STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. -- A Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School (NAVSCIATTS) instructor briefs Adm. Alvin Holsey, commander, U.S. Southern Command, on the command's Technical Welding and Allied Repars (TWAR) course during a tour of facilities located on the Stennis Space Center in South Mississippi, May 14.
TWAR is an eight-week course of instruction designed to provide Foreign Security Force personnel with the specialized training required to restore the structural integrity of steel, aluminum, and fiberglass hulls and components. Students will conduct factory-level maintenance and repairs on the Zodiac Combat Rubber Raiding Craft, as well as perform metal repairs to oxyacetylene cutting, fusion welding, Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) on carbon steel, and Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) on aluminum. For more than 60 years, NAVSCIATTS has provided vital training to U.S. allies and partners who rely on small vessels to secure their waterways, shorelines, and ports to counter transnational criminal organizations and other malign activities globally.
NAVSCIATTS is a security cooperation schoolhouse operating under U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command in support of foreign security assistance and geographic combatant commanders' theater security cooperation priorities. To date, this historic command has trained with almost 15,000 international security force professionals from more than 130 partner nations. (U.S. Navy photo by Angela K. Fry)
| Date Taken: | 05.14.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 05.15.2025 09:59 |
| Photo ID: | 9037865 |
| VIRIN: | 250514-N-TI567-1167 |
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| Location: | STENNIS SPACE CENTER, MISSISSIPPI, US |
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