10Th Maritime Safety and Security Team to Call Honolulu Home
U. S. Coast Guard
December 07, 2004
COAST GUARD ISLAND, ALAMEDA, Calif. - Coast Guard Pacific Area will commission a new Maritime Safety and Security Team (MSST 91107) Wednesday at 10 a.m. aboard the Navy's USS Missouri.
Vice Adm. Harvey Johnson, Commander, Coast Guard Pacific Area, will be the presiding official for the ceremony, and Senator Daniel Inouye is slated to be the guest speaker.
MSSTs are a quick response force capable of rapid, nationwide deployment via air, ground or sea transportation in response to changing threat conditions and evolving Maritime Homeland Security mission requirements. They are modeled after the Coast Guard's Port Security Unit's and Law Enforcement Detachments.
Created in direct response to the terrorist attacks Sept. 11, 2001, MSSTs are a part of the Department of Homeland Security's layered strategy directed at protecting our seaports and waterways. They were established to protect military load-outs, enforce security zones, defend critical waterside facilities in strategic ports, stop illegal activities such as narcotics trafficking or illegal migrants, and provide a modest level of shore side protection.
MSST 91107 is the firfth Coast Guard anti-terrorism team to be commissioned in the Pacific region, and the tenth to be commissioned nationwide. Other MSSTs are located in the ports of Seattle, Los Angeles/Long Beach, San Francisco, Anchorage, Alaska; Chesapeake, Va.; Boston, Houston, St. Mary's, Ga.. and New York. An MSST is to be commissioned in San Diego by early 2005.
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