Whereas working in assist of Mixed Job Power (CTF) 150, USCGC Glen Harris (WPC 1144) seized 5,000 kilograms of cannabis and 800 kilograms of methamphetamine because the fishing vessel transited worldwide waters. CTF 150, led by the Royal Saudi Navy, is considered one of 4 job forces underneath the Mixed Maritime Forces (CMF), the world’s largest multinational naval partnership.
Glen Harris beforehand interdicted one other fishing vessel Aug. 30 whereas patrolling the Gulf of Oman. The interdiction led to CTF 150 seizing 2,980 kilograms of cannabis and 320 kilograms of amphetamine tablets value $20 million. This adopted two earlier Glen Harris seizures of heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamine drugs value $28 million in the identical physique of water in Could.
The quick response cutter arrived within the Center East in January and operates from the U.S. Navy base in Bahrain the place CMF is headquartered with U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and U.S. fifth Fleet.
CMF contains 34 member-nations that function throughout the Center East to advertise rules-based worldwide order at sea.
