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Military Port Security Enlisted Specialist

June 5, 2008 By admin

As a Port Security officer in the United States Coast Guard, you will be trained in a variety of areas to function in support of nationwide homeland security operations. You can be attached to Coast Guard and Naval Units serving Overseas as part of DoD overseas Coastal Defense Operations. Your job will qualify you to serve with Warfare and Naval Coastal Defense Units as needed in support of Ports of Call both domestically and overseas, or you could be assigned to a stateside Port Security Coast Guard Port inspection team.

One of the more dynamic careers in the Enlisted Coast Guard is the role of the Coast Guard Port Security officer. This is a career for the Reserves only, and it is one where a person becomes a shore side and waterside security agent, protecting personnel, facilities and often the shipping port itself. You will become a trained expert in many different topics dealing with intelligence, port security, shipping, navigational information, risk assessments, and port shipping and receiving operations. If you qualify and are selected for this program, you will receive special training in defensive combat, law enforcement, and general security issues. You will be instructed in classroom and in the field training to learn how to provide effective professional port and operational security.

You will learn the need for intelligence data, port and operations security, communications, and other vital interests dealing with waterside and shore side security. This is an excellent job in the Reserves if you already work in civilian law enforcement or security, and can also lead to jobs in the civilian work place in police or sheriffs departments, or in correctional facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

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Training as a Coast Guard Port Security man begins with standard Basic Recruit Training at Cape May, New Jersey, where you will spend 9 weeks learning how to become a Coast Guard Enlisted team member. After Basic Training you will travel to Yorktown, Virginia, and attend a 7-week Port Security School where you will learn the basics of port security operations. You will be trained in both classroom settings, and in the field training where you can put your skills to work in real life settings. The Port Security rating is responsible to assist with a large part of the civilian Port inspection duties, including container inspection, and the inspection of ships and cargo vessels that enter and leave the major Ports of Call in the United States.

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