NORTH ABRAIAN GULF (March 27, 2003)--A Coast Guardsman from Port Security Unit 313, based in Tacoma, Wa. stands watch on the Mina al Bakr Oil Terminal in the North Arabian Gulf, March 30, 2003, with the support of the HMS Chatham and other coalition naval forces. Coast Guard forces have been protecting oil platforms, escorting humanitarian aid shipments into the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr and conducting maritime interception operations with coalition forces. USCG photo by Lt. Tony Russell