, operates with a combined crew of U.S. Navy Sailors and Military Sealift Command civil service mariners.