DATE: October 5, 2009 4:00:11 PM EDT
| News Release |
Date:
Oct. 5, 2009
Contact:
Ensign Brandon Schumann
321-784-8176
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| Confidence crew return to Canaveral from patrol, training |
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Coast Guard Cutter Confidence returned home Wednesday from a law enforcement patrol in the Caribbean Sea and training in Mayport, Fla.
The crew departed Cape Canaveral for its 49-day patrol August 16, to perform counter-drug and alien migrant interdiction operations. During the patrol, Confidence conducted joint operations with the Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma and a helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen.
Confidence successfully repatriated 164 Haitian migrants to Cap-Haitien, Haiti, which were transferred to the Confidence by the Coast Guard Cutter Bear. The crew of the CGC Bear rescued the migrants from an overloaded 30-foot sailboat in the Caribbean Sea.
The Confidence crew was awarded the coveted Battle“E” while at tailored annual cutter training in Mayport. The Battle “E” is the highest award possible that can be obtained from this training program. It represents the crew’s readiness for all threats and hazards while aboard the cutter.
Confidence is a 210-foot Reliance class cutter with a crew complement of 12 officers and 60 enlisted members.
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