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Article: Update on Coast Guard Reserve equipment
- Article from:
- The Officer
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright Reserve Officers Association Oct 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Last December, as American families prepared for the holidays, Coast Guard Reservists left their homes and loved ones for the Arabian Gulf region, where they protected U.S. vessels in the wake of the attack on the destroyer USS Cole.
The deployment of detachments from two of the Coast Guard's six Port Security Units (PSUs) highlighted a special capability of the nation's smallest armed service - the ability to deliver waterside force protection at both ends of the sea lines of communication.
It wasn't the first time Coast Guard Reservists have gone overseas to safeguard national security; PSUs deployed to Saudi Arabia for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. They served in Haiti and ...