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Local Coast Guard cutter returning home Editors note: Media are invited to the crew's homecoming at the Port Canaveral Coast Guard Base at 9235 Grouper Road, Port Canaveral, Fla. Photos from the patrol shot by the crew will be made available for distribution at the homecoming. PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. - A local Coast Guard cutter crew will return home Wednesday at 8 a.m. after 53-days away from homeport conducting law enforcement operations off Honduras and training in Mayport, Fla. Coast Guard Cutter Confidence's crew conducted law enforcement operations in the Caribbean Sea with two Honduran Naval officers aboard, which expanded the ship's jurisdiction in the region to include Honduran territorial seas. The Confidence also completed Tailored Annual Cutter Training in Mayport where the crew earned their third consecutive Operational Readiness Award. The Operational Readiness Award is an honor given to cutter crews who average over a 90 percent score in five major categories of the training, which include navigation, damage control, engineering, gunnery exercises and seamanship. In addition to averaging a 90 percent in each of these categories, Confidence's crew had to complete each of the 112 drills during the training with a score of at least an 80 percent. The crew of Confidence scored a perfect score on all of the training's gunnery exercises, which involved firing the 25 mm and .50-caliber weapons at an unmanned remote controlled personal water craft. This allowed the crew of Confidence to practice multiple gunnery exercises on a moving target in a controlled setting. Confidence is a 210-foot medium endurance cutter with a crew of 77 commanded by Cmdr. William Lawrence. ### Saving Lives and Guarding the Coast Since 1790. The United States Coast Guard -- Proud History. Powerful Future. |
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