Submarine Tenders, Sustaining the Forward Operating Warfighter

Unique to Submarine Tender Supply Departments are the repair of other Vessels Supply Support (ROVSS) Division, the Guam Supply Support Division (GSSD), and the non-aviation S6 (Customer Service) Division. The ROVSS division supports the ship's repair department by providing logistics support in the procurement of supplies, materials and contracting services necessary to perform intermediate level maintenance on tended units, home ported submarines and deployed surface ships within the Indo-Pacom theater of operations. Over the last year as lead maintenance activity in Guam, Cable has conducted five submarine continuous maintenance availabilities, 37 Submarine voyage repair periods and 13 surface ship voyage repair periods.