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JBPHH Conducts Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield '10

Navy NewsStand

Story Number: NNS100325-02
Release Date: 3/25/2010 9:25:00 AM

By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class (SW) Mark Logico, Commander, Navy Region Hawaii Public Affairs

PEARL HARBOR (NNS) -- Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) participated in Exercise Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield '10 (SC/CS-10), an annual security training exercise coordinated by U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFF) March 22-26.

The weeklong security exercise is the largest anti-terrorism/force protection (AT/FP) exercise conducted with all Navy installations and activities in the continental United States.

Anti-terrorism training teams (ATTT) from USS Texas (SSN 775), USS Crommelin (FFG 37) and USS Chaffee (DDG 90), along with JBPHH Security Force and Harbor Security Boat (HSB) crews participated in a scenario involving a small attack boat infiltrating Pearl Harbor.

Sailors from JBPHH Security Force and HSB identified and intercepted a suspicious small boat carrying people with simulated cameras and weapons.

Notified of the situation, crew members aboard Texas, Crommelin and Chaffee scrambled their "snoopy teams", Sailors who are assigned to photograph any surface contact, and small caliber arms teams to gather intelligence and defend their respective ships.

"The purpose of the exercise is to integrate homeport security forces to shipboard and water-borne assets in an AT/FP environment," said Senior Chief Information Systems Technician (SW/EXW) John Mintern, assigned to Crommelin. "This drill is extremely important."

During the exercise, the suspicious boat escalated the situation and attacked the ships and HSBs. While giving chase, HSBs and ships returned fire and successfully apprehended the attack boat. The boat was eventually escorted out of Pearl Harbor.

The small attack boat scenario is only one of several training events conducted in Pearl Harbor. Other training events involved cycling multiple levels of force protection throughout JBPHH, responding to a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device at Naval Computer Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific and identifying a suspicious package near Crommelin's gangway.

The purpose of the exercise is to assess how base security personnel and medical react to water-borne and pier-side threats. It is designed to enhance the training and readiness of Naval Security Force personnel to respond to threats to installations and units, leveraging all processes security forces would implement in the event of an actual emergency.

"Instead of having numerous smaller exercises, exercise Solid Curtain/Citadel Shield is a single, large, integrated exercise that accurately emulates what may happen in the real world," said Capt. Sam A. McCormick, USFF director for Fleet Anti-Terrorism.

SC/CS-10 consisted of more than 250 individual training events across the country, each designed to test different regional AT/FP operations. Scenarios ranged from events such as recognizing and countering base surveillance operations, to higher-tempo and active simulated emergencies such as small-boat attacks on waterfront bases and cyber attacks on installations.