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How Coast Guard pilots and sharpshooters leave drug boats dead in the water, from helicopter chases to shooting out the engines

US Coast Guard helicopter pilots and precision marksmen are constantly training and evolving their strategies. The squadrons are instrumental to the drug interdiction process, hunting drug boats from ...

Whiting Field event lets training pilots see future, 'get out into the sky'

Whiting Field's annual Fleet Fly-In gives budding Naval aviators a real world look at the aircraft they'll be flying in their futures.
The Daily Astorian

Was last week’s helicopter training in Astoria a rehearsal for Saturday’s operation in Venezuela? ‘No,’ said the Coast Guard

In the early morning hours of Saturday, Jan. 3, an American special forces operation was carried out to extract Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their compound in ...
MyNorthwest.com

Coast Guard helicopter crew battles high winds to rescue 9 from grounded fishing boat in Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Nine crew members were hoisted to a helicopter off a commercial crab boat amid near gale force winds, strong downward drafts from a nearby cliff and rough seas after the ...