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Making Sense of USCG Enforcement Options
A boarding by a US Coast Guard Boarding Officer ends with one of four outcomes; no violation, a written warning, civil penalties, or criminal charges. It’s a process few barely understand, with lack of education on the subject leading many to call the process BS and to discount its value. This post seeks to remedy [...]
Home Defense Part 1: Exterior
If any of you take the time to watch your local news each day, I’m sure that you have begun to see a common trend in the headlines. Break in’s and home invasions. Sadly, the stories seem to end with with far to many victims and not enough action taken against the criminals. Now I [...]
Use of Force Study: Gasparilla ’08
It’s an older incident, but one that was well documented by the press and gives several lessons in boat-on-boat use of force. Also a nice follow-up to our recent post on Boats as Deadly Weapons. Tampa Bay’s annual Gasparilla Pirate Festival was coming to an end as the sun set on January 26, 2008 [...]
NYPD Builds Capability to Prevent Terror Infil. Feds?
In December 2008, the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) evaluated how the U.S. would respond to a “Mumbai-style” attack with a tabletop exercise simulating a similar attack on a U.S. city. Chicago was chosen as the target. Interagency participants received an intelligence bulletin warning of an imminent threat to the U.S., possibly in the Chicago area, from [...]
IDF Finds Anti-Ship Missiles on Victoria
The Israeli Navy intercepted and took control of the Liberian flagged M/V Victoria 200 nautical miles from Israeli coast after receiving intelligence the ship was transporting arms to Hamas. IDF reports indicate 60 and 120 mm mortar shells and C-704 anti-ship missiles were seized. The C-704 shore-to-sea missiles have a range of 35 kilometers, which [...]
Five Pirates Get Life & Mother Ship Seized
A US court Monday sentenced five Somali pirates to life in prison plus 80 years for the attack last year on a US naval vessel, which was deployed in waters off east Africa to combat piracy. After a four-hour hearing, the five were “sentenced to life in prison plus 80 years,” Peter Carr, a spokesman for [...]
The Right PPE for Underway Tactical Operators
Those assigned to tactical teams are as prone to drowning as their patrol counterparts and need to wear a personal flotation devices (PFD), or lifejacket, when on a boat. There are just too many opportunities to tumble or be pushed over the side to take chances. We’ve already discussed PFD options for patrol, but many [...]
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