Eyes in the sky: one air station’s Herculean efforts to stop drug smugglers

[The Patriot]

It was completely dark in the middle of the Caribbean Sea on the evening of October 3, 2018.Dense bands of cloud shrouded the moon, obscuring all light. Storms intermittently rumbled to life, dampening the darkness with sheets of rain.Five thousand feet above the sea, a large white airplane sliced through the gloom, its telltale orange stripe and Coast Guard shield obscured by the shadows.


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