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Originally Posted by Mohoender
In France, the SAR, the firebrigades of Paris and Marseille as well as the Mountain Gendarmerie could well be around in the mist of total chaos. I would expect the same from US coast guards, German SAR...
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The US Coast Guard has a national defense mission. The larger cutters would be used for open-ocean and coastwise escorts, the patrol boats for more inshore work. (The inshore would seem to be more for morale purposes only - with the exception of surface raiders the threat along the US coastlines is Soviet subs, and USCG patrol boats carried small caliber guns only - pretty useless for ASW - and no sonar.) Coast Guard aviaition, with good surface search capabilities but no ASW sensors or weapons, could be useful for surface raider hunts. When we write up the hunt for the Kirov in the Caribbean, we'll have her located by a USCG Falcon aircraft who then calls in the Navy for the sinking.
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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