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.

2015年6月15日 · The United States Coast guard Patrol Forces Southwest Asia (PATFORSWA) has a team of consummate professionals that provide subject matter expert exchanges (SMEEs) focused on Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) tactics to armed forces and agencies throughout the Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility.

2019年4月4日 · These are the Coast Guard's little-known Maritime Security Response Teams, the closest the Department of Homeland Security-owned service gets to military special operations.

2024年6月19日 · Learn more about Visit, board, search, seizure (VBSS) programs of the Marine Corps, Navy, and Coast Guard. Related Article: 5 Best Coast Guard Jobs. What is VBSS? VBSS stands for “visit, board, search, and seizure” operations where military teams scour vessels for contraband or signs of terrorist activities. Image: Wikimedia Commons.

2023年8月22日 · They do multi-week and multi-month deployments aboard coast guard, navy, and foreign navy vessels across the world conducting counter drug and counter migrant operations. These operations are basically VBSS missions and consist of CQB and vessel inspections for drugs and people. Their operators are very professional and capable.

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2024年5月23日 · VBSS stands for Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure. It refers to the act of approaching and boarding a maritime vessel for the purpose of searching it, and then possibly seizing contraband, or prosecuting some other specified target on the vessel in question.

This course is designed to prepare Shipboard Boarding Teams and Boarding Officers (BO) to perform Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS) procedures (Compliant and Non-Compliant Low Freeboard) in support of Maritime Interdiction Operations (MIO).

Following the ashore training, Coast Guardsmen and members from the Pakistani navy will board USCGC Wrangell (WPB 1332) to provide an immersive simulation of VBSS situations for the nations to...

2016年11月19日 · U.S. Coast Guardsmen fast rope from MH-60S Night Hawk helicopters to demonstrate what a Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) operation might look like in ...