[g'nad]

we just gots diff'rent priorities...

course you Coasties don't get into as many "situations"... mebbe cuz yuh actually think before you act...

but I don't get too many trespassers no more...

[Ramius]

Well... coasties have somewhat more predictable "situations" than Marines do.

When I was in, the CG was on a streak of some ten or more years since they'd ever had to shoot somebody. It just doesn't come up all that often. By the time a cutter nails somebody in the act and gets boarding party over there... the whole crew of the drug boat is already "assuming the position" on the fantail, on their knees, hands behind their heads, fingers interlaced. They know the drill better than we do.

I never once had to draw my weapon... and only had to slap leather once, with a fisherman that was a little "angry".