Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team
The Fleet Antiterrorism Security Teams ( FAST ) or FAST Companies are specialized units of the US Marine Corps (USMC) established in 1987 , which report to the Commandant of the Marine Corps and the Chief of Naval Operations and are mainly used to protect US Navy facilities at home. and abroad. They include around 500 marines .
tasks
The FAST Companies are requested on a case-by-case basis as reinforcement if the security forces of the US Marine Corps on site are not strong enough to be able to react appropriately to an acute threat situation; they have no permanent protective mandate.
Calls
After the 1996 bombings in Saudi Arabia , FAST teams were deployed to protect local US facilities in the region to undertake temporary security duties. At the same time, their task force developed a separate security concept for each threatened US facility in terms of improved access controls. Fleet Antiterrorism Security Teams also deployed to Somalia , Liberia , Panama and Iraq during the Second Gulf War , Operation Desert Shield / Storm .
