Howe Jim Red Crew: Fighting the War on Drugs with Reagan`s Coast Guard 9781682475553

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Автор: Howe Jim
Название: Red Crew: Fighting the War on Drugs with Reagan`s Coast Guard
ISBN: 9781682475553
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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ISBN-10: 1682475557
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 320
Вес: 0.47 кг.
Дата издания: 30.08.2020
Серия: History
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 20 black and white photos 2 maps
Размер: 229 x 152
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Crime & criminology,Drugs trade / drug trafficking,Military history, HISTORY / Military / Naval
Подзаголовок: Fighting the war on drugs with reagan`s coast guard
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Red Crew is a first-hand account of U.S. Coast Guard anti-smuggling operations during the early years of the nation's maritime war on drugs. Jim Howe describes his experience as the executive officer of a specialized drug-hunting crew that sailed in then-state-of-the-art surface effect ships, a small flotilla of high-speed vessels pressed into the drug war on short notice.

In the early 1980s, South Florida and the Caribbean were awash in illicit drugs, with hundreds of smuggling organizations bringing huge loads of marijuana, and later cocaine, into the United States. To fight this epidemic, the Reagan administration led a massive effort to disrupt shore-side gangs while bolstering interdiction activity at sea. To increase the number of days at sea for each surface effect ship, a multi-crewing concept was employed, with four teams of sixteen sailors--the Red, Blue, Green, and Gold Crews--rotating among three hulls.

Through its first-person narrative, Red Crew offers a rare glimpse into the day-to-day pressures, challenges, failures, and successes of Coast Guard cuttermen as they carried out complex and dangerous missions. Red Crew provides a unique historical view of the early days in the Coast Guard's war on drugs, and is the only book-length history of the diminutive, one-of-a-kind surface effect ship fleet.

Red Crew: Fighting the War on Drugs with Reagan`s Coast Guard, Howe Jim