USCG Reserves: DHS Sec Napolitano and VADM Papp Visit CG Forces Kuwait

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News Release
Date: July 3, 2009
Contact:  Atlantic Area Public Affairs

Portsmouth-based Coast Guard Commander, Secretary
Homeland Security visit U.S. Coast Guard forces in Kuwait


Above left, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and the Commander, U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area, Vice Adm. Robert J. Papp, Jr. (second from right) and the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Aquidneck, a 110-foot patrol boat supporting maritime security operations in the Northern Arabian Gulf, July 2.  Above right, Vice Adm. Robert J. Papp, Jr., Commander Coast Guard Atlantic Area, explains Coast Guard roles in the Middle East to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano (center) and the U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait, Deborah Jones.
 
KUWAIT — The Portsmouth, Va., based commander of the U.S. Coast Guard's Atlantic Area, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, visited with U.S. Coast Guard personnel here Thursday to thank them for their service.

Secretary Janet Napolitano and Vice Adm. Robert J. Papp, Jr., toured the cutter Aquidneck, one of the Coast Guard's 110-foot patrol boats assigned to operations in the northern Arabian Gulf, met the personnel working at the forward operating base at Kuwait Naval Base and Camp Patriot, and met with the Combined Task Group 55.6, which trains Iraqi coalition forces to advance regional security and stability as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.  Napolitano and Papp also met with the Middle East Training Team, which conducts law enforcement programs in conjunction with U.S. Naval Forces surface exercises in the region.


Vice Adm. Robert J. Papp, Jr.. Commander, U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic
Area, introduces the senior leadership of forward deployed Coast
Guard forces at Camp Patriot, Kuwait, to the Secretary of Homeland
Security, Janet Napolitano, and the U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait,
Deborah Jones, during an all hands meeting July.

“Confronting global terrorism demands vigilance in every corner of the world,” said Napolitano. “The men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard stationed in Kuwait work courageously every day to promote security in the Middle East and defuse threats before they reach our nation’s shores."

Coast Guard forces play an integral role in U.S. efforts to secure the Middle East region and contribute heavily to homeland security law enforcement operations worldwide.
 
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