Coast Guard Response Boat & Cutter Eagle Poster

Crew members from Maritime Safety and Security Team (MSST) 91105 manoeuvre a 25-foot Response Boat Homeland Security craft as they prepare to escort Coast Guard cutter Eagle. Jointly staffed to maximize effectiveness executing Port, Waterways, and Coastal Security (PWCS) operations, MSSTS enforce security zones, port state control boardings, protection of military outloads and major marine events, augment shoreside security at waterfront facilities, detect WMD weapons/agents and participate in port level antiterrorism exercises. MSSTs also provide enhanced port safety and security and law enforcement capabilities to the economic or military significant port where they are based (Photograph by Petty Officer 3rd Class Melissa Hauck).