Seaports under the eye of new 'SWAT' marine unit
By Ray Rivera
Seattle Times staff reporter
The Seattle Times
It rescues stranded boaters, snatches drug traffickers and chases
down environmental outlaws. But since Sept. 11, the U.S. Coast
Guard's mission has increasingly turned to homeland security,
and now it has a new weapon.
The Coast Guard yesterday launched the first of four new "SWAT"
teams
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