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

1. Maritime Civil Affairs And Security Training Command On the Front Lines of Maritime Security CAPT Frank Hughlett, USN Commanding Officer “People are our Platform” 1

2. MCAST Mission Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command: • 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. 2

3. 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 expanded • range 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) 3

4. 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. 4

5. Maritime Security Challenges • Lack of appropriate institutional frameworks for governance of • maritime 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 unregulated • fishing from distant water; armed • robbery; inadequate disaster • preparedness • Inadequate and ineffective port • security OPERATION UNITED RESPONSE, MCAT 203, Haiti Disaster Relief (Jan 2010) 5

6. 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 MCAT 206 coordinates delivery of supplies in support of Continuing Promise, Panama (June 2009) Specialty areas such as port operations, marine fisheries and harbor and channel construction and maintenance are unique

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. Weapons Handling Security Force Assistance Training • Courses of instruction include: Small Boat Operations and Tactics • Leadership and • Professional • Development • Anti-Terrorism / • Force Protection • EOD • Maintenance and • Construction • Maritime Combat • Operations Security Force Assistance Mobile Training Team instructs Ukraine Navy In Boarding Team Operations (May 2010) Maritime Civil Affairs

10. Global MCAST Command Operations UNIFIED RESPONSE JSOTF-P CONTINUING PROMISE SPS SWIFT CJTF HOA AFRICA PARTNERSHIP STATION JTF-B PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP MARITIME CIVIL AFFAIRS SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE

11. EFFECTS MCAST Support MCAST supports the Maritime Strategy and the U.S. Navy’s Vision for Confronting Irregular Challenges • 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 • Provideaccessto, and influence with, the civil populace • Verify and validate informationas it relates to the civil domain • Establish enduring partnerships • Contribute to building partner nation capacity and capabilities

12. 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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14. MCAST Contact Information CO frank.hughlett@navy.mil XO raul.gandara@navy.mil SA phyllis.mihalas@navy.mil CMC david.tellez@navy.mil OPS samatha.farricker@navy.mil (757) 492-1943 www.mcast.navy.mil www.twitter.com/navycivaffairs http://www.facebook.com/pages/ Maritime-Civil-Affairs-and-Security-Training-MCAST-Command/165833618708?ref=nf