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Originally Posted by imagine2frolic  Sully,
I am telling you they are using us to practice on  . Hopefully they never sneak up on someone sitting next to artillery  . |
I know what you mean, I have a story that happened last weekend, my friend (same one with the desert eagle) bought a boat that had been used once (a Trimiran) and we were taking it out just beyond the coastal horizon, out of nowhere comes this 41' USCG boat and they told us to heave to and prepare to be boarded (at least they told us this time) so we did what we were told and they came aboard after scratching the new paint, they went through the boat and didn't find anything of course but I noticed that the commander of they boarding party was a Ltjg. ( the lowest rank in the officer grade but an officer nonetheless) when I asked why he was in command of he party and not back on the ship he was impressed that I knew he was an officer and he shouldn't be there so he told me the truth, get this he said, and I quote "....this is not a very experianced crew in fact they are all 19, and we did this not because you were doing anything wrong but because they needed
PRACTICE..." and they haden't seen any other boats out of the sight of the people on the beach nor had this crew gotten to "...
PRACTICE boarding a sail boat..." he then proceeded to tell the crew to return to the ship and told us that it had "... been very gracious of us to allow them to use the boat for
PRACTICE and for us to have a good day." as they were leaving they scratched the paint again and had every gun on the boat pointed at us. when we went back below we found the place a wreck with several things missing such as a new $4,000.00 portable GPS unit, $250.00 from each of our wallets that were laying in the drawer of the nav. station, over $600.00 worth of scuba gear (regs., gauges, octos., and 2 $99.00 titanium dive knives), and other miscellanious items all totaling close to $6,000.00 worth of stuff that we wont get back and we don't have the money to replace that stuff right now, so if you get boarded make shure that everything you want to keep is locked in a safe that you have to open and watch them go through it and make shure they put it back the way they found it. So yes they are now using us for practice ( and I got it staight from the horses mouth) and it is pathetic when you have to lock stuff up to keep it from being stolen form you by the people that are supposed to be protecting you.
