Please note: – Updating of NOSI may be a bit erratic over the next few days???

US Marines – US Marine forces are already seeing combat in Afghanistan.

• Associated Press: U.S. Marines battle armored column near new base in southern Afghanistan
• CNN: Marines in action in Afghanistan
• BBC: US Marines launch first strike

French Navy – The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle will join the US task force in the Arabian Sea in December.

• CNN: France to commit 5,000 troops
• Reuters: France to Send Carrier Group to Indian Ocean
• Associated Press: France to send aircraft carrier to Indian Ocean

US Navy – The US Navy may mothball all its Spruance-class destroyers years ahead of schedule to save money that can be spent on upgrading aviation assets; this will exacerbate the shortage of ships available for operations.

• San Diego Union Tribune: Navy may mothball entire Spruance class of destroyers

US Coast Guard – An essay on why homeland security is an important mission and why the US Coast Guard is the service to do it.

• US Naval Institute Proceedings: Homeland Security Is a Coast Guard Mission