Pacific Strike Team

The 39 men and women assigned to the Pacific Strike Team make up one of three teams which comprise the National Strike Force. Our mission is threefold:

To provide highly trained, rapidly deployable personnel and equipment to support Federal On Scene Coordinators (FOSC) in preventing or reducing environmental damage from oil or hazardous material spills.

Train FOSCs in spill response.
Monitor or direct cleanup effort.

We work for both the Coast Guard and the Environmental Protection Agency in an area of responsibility that stretches from the Rocky Mountains to the South Pacific and from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Our area of operations also include the 11th,13th, 14th and 17th Coast Guard Districts.

Pacific Strike Team personnel have responded to oil and hazardous material incidents in exotic places like the island nation of Palau in the Pacific as well as the deserts of the Middle East. They have mixed with the cowboys of Wyoming and visited the bleak environment of Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole as well as the frozen seas off Point Barrow, Alaska.