The Department of the Navy, Naval Supply Systems Command, Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk, has a requirement for CSG-4 Training Support Vessel Squadron Four Support Services.

Commander, United States Fleet Forces (USFF) Command is responsible for coordinating, establishing, and implementing integrated requirements and policies for manning, equipping, and training fleet units, strike groups (SG), and strike forces (SF). These requirements and elements are paramount in the execution of the Fleet Response Plan (FRP), in support of and as required by U.S. Navy policy and combatant commanders.

To support FRP global mission force requirements the tenets of the training mission are to provide ready forces while ensuring efficient use of resources, time, and personnel to attain the required level of readiness to meet major contingency operations and/or individual unit tasking. To this end USFF developed the Fleet Training Continuum (FTC) and the Fleet Response Training Plan (FRTP).

Carrier Strike Group (CSG) FOUR is tasked with directly supporting the USFF FRTP to train and certify for deployment all deploying assets, including Carrier Strike Groups, Amphibious Readiness Groups, and Independent Deployers.

• The FRTP was instituted specific to USFF’s fleet training mission and serves as the framework in which units, SGs, and SFs are trained and certified in operational readiness. The FRTP is structured around fleet academics, school-house curriculum/instruction, exportable team training, schoolhouse war-games, networked synthetic/simulation driven exercises, and live training. To meet these tenets, instrumented offshore training ranges and support vessels are employed. Carrier Strike Group FOUR in support of the FRTP, operates four such training support vessels, TSV-1 PREVAIL, TSV-3 HUNTER, TSV-4 NARRAGANSETT, and TSV-5 VINDICATOR.