Saturday, May 26, 2012

Meet the CRF

NECC_CRF_FactSheet2012

CRF is comprised of units manned, trained, and equipped
to conduct, port and harbor security, high-value unit security
and escort, surveillance and reconnaissance, insertion and
extraction of small units, and command and control for
supporting and assigned units. CRF is capable of conducting
24 hour operations in all weather conditions and climates.
CRF is comprised of both the Active and Reserve
Components trained to operate in ambiguous anti-terrorism
and force protection threat environments.

Wow.

CRF is talking riverine but in essence is all security.  Think about them as a waterborne FAST company.   The Riverine guys are still talking up the old mission sets but this document put out by the Navy says it all.

"...trained to operate in ambiguous anti-terrorism and force protection threat environments."
The USMC might be forced to establish a small boat company to make up for the obvious shortfall in capabilites.

Riverine is once again dead in the conventional Navy.

UPDATE:
The document that the Navy put out shows how they've drifted into an almost pure force protection mindset for these Coastal Riverine's.
 Company
The Coastal Riverine Company (CRC) is the standard unit of action for the CRF. Companies are deployable self-sustaining units that may operate independently or in coordination with other forces. Each company has two platoons with personnel assigned for boat operations, a security team capable of conducting VBSS missions, and an Intelligence Surveillance Recon (ISR) team capable of operating unmanned vehicles and squadron-level communications equipment. Each company is equipped with four green-water capable patrol boats and four riverine/harbor security boats.
Platoon
Each platoon provides one boat crew per boat assigned, a 12-person security team trained and equipped to conduct Level I and Level II boardings, and an ISR team to act as an integrated tactical operations center. Platoons may be divided into smaller units such as embarked security teams to support military sealift transits, aircraft security missions, or other missions as directed.Expeditionary Security Detachments
In order to provide fleet commanders with a persistent presence of embarked security teams (EST), the CRF forward deploys two expeditionary security detachments. The detachments are assigned under the CORIVGRU
No where is the standard riverine mission talked about.

Maritime Expeditionary Security Force along with SOCOM with a big dash of help from the Riverine's themselves has helped killed the force.

IT IS ALL SECURITY ALL THE TIME.

4 comments :

  1. without going into the CRF mission focus (see comments on www.warboats.org forum) I can see why the USN is shiftign to offshore FP/AT. Their big amphibs are minimally armed and NEED help when they come inshore to defend them.

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  2. that's a lousy try at a cheap shot.

    the ships themselves are poorly armed (perhaps) but when you can mount machineguns all the way around the ship manned by Marines...when you can put Marine Helicopters in the air along with AV-8B's the last thing in the world an amphib needs is an escort.

    sorry leesea, but this concept smells of one thing. MESF, SBS and the big Navy got together to kill Riverines.

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  3. The amphibs are minimally armed and the Navy wants to keept them at least 12 mile offshore. UNLESS the Marines are going to pony up some F-35Bs to serve as CAP, the amphibs will have quite a time defending themselves. When was the last time you saw Marines as gun crews, I mean part of ships company? If Marines are not participating in FP full time, the amphibs will still have problems.

    The MESF is dead, SB teams belong to NSW. You are mixing apples and oranges. Is the Navy confused about warboats - YES

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  4. i'm not mixing anything up. you're being stubborn.

    the Marine Corps constantly performs drills on board amphibs where Marines are stationed around the ship with machineguns, anti-aircraft missiles and such around the ship with the idea of defending the ship against small boats and aircraft. they do that constantly so where you're getting off that amphibs just have to have escorts is beyond me.

    additionally the issue with MESF is that they got former commanders placed in charge of this new outfit. additionally Special Boats is retaining the Riverine mission as it was previously performed. this new outfit is force protection centric.

    i hate to be the bearer of bad news but it is what it is.

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