Spearhead: Partnership training

KEY WEST, Fla. - USNS Spearhead (T-EPF 1) arrived at Naval Air Station Key West on July 3 for its first scheduled port call of Southern Partnership Station-Expeditionary Fast Transport 2017 (SPS-EPF 17). The Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport and its embarked group of sailors and civilian mariners scheduled to travel to Guatemala, Honduras, Chile, and Colombia for maritime security training and partner-nation building activities. (Source: Southern Partner Station 07/05/17) Gulf Coast Note: Spearhead, which was a first-in-class T-EPF built at Austal USA shipyards in Mobile, Ala., was formally delivered to the Navy in December 2012.