Report: U.S. Coast Guard Awaits Specialized Team to Board Third Tanker
U.S. officials say that the U.S. Coast Guard's "pursuit" of the sanctioned VLCC Bella 1 will come to a conclusion after a team of boarding specialists arrives on scene. The service's cuttermen and law enforcement detachments (LEDETs) are skilled at interdicting small craft, but boarding a noncompliant vessel on the high seas requires the specialized skills of a Maritime Security Response Team (MSRT), the counterterrorism SWAT units that the service created after the 9/11 attacks. On Saturday, American forces began...
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