The U.S. Navy Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School (NAVSCIATTS) trains navies and coast guards from Latin American countries in methods of countering international terrorism, narcotics trafficking, and smuggling. NAVSCIATTS offers Spanish-language courses in topics ranging from patrol boat navigation and tactics to small craft mechanics.

The NAVSCIATTS offered courses at Rodman Naval Station in Panama, which closed in 1999. The school now operates at Stennis Space Center in Gulfport, Mississippi.¹

Funding for the training school is provided partly through the International Military Education and Training Program (IMET), which in the past provided about $550,000 a year for students to attend.

Recent IMET expenditures, in thousands of dollars, are as follows for the most recent years for which information is avaiable:

Attendance at the NAVSCIATTS, FY 2003:⁸

Attendance at the NAVSCIATTS, FY 2002:⁶

Attendance at the NAVSCIATTS, FY 2001:⁷

Attendance at the NAVSCIATTS, 1998:⁵

Sources:

¹ United States Southern Command, Post-99 Theater Architecture: The Way Ahead, slideshow document, October 28, 1998.

² United States, Department of State, Office of Resources, Plans and Policy, Congressional Presentation for Foreign Operations, Fiscal Year 1998 (Washington: March 1997): 125-6.

³ United States, Department of State, "International Military Education and Training FY 1999 Allocation," fax document, February 12, 1999.

⁴ United States, Department of State, Office of Resources, Plans and Policy, Congressional Presentation for Foreign Operations, Fiscal Year 2000 (Washington: March 1999): 1106-9.

⁵ United States, Department of Defense, Department of State, Foreign Military Training and DoD Engagement Activities of Interest in Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999: A Report to Congress (Washington: March 1999).

⁶ United States, Department of Defense, Department of State, Foreign Military Training and DoD Engagement Activities of Interest in Fiscal Years 2002: A Report to Congress (Washington: March 2003).

⁷ United States, Department of Defense, Department of State, Foreign Military Training and DoD Engagement Activities of Interest in Fiscal Years 2001: A Report to Congress (Washington: March 2002).

⁸ United States, Department of Defense, Department of State, Foreign Military Training and DoD Engagement Activities of Interest in Fiscal Years 2003: A Report to Congress (Washington: March 2004).