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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Coast Guard Bulletin
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Coast Guard Bulletin
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
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Languages : en
Pages : 1012
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Coast Guard Bulletin
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Languages : en
Pages : 464
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U.S. Coast Guard Bulletin
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Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Lighthouse Service Bulletin
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Category : Lighthouses
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Category : Lighthouses
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Red Crew
Author: Jim Howe
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682473023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Red Crew is a first-hand account of U.S. Coast Guard anti-smuggling operations during the early years of the nation’s maritime war on drugs. Jim Howe describes his experience as the executive officer of a specialized drug-hunting crew that sailed in then-state-of-the-art “surface effect ships,” a small flotilla of high-speed vessels pressed into the drug war on short notice. In the early 1980s, South Florida and the Caribbean were awash in illicit drugs, with hundreds of smuggling organizations bringing huge loads of marijuana, and later cocaine, into the United States. To fight this epidemic, the Reagan administration led a massive effort to disrupt shore-side gangs while bolstering interdiction activity at sea. To increase the number of days at sea for each surface effect ship, a “multi-crewing” concept was employed, with four teams of sixteen sailors—the Red, Blue, Green, and Gold Crews—rotating among three hulls. Through its first-person narrative, Red Crew offers a rare glimpse into the day-to-day pressures, challenges, failures, and successes of Coast Guard cuttermen as they carried out complex and dangerous missions. Red Crew provides a unique historical view of the early days in the Coast Guard’s war on drugs, and is the only book-length history of the diminutive, one-of-a-kind surface effect ship fleet.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682473023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Red Crew is a first-hand account of U.S. Coast Guard anti-smuggling operations during the early years of the nation’s maritime war on drugs. Jim Howe describes his experience as the executive officer of a specialized drug-hunting crew that sailed in then-state-of-the-art “surface effect ships,” a small flotilla of high-speed vessels pressed into the drug war on short notice. In the early 1980s, South Florida and the Caribbean were awash in illicit drugs, with hundreds of smuggling organizations bringing huge loads of marijuana, and later cocaine, into the United States. To fight this epidemic, the Reagan administration led a massive effort to disrupt shore-side gangs while bolstering interdiction activity at sea. To increase the number of days at sea for each surface effect ship, a “multi-crewing” concept was employed, with four teams of sixteen sailors—the Red, Blue, Green, and Gold Crews—rotating among three hulls. Through its first-person narrative, Red Crew offers a rare glimpse into the day-to-day pressures, challenges, failures, and successes of Coast Guard cuttermen as they carried out complex and dangerous missions. Red Crew provides a unique historical view of the early days in the Coast Guard’s war on drugs, and is the only book-length history of the diminutive, one-of-a-kind surface effect ship fleet.
Bulletin
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Category : Marine service
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Category : Marine service
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Bulletin of Information
Author: United States Coast Guard Academy
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Languages : en
Pages : 6
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Languages : en
Pages : 6
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United States Coast Guard Regulations
Author: United States. Coast Guard
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Bulletin
Author: U.S. Lake Survey
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Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 1596
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Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 1596
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