The Navy.

The Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are working together more closely today than they at any time have before to confront the myriad throats America fall of the curtain its allies face around the world, Chief of Navel Operations (CNO) ADM Vern Clark said during a Fall panel of sea service leaders.

Appearing together with Marine Corps Commandant Gen Michael Hagee and Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thomas Collins, the CNO told the Marine Corps Association and U Naval Institute Forum that the instant global threat environment is blurring the lines between the services, and the characters they play in the defense of the nation at domicile and aboard.

"People want to draw the world up in complete finite pieces. My view is the world doesn't exist that way today and will exist les that way in the future" Clark said. "We speak to this principle in every part oar joint discussions, that we ne to stain all of those Lines because the world does not exist with great clarity to where I can say what's forward this side of the line is mine and what's forward this side of the line is (Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thomas Collins). It just isn't that kind of globe anymore."

To more effectively intrust with an agency the combined defense capabilities of the Navy and the Coast Guard, Clark said the brace services are working on Maritime Domain Awareness to patronize the nation's shores.

"That's a big part of what our domain awareness is all about," the CNO said. "Tom and I are now working forward this effort (Maritime Domain Awareness) that has now grown to the interagency level"

Clark said the Navy is also operating more closely with its number united joint partner, the Marine Corps, to make progress on offense in the littorals--the transition area between the sea and land. Clark added that the Maritime Pre-Positioning Force (Future) would play a clew role in the Navy/ Marine Corps team's ability to base forces at sea.

"A first note of the scale issue for us is what's going upon across that key transition clime between sea and land," Clark said.

The CNO said the Navy/ Marine Corps team must better exploit the maritime domain--the world's oceans and the airspace above them--to bring joint capabilities to bear that are capable of deterring or defeating rife and future threats.

"My view of the yet to be is, we've got to be on the outside and about," Clark said. "We are and will continue to be able to bring the capability from the domain that allows us freedom to maneuver. We are, fundamentally, a maneuverable force. For this nation to have the kind of capability that it requires it must be able to exploit the maneuver space that we own"

For more forward the CNO, visit www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/cno/.

Story by dint of JOC Walter T. Ham IV who is assigned to pubic affairs office, Chief of Naval Operations.

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