Cutter Hamilton Returns Home With Massive Load After 80-Day Patrol – IOTW Report

Cutter Hamilton Returns Home With Massive Load After 80-Day Patrol

Breaking 911: CHARLESTON, S.C. — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton returned home Sunday to Charleston after completing an 80-day patrol throughout the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

The crew offloaded $324 million worth of cocaine and marijuana Friday at Port Everglades.

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Hamilton’s crew, along with an aviation detachment from the Coast Guard’s Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron began their deployment in late January by serving as the first National Security Cutter to participate in a Navy Composite Training Unit Exercise. For three weeks, Hamilton integrated with the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and ships and aircraft of Carrier Strike Group Ten to test the strike group’s ability to carry out sustained combat operations at sea. Hamilton’s commanding officer, Captain Timothy Cronin, said the event highlighted the unique capabilities of the Coast Guard’s 418-foot National Security Cutter. read more

22 Comments on Cutter Hamilton Returns Home With Massive Load After 80-Day Patrol

  1. End all welfare. Then stop wasting taxpayer money protecting people from their own decisions. The only “war” that has been a bigger, more expensive failure than the “war on drugs” is the “war on poverty”.

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  2. @xxx April 6, 2020 at 8:43 am

    > They can put this in storage and then the embedded Brennan and Comey underlings can

    How DARE you besmirch the rank & file!? How DARE YOU!?

    (There’s no special hiring lines. Everybody comes from the same pool.)

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  3. @JustAl April 6, 2020 at 9:19 am

    > bigger, more expensive failure than … the “war on poverty”

    It only requires one to start a war. But it requires at least to to have one. So? Who won the War On Poverty™? Maybe that will point our attention to who started it.

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  4. 7 tons of coke! Who is doing all of this shit? How much made it through? 10x? 20x??

    That’s 1792000 8 balls-holy crap. Or
    6342000 grams!!! And that’s uncut. Good Lord.

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  5. I realize you have to keep the evidence, but it would make great TV to put the smugglers back on the boat with the coke and let the Air Force practice Air to Sea bombing since they don’t get that opportunity as much as the navy.

    Only problem is you would get a lot of addicted sharks and dolphins.

    Society is way to soft on drug dealers! I personally hate them more than murderers. They kill an entire society very slowly and add add many more social miseries.

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  6. @ Crackerbaby and si. If you look at maps and use the measuring tool you can get the miles that will answer your question. Key is the Panama Canal. Many years ago I was working in Miami and cutters off the coast of Colombia would do drug bust. East coast cutters have two advantages.

    1. It is shorter from Isabela Island to Charleston (3,000 SM) than to S.F. Bay which would be about 3,500 miles.

    2. Getting a conviction is much easier on the east coast than going through the 9th district courts. Trump is reshaping that court but it still has a way to go.

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  7. MMinLamesa APRIL 6, 2020 AT 9:52 AM

    7 tons of coke! Who is doing all of this shit? How much made it through? 10x? 20x??

    That’s 1792000 8 balls-holy crap. Or
    6342000 grams!!! Or so I’ve been told. I admit nothing!

    FIFY 🙂

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