The formal boundaries for the City of Gulfport (see map below) encompass a land area of 2.76 sq. miles and a water area of 1.13 sq. miles. Pinellas County is in the Eastern time zone (GMT -5).
The Pentagon confirmed today that the US military will deploy a THAAD ballistic missile defence system to Guam. THAAD, which stands for Terminal High-Altitude Air Defence, is a system that shoots down short and medium range missiles.
ELEMENTS. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) element provides the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) with a globally transportable, rapidly deployable capability to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles inside or outside the atmosphere during their final, or terminal, phase of flight. Activated five THAAD batteries in 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2015. 2  Received conditional materiel release of two batteries and transition of operations to the Army in February 2012 and urgent materiel release of another two batteries in December 2014.