Maritime Security Team Officer/Leader

This book is in full color and designed as a reference and training guide for multicultural crews; officers and security leaders. It is easily read and understood. Most photographs and all illustrations are original by the author. Maritime Security Team Officer/Leader: This is the manual for a course of instruction for use in training maritime professionals assigned to maritime security leadership duties aboard ship or ashore. - Many security leaders assigned to ships have been hired for their weapons capabilities and not their familiarity with the maritime industry. This has led to errors in which innocents have been killed. This is a problem that this manual helps resolve. - Leadership in a multi-cultural environment requires a unique set of learned skills. The teaching of these skills is an essential factor for successful training on any vessel. This manual supports many of these training skills. - In this manual are additional tactics, a tested decision making process, a discussion about where a leader's authorities are codified along with various explanatory excerpts.