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Originally Posted by flatbutt
I think DoD personnel are prohibited from law enforcement everywhere so maybe they had a CGIS agent on board. IIRC the Coast Guard can get permission from the flag nation to board and search in internat'l waters.
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CGIS is like NCIS...they investigate their own members...I could have been on the prize crew or boarding officer (in-charge) as a simple E-4, E-5. I was a boarding team member as a E-3 packing heat and everything when I was 18 years old, right out of high school he-he. They give us way too responsibility in the CG still wet behind the ears. -WW
ps...If its a US flagged boat, or any boat operating in US waters, I didn't even need a warrant of any kind. I said "Heave too and prepare to be boarded". And you had better have listened. All legal and everything. Huge responsibility which I think we preformed pretty well.