BOURNE, Mass. – Approximately 600 people arrived at Air Station Cape Cod, here, to welcome back Coast Guard Port Security Unit 301 crewmembers after they returned from a six-month deployment at around midnight Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010.
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Video – Combined Task Group 56.5
KUWAIT – The Combined Task Group 56.5 provides port security operations for Landing Craft Air Cushion from the USS Bataan at Camp Patriot, Kuwait.
Port Security Unit 311 to return home from Kuwait
SAN PEDRO, Calif. — Coast Guard Port Security Unit 311, located in San Pedro, Calif., will be welcomed home by family and friends during a short ceremony Wednesday after a seven-month deployment to Kuwait.
Port Security Unit 311 – The Mission in Kuwait
KUWAIT NAVAL BASE, Kuwait — The U.S. Coast Guard Port Security Unit 311, based out of San Pedro, Calif. deployed to the Kuwaiti Naval Base Dec. 4, with the Navy’s Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron One (MSRON ONE) as part of the Combined Task Group 56.5, under the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command.
Port Security Unit 311 – Preparations To Deploy to Kuwait
KUWAIT NAVAL BASE, Kuwait – As the 747 touched down at three in the morning, an eerie silence fell over the 340 Coast Guard and Navy personnel inside. Where moments before an excited chatter had filled the cabin, now it was quiet.
Presumably, it could have been the almost 19 hours of flying that the unit [...]
PSU 309 Begins Operations in the Middle East
CAMP PATRIOT, Kuwait (CG Public Affairs) – An Ohio Coast Guard unit deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom has begun operations in the Middle East to protect high-value U.S. assets bringing supplies to troops setting the conditions for security and stability in Iraq.
More than 100 Coast Guardsmen from Port Security Unit 309, Port Clinton, [...]