Red Crew: Fighting the War on Drugs with Reagan's Coast Guard

by Jim Howe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682473015
• ISBN13: 9781682473016
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"