CAPT Frank Hughlett, USN Commanding Officer “People are our Platform”

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MCAST Command Security, Partnership, Stability 11

CAPT Frank Hughlett, USN

Commanding Officer

“People are our Platform”

Maritime Civil AffairsAnd Security Training Command

On the Front Lines of Maritime Security

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MCAST Mission

• Mans, trains, equips and deploys Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Force Assistance teams to support international maritime security and stability

• Prepares regionally aligned planners, teams, specialists, and trainers to support Navy Component and Joint Task Force Commanders’ security cooperation plans.

Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command:

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MCAST Supports U.S. National Objectives

• As a ‘soft power’ enabler, MCAST supports strategic guidance and direction of Naval Operations Concept 2010

• A Cooperative Strategy for the 21st Century Seapower challenges Sea Services to evolve an expandedrange of integrated capabilities to achieve national strategic objectives

• MCAST directly supports two of the six core capabilities of the U.S. Maritime Strategy:

- Maritime Security

- Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response

OPERATION UNITED RESPONSE, MCAT 207, Haiti Disaster Relief (Jan 2010)

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Challenges of the Maritime Environment

The majority of the worlds’ population lives within a few hundred miles of the oceans.

Ninety percent of the world’s trade and two-thirds of its petroleum are transported by sea.

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Maritime Security Challenges

• Lack of appropriate institutional frameworks for governance ofmaritime zones.

• Lack of funds for the exploration and research on marine resources.

• The threat of marine pollution from land-based and ship-based sources.

• Illegal, unreported and unregulatedfishing from distant water; armed robbery; inadequate disaster preparedness

• Inadequate and ineffective port security

OPERATION UNITED RESPONSE, MCAT 203, Haiti Disaster Relief (Jan 2010)

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MCAST Core Competencies

• Maritime Civil Affairs Plans and Operations

• Maritime Civil Affairs Assessment

• Maritime Functional Specialist Expertise

• Security Force Assistance Mobile Training Teams

Complements traditional Army land-based Civil Affairs

Specialty areas such as port operations, marine fisheries and harbor and channel construction and maintenance are unique

MCAT 206 coordinates delivery of supplies in support of Continuing Promise, Panama (June 2009)

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Maritime Civil Affairs provides regionally aligned maritime civil affairs teams, planners and functional specialists to support:

– Enduring Missions (ISO NCC, CJTF, or CTF):• CJTF-HOA• JSOTF-P• JTF-B

– Global Fleet Stations:• Africa Partnership Station• Continuing Promise• Pacific Partnership Station• Southern Partnership Station

– Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief:

• Operation UNIFED RESPONSE (Haiti Earthquake Jan ’10)

• Yemeni Air Crash (Jul ’09)• Haiti Hurricane (Oct ’08)

Maritime Civil Affairs

MCAT 204, Village Chief, Interpreter, Comoros, ISO CJTF-HOA (Feb 2009)

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Security Force Assistance

• SFA MTTs deliver Maritime Expeditionary core capability training and instruction

• SFA MTTs provide military to military training ISO US Embassy Country Teams’ Security Assistance plans

• SFA MTTs deliver timely, focused, customized training in the host nation’s language

• SFA MTTs provide Subject Matter Expert Exchanges (SMEE)

Security Force Assistance Mobile Training Team instructs Ukrainian class In VBSS/Boarding Team Operations (June 2010)

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Weapons Handling

Security Force Assistance Training

Courses of instruction include:

Small Boat Operations and Tactics

Maritime Combat Operations

Maintenance and Construction

Anti-Terrorism / Force Protection

EOD

Leadership and Professional Development

Maritime Civil Affairs

Security Force Assistance Mobile Training Team instructs Ukraine NavyIn Boarding Team Operations (May 2010)

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SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE

MARITIME CIVIL AFFAIRS

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AFRICA PARTNERSHIP

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AFRICA PARTNERSHIP

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CONTINUINGPROMISE

JSOTF-PJSOTF-P

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Global MCAST Command Operations

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JTF-BJTF-B

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MCAST Support

• MCA provides the conduit between the military and non-military instruments of power that comprise the Whole of Community approach

• SFA provides the military to military training, maritime courses of instruction, in support of US Embassy Mission Strategic Plans and Security Cooperation activities

MCAST supports the Maritime Strategy and the U.S. Navy’s Vision for Confronting Irregular Challenges

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• Provide access to, and influence with, the civil populace

• Verify and validate information as it relates to the civil domain

• Establish enduring partnerships

• Contribute to building partner nation capacity and capabilities

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MCAST Partnerships

• MCAST and NATO CIMIC Fusion Centre, ACT/NATO,Norfolk, VA (June 2008)

• CIMIC Centre of Excellence, Enschede, The Netherlands(June 2009)

• University of North Carolina Systems (17 universities) (August 2009)

• NMIOTC, Marathi Pier Complex, Crete, Greece (January 2011)

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Questions?

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