CGAS Cecil Field
USA /
Florida /
Baldwin /
World
/ USA
/ Florida
/ Baldwin
World / United States / Florida
military, United States Coast Guard
Hanger 13 at Cecil Field is currently the home of the US Coast Guard's Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron (HITRON), which operates the advanced MH-65C Dolphin Helicopter in anti-drug smuggling missions in the Caribbean.
Armed with a M240B 7.62mm machine gun and the sinister Barrett M107CQ 12.7mm anti-material rifle, the high speed helicopters are specifically designed to track down and pursue high speed drug running craft which were frequently able to outrun USCG surface craft. Once the HITRON helicopter finds a drug laden 'go-fast' the crew onboard use armor-penetrating bullets and the Barret rifle to shoot enough holes into the drug runner's engine blocks to disable the boat, whereupon it's occupants are arrested and their haul seized.
www.uscg.mil/lantarea/HITRON/default.asp
Armed with a M240B 7.62mm machine gun and the sinister Barrett M107CQ 12.7mm anti-material rifle, the high speed helicopters are specifically designed to track down and pursue high speed drug running craft which were frequently able to outrun USCG surface craft. Once the HITRON helicopter finds a drug laden 'go-fast' the crew onboard use armor-penetrating bullets and the Barret rifle to shoot enough holes into the drug runner's engine blocks to disable the boat, whereupon it's occupants are arrested and their haul seized.
www.uscg.mil/lantarea/HITRON/default.asp
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 30°13'15"N 81°53'21"W
- US Coast Guard Station Pascagoula 643 km
- US Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City 857 km
- Naval Support Activity Northwest Annex 878 km
- United States Coast Guard Base Portsmouth 901 km
- United States Coast Guard Communications Area Master Station Atlantic, Pungo Transmitter Site 907 km
- US Coast Guard Telecommunications and Information Systems Command (TISCOM) 1045 km
- U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May 1163 km
- Atlantic City International Airport 1225 km
- US Coast Guard Station Sandy Hook 1346 km
- United States Coast Guard Communication Station, Boston (NMF) 1637 km
- Cecil Field 1.4 km
- Equestrian Center 3.1 km
- Oakleaf Plantation 7.6 km
- Herlong Field (KHEG) 10 km
- Normandy Dist. 14 km
- Cedar Hills 15 km
- Doctor's Lake 18 km
- Fleming Island, Florida 21 km
- Duval County, Florida 22 km
- Clay County, Florida 30 km
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