Maritime Security Response Team - U.S. Coast Guard version of Navy Seals

I used to be in the Coast Guard. Did some electrical work on MSRT squad bay one time.

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First off, they need a catchier name

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Maritime Aggression Group Alpha ?

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TennesseeFan25

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Sorry, I don't speak gay. Can you try it again, only don't homo it up this time? Thanks

Yeah, but they can't perform in water over 8 feet of depth........

J/K!!! That's a Navy and Army joke towards them! Yes, they are elite and are fantastic American Warriors!!!

My only question to you: they hit their targets at 1400 METERS? What the hell were they shooting? From a boat? That's almost 9/10's of a mile. Please elaborate.

About ten years ago I saw a TV show about Coast Guard drug interdiction teams. There was a female sniper shooting a .50 caliber out of a helicopter and sending rounds through the outboard motor of a go fast boat. It was pretty impressive shooting. The helo was relatively close to the boat and was flying parallel to the speedboat, but the boat was bouncing up and down on the waves. The chick could shoot and was also kind of cute.

Yes, this was a scheduled exercise and we were suited up to go out. The Coast Guard had cleared traffic in the bay where we were (National City) and the laser on target (a tow with a vertical target the size of about 10' around on the side of an 12' high gray wall of some sort of shock absorbing material about three feet thick. Target was a white circle with a red circle of about two feet wide in the center. Initial firing run was at a range of about 500 meters and progressively increased to a 1400-1420 meter distance. It was amazing being there watching the concentration, and the quiet stillness of everyone waiting for the shots to be fired. We were on the water for only two and half hours, and they only fired on target for about an hour and a half, and there were only three members of the unit that were sniper training.

There was a third boat trailing the tow between us and the tow at a safe range back from the target that was the spotter and they had glass on the target and gave hit and location intel by radio after each shot. Most shots from 500 meters to about 800 meters hit the target. About 50% of the shots past that missed the target altogether, and of the shots that hit, only one was in the red circle and that at about 1000 meters. That guy's face had an ear to ear grin when the target hit call came in on the radio. I was amazed.

At the end the unit commander presented me with a patch and a challenge coin and invited me to return and go out with them when it's winter so that I can "fully appreciate" what they do. Everyone laughed at that.