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UNITED STATES MARINE, INC.

The Case: boats ranging in length from 21 to 90 Tiger Teams, comprised of USMI em-

United States Marine, Inc. strives feet, constructed of high performance ployees who are experts in their ? eld. every day to meet or exceed cus- composites and aluminum. A fully In short, USMI Logistics is available tomers’ expectations by adhering to integrated manufacturer capable of at any time to travel anywhere to assist

USMI Values of Family/Integrity/ designing, building and testing boats our customers in any way.

Quality. USMI is a two time win- in house, USMI has supplied DOD USMI’s dominate focus is the pro- ner of the David Packard award, craft uninterrupted for 35 years and duction of sophisticated craft for the presented by the United States De- counting. Headquartered in Gulfport, Department of Defense. Craft include partment of Defense, for excellence MS, with a maintenance/repair facil- the SOCR, 11MNSWRIB, MKV and in acquisition. On April 16, 2019, ity in Chesapeake, VA, the Gulfport 9M MERC, all of which are in-house

USMI celebrates its 35th anniver- facility has extensive dockage and ca- USMI designs. The 9M MERC is the sary of continuous Department of pability for launching and retrieving latest USMI boat in the small craft

Defense production, with hopes of boats. The facility connects to the naval inventory and includes an out- many more years to come. Mississippi Sound providing riverine board powered open and cabin boat and littoral type environments, as well that is lower cost for initial investment

The Company: as varying water conditions for trials and maintenance. The 9M MERC is

The company originally built World and training. used primarily by Navy EOD forces,

Class racing sailboats with much USMI is a privately held corpora- including Mobile Diving and Salvage success. Since 1987, United States tion, allowing the decision-making Units to conduct underwater opera-

Marine, Inc. has designed and built process to be quick and decisive. tions, harbor clearance and passenger military, patrol and special warfare USMI support teams are known as transport. www.usmi.com 87 www.marinelink.com MN