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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant Returns to Port Canaveral After Seizing Motor Tanker on Caribbean Patrol

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant returned to Port Canaveral on Friday following a 33-day patrol in the Caribbean Sea ...

Should the Canadian Coast Guard be armed? The jury is still out, but the navy says no

Canada is the only Arctic nation that doesn't arm its coast guard fleet. The United States, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, ...
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US Coast Guard seizes $362M cocaine in record single-cutter bust

The U.S. Coast Guard has logged a historic win in the drug war, seizing what officials describe as the largest haul of cocaine ever taken by a single cutter in service history. Packed into bales and ...
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Even as U.S. Blows Up Boats, Coast Guard Captures Others at Sea

Cutters are still stopping smugglers and seizing drugs, but the prosecutions of go-fast boat crews are dwindling in a realignment of federal resources. For the most part, people captured by the Coast ...
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Stopping drug smugglers at sea takes precision, not luck. Here's the Coast Guard's playbook.

USCG TACLET SOUTH OPA-LOCKA, Florida — At a time when a new war on drugs is brewing in the Caribbean, Business Insider grabbed a front-row seat as the Coast Guard trained to take down drug smugglers ...