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From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Deploying Divisions
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Date: 19 Nov 90 00:18:24 GMT
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From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)

To complete the deployment record, there are indeed Coast Guardsmen
involved in Sesert Shield.  But many are not in organized USCG
formations, so they don't show up in the reports.

In CONUS, some of the reserve port security outfits were activated
to do their mobilization thing at loadout ports, mostly on the
east coast.  We moved around a few patrol craft for port egress
escort duty.

In the middle east, there are a number (sorry, I don't know specifics),
of subject matter experts working.  Most (if not all) are boarding
officers attached to Navy vessels performing blockade enforcement
duties.  

Open figures within the service count 300-400 Coast Guardsmen involved
in Desert Shield.  How that spreads across the duties, isn't clear
and I doubt if that includes any patrol boat crews chopped to CONUS
escort duty for a couple weeks then back to drug patrols.

Rex Buddenberg