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).
THAAD: In flight. (click to view full). The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system is a long-range, land-based theater defense weapon that acts as the upper tier of a basic 2-tiered defense against ballistic missiles.
Ground-based Midcourse Defense. What is it? The Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System provides combatant commanders the capability to engage and destroy limited intermediate- and intercontinental-ballistic missile threats in space to protect the United States.