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Our Coast Guard is still standing tall. We haven’t posted anything about them lately but that dosen’t mean that they are not on the job. The USS Anzio (GC 68) confiscated 4 tons of hashish from a drug boat in the Gulf of Aden on the 15th of October this year. The Anzio was operating as part of the Combined Maritime Forces in the area when they spotted the skiff acting strangely.
The Combined Maritime Force is a multinational force which was created to fight piracy in the area. The drug seizures are icing on the cake but believe me they have been some kind of good icing. The CMF has seized 22 tons of narcotics this year. Thats good but they will have to hump to catch up with last years capture of 53 tons of narcotics.
It is believed that most of the narcotics seized was being sold to help finance the insurgents fighting our military forces in the middle east. This is the type of news that we Coast Guard military ring people who write the posts for this site like to report.
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