The US Coast Guard (USCG) FAMOUS CUTTER CLASS; Medium Endurance Cutter USCG THETIS (WMEC 910) provides covers as a boarding team aboard a whale boat moves in for a closer look at a small boat carrying simulated illicit contraband, while participating in the 43rd annual UNITAS exercises. UNITAS is the largest multi-national naval exercise conducted with naval forces from the Caribbean Sea, South and Central America and the USN. The exercises focus on building multinational coalition while promoting hemispheric defense and mutual cooperation
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Scene Major Command Shown: USS Yorktown (CG 48)
Scene Camera Operator: Ph1martin Maddock, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
26/02/2002
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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