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On 14 March 2023, the Colombian Navy seized a drug cartel semisubmersible carrying 5,800 pounds of cocaine to an unknown destination in the Pacific. The year before, authorities captured a similar 50-foot narco-sub carrying 8,000 pounds of cocaine. Thirty years of trial, error, and innovation have refined a comprehensive maritime covert supply chain for cocaine cartels along South America’s coast.
By Commander Paul J. Miller and Lieutenant Commander Nicholas Anderson, U.S. Coast Guard In 2008, the Coast Guard entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Navy allowing a few Coast Guard members the opportunity to attend Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training, which is the Navy’s gateway to the SEAL program.
n>The Coast Guard has a long and proud tradition in ASW, proving its worth in the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II and as a supplement to the Navy during the Cold War. As U.S. naval power continues its slow but steady Pacific pivot, a familiar geopolitical environment is taking shape: a rising and aggressive communist power looking to expand and strengthen its influence. An ASW-capable Coast Guard can be part of the solution to this challenge.
With the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union ceased to be a threat to U.S. interests. As a result, antisubmarine warfare (ASW) equipment was removed from U.S. Coast Guard cutters. At the time, the logic appeared sound: With the fall of the communist menace, long patrols along the U.S. coastline hunting for Soviet submarines would no longer be required. Yet even as the Cold War faded into the history books, a new competitor was emerging.
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