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Coast Guard helicopter sniper takes out narco-boat engines, seizes more than 20,000 pounds of cocaine
nypost.com ^ | Dec. 6, 2025 | Diana Stancy,

Posted on 12/06/2025 5:22:27 AM PST by V_TWIN

The Coast Guard cutter Munro seized more than 20,000 pounds of cocaine in a single drug interdiction mission Tuesday, the largest seizure a national security cutter had completed involving a go-fast vessel.

New video footage shared with Fox News Digital depicts Coast Guard forces, including a sniper from the service’s Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron (HITRON) based in Jacksonville, Florida, utilizing disabling fire against a go-fast vessel as it completes a drug interdiction mission for Operation Pacific Viper.

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To: SisterK

“but save the boat”

It would just end up in some senat4or’s driveway.

wy69


101 posted on 12/08/2025 8:44:27 AM PST by whitney69 (`)
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