And on the September 25 to September 28 Raid, the newly minted Coast Guard SEALS, which were US trained, accompanied the BDF and the USMLO where they successfully destroyed 22 marijuana fields, in which almost 38,000 plants were growing.
Today, we asked their Commandant how they fared when placed among highly trained soldiers, and he told us that the report he received says each Coast Guard SEAL officer was as good as any of their counterparts from the BDF and US Military:
Admiral John Borland - Commandant, Belize Coast Guard
"The newly minted seals, as you call them are trained to operate in air, land and sea so being a part of the joint forces that operation "incisive gallop" which was a BDF operation in the Chiquibul forest wasn't anything out of the norm that they would do. They were under the command of the BDF during that operation. They formed a huge component of the eradication that took place with all the marijuana plantations you heard and of course the destruction of all the agrarian encroachment that were located within the adjacency zone. The feedback that I got from the BDF officer commanding the operation was that the seals performed tremendously didn't miss a step. It was as if they've been infantry soldiers all their lives so they've integrated very well in to whatever job that has been handed down to them so far."
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