A U.S. Coast Guardsman stationed aboard the coastal patrol boat USCGC Hawk (WPB 87355) offloads more than $12 million of cocaine at Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg, Fla., Nov. 13, 2013, during Operation Martillo. Coast Guardsmen assigned to the high-endurance cutter USCGC Gallatin (WHEC 721) boarded a suspicious, Panamanian-flagged fishing vessel north of Colombia Nov. 4, 2013. During the search the boarding team discovered 14 bales that later tested positive for cocaine. Operation Martillo is a joint, interagency and multinational collaborative effort to deny transnational criminal organizations air and maritime access to the littoral regions of the Central American isthmus.
PO2 Michael De Nyse
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