Photo By Spc. Christ-Claude Mowandza-Ndinga | U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (Dec. 18, 2024) Members of the Italian...... read more read more
Subscribe
MANAMA, Bahrain – The Egyptian-led Combined Task Force (CTF) 154 of Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) conducted operation Compass Rose IV onboard Naval Support Activity Bahrain, Dec. 15-19.
The five-day maritime security enhancement training (MSET) activity drew participants from 16 CMF member nations. The operation included facilitators from nine member nations along with CMF partner organizations including the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and the International Criminal Police Organization, known as INTERPOL.
The program included practical training in visit, board, search and seizure procedures, maritime domain awareness and damage control and firefighting.
The boarding training equipped participants with the fundamental techniques, tactics and procedures to safely conduct an unopposed boarding in favorable conditions, understand smuggling practices and know how to correctly collect, preserve and transfer evidence for use in investigations and prosecutions.
The maritime domain awareness training gave participants an overview of using unmanned systems to support maritime security operations.
Training included hands-on, workshops and lectures covering maritime law, maritime pollution event crisis management, intelligence, evidence gathering, public affairs and the services of CMF’s Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC).
Commodore Haytham Khalil, commander of CTF 154, said both participants and facilitators found the activity was beneficial because of its collaborative approach.
“We have shifted Compass Rose from a one-directional training program with instructors and trainees to a collaborative exchange in which facilitators, observers and participants share experience and knowledge and all emerge stronger and better able to operate together,” said Khalil. “CTF 154 was pleased to have support for this event from across all CMF combined task forces, CMF headquarters and partner organizations in an expression of the cooperation and collaboration that CMF and Compass Rose is all about.”
Compass Rose is CMF’s flagship MSET activity, designed to increase collaboration, interoperability and capacity across all CMF partner nations in order to enable the conduct of maritime security operations in regional waters.
Compass Rose was first held in May 2023 under the then-newly established CTF 154. Subsequent Compass Rose MSET activities took place in December 2023 and June 2024.
CTF 154 leads multinational maritime training at locations across the Middle East, enabling more CMF partner nations to participate in training opportunities without ships or aircraft, particularly during courses facilitated ashore.
CMF is the largest multinational naval partnership in the world, with 46 nations committed to upholding the international rules-based order at sea, which promotes security, stability, and prosperity across approximately 3.2 million square miles of international waters, encompassing some of the world’s most important shipping lanes.
| Date Taken: | 12.30.2024 |
| Date Posted: | 12.30.2024 07:26 |
| Story ID: | 488404 |
| Location: | MANAMA, BH |
| Web Views: | 87 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
This work, Combined Task Force 154 Concludes Operation Compass Rose IV, by NAVCENT Public Affairs, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright.
No keywords found.
