Reservist

ISS3 2016

Reservist Magazine is the award-winning official publication of the United States Coast Guard Reserve. Quarterly issues include news and feature articles about the men and women who comprise America's premier national maritime safety and security

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location, condition and drift projections of spilled oil to the Coast Guard-led U.S. Interagency Assessment Team. On February 28th, Coalition offensive operations ceased and, on April 11th, the United Nations declared a formal ceasefire, ending the Gulf War. On April 21st, when coalition naval forces entered Kuwait's Mina Ash Shuwaikh Harbor, they selected a Coast Guard "Raider" TBSP from PSU 301 to lead the way. This event symbolized how numerically small Coast Guard forces played a vital role in DESERT STORM military operations. In the Persian Gulf War, the Coast Guard provided essential support for naval and land-based military operations that the U.S. Navy could not. The MSOs ensured a nearly 100 percent ready rate of RRF vessels and LEDET personnel either led or supported sixty percent of the 600 boardings. Nearly 1,000 Coast Guard reservists were called to active duty for DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM and two-thirds of them served in the first successful overseas deployment of Coast Guard Port Security Units. Aviation units deployed in theater mapped over 40,000 square miles of the Persian Gulf while their aircraft maintained a readiness rate of nearly 100 percent. In the Persian Gulf War, Coast Guard personnel proudly served their country both at home and abroad and proved once again the importance of Coast Guard missions in overseas conflicts. These Coast Guard activities focused on, but were not limited to, marine safety, vessel boarding, port security and environmental protection operations. In all of these missions, men and women of the Coast Guard Reserve fulfilled their wartime missions and proved Semper Paratus, "always ready." � Some of the 400 Coast g uard men and women who participated in the postwar victory celebration in Washington, d .C. (U.S. Coast g uard) Coast g uardsmen from a law enforcement detachment boarding team on board a t urkish freighter. (U.S. Coast g uard) 52 RESERVIST � Issue 3 • 2016

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