USNS Stalwart Cocaine Seizure Photos — Caribbean Counter-Narcotics
The USNS Stalwart (T-AGOS-1) was a Cold War ocean surveillance vessel built for anti-submarine warfare, using a towed SURTASS sonar array to track Soviet submarines. By the time I was aboard she was doing counter-narcotics work in the Caribbean — these photographs include a cocaine seizure, along with port visits to Key West and Panama. She was decommissioned in 2002.
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Raw Cocaine Coming Out of Colombia and the Ships and People Stopping It
This section is different from the rest of the archive because the subject itself was serious. I kept these photographs as a record of the ship, the people, and the kind of mission that showed another side of maritime service in that period.
Evidence from a counter-narcotics mission, photographed because it was part of the work.
Another interdiction image from a mission that was more serious than most of this archive.
USNS Stalwart during her years of service.