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USS John L. Hall Completes Theater Security Cooperation port visits to Poti and Batumi, Georgia
Mar 09, 2010
Navy Lt. j. g. TJ Orth
USS John L. Hall Public Affairs
BATUMI, Georgia — USS John L. Hall (FFG 32) completed a pair of successful Theater Security Cooperation (TSC) port visits to Poti and Batumi, Georgia Mar. 4.
From Feb. 25 to Mar. 4, John L. Hall's sailors conducted multiple training sessions with the Georgian Coast Guard including first aid, damage control, search and rescue (SAR), rescue and assistance (R&A), and visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) tactics.
"In Poti, we did some classroom training on the firefighting ensemble and self contained breathing apparatus and conducted a walkthrough of a R&A drill where we integrated the two teams so that it was half Georgian Coast Guard and half John L. Hall sailors," said Lt. j.g. Kim Koss, John L. Hall's damage control assistant. "The next day of training, they were....
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