 In 2007, the FACV started a major reorganization that included the transformation of the Army into the National Guard ().Together with the Cape Verdean Police, the FACV carried out Operation Flying Launch (), a successful operation to put an end to a drug trafficking group which smuggled cocaine from Colombia to the Netherlands and Germany using Cape Verde as a reorder point.The operation took more than three years, being a secret operation during the first two years, and ended in 2010.