RE: Letters of marque

USCG is a bit better than equally armed.  Our smaller 110' and 210'
Cutters
are armed with 25mm Chain gun and multiple .50 cal M2.	Our 270' with
76mm
main gun.  The threat is small arms and possible RPGs.	None have been
used
against us yet.

Bob Makowsky
USCG SAR
Puerto Rico

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Glenn M Wilson
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 3:22 PM
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: Letters of marque

Light infantry armed plus heavy weapons if a ship is the transportation
to a boarding or assault.  Most heavily armed options for a larger  USCG
cutter would be at best equally armed I think.	But my father left the
USCG in the mid to late 1940's (eye injury; sees light in one eye; other
is visually normal) due to not wearing goggles, errant paint chip and a
crummy medic.

Again IIRC, their boats have MG's and crew with RPG type weapons but
nothing much heavier that I have ever read about (but then I'm not in
Maritime Safety and I'm not monitoring the traffic.)

Also, there is plenty of jurisdictional fighting and national pride
issues involved in any potential multi-national patrol force
discussions.
 And no one's navy in these regions has the desire to involve themselves
it seems.  And third world Coast Guards are usually inadequately
equipped
to clash with these guys.

Gracias,
Glenn/Triphibious@juno.com
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