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Seabasing OAG Information Brief23 July 2014

Major Scott Welborn

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Agenda

• Mission and Lines of Operation• Operations and Exercises• Maritime DSCA• Arctic Seabasing

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Maritime DSCA

• Concept– Leverage the amphibious capabilities of the Navy/Marine

Corps team to provide support to civil authorities

• Seabasing of:– Personnel and equipment – Air and surface mobility– Relief supplies– Sustainment for forces ashore

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Maritime DSCA

• Appropriate conditions and circumstances– Manmade or natural disaster overwhelms

local and state capacity to respond– Large population areas in the littorals – Isolated islands – Disrupted / inaccessible GLOCs– Forces and equipment available for

tasking

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Sample Maritime DSCA Scenario

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1. USN & USMC marshal, embark equipment, and depart for JOA

• USMC pre-positioned gear

2. USMC “Fly Away” echelon boards while USN ships are enroute

3. Additional personnel and equipment, if required, conduct ground convoy

4. Forces transferred to CCDR for employment

• Assumes RFF and MA approved

5. Mission complete, forces transferred back to service component for future assignment and tasking

Short Notice – Hurricane Scenario

Camp LejeuneMCAS New River

Norfolk

Morehead CityMCAS Cherry Point

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Landfall2 3 54

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Sample Maritime DSCA Scenario

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1. USN & USMC forces marshal, embark equipment, and depart for JOA

2. USMC “Fly Away” echelon boards while USN ships are enroute

3. Forces transferred to CCDR for employment

• Assumes RFF and MA approved

4. Additional personnel and equipment, if required, conduct ground convoy

5. Mission complete, forces transferred back to CCDR for future assignment and tasking

San Diego Camp Pendleton

Earthquake6

No Notice – Earthquake Scenario

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San Francisco3

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Seabasing in the Arctic

• Background– Significant changes in ice coverage– Increasing regional interest and

awareness– USNWC Fleet Arctic Operations

Game

• Potential for MAGTF employment– DSCA, FHA/DR

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• Operational challenges– Mobility and access– Maintenance and sustainment

• Capability gap in amphibious fleet for operations in ice

• Way ahead

Comments

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Backups

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