Navy Creates a New Command To Centralize Force Protection

摘要

The U.S. Navy has consolidated the management of all force-protection units deployed around the world into a single new organization. The Maritime Force Protection Command was established in October to manage the training and equipping of the expeditionary units that the Navy deploys overseas to protect its assets, explained the head of the command, Capt. Mark E. Kosnik. "This command includes four components—mobile security, naval coastal warfare, explosive ordnance disposal, and mobile diving and salvage forces," Kosnik told National Defense. "Before the reorganization, those four existed as small, separate entities," he said. "Yet, they use much of the same equipment and training. Their missions are similar. This gives them a single point of oversight that never existed before."