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Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Unit 102
MIUW Unit 102

The primary mission of Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Units (MIUWU) is to enhance the overall force readiness by providing a rapidly deployable force capable of surveillance operations and intelligence collection. The specific employment of this capability is to provide surface surveillance and subsurface surveillance in littoral operating areas, harbors, roadsteads, straits, anchorage's, offshore economic assets, law enforcement operations, and other militarily significant inshore areas throughout the world.

Secondary mission capabilities including command, control, communications and intelligence collection. This includes control of mine counter-measures forces (MCM and AMCM) control of ships in swept channels, boat control in AOL, control of coastal interdiction assets and as an operational test and evaluation unit. The central component of an MIUWU is the Radar-Sonar Surveillance Center (RSSC). Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Units such as MIUWU 102 provide the sole capability for this mission in the U.S. Navy

All MIUW Units are manned by Naval Reservists. A Unit consists of 12 selected reservist officers, 52 selected reservist enlisted and 8 active duty personnel. The crew is composed of both men and women and rating from both surface, subsurface, construction, special forces and aviation Naval Warfare communities.

On October 1, 1985, Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Unit 12 was relocated from Naval Station Long Beach to Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center Spokane. MIUWU 12 was staffed with various personnel that were awaiting new reserve billets.

On January 1, 1986, Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Unit 102 was officially commissioned as an Active Reserve Unit under the cognizance of Commander Inshore Undersea Warfare Group One, San Diego, California. Since then, MIUWU 102 has traveled to such places as Puerto Rico, Long Beach California, Port Angeles Washington, Coronado Naval Base, Bahrain, Qatar, Pusan Korea, Singapore, and more recently to Ketchikan Alaska.