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Sailors Take Part In Anti-Terrorist Drills Before Deploying

January 14 2011

USA

Scores of Navy personnel are receiving pre-deployment anti-terrorism training this week at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., reports Florida Today.

Around 250 sailors from Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 10 will help protect U.S. warships and civilian-crewed support ships.

Planned scenarios include responses to sniper attacks, providing ship security aboard a Coast Guard cutter and operating as if deployed in a Middle Eastern country.

The current round of...

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