Cape Victory is nested at the National Defense Reserve Fleet in Beaumont, Texas, in ROS-5 status, with a 10-man maintenance crew on board.

The ten (10) person ROS crew performs continuous maintenance in order to maintain the vessel in class with the American Bureau of Shipping and fully certificated by the USCG.

Within seven days of entering the RRF, on 9 September 1994, the MV Cape Victory loaded cargo at Wilmington, NC and departed for Port-au-Prince, Haiti via Guantanamo, Cuba.

MV Cape Victory supported Operation Uphold Democracy, a peace keeping mission, for 94 days before returning to Beaumont, TX.

The vessel was fully operational when her sail orders were changed and she supported the humanitarian relief effort to Central America in response to the damage caused by Hurricane Mitch.

The Cape Victory was activated on 17 January 2003 for Operation Iraqi Freedom and loaded cargo from the 4th Infantry Division at the Port of Beaumont.