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Petty Officer 2nd Class John Curry, a master-at-arms,

Petty Officer 2nd Class John Curry, a master-at-arms,

Petty Officer 2nd Class John Curry, a master-at-arms, of Maritime Civil Affairs Security Training, Security Forces Assistance team, instructs members of the Cameroon navy on security procedures for personnel in... More

Chief Petty Officer Nick Estrada, left, a U.S. Navy

Chief Petty Officer Nick Estrada, left, a U.S. Navy

Chief Petty Officer Nick Estrada, left, a U.S. Navy military working dog handler from Orange, Calif., rewards a Uruguayan police narcotics sniffing dog after correctly tracking simulated narcotics during a thre... More

Key leader engagement, Virginia Beach

Key leader engagement, Virginia Beach

Chief Petty Officer Olivia Sturgeon (center), assigned to Mobile Civil Affairs and Security Training command, speaks with actors portraying female villagers as Petty Officer 2nd Class Cedric Wright observes. Th... More

A Uruguayan police officer and army explosive ordnance

A Uruguayan police officer and army explosive ordnance

A Uruguayan police officer and army explosive ordnance disposal technician observe from a safe distance the removal of an improvised explosive device during a training exercise as part of a three-week training ... More

Chief Petty Officer Jack Bustillos (left), Security

Chief Petty Officer Jack Bustillos (left), Security

Chief Petty Officer Jack Bustillos (left), Security Force Assistance mobile training team mission commander, explains coxswain tactical maneuvers to a Peruvian coast guardsman aboard PC 228 Coishco during small... More

Sea Officer 1st Class Juan Francisco Chato Chavez,

Sea Officer 1st Class Juan Francisco Chato Chavez,

Sea Officer 1st Class Juan Francisco Chato Chavez, Peruvian coast guard naval electrician, takes notes during a small boat patrol operations lesson taught by U.S. Navy Sailors assigned to a Security Force Assis... More

Uruguayan interagency forces collect forensic evidence

Uruguayan interagency forces collect forensic evidence

Uruguayan interagency forces collect forensic evidence after disrupting an improvised explosive device during a training field exercise as part of a three-week training course coordinated by the Maritime Civil ... More

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Nick Estrada, master-at-arms,

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Nick Estrada, master-at-arms,

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Nick Estrada, master-at-arms, second from left, a military working dog handler from Orange, Calif., trains a Uruguayan military working dog handler during a three-week training cou... More

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla (right), Security Force Assistance

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla (right), Security Force Assistance

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla (right), Security Force Assistance mobile training team leader, instructs a Peruvian coast guardsman on proper coxswain tactical maneuvers aboard the Peruvian patrol boat PC 228 Coishco... More

Uruguayan explosive ordnance disposal technicians remotely

Uruguayan explosive ordnance disposal technicians remotely

Uruguayan explosive ordnance disposal technicians remotely operate an ANDROS robot to examine a secondary improvised explosive device during a training field exercise as part of a three-week training course coo... More

Sailors assigned to the Fuerza Especial Naval of the

Sailors assigned to the Fuerza Especial Naval of the

Sailors assigned to the Fuerza Especial Naval of the Guatemalan navy pilot maritime patrol boats in an echelon formation to demonstrate what they've learned during two weeks of training with Maritime Civil Affa... More

A Guatemalan coast guard vessel serves as a high value

A Guatemalan coast guard vessel serves as a high value

A Guatemalan coast guard vessel serves as a high value asset to protect by Fuerza Especial Naval boat teams during a military-to-military training exercise lead by sailors assigned to the Maritime Civil Affairs... More

Members of Maritime Civil Affairs Security Training

Members of Maritime Civil Affairs Security Training

Members of Maritime Civil Affairs Security Training Security Forces Assistance review proper security checkpoint procedures with members of the Cameroon Navy at Douala Naval Base. This course is part of a four... More

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Nick Estrada, master-at-arms,

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Nick Estrada, master-at-arms,

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Nick Estrada, master-at-arms, second from right, a military working dog handler from Orange, Calif., trains a Uruguayan military working dog handler during a three-week training co... More

Lt. Eric Hedval, officer in charge of a Maritime Civil

Lt. Eric Hedval, officer in charge of a Maritime Civil

Lt. Eric Hedval, officer in charge of a Maritime Civil Affairs Security Training Security Forces Assistance team, serves as a mock captive as members of the Cameroon navy Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) tea... More

BUC Jody L. Binette, Maritime Civil Affairs Team 203,

BUC Jody L. Binette, Maritime Civil Affairs Team 203,

BUC Jody L. Binette, Maritime Civil Affairs Team 203, meets with local officials during a site survey at a maternity clinic outside Thies, Senegal. Photo by MC2 Mathew Diendorf

U.S. Marines, assigned to the Marine Corps Detachment

U.S. Marines, assigned to the Marine Corps Detachment

U.S. Marines, assigned to the Marine Corps Detachment embarked aboard High Speed Vessel Swift, observe Haitian National Police and Hatian Coast Guard members fire 9 mm weapons at a Chilean military weapons rang... More

BMC(EXW/SW) Jack Bustillos (standing), Security Force

BMC(EXW/SW) Jack Bustillos (standing), Security Force

BMC(EXW/SW) Jack Bustillos (standing), Security Force Assistance mobile training team mission commander, discusses training topics for the small boat patrol operations course to members of the Peruvian coast g... More

Fuerza Especial Naval sailors guide their patrol boats

Fuerza Especial Naval sailors guide their patrol boats

Fuerza Especial Naval sailors guide their patrol boats in a tactical diamond formation to demonstrate what they've learned during the past two weeks from their instructors with the Maritime Civil Affairs and Se... More

Fuerza Especial Naval Militia Policeman Byron Randolofo

Fuerza Especial Naval Militia Policeman Byron Randolofo

Fuerza Especial Naval Militia Policeman Byron Randolofo Rosales Velasquez watches for threats during a high value assest escort trainig execise as Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training instructor Petty ... More

Lt. Eric Hedval, officer in charge of a Maritime Civil

Lt. Eric Hedval, officer in charge of a Maritime Civil

Lt. Eric Hedval, officer in charge of a Maritime Civil Affairs Security Training, Security Forces Assistance team, serves as a mock captive as members of the Cameroon navy Rapid Intervention Battalion team prac... More

Chief Petty Officer Willie Donald of Maritime Civil

Chief Petty Officer Willie Donald of Maritime Civil

Chief Petty Officer Willie Donald of Maritime Civil Affairs Security Training Security Forces Assistance team observes as members of the Cameroon Rapid Intervention Battalion practice small boat tactics on land... More

Petty Officer 1st Class Edwin Mantilla, Security Force

Petty Officer 1st Class Edwin Mantilla, Security Force

Petty Officer 1st Class Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance mobile training team leader, observes the chart plotting capabilities of a Peruvian coast guardsman during navigation and chart-plotting trainin... More

A member of the Djiboutian navy practices boarding

A member of the Djiboutian navy practices boarding

A member of the Djiboutian navy practices boarding a vessel during an exercise here May 26 with members of the U.S. Navy Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command. The exchange reflected a joint vent... More

Chief Petty Officer Jack Bustillos, Security Force

Chief Petty Officer Jack Bustillos, Security Force

Chief Petty Officer Jack Bustillos, Security Force Assistance mobile training team mission commander, trains Peruvian coast guardsmen on navigation and chart-plotting procedures, Sept 17. SFA, a component of Ma... More

Petty Officer 1st Class Jonathan Upton, master-at-arms,

Petty Officer 1st Class Jonathan Upton, master-at-arms,

Petty Officer 1st Class Jonathan Upton, master-at-arms, left, a U.S. Navy military working dog handler from Jacksonville, Ala., adjusts the posture of a Uruguayan coast guard dog handler during a three-week tra... More

Uruguayan forces personnel reel in a suspicious package

Uruguayan forces personnel reel in a suspicious package

Uruguayan forces personnel reel in a suspicious package rigged for removal using the hook and line method during a three-week training course coordinated by the Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Comm... More

A Uruguayan explosive ordnance disposal technician

A Uruguayan explosive ordnance disposal technician

A Uruguayan explosive ordnance disposal technician collects photographic reconnaissance information of a vehicle born improvised explosive device as U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Jonathan C. Bates, from ... More

BMC (EXW/SW) Jack Bustillos, Security Force Assistance

BMC (EXW/SW) Jack Bustillos, Security Force Assistance

BMC (EXW/SW) Jack Bustillos, Security Force Assistance mobile training team mission commander, discusses training topics for the small boat patrol operations course to members of the Peruvian coast guard, Se... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Mendoza (center), a

Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Mendoza (center), a

Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Mendoza (center), a member of the Security Force Assistance mobile training team, dribbles the ball between Peruvian defenders during a soccer game between teams from SFA and the... More

Lance Cpl. Ronald Russell, assigned to the Marine Corps

Lance Cpl. Ronald Russell, assigned to the Marine Corps

Lance Cpl. Ronald Russell, assigned to the Marine Corps Detachment (MARDET) embarked aboard High Speed Vessel (HSV 2) Swift, paints a wall at the National School of Caracol. NMCB-23 and the Indonesian Military ... More

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Carlos Velez (right),

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Carlos Velez (right),

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Carlos Velez (right), Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command engineman, advises members of the Djiboutian navy on how to approach a vessel during a boarding exerc... More

Fuerza Especial Naval sailors guide their patrol boats

Fuerza Especial Naval sailors guide their patrol boats

Fuerza Especial Naval sailors guide their patrol boats in an echelon formation to demonstrate what they've learned during the past two weeks from their instructors with the Maritime Civil Affairs and Security T... More

Petty Officer 1st Class Paul Francois, a master-at-arms

Petty Officer 1st Class Paul Francois, a master-at-arms

Petty Officer 1st Class Paul Francois, a master-at-arms assigned to Maritime Civil Affairs Security Training, Security Forces Assistance team, instructs members of the Cameroon navy on anti-terrorism and force ... More

An engineman from the Costa Rican coast guard hangs

An engineman from the Costa Rican coast guard hangs

An engineman from the Costa Rican coast guard hangs over the shoulder of Petty Officer 1st Class James B. Elgin, engineman, from Greenville, N.C., an instructor assigned to Maritime Civil Affairs and Security T... More

Bold Alligator, US Marine Corps Photo

Bold Alligator, US Marine Corps Photo

A French landing craft unit practices a beach landing at Onslow Beach at Camp Lejeune, N.C., as part of Bold Alligator 2012. Exercise Bold Alligator 2012, the largest naval amphibious exercise in the past 10 ye... More

U.S. Marines, assigned to the Marine Corps Detachment

U.S. Marines, assigned to the Marine Corps Detachment

U.S. Marines, assigned to the Marine Corps Detachment embarked aboard High Speed Vessel Swift, observe Haitian National Police and Haitian Coast Guard members fire 9 mm weapons at a Chilean military weapons ran... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Mendoza, Security Force

Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Mendoza, Security Force

Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Mendoza, Security Force Assistance mobile training team member, radios formation directions to the Peruvian patrol craft PC 234 Matarani during coxswain tactical maneuver training... More

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla (right), Security Force Assistance

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla (right), Security Force Assistance

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla (right), Security Force Assistance mobile training team leader, instructs a Peruvian coast guardsman on proper coxswain tactical maneuvers aboard the Peruvian patrol boat PC 228 Coishco... More

Sailors from the Maritime Civil Affairs and Security

Sailors from the Maritime Civil Affairs and Security

Sailors from the Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training command teach small boat operations to the Guatemala Fuerza Especial Naval in part of a military-to-military joint training effort to help police an... More

A Uruguayan army explosive ordnance disposal officer

A Uruguayan army explosive ordnance disposal officer

A Uruguayan army explosive ordnance disposal officer explains to her explosive ordnance disposal response team how she plans to remove an improvised explosive device during a field exercise as part of a three-w... More

Fuerza especial naval sailors assigned to the Guatemalan

Fuerza especial naval sailors assigned to the Guatemalan

Fuerza especial naval sailors assigned to the Guatemalan navy guide their patrol boats in an echelon formation to demonstrate techniques they learned while training with the Maritime Civil Affairs and Security ... More

Comandante Comando Naval del Pacifico Capt. Carlos

Comandante Comando Naval del Pacifico Capt. Carlos

Comandante Comando Naval del Pacifico Capt. Carlos Antonio Lainfiesta Soto makes the opening remarks at a graduation ceremony for Fuerza Especial Naval sailors who completed a two-week training course with sail... More

Members of the Djiboutian navy practice boarding and

Members of the Djiboutian navy practice boarding and

Members of the Djiboutian navy practice boarding and securing a vessel during an exercise here May 28 as U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Harold Desauguste (left), U.S. Naval Force Africa aviation machinist's ... More

Fuerza Especial Naval sailors locate and call attention

Fuerza Especial Naval sailors locate and call attention

Fuerza Especial Naval sailors locate and call attention to an enemy contact approaching their stern during a Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training military-to-military small boat operations training evol... More

Chief Petty Officer Mike Hausmann, master-at-arms,

Chief Petty Officer Mike Hausmann, master-at-arms,

Chief Petty Officer Mike Hausmann, master-at-arms, a U.S. Navy military working dog handler, observes a Uruguayan anti-narcotics police officer give his drug-sniffing dog basic obedience commands during a three... More

Chief Petty Officer Nick Estrada, master-at-arms, left,

Chief Petty Officer Nick Estrada, master-at-arms, left,

Chief Petty Officer Nick Estrada, master-at-arms, left, a U.S. Navy military working dog handler from Orange, Calif., gives a visual cue to a Uruguayan coast guard dog handler and his drug sniffing dog during a... More

Fuerza Especial Naval sailors guide their patrol boats

Fuerza Especial Naval sailors guide their patrol boats

Fuerza Especial Naval sailors guide their patrol boats in a tactical diamond formation to demonstrate what they've learned during the past two weeks from their instructors with the Maritime Civil Affairs and Se... More

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Nick Estrada, master-at-arms,

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Nick Estrada, master-at-arms,

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Nick Estrada, master-at-arms, left, a military working dog handler from Orange, Calif., trains a Uruguayan military working dog handler during a three-week training course coordina... More

Instructors from the Maritime Civil Affairs and Security

Instructors from the Maritime Civil Affairs and Security

Instructors from the Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Security Force Assistance team review proper security checkpoint procedures with members of the Cameroon Navy at Douala Naval Base. This course ... More

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Anthony Nekervis

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Anthony Nekervis

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Anthony Nekervis (right), Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command electronic technician, advises a member of the Djiboutian navy on searching and securing a vessel... More

Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training instructor

Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training instructor

Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training instructor Petty Officer 1st Class Paul N. Francois II, master-at-arms, from New Roads, La. assesses a high value asset escort exercise by the Fuerza Especial Naval ... More

Senior Chief Petty Officer Chad L. Harris, left, a

Senior Chief Petty Officer Chad L. Harris, left, a

Senior Chief Petty Officer Chad L. Harris, left, a master explosive ordnance disposal technician from Green Bay, Wis., observes a Uruguayan explosive ordnance disposal technician set up a mobile X-ray device to... More

Cameroon sailors pose for a photo after receiving their

Cameroon sailors pose for a photo after receiving their

Cameroon sailors pose for a photo after receiving their certificate of completion from Maritime Civil Affairs Security Training Security Forces Assistance course at Douala Naval Base. This course is part of a f... More

Instructors from the Maritime Civil Affairs and Security

Instructors from the Maritime Civil Affairs and Security

Instructors from the Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training, Security Force Assistance team, review anti-terrorism and force protection measures with members of the Cameroon navy at Douala Naval Base. Thi... More

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistant

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistant

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistant mobile training team leader, instructs a class of Peruvian coast guardsmen on small boat patrol operations on board Naval Base Callao Sept. 13. SFA, a componen... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Mendoza (center), a

Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Mendoza (center), a

Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Mendoza (center), a member of the Security Force Assistance mobile training team, steals the ball from a Peruvian coast guardsman during a soccer game between teams from SFA and t... More

A Uruguayan explosive ordnance disposal technician

A Uruguayan explosive ordnance disposal technician

A Uruguayan explosive ordnance disposal technician maneuvers a line attached to an improvised explosive device during a training field exercise as part of a three-week training course coordinated by the Maritim... More

Two Fuerza Especial Naval sailors observe small boat

Two Fuerza Especial Naval sailors observe small boat

Two Fuerza Especial Naval sailors observe small boat operations training from the bridge of a Guatemalan coast guard vessel. A total of 40 FEN sailors received two weeks of small boat operations training from s... More

Lt. Stuart Ferguson, assigned to Maritime Civil Affairs

Lt. Stuart Ferguson, assigned to Maritime Civil Affairs

Lt. Stuart Ferguson, assigned to Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training (MCAST) Command, demonstrates the capabilities of the Human Terrain system equipment to guests at the MCAST Civil Military Operation... More

Petty Officer 1st Class Paul N. Francois II, master-at-arms,

Petty Officer 1st Class Paul N. Francois II, master-at-arms,

Petty Officer 1st Class Paul N. Francois II, master-at-arms, from New Roads, La., an instructor assigned to Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training, prepares to board Fuerza Especial Naval of the Guatemala... More

Petty Officer 1st Class Robert Taylor, an Africa Partnership

Petty Officer 1st Class Robert Taylor, an Africa Partnership

Petty Officer 1st Class Robert Taylor, an Africa Partnership Station East instructor, teaches a small boat maintenance course to Tanzanian maritime students in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, earlier this year.

Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion

Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion

Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 23, embarked aboard High Speed Vessel (HSV 2) Swift, untangle a barbed wire roll that will be used on a security wall at the Dispensarie De Caracol. NMCB-... More

Members of the Djiboutian navy practice securing a

Members of the Djiboutian navy practice securing a

Members of the Djiboutian navy practice securing a vessel during an exercise here May 26 with members of the U.S. Navy Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command. The exchange reflected a joint ventur... More

Sea Officer 2nd Class Antonio Sevilla Calderon, a member

Sea Officer 2nd Class Antonio Sevilla Calderon, a member

Sea Officer 2nd Class Antonio Sevilla Calderon, a member of the Peruvian navy artillery, listens to BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance mobile training team leader, as he explains small boat pat... More

Petty Officer 1st Class Joel Eyzaguirre, a member of

Petty Officer 1st Class Joel Eyzaguirre, a member of

Petty Officer 1st Class Joel Eyzaguirre, a member of Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command, hugs his godson after an arranged meeting at the Johannes Gutenberg School. Eyzaguirre is a former stud... More

Uruguayan explosive ordnance disposal technicians help

Uruguayan explosive ordnance disposal technicians help

Uruguayan explosive ordnance disposal technicians help a fellow soldier don a bomb disposal suit during a three-week training course coordinated by the Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command. MCAS... More

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class John Brooks (left),

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class John Brooks (left),

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class John Brooks (left), Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command lead instructor and master-at-arms, discusses boarding tactics with members of the Djiboutian navy afte... More

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance mobile training team leader, instructs a class of Peruvian coast guardsmen on small boat patrol operations Sept 14. SFA, a component of Maritime Civil Affairs... More

A Uruguayan army explosive ordnance disposal officer,

A Uruguayan army explosive ordnance disposal officer,

A Uruguayan army explosive ordnance disposal officer, left, and U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Chad L. Harris, explosive ordnance disposal technician, from Green Bay, Wis., daisy-chain a series of 105 mm ... More

MCAST Commanding Officer Meets With Deputy Chief of Mission for US Embassy Kenya

MCAST Commanding Officer Meets With Deputy Chief of Mission for US Emb...

While attending the Humanitarian Development Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command Commanding Officer Capt. Frank Hughlett met with Mr. Lee Brudvig, Deputy Chief of Miss... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Everett H. Lyons, boatswain's

Petty Officer 2nd Class Everett H. Lyons, boatswain's

Petty Officer 2nd Class Everett H. Lyons, boatswain's mate, from Bloomfield, N.J., an instructor assigned to Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training, directs Guatemalan navy maritime patrol boats into form... More

Sailors assigned to the Fuerza Especial Naval of the

Sailors assigned to the Fuerza Especial Naval of the

Sailors assigned to the Fuerza Especial Naval of the Guatemalan navy pilot maritime patrol boats in a diamond formation to demonstrate what they've learned during two weeks of training with Maritime Civil Affai... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class John Curry, a master-at-arms,

Petty Officer 2nd Class John Curry, a master-at-arms,

Petty Officer 2nd Class John Curry, a master-at-arms, of Maritime Civil Affairs Security Training, Security Forces Assistance team, guides members of the Cameroon navy through a French version of an electronic ... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Everett H. Lyons, boatswain's

Petty Officer 2nd Class Everett H. Lyons, boatswain's

Petty Officer 2nd Class Everett H. Lyons, boatswain's mate, from Bloomfield, N.J., an instructor assigned to Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training, directs Guatemalan navy maritime patrol boats into a co... More

BM2 (SW) Daniel Mendoza (right), Security Force Assistance

BM2 (SW) Daniel Mendoza (right), Security Force Assistance

BM2 (SW) Daniel Mendoza (right), Security Force Assistance mobile training team member, supervises the two-way radio communication skills of a Peruvian coast guardsman aboard the patrol craft PC 228 Coishco dur... More

BM1(EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance

BM1(EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance

BM1(EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance mobile training team leader, instructs a class of Peruvian coast guardsmen on small boat patrol operations Sept 14. SFA, a component of Maritime Civil Affairs ... More

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance mobile training team leader, instructs a class of Peruvian coast guardsmen on small boat patrol operations Sept 14. SFA, a component of Maritime Civil Affairs... More

Fuerza Especial Naval sailors climb down from the pier

Fuerza Especial Naval sailors climb down from the pier

Fuerza Especial Naval sailors climb down from the pier at the Comando Naval Del Pacifico and board their high-speed patrol vessels to begin another day of small boat operations training with instructors from th... More

Capt. Carlos Antonio Lainfiesta Soto, Comandante Comando

Capt. Carlos Antonio Lainfiesta Soto, Comandante Comando

Capt. Carlos Antonio Lainfiesta Soto, Comandante Comando Naval del Pacifico, makes the opening remarks at a graduation ceremony for Guatemalan navy fuerza especial naval sailors who completed a two-week trainin... More

Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training instructor

Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training instructor

Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training instructor Petty Officer 2nd Class Everett H. Lyons, boatswain's mate, from Bloomfield, N.J., conducts a post brief with Fuerza Especial Naval boat captains after a ... More

Chief Petty Officer Edward D. Young, engineman, from

Chief Petty Officer Edward D. Young, engineman, from

Chief Petty Officer Edward D. Young, engineman, from Gadsden, Ala., an instructor assigned to Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training, teaches a Costa Rican coast guardsman how to time an engine. A mobile ... More

Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training instructor

Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training instructor

Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training instructor Petty Officer 2nd Class Everett H. Lyons, boatswain's mate, from Bloomfield, N.J. directs a Guatemalan Fuerza Especial Naval boat team during formation ex... More

A Uruguayan army explosive ordnance disposal technician

A Uruguayan army explosive ordnance disposal technician

A Uruguayan army explosive ordnance disposal technician rigs a vehicle door handle to open a vehicle born improvised explosive device remotely during a training exercise as part of a three-week training course ... More

Lt. Sarah Terse, an explosive ordnance disposal officer

Lt. Sarah Terse, an explosive ordnance disposal officer

Lt. Sarah Terse, an explosive ordnance disposal officer from Swedesboro, N.J., assesses a Uruguayan explosive ordnance disposal technician remove a suspicious package using the hook and line method during a thr... More

Petty Officer 1st Class Jonathan Upton, master-at-arms,

Petty Officer 1st Class Jonathan Upton, master-at-arms,

Petty Officer 1st Class Jonathan Upton, master-at-arms, left, a U.S. Navy military working dog handler from Jacksonville, Ala., assesses his class of Uruguayan forces dog handlers as they command their dogs to ... More

Senior Chief Petty Officer Jonathan C. Bates, left,

Senior Chief Petty Officer Jonathan C. Bates, left,

Senior Chief Petty Officer Jonathan C. Bates, left, a master explosive ordnance disposal technician from Kennewick, Wash., indicates that the Uruguayan EOD operator of the ANDROS EOD robot has successfully enga... More

Milton Romani, center, Secretary of the National Commission

Milton Romani, center, Secretary of the National Commission

Milton Romani, center, Secretary of the National Commission on Drugs of Uruguay, addresses a graduating class of Uruguayan forces detection and patrol dog handlers, as U.S. Embassy Political and Economic Counse... More

Navy disestablishes MCAST, Virginia Beach

Navy disestablishes MCAST, Virginia Beach

Capt. Marc Gordnier, commanding officer of Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command (MCAST), presents the command's ensign to Rear Adm. Frank Morneau, commander, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (N... More

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance mobile training team leader, instructs a class of Peruvian coast guardsmen on small boat patrol operations on board Naval Base Callao Sept. 13. SFA, a compone... More

Builder 1st Class Antonio Escobar, left, assigned to

Builder 1st Class Antonio Escobar, left, assigned to

Builder 1st Class Antonio Escobar, left, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 23, embarked aboard High Speed Vessel (HSV 2) Swift, and members of the Indonesian Military Engineering Contingent, unwra... More

Sailors assigned to Maritime Civil Affairs and Security

Sailors assigned to Maritime Civil Affairs and Security

Sailors assigned to Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training command teach Costa Rican coast guard sailors how to time a 3412 series Caterpillar boat engine. The MCAST mobile training team is conducting a t... More

Sea Officer 1st Class Juan Francisco Chato Chevez,

Sea Officer 1st Class Juan Francisco Chato Chevez,

Sea Officer 1st Class Juan Francisco Chato Chevez, Peruvian naval electrician, listens to a lesson during a Security Force Assistance small boat patrol operations course Sept. 13. SFA, a component of Maritime C... More

Petty Officer 1st Class Jonathan Upton, master-at-arms,

Petty Officer 1st Class Jonathan Upton, master-at-arms,

Petty Officer 1st Class Jonathan Upton, master-at-arms, left, a U.S. Navy military working dog handler from Jacksonville, Ala., teaches scent imprint fundamentals to Uruguayan host nation forces dog handlers du... More

BM2 (SW) Daniel Mendoza (right), Security Force Assistance

BM2 (SW) Daniel Mendoza (right), Security Force Assistance

BM2 (SW) Daniel Mendoza (right), Security Force Assistance mobile training team member, supervises a Peruvian coast guardsman's coxswain skills during coxswain tactical maneuver skills training aboard PC 228 Co... More

BM2 (SW) Daniel Mendoza (right), Security Force Assistance

BM2 (SW) Daniel Mendoza (right), Security Force Assistance

BM2 (SW) Daniel Mendoza (right), Security Force Assistance mobile training team member, checks the two-way radio aboard the Peruvian patrol craft PC 228 Coishco during small boat patrol training with the Peruvi... More

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance

BM1 (EXW) Edwin Mantilla, Security Force Assistance mobile training team leader, instructs a class of Peruvian coast guardsmen on small boat patrol operations Sept 14. SFA, a component of Maritime Civil Affairs... More

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