Originally Posted by
SASless
Our Coast Guard does some very interesting work.
They conduct blue water drug interdiction ops and have begun to target "narco subs" with some success.
Watching the video I get the impression we have some pretty good men and women serving with the Coast Guard.
This is the result of intelligence gathering, aerial surveillance, and surface operations.....one guy jumping onto the hull of the fleeing Sub.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4uJNjeQDOw
Bet he filled in the form for a risk assessment etc (NOT) and then thought, lets just do it, fall off and get picked up, stop it and its Miller time for a while. No doubt everybody thinking Wow what a hero, he thinking TF it stopped before I fell off. Good stop and kudos to the Coasties.
Where does remit of what is CG and Navy responsibility change ?