I can’t tell. Anyone know ?
You’re going to need to use more words if you want an answer. Did MSC try to resupply WHO’S carrier/destroyer? And what do you mean “try”. That’s literally MSC’s mission, to resupply navy warships.
I was in the MSC 1976-1979. The unnamed USN ships have been in the news for the last week or so.
Rumor I read was that the bases in the region that MSC resupplies at were hit badly enough that the issue isn’t that MSC’s not moving supplies to the fleet, but that there aren’t enough available supplies for MSC to move.
Also that since the primary (and relatively close) Bahrain base was hit by Iran, now MSC has to make runs all the way to Diego Garcia to pick up cargo to go back to the fleet. Tuns it into about a 10-day round trip and thereby reducing frequency.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/us/politics/uss-abraham-lincoln-trump-supplies-diego-garcia.html
As an aside…the Mizar was in Bahrain in 1978 to fuel up/get supplies. I went to downtown Manama in early a.m. to go shopping… and got caught in a sandstorm. I sheltered in a store entrance for 20 minutes before a BMW pulled up, hailed me over…and took me to our dock.
As a further aside, and if interested… ask me about our second visit to Manama a year later…and my interaction with a Sheik and his gun toting guards.
I sail with MSC and recall supplying several ships this year in that area, both US Navy and foreign warships.
The Bahrain base used for supply was destroyed after Iran’s military had been decimated by the US months earlier. MSC’s mission is more complicated currently but I am sure all this had been anticipated and things will go smoothly now.
The USNS Kanawha’s crew literally just received medals for performing over 200 UNREPs in that theatre. I can attest that due to no oversight and management, MSC can barely provide any service the the USN. They are bringing out new ships from NASCO that sit at the pier for years while they try to work out all the kinks, the older tankers are getting the minimum performed by contractors and shipyards so that they are constantly C-4 and holding up piers. Currently only the USNS Guadalupe is the only tanker available out of San Diego. There is a much older T-AO that was given to Chile that is here but they work gentlemen’s hours and only do one station at a time. I don’t know how there isn’t a screaming alarm going off somewhere notifying the command about the gross mismanagement here.