SBT-22 opens new SSC facility

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. - Special Boat Team 22, the only command in the Department of Defense designated to conduct special operations in riverine environments, held a ribbon-cutting for a new $9.7 million riverine operations facility Friday. It has two structures: a 15,898 square-foot riverine operations building and a 24,779 square-foot combatant craft building provide permanent riverine operations space. Since 2005, the command has increased the number of Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen by 68 percent. The two NSW commands at SSC, SBT-22 and the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School, have more than 400 personnel and more than 40 riverine craft. (Source: NSWG4, 05/21/10)