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U.S.C.G.C. STRATTON VMSL 752 homeports after another sucessful
historic cocain seizure off the Mexican coast.
Roger Bazeley USCGAUX PA, NAVEX BA

ALAMEDA, Calif.—The U.S. Coast Guard’s National Security Cutter, the
418’USCGC Stratton sailed into San Francisco under the fog-misted Golden Gate
Bridge to berth at Coast Guard Island, Alameda, California. The Stratton is
designed to take on a variety of diverse multi-operational tasks from humanitarian
assitance diaster relief missions to those of rapid deployment response to search
and rescue to that supporting national security and defense.

STRATTON MSL 752, National Security Cutter, U.S.C.G. Base Alameda, Ca
PHOTOS: Roger Bazeley, FSO-PA USCGAUX F17, BA NAVEX

Coast Guard Cutter Stratton crew member, Ensign Kyle VanDillen who grew up in
San Jose experienced the sucessful seizure of a massive 12,000 pounds of cocaine
valued at over $181 million seized when a U.S. maritime patrol aircraft spotted a
40 foot submersible 200 miles off the Mexican Coast, July 18, 2015. This was in
VanDillen’s words part of the routine missions in public safety and drug
smuggling interdiction that motivated him to join the U.S. Coast Guard, as a 2014
graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard academy.