Military Units and Formations Disestablished in 2009 - Coast Guard of Georgia, 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division (Paperback)

Chapters: Coast Guard of Georgia, 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division, 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Tank Division, 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, 423rd Guards Yampolsky Motor Rifle Regiment. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Georgian Coast Guard is the maritime arm of the Georgian Border Police, within the Ministry for Internal Affairs. It is responsible for the maritime protection of the entire coastline of Georgia, 310 km, as well as the Georgian territorial waters. The primary missions of the service are administration of the sovereign border of Georgia (12 nm), marine pollution protection, maritime law enforcement, search and rescue, port security and maritime defense. The Georgian Navy (Georgian Naval Forces; Georgian:, sak'art'velos samkhedro-sazghvao dzalebi) was a branch of the Georgian Defense Ministry armed forces until 2009, when it was merged with the Georgian Coast Guard and transferred to the Ministry for Internal Affairs of Georgia. Before the 2008 Russian-Georgian war, the Georgian Navy consisted of 19 boats and 531 personnel of which 181 were officers, 200 NCOs, 114 conscripts and 36 civilians. The headquarters and a principal Coast Guard base are located at the Black Sea port of Poti. A second smaller base is in Batumi, Adjara. Besides the Poti-based force, the Georgian Coast Guard also includes a special counter-terrorist Detachment. Maritime surveillance radar stations are maintained at Anaklia, Poti, Supsa, Chakvi and Gonio, providing coverage of all territorial seas. The current (2010) commander of the Georgian Coast Guard is Captain Besik Shengelia. Despite Georgia's location at the Black Sea coast and historical association with maritime commerce, it has never actually possessed any sizable fleet. Th...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=12747869