Coast Guard achieves historic milestone

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U.S. Coast Guard announces largest drug offload in history, totaling nearly $500M at Florida port

U.S. Coast Guard announces largest drug offload in history, totaling nearly $500M at Florida port​

During Monday’s news conference, Chamie said the crew of USCGC Hamilton led the two-month operation at sea with the help of several other ships and agencies.


"These men and women put themselves in harm’s way time and again to stop the bad guys, apprehend the smugglers, and seize the drugs," Chamie said. "This is grueling and dangerous work and I’m extremely proud of them."


Chamie also said the Coast Guard is sending additional crews on the water and in the air to the Eastern Pacific in coordination with international and interagency partners.
 

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They are incredible!
I watched them at work on TV under "Coast Guard Florida". They conducted water rescues, drug operations, etc. They also had another show called "Coast Guard Alaska". Both series were extremely interesting to watch and learn about their hard work and high skills. I truly admire them.
 

On my travels at sea on my sailboat, I had encounters with the Coast Guard several times. Always professional. I was even boarded by them on a couple of occasions. They come alongside in a rubber ducky, and they inform you that you are being boarded (they don't ask permission), because no discussion is needed about the situation. They ask to be shown various required safety items, and they could fine you for missing something, but in my case, they just informed me what was not up to standards, and required me to send proof of meeting those requirements to the Coast Guard in 60 days.

On one occasion, I was half way between Hawaii and Alaska when about 1000 miles offshore, one of those red and white Coast Guard C130 "something or others" was flying over me coming from the opposite direction. It passed over and then came back and started circling me. Somehow, probably with some expensive military equipment, they were able to read the name on my boat from a distance that surprised me. They called me on the radio by name, and asked where I was headed, if I needed anything, and if I wanted them to forward my location to anyone. We chatted a bit. I asked them if they could send me some wind. The guy said they were not authorized to do that, but wished me luck, and then they flew off.

I always chatted with ships I met at sea, but that was the only time I talked ship to plane. Those encounters out in the middle of nowhere were always interesting. An encounter with a cargo ship would usually end in a long conversation with some bored guy at the helm who had been watching waves for the last few days. We would talk about destinations, families, wish each other good winds and good seas, and just talk until we were out of range.
 
Drugs and smugglers off the Florida coast. Probably more of them than sharks.

I remember doing a tourist dive off the south east coast of Florida decades ago and we came across a wood trunk, no coral. growth and a shiny new lock and chain on it. We told the dive master and he said he'd 'take care of it'. Either he knew drug dealers were using a tourist dive location or hopefully he would notify the authorities. We were slightly off the wreck location so I guess the box droppers knew that.
 
JustDave said:
On my travels at sea on my sailboat, I had encounters with the Coast Guard several times. Always professional. I was even boarded by them on a couple of occasions. They come alongside in a rubber ducky, and they inform you that you are being boarded (they don't ask permission), because no discussion is needed about the situation. They ask to be shown various required safety items, and they could fine you for missing something, but in my case, they just informed me what was not up to standards, and required me to send proof of meeting those requirements to the Coast Guard in 60 days.

On one occasion, I was half way between Hawaii and Alaska when about 1000 miles offshore, one of those red and white Coast Guard C130 "something or others" was flying over me coming from the opposite direction. It passed over and then came back and started circling me. Somehow, probably with some expensive military equipment, they were able to read the name on my boat from a distance that surprised me. They called me on the radio by name, and asked where I was headed, if I needed anything, and if I wanted them to forward my location to anyone. We chatted a bit. I asked them if they could send me some wind. The guy said they were not authorized to do that, but wished me luck, and then they flew off.

I always chatted with ships I met at sea, but that was the only time I talked ship to plane. Those encounters out in the middle of nowhere were always interesting. An encounter with a cargo ship would usually end in a long conversation with some bored guy at the helm who had been watching waves for the last few days. We would talk about destinations, families, wish each other good winds and good seas, and just talk until we were out of range.
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When I was into shortwave radio broadcasting, I often spoke to ships and boats at sea. They just wanted to talk and I would try to imagine what they were describing. One sailor was telling me he built his own boat and him and his family were sailing the trip of his wife and his dream. They were sailing around the world. I don’t remember a lot about our conversation, but he said something about he built his boat using cement? Is that even possible? I forget what his location was at the time.

Anyway, congratulations to the U.S. Coast Guard.
 
I watch on YouTube a few interesting videos usually of military recruiting and boot camp videos. There was one guy who had served in military and he has a podcast I remember his name is Nikki and he showed some videos of Coast guard boot camp.

And he was claiming that that was the hardest boot camp training he had ever seen barring Marines. I watched some of the video and I got to admit they seem to almost be harder than the Marines in training.

Considering that they face danger daily especially during rescues and they do the high risk ones, it's not surprising that they need people who are able to think in tough situations.
 

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