Increased traffic, gate closures and restricted boat access through Anaheim Bay can be expected over the next two weeks while personnel at the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station participate in a nationwide security exercise.
The exercise, Citadel Shield-Solid Curtain 2021, starts Tuesday, Jan. 26, and continues through Feb. 12. It is the Navy’s largest security exercise of the year. Training includes a wide range of drills related to potential security threats.
“Residents may also see increased military and civilian law enforcement activity associated with the exercise, and the station’s ‘Giant Voice’ mass notification loudspeaker system may be used,” said Gregg Smith, spokesman for the Seal Beach base.
Training will include tactical drills in the field focusing on an active shooter, attempts to penetrate base entry points or defending against small boat attacks. Navy personnel will work on the base’s command, control and communications capabilities and the emergency operations center. They will also drill on how to best bring the base back to full operation following a security incident.
The base serves an average of 40 Navy ships a year. Ships typically stay at the base an average of three days loading and unloading munitions. Most of the ships serviced at the base have San Diego as their home port.
Nearly a year ago, the base broke ground on the first phase of a $150 million plan to relocate the base’s ammunition pier and create a new boating channel that will keep public boaters at a safer distance from Navy operations at the pier. The first phase is scheduled for completion in October 2022; the second phase should be completed by June 2024.
Smith said civilian boat traffic through Anaheim Bay and the new public boating channel is unlikely to be affected by the training. The new channel opened on Thursday, Jan. 21, giving civilian boaters their own dedicated route that largely keeps them out of the areas used by the Navy.
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