Blount Island Command is a Marine Corps support facility located in Jacksonville, Florida.

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed the directive that created the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force.

Maritime Prepositioning Ships Squadron-1 (MPSRON-1) became operational in 1984 on the U.S. East Coast, supporting the 6th Marine Amphibious Brigade (MAB) (all MABs changed to MEBs in the late 1980s), and was relocated following Operation Desert Storm to the Mediterranean Sea to establish a forward presence in the European theater.

MPSRON-2 replaced the NTPF ships in the Indian Ocean (Diego Garcia) in 1985 and continued to support 7th MAB based at Camp Pendleton, California.

In June 1991, MPF assets were employed as part of Operation Fiery Vigil to assist the Republic of the Philippines when Mount Pinatubo erupted, burying whole cities and forcing the evacuation of Clark Air Base.

In January 2003, 11 of the then 15 MPF ships were offloaded in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and reconstituted between July and November 2003.

BICmd works closely with the supported expeditionary force commander to exceed ISO 9001 goals of 98% attainment, 98% readiness, and 98% data accuracy of the prepositioned combat capability sets.

[citation needed] In 1986, the Marine Corps established the Biennial Maintenance Command (BMC) at Blount Island, Jacksonville, Florida on 262 acres (1.06 km2) leased from Gate Maritime Properties (GMP) for $11M per year.

BICmd's functional responsibilities for military forces include: Blount Island Command's location offers a number of strategic advantages such as: Approximately once every 42 months, the MSC Maritime Prepositioning Ships (MPS) must go into dry dock for inspection and maintenance.

Work with roughly 1,000 civilian contractors (CTR) to produce high quality, reliable combat capability sets for operational use by the Fleet Marine Force (FMF).

BICmd also manages the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway and is involved with ongoing efforts to develop a Global Positioning Network.