What to Expect on the Ship

Regional Security Education Program (RSEP) teams traditionally embark at a deploying strike group’s (Command Strike Group / Expeditionary Strike Group) home port at the beginning of a deployment and remain embarked for a period of approximately ten days.  RSEP teams typically disembark by COD or helicopter when Pacific fleet units transit through the Hawaiian operation areas and before Atlantic fleet units transit through the Straits of Gibraltar.

Instruction falls into two fundamental categories:

* Graduate-level lectures and seminars for senior leaders, and

* Regional introductions and overviews for all hands.

Forces have been briefed on mission-relevant topics such as “The Strategic Importance of the Persian Gulf States,” “South Asia in Crisis,” and “Somalia and the Horn of Africa: Next Stop in the War on Terrorism?”

RSEP missions have served on the USS Constellation, the USS Carl Vinson, the USS John C. Stennis, the USS Nimitz Strike Group; the USS Bonnehomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group, the USS Nassau, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, the USS Nashville, the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, and Pacific Surface Action Groups.

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Good strategy presumes good anthropology and good strategy.

Bernard Brodie - American military strategy
(1910-1978)