Mobile Security Squadron 3 Returns From Deployment
Navy NewsStand
Story Number: NNS060426-22
4/26/2006
By Photographer’s Mate Airman Apprentice Joshua Valcarcel, Fleet Public Affairs Center, Pacific
CORONADO, Calif. (NNS) -- Sailors from Mobile Security Squadron (MSS) 3 returned to Naval Base Coronado April 24, following a six-month deployment in the North Persian Gulf.
The 82-man detachment spent the last six months guarding Iraq’s primary oil platforms, Al Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT) and Khawr Al Amaya Oil Terminal (KAAOT).
“Ninety-seven percent of Iraq’s economy comes from these vital platforms, and [we] were the guys chosen to defend them,” said Lt. Grant Whitmer, maintenance officer for MSS 3.
MSS 3’s mission is to provide anti-terrorist defense and protection services for objects or persons of high value.
“They left the oil platforms in better condition than what they found," said Lt. Cmdr. Nick White, executive officer for MSS 3. "I think they’ve done a great job.”
MSS 3 was relieved by the Guam-based MSS 7. This is the squadron’s second deployment to the region since 2004.
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