Group Mobile
Group Mobile, the largest group in the Coast Guard, is located at the old Air Force Base at Brookley Field. The group's area of responsibility spans four states, supporting 18 OPFACS, including two 110-foot WPBS, one 82-foot WPB, two WLICS, one WLM, five multi-mission stations with a total of 16 small boats, four Aids to Navigation Teams with two 55-foot boats and one 65-foot Aids to Navigation barge. The group and industrial base maintains 1,700 miles of navigable waterways with over 5,000 aids to navigation. It is responsible for the coordination of search and rescue, fisheries enforcement, boating safety and law enforcement. The group also includes a base that is responsible for the overhaul of nearly two-thirds of all the Eighth Districts buoys.
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