Expeditionary Mine Countermeasures Company Uses UUVs to Complete Certification Exercise > United States Navy > News-Stories
“The exercise is an integration event in order qualify the company for any future deployments,” said Lt. Samuel Stearney, ExMCM Company 2-2 Commander. “The CERTEX used real-world operational scenarios to validate tactics, techniques and procedures so the company is ready operate in any operational environment.” A standard ExMCM company is comprised of a 27-person unit with four elements: the command-and-control element (C2), an unmanned systems (UMS) platoon, an EOD MCM platoon, and a post-mission analysis (PMA) cell, all working in tandem, just as they would in a mine warfare environ...
Source: navy.mil