The PHIBSPECTRA Team provides in-depth training in well deck operations to prepare Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) ships for deployment to the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

[1] The need for a single organization dedicated to the support of amphibious operations was recognized as a result of experience gained during the island-hopping campaigns of World War II.

[1] NBG-2 has been involved in some unique operations close to home, providing ferry services from Little Creek to Cape Charles, Virginia, during those periods in 1970 and 1972 when the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was out of commission.

[1] The entire NBG-2 deployed to Fort Story, Virginia, during the month of August 1977, and conducted around-the-clock container and barge handling operations in support of the Joint Army/Navy/Marine Corps Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS) test and evaluation program.

The major Navy asset developed during the JLOTS testing was the Elevated Causeway System (ELCAS) which added a new dimension in flexibility and sustainability of logistics support in amphibious operations.

The material is prepositioned aboard forward-deployed MPS ships, and the NSE and Marine Corps personnel are flown into the objective area to move the equipment and conduct combat operations ashore.

[1] From January to March 1991, approximately 800 active duty and US Naval Reserve personnel from NBG-2, its subordinate units, Navy Cargo Handling and Port Group, and Underwater Construction Team ONE deployed to the Persian Gulf as the MPF NSE in support of Operation Desert Storm.

[1] An NBG-2 Detachment in Pensacola was diverted from routine training operations in November 1991, to assist in the Haitian relief effort at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

During May, COMNAVBEACHGRU TWO units, as well as COMPHIBRON TWO, II MEF, and MPSRON ONE participated in Ocean Venture 92 Phase I, an MPF exercise conducted by USCINCLANT.

From July to September of that year, NAVBEACHGRU TWO participated in Ocean Venture 92 Phase II, a USCINCLANT directed joint exercise to test and evaluate the Offshore Petroleum Discharge System (OPDS).

Exercise Fuertas Defensas 95, in spite of a robust hurricane season and adverse weather conditions was conducted at Fort Story, Virginia, with great success.

[1] The year 1996, saw three major exercises and Naval Support Element Trainings, in addition to real world contingency TWA Flight 800 salvage operations.

[1] Two major exercises and in-theater Naval Support Element Training, in addition to another real world contingency to off load the motor vessel BOBO in Rota, Spain, was accomplished in 1997.

[1] The year 1998 continued to be a banner one as Beach Group TWO conducted the remainder of the backload of the BOBO and contributed immensely to Baltic Challenge and Dynamic Mix in Iskenderun, Turkey.