Navy Commissions Anti-Terror Force Unit

[Clara T]

Navy Commissions Anti-Terror Force Unit
Friday February 3, 2006 4:01 AM

By SETH HETTENA

Associated Press Writer

IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Six years after suicide bombers in an explosives-laden boat blew a hole in the USS Cole in Yemen, the Navy on Thursday commissioned its first active-duty unit with the job of thwarting a repeat of the attack that killed 17 sailors.

Naval Coastal Warfare Squadron Five will protect shipping lanes and U.S. forces overseas, defend harbors and provide port security with small, fast gunboats not seen since Vietnam. The squadron, expanding to 325 men and women, is expected to make its first deployment in 2007 to either Kuwait, South Korea or the Horn of Africa.

The squadron will deploy with a fleet of 18 aluminum-hulled boats equipped with machine guns and grenade launchers that can be loaded onto a C-17 transport plane and flown around the globe. In the water, they are capable of reaching speeds of more than 35 knots. Elements of the squadron can go ashore with a mobile sensor unit to provide surveillance of the operating area and relay communications.

Training scenarios include how to deal with a suicide bomber riding an explosive-laden Jet-Ski or in a fishing vessel, said Rear Adm. Donald K. Bullard, who oversees the squadron as head of a new Navy command for anti-terrorism and force protection.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5590420,00.html

[DemInDistress]

1. what good is any anti-terror group if the scumbags in the

WHITEHOUSE allow us to be attacked..we did have the greatest Air Force of all time in all history but what good did that do? NORAD was ordered to stand down and roll over while 19 sheetheads ran rampant through the skies over America,so the MURDERERS would want us to believe..

[shanti]

2. exactly, it's a sham

but the sheeple will lap it up.

[DemInDistress]

3. the sheeple...how sad ..I often say to them.."fortunately for bush

he can still fool some of the people (gop sheep) all of the time"

[Clara T]

5. Sheeple? These People?

[DemInDistress]

6. yes those people...rotf... thank you..

[saigon68]

8. Notice how its a WHITE sheep

</sarcasm>

[hang a left]

9. I just stole your picture.

You can't stop me! :evilgrin:

[reprobate]

4. Citizen, you know that talk like this is not permitted about .....

Glorious Leader.

It will go easier on you if you turn yourself in.

[shadowknows69]

7. I figured the Navy Seals would be enough

Isn't that their primary function anyway? Small special forces, covert missions? Why this new group? If I was a SEAL I think I'd be pissed.

[davepc]

10. Back in the day the guys who did this job were called MARINES.