Coastie jumps on moving drug runner submarine…
…and starts beating it with fists
ChipNASA sends us an article of how the Coasties deal with drug running submersibles. When pulling up along side and yelling doesn’t seem to have much effect, well, watch the video and see for yourselves. These guys are not the friendly puddle pirates wanting to see your personal flotation devices.
While the US Coast Guard gets a lot of flak from other branches of the military (since they now fall under the Department of Homeland Security and not the Department of Defense), there is no question that they have some of the most dangerous jobs around.
From high-seas rescues to high-stakes interception of cartel vessels, the USCG has an incredibly diverse and intense mission that deserves recognition.
Part of the USCG’s elite Deployable Operations Group (DOG), the Maritime Security Response Team (MSRT) is taked with counter-terrorism, direct action, hostage rescue and advanced interdiction, just to name a few of their many roles. Bearing the Latin motto “Nox Noctis est Nostri” (“The Night is Ours”), the team routinely trains alongside SEALs, EOD, the FBI and other entities.
The rest of the article, and the must-see video, may be viewed here: Popular Military
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Now there’s a door kicker! SAAALUTE!
I just watched the video like ten minutes ago from my online Navy Times and all I can say is WOW.
Saw that on the evening news.
Jumping onto a moving narco sub and pounding on the hatch lid – awesome sauce!!!
How come those drugrunnners didn’t just DIVE! DIVE!
They probably can’t. Most of the narco subs aren’t true submarines, they are boats that ride really, really low in the water.
Similar to USS Monitor. It is afloat, barely, with the deck either just above slightly awash.
I read an article somewhere, years ago, on how the best of the smuggler subs function like a snorkling U-Boat. Only the vents and periscope are above water. Not much to spot.
No one knows how many actually make it to the destination. As the pictured one was recovered off the bottom of an inlet, the author was betting on “not many, but enough to pay off positively”.
Actually, they are called semi-submersibles. They are made out of fiberglass and designed so that the only things above the surface are air vents, a hatch, and periscopes.
So, they cannot dive even a meter or so below the surface?
Lame.
That thar wernt no “ding dong Avon calling” knock.
BZ Coasties, give ’em hell.
Gay and tactically unsat.
Next time stop the theatrics and just sink it.
Cop approach, versus Military approach.
We haven’t -really- declared war on druggies and their pseudo-state actors.
Clancy and Kratman both touch on what a real “drug war” might resemble.
Yeah. No-knock warrants are for taxpayers.
I didn’t say the current methods were sane.
I do not believe a real “war” effort would stop the problem. You could poisone half the available supply, and addicts would go right on. The feral cunning of the addict would adapt, and the 10-20 percent survivors would continue, thus leaving enough profit to keep up the supply.
Hard-core Dopers are shockingly dedicated to their habits. They are perceived as slacker/losers, but to their habits they have a zeal and industriousness not often seen in any other form of fanatic.
Very true, junkies only care about their next fix.
“poison half the available supply, and addicts would go right on.”
That’s exactly what they do with this fentanyl. They even turned it into a game. Like Russian roulette, they randomly put fatal doses of fentanyl into the bindles of heroin. Then it’s “fun” to see who gets the 1 in 6 ride that takes you over the edge.
Then, thanks to Narcan, emergency services and modern medicine have no trouble resurrecting them for another round.
That’s a Grunt! Sink all the collections, Intel evdince if any kind that can lead back to drug Lord’s, and Sub builder, this isn’t a regular battlefield.
Damn, that’s ballsy. All kitted up jumping on that contraption in some chop. Much respect.
Whatever happened to depth charges? Hell, even a concussion grenade next to the hull would probably get la cucarachas to come out.
Since he’s already there, just drop a Mk-13 Mod 0 Day/Night signal flare set to the Day end for LOTS of orange smoke.
They’ll come out just fine.
shithot!
That guy has massive brass anchors down below…..someone is getting an awesome bullet comment on thier next eval.
Balls
Does he have an extra flotation device for those big brass ones?
BZ Coast Guard!
He wasn’t knocking on that hatch with his fists, he was using his Big Brass Pair. CLANG CLANG!
He hit that damn thing like a Doorkicker, BZ to the Man!
The sub operator obviously did not not habla.
It was all a misunderstanding.
You know this new thing on the internet, The Bottle Cap Challenge?
Yeah, he did the submersible narco drug craft hatch opening with his massive dick.
“THUD THUD THUD, surrender or your butthole is NEXT!!!!”
/oh wait. that’s the Navy *runs*
Did he have the proper warrant? Were the rights of the sub crew violated? SARC?
https://hannity.com/media-room/obstruction-of-justice-hillary-clinton-posts-instructions-for-illegal-immigrants-to-evade-ice-agents/
Chuck Norris is a Coastie? Who else could beat a submarine into submission?
That has to be the dumbest unnecessary risk of life by a Coastguardsman I have ever witnessed. Also yelling at the sub’s occupants like they could hear over all of the noise. They had sufficient firepower to get their attention without the unnecessary risk of life. Given the gear the boarders were wearing, even wearing an inflatable life jacket, their asses would have been toast should they have gone overboard or the thing submerged.
“yelling at the sub’s occupants like they could hear over all of the noise”
Yeah, thus my sarcasm. Not even a bullhorn or “loud hailer” (Navy term?).
Should have called in a local trawler for a “NET” savings in cost and risk to life.
Concur 100%, but it’s still pretty fookin’ awesome to watch! Dude probably said “Hey skipper, hold my coffee and watch this shit!”
Awesome but unnecessarily placing yourself and crew in danger. Looked like they had a larger support vessel to back them up. When I was a CG Aux crew then coxswain, we were instructed NEVER enter the water, NEVER!
My initial thought was “drop in a fragmentation grenade and hop back onto the cutter.”
But what if, in addition to cocaine, the smugglers also were smuggling humans, say a few families with small children perched on the bales of cocaine.
So I’m proud to see that the Coastie had the courage to risk himself for others.
Tracking snorkeling diesel boats is a skill the US Navy mastered before color television became a thing.
Did the cartels develop caterpillar drives to evade the USCG SONAR?
it’s easy to armchair quarterback things like this, but considering this war is being escalated by the offenders (look up how the newly commissioned USCG Cutter Terrell Horne got its name) looks to me this way saved lives on both sided.