U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) crew members board a self-propelled semi-submersible suspected drug smuggling vessel (SPSS) June 18, 2019, while operating in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Purpose-build smuggling vessels like SPSSs are designed to hold large quantities of contraband while evading detection by law enforcement authorities.
As a result of their latest deployment the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Munro will offload more than 39,000 pounds of cocaine and 933 pounds of marijuana worth a combined estimated $569 million, which was seized in international waters in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to deliver remarks today at 2:45pm EST -from San Diego- while thanking the crews.
Agreed.
ReplyDeleteWhy offload the stuff? Just scuttle it to the bottom of the ocean.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'm just easily amused- but yelling at a semi-submarine, which has all its hatches closed & is going at a great rate of knots, seemed unproductive & quite funny. They didn't really expect anyone to hear them, did they?
ReplyDeleteNow putting a 20mm shell below the waterline, that might have got some attention!
Sink the Sub/boat and machine gun the survivors if any.
ReplyDeleteYou realize the whole war-on-drugs thing is just to keep the supply restricted so the guys running the show can keep collecting zillions of dollars. Also, I am pretty sure there is a difference between smugglers and pirates. In this case our military is acting like pirates, legally authorized, but still pirates. Of course real pirates would kill everyone on the boat.
ReplyDeleteUh, natzsofast, Guido.
DeleteThe cutter is a flagged law enforcement vessel, not a military one, patrolling within US territorial waters.
Stopping vessels under those conditions is not "piracy", nor anything like. Words mean things.
And the first time they lose a cutterman on one of those silly boarding ops, they'll be stopping them with a 20mm to the conning tower, or running over them with the cutter.
The surviving crew is free afterwards to file a protest in District Court. They should be able to find plenty of lawyers in Hell.
I am pretty sure the blurb that came with the video said 'international waters', but I didn't copy it and now the video is gone. Bah.
DeleteWhy waste a shell?
ReplyDeleteRam it with the cutter until it floods, and sail away.
They wanted a submarine, they get a submarine.
God will know his own.
My first drug patrol was in 1978, the pilot said 'We're going out to do our part to keep the price of drugs up on the street".
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