Question pretty much answered. I don't really have anything to add. I was a boarding officer and it's a shit load of work. Fun, but still work none the less.
Were they just like, "hey lead this boarding party real quick" or did you ask to be assigned to that job?
Were they just like, "hey lead this boarding party real quick" or did you ask to be assigned to that job?
Were they just like, "hey lead this boarding party real quick" or did you ask to be assigned to that job?
Are they conducting a lot of boardings in the Gulf? How's it compare to CDOPS in the Carribean?
Are they conducting a lot of boardings in the Gulf? How's it compare to CDOPS in the Carribean?
They have boarding teams. How many depends on the crew and duty cycle. They do training before deployment (approach, scaling/boarding, search/questioning, etc). In the day and age of embargoes in the Gulf, there's lots of training and pre-planning before actually taking down the first vessel.
I came from the Gonzalez, whose boarding team got in a close quarter gunfight with some pirates.
For anyone who's interested, here's the a of the incident.