McInerney (FFG 8) - Naval Cruise Book

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AM2 Robert A. Wilkey AD3 Adam Z. Long AN Joe R. Cooley lg ■1 . ZX M L ' ' ' tRB H 53 ■i 1 1 Top: HI MOM! Above left: AW2(AW SW) Morgan loads sonobouies into Venom 506 Above right: AMCS(AW) Moore, AT2 Tangiiay, AN Cooley and AM2 Wilkey pause for a photo Bottom left: Papa sitting in for King Neptune AEAN Edward D. Kelly AN Bryan E. Wolff 49

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AE2(AW SW JeffN4.Apol AT2(A ) Nichulics .1. Knowles m Bryan B. Minor AT2 Alexander J. Tanguay. Preparing Venom 506 lor lakc-ot ' f 48

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Mclnemey had tour major drug busts during our deployment. We netted over 12 tons of pure coeaine We detained 30 suspected drug runners and confiscated two Go Fasts and a fishing boat. If they didn t burn ' cm c jot cm. C) cr three tons of pure cocaine that will ii .American streets ' A a y P-} help Our Eirst bust was exciting! Venom and a P-3 ■were chasing the drug boat and kept them from escaping into coastal waters. When they realized they ■were not getting aw ay, they dumped the drugs, set the boat on Sire and jumped into the ocean. Mclnemey picked up the suspects and then all the drugs that Venom and the P-3 marked with Smoke Floats. What a TEAM Ihe black dots are bales of ' cocaine. The smoke rises a smoke tloat dropped by enom to mark ihc bale Our second bust w as even more exciting! First it was at night, and second Venom w as not in the air! We had to catch these guys| just by chasing them vith the ship! When we got close, they ■would quickly change direction. We w ere not about to let them get away. After a long zigzag chase, ' warning shots Srom our Brow ning .50 Cal. machine guns and their overheating engines, they gave up. They had dropped all the drugs, but w e found them the next day with the help of Venom! captured (io-Kast and Prize C reu do a dri e bv. The crew worked late into the night collecting the cocaine. Here we used the smugglers ow n Go-Fast ti help gel the job done! 50