A sailor aboard the patrol combatant missile hydrofoil USS TAURUS (PHM 3) mans an M60 machine gun as members of the Coast Guard law enforcement detachment (LEDET) assigned to the Taurus search a small craft that was stopped after being spotted unusually far from shore. The TAURUS and the other hydrofoils of PHM Squadron 2 patrol the waters around Florida as part of the nation's drug interdiction program
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: USS Taurus (PHM 3)
Country: Gulf Of Mexico
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 (Ac) Mark S. Kettenhofen
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/11/1989
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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