I don’t buy that theory. That part of the world invented covert transfers of goods. Refer to gold transfers in Dubai, easy, secure, covert and cheap. This was too messy for that to be the case unless it was thought up by idiots..oh wait Obama’s in charge.
See #12. These RS sailors are about the least covert of anybody in the USN.
They guard river inlets, pulling the duty that the USCG pulled until the USCG pulled out. That was the genesis of RS.