COASTAL WARFARE UNITS DEPLOY TO ARABIAN GULF
US Coast Guard, Pacific Area Release
Release Date: 3/4/2004
ALAMEDA, Calif. - Three Bay Area expeditionary Naval Coastal Warfare units are deploying to the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Saturday at 5 p.m., from Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, Calif.
Harbor Defense Command Unit (HDCU) 111 from Alameda is a joint C4I unit with 48 Coast Guard and Navy reserve members. HDCU 111 provides command, control, communications, computers and intelligence to oversee waterside and shore-side force protection of high value assets. HDCU 111 is part of Naval Coastal Warfare Group One. HDCU 111 will deploy with two local Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Units (MIUWU) to form Naval Coastal Warfare Detachment Six comprised of more than 250 personnel. Although these three Naval Coastal Warfare units are from Alameda and San Jose, about one third of their personnel come from other distant regions of the country such as Billings, Mont., Cheyenne, Wyo., Sioux Falls, S.D., and Phoenix, Ariz. They recently completed two months of intensive pre-deployment training in San Diego and are certified to deploy.
Together, these Naval Coastal Warfare units provide command and control, communications, intelligence, visual and electronic surveillance and operate high-speed, heavily armed patrol craft to provide water-borne force protection.
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