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Coast Guard: Enforcing the Law at Sea
December 14, 2024
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news:

By Capt. Daniel A. Laliberte, U. S. Coast Guard retired

Part I: The First 30 years

With a seizure of opium near the entrance to San Francisco Bay in November 1886, cutters of the Revenue Marine Service began a fight against maritime drug smuggling that continues to this day.

The smuggling of opium into the west coast prompted the entry of th . . .

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