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Doubling Cutter Presence In Drug Transit Zones Would Crimp Drug Trade, Schultz Says

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, April 4th, 2019

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Doubling Cutter Presence In Drug Transit Zones Would Crimp Drug Trade, Schultz Says

Notional OPC design is 360-feet long, a 54-foot beam, and 17-foot draft. House appropriators propose to fully fund the program in FY '22. (Graphic: Eastern Shipbuilding Group.)

Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz said on Thursday that there is an issue of “capacity” when it comes to having the resources to interdict drugs at sea and sustain other service missions and that having more ships assigned to counter the flow of drugs from South America to North America would help staunch drug smuggling. There are studies that say with 15 to 17 Coast Guard cutters or Navy surface combatants that deploy with Coast Guard law enforcement detachments…

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Army

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