Operation New Frontier news conference

AMT2 Charles Hopkins and fellow crew members from Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron 10 out of Mobile, Ala. answer questions from the media on the Coast Guards MD-90 helicopter during a news conference to announce previously classified counternarcotics actions in the Caribbean basin, record seizures and unveiling of the Coast Guard's armed helicopters (a part of Operation New Frontier). Operation New Frontier is the Coast Guard's first deployment of armed helicopters designed to stop small high-speed smuggling vessels (Go-Fasts) carrying narcotics bound for the U.S. USCG photo by PA1 TELFAIR H. BROWN