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ARCHIVE 2010: USS Freedom and Colombian navy crews hunt a go-fast's dumped cocaine

Open blue sea under a pale sky: at left a grey rigid-hull boat flying a U.S. flag carries several crew in dark gear, and at right a white Colombian navy patrol boat with red and yellow stripes carries three crew, a white wake running between them.
U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Ed Early (100222-N-7058E-215) · Public domain (U.S. Navy photo)

U.S. Navy photo taken Feb. 22, 2010 in the Caribbean Sea. The Navy's caption says sailors and Coast Guardsmen from the littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) and Colombian navy sailors in a patrol boat searched for illicit drugs dumped overboard by a high-speed go-fast vessel, and that Freedom's boarding team recovered 247 kilos of cocaine. The photo shows a rigid-hull boat flying a U.S. flag and a Colombian navy patrol boat crossing open water.

What
ARCHIVE 2010: USS Freedom and Colombian navy crews hunt a go-fast's dumped cocaine
Where
Caribbean Sea
When
2010-02-22
Source
U.S. Navy
Credit
U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Ed Early (100222-N-7058E-215)
License
Public domain (U.S. Navy photo)
Details
Official release · U.S. Navy (USS Freedom), via Wikimedia Commons · Caribbean Sea

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