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Default On the high seas

On 6/6/2021 1:50 PM, Bill wrote:
Mr. Luddite wrote:

My grandson just returned from a 3 month deployment aboard a
Canadian coastal defense ship searching for and capturing
drug runners in the southern Pacific.

It's a USA/Canadian joint operation where specially trained
US Coast Guardsmen deploy aboard Canadian ships (as well as
American ships). The Coasties are the USCG's version of
special forces and have law enforcement and arrest authority.

The reason the Canadian ships have USCG personnel aboard is
due to US and Canadian laws. Canadian law does not allow
interception of vessels in international waters whereby
US law does.

Anyway, this "Mob Reporter" video was recently released
showing parts of the three month deployment. At the very
beginning of the video a USCG person in tactical gear is shown
clearing his firearm. This guy is my grandson, Erik.

He's shown in other clips preparing for boarding of
drug runner's boats and in the rigid hull boats they
use to intercept, board and arrest the drug runners.

Last bit of news: He has been selected for the Coast
Guard's version of Officer Training school and will
end up receiving a commission. Sounds like a lifer
to me.

Here's a link to the video. Pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a6K3pLaLhQ


Pretty cool, but sinking boats 5000 miles from our borders, seems verging
on piracy.


It is to me also. I thought it was interesting that Canadian law does
not permit it but USA law "sorta" permits it. So, the Canadians skirt
the law by embarking USCG personnel aboard their ships to do the actual
boarding and arresting.







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