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Visit, board, search, and seizure (VBSS) [1] is the term used by United States military and law enforcement agencies for maritime boarding actions and tactics. VBSS teams are designed to capture enemy vessels, combat terrorism , piracy , and smuggling , and to conduct customs , safety and other inspections.
Army Field Manual 2 22.3, or FM 2-22.3, Human Intelligence Collector Operations, was issued by the Department of the Army on September 6, 2006. The manual gives instructions on a range of issues, such as the structure, planning and management of human intelligence operations, the debriefing of soldiers, and the analysis of known relationships ...
Boarding and capture of the Spanish frigate Esmeralda by Chileans in Callao, 1820. Naval boarding is an offensive tactic used in naval warfare to come up against (or alongside) an enemy watercraft and attack by inserting combatants aboard that vessel. The goal of boarding is to invade and overrun the enemy personnel on board in order to capture ...
The transatlantic cables incident was the first enforcement action taken under the Submarine Cables Convention. [13] On about November 20, 2024, in what was cited as the second enforcement action under the convention, a Royal Danish Navy warship detained the Chinese merchant vessel Yi Peng 3 while investigating the damaging of two undersea ...
A single-ship action is a naval engagement fought between two warships of opposing sides, excluding submarine engagements; it is called so because there is a single ship on each side. The following is a list of notable single-ship actions.
An Army "Port of Embarkation" (POE) is not simply some Army shipping terminal. [3] An Army POE was a command structure and interconnected land transportation, supply and troop housing complex devoted to efficiently loading overseas transports. [4] The scope of the World War II POE is summarized in Army Regulations: AR 55-75, par. 2B, 1 June 1944:
Officers of the United States Army's segregated 366th Infantry Regiment on board the RMS Aquitania, en route home from World War I service.Left to right: Lieutenant Cleveland L. Abbott, Yankton, South Dakota; Captain Joseph L. Lowe, Pacific Grove, California; Lieutenant Aaron R. Fisher, Lyles, Indiana, recipient of Distinguished Service Cross; Captain E. White, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Brazilian Army. 1º Batalhão de Ações de Comandos 1st Commando Actions Battalion; 1º Batalhão de Forcas Especiais 1st Special Forces Battalion; 3ª Cia FEsp 3rd Special Forces Company; Precursores Paraquedistas Army Pathfinders; Brazilian Air Force. Para-SAR Special Operations & SAR squadron