McInerney (FFG 8) - Naval Cruise Book

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Visit, Board, Search, Seizure Team VBSS MAI C iitim Ihonuiyh sc ih OBaiirioii d conducts a h of an L ' SS jw member FC3 Edwards prepare to handle detainees The ships VBSS team was assigned to guard all the detainees we welcomed aboard. They would set up. what was jokingly called Cellblock liight . J on the 02 level under the mast. ■s. Then it was their job to watch and care for them. From feeding them to showers to exercising, the VBSS Team kept the watch. Thc also switched gears when we went into the UNITAS phase of the deployment. We participated in mock boardings with the USS O ' Bannon and the Chilean, French, Panamanian and Costa Rican navies ' version of VBSS. Along with a team of British Commandos and one of our own SEAL Teams. The team was busy. but they had fun! and after shots of GSMl(SW) Syfert. he was on a water ride at Disney! Members of our VBSS Team train in our gym with ih Coast Guard LE Det. Training in light areas help t)Mt(SV ) Snumek prepare for real situations. ready to go. Mcmheis ,.| ilie iciin e e. detainee U ' ilie processing site

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ThcClo-last liilK ciiuullcd m llaiiic i Our third bust took a lot of patience and INTEL gathering. We had information that a Go-Fast ' would be meeting a Logistic ' s Support Vehicle (LSV) in our patrol area. We vaited and -waited, but it paid of£ big time! We caught the Go-Fast and LSV at the same time. The LSV was a fishing boat from Panama named Atlantic Fish and they had drugs hidden on the boat. Our Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LE Det.) wasn ' t about to give up. After a thorough search of the boat, they realized there was a section of the boat they could not get to. Then looking harder, they found fresh cement under the boat ' s | stove. Sure enough, JACKPOT! Another cool thing about this bust was that we were able to turn the Go-Fast over to the Panamanian Coast Guard. When we pulled in a few days later, the ex-Go-Fast was our Security Escort Boat! Also, the Atlantic Fish was on the next pier from us. At this point our torpedo magazine was filled with around lO tons of cocaine. We had to off-load in Mayport during our mid-deployment IMAV. Looking down Worn the 02 level into the Go- Fast. You can see the drugs between the flanie; h ' s not |ust a lob. rew members fight the fire to save the evidence As for our fourth bust, there aren ' t -words to describe it! I ' ll let the pictures tell you. 51

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Surface iiarfare Qualifications r2(SW)Adycki l(SW) Beamish r3(SW) Boger C2(SW) Clayton }M1(SW) Granados ;TGSN(SW) Holman }SM3(SW) Johnson ;T3(SW) Manuel W2(SW) Morgan ■C2(SW) Pate JM2(SW) Rivera )S2(SW) Sapp r3(SW)Timmig AE2(SW) Apol IT2(SW) Barton EM2(SW) Bullock GM2(SW) Deer SK3(SW) Harrison GSMl(SW) Hurt GM2(SW) Kiiippa 0S2(SW) Meyer SN(SW) Muiphy GM2(SW) Piggie DCl(SW) Robertson MS2(SW) Schmidt DC2(SW) Thompson ETl(SW)Bakula GSM3(SW) Benitez SH3(SW)Caliste SH2(SW) Deloach HT2(SW) Hines OS2(SW) Jackson IC2(SW) Lipscomb SH2(SW)Middlebrooks QM2(SW) Overby 0S2(SW) Pope HMC(SW) Rosario FC3(SW) Severance EN3(SW) Vincent STG2(SW) Baily EN3(SW) Berry SKI(SW) Clark SM2(SW)Easley SK2(SW) Holiday STG3(SW)Jiordiano HT2(SW) Lopez STG2(SW) Moore EM2(SW)Plamer IC2(SW) Randall IT 1(SW) Santos EW2(SW)Shaler EN2(SW) Williams Showing off their new pins are Luft: From left to right, EN3(SW) Vineent, STG3(SW) Jiordiano, STG2ISW) Moore. ETI(SW) Bakula and IC2(SW) Randall Right: From left to right. GM1(SW Granados. SH2(SW) Deloach. OS2(SW) Sapp. DCl(SW) Robertson. EM2(SW) Palmer and ITI(SW) Santos