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Date: June 17, 2011

Contact: Petty Officer 2nd Class Henry G. Dunphy

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Senators meet with San Diego Maritime Unified Command

SAN DIEGO -- Capt. Thomas Farris, Coast Guard Sector San Diego Commander, briefs Sens. Mary Landrieu and Dan Coats, members of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on the efforts of the San Diego Maritime Unified Command in combating transnational crime during the senators' visit to San Diego June 17, 2011. The MUC is a collaborative law enforcement effort between local, state and federal agencies operating in San Diego's maritime domain, whose goal is to increase homeland security by eliminating transnational crime. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Office 2nd Class Henry G. Dunphy.

SAN DIEGO -- Capt. Thomas Farris, Coast Guard Sector San Diego Commander, briefs Sens. Mary Landrieu and Dan Coats, members of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on the efforts of the San Diego Maritime Unified Command in combating transnational crime during the senators' visit to San Diego June 17, 2011. The MUC is a collaborative law enforcement effort between local, state and federal agencies operating in San Diego's maritime domain, whose goal is to increase homeland security by eliminating transnational crime. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Office 2nd Class Henry G. Dunphy.

 

SAN DIEGO -- Sens. Mary Landrieu and Dan Coats, members of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, listen to a brief given by Capt. Thomas Farris, Coast Guard Sector San Diego Commander, on the efforts of the San Diego Maritime Unified Command (MUC) in combating transnational crime during the senators' visit to San Diego June 17, 2011. The MUC is a collaborative law enforcement effort between local, state and federal agencies operating in San Diego's maritime domain, whose goal is to increase homeland security by eliminating transnational crime. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Office 2nd Class Henry G. Dunphy.

SAN DIEGO -- Sens. Mary Landrieu and Dan Coats, members of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, listen to a brief given by Capt. Thomas Farris, Coast Guard Sector San Diego Commander, on the efforts of the San Diego Maritime Unified Command (MUC) in combating transnational crime during the senators' visit to San Diego June 17, 2011. The MUC is a collaborative law enforcement effort between local, state and federal agencies operating in San Diego's maritime domain, whose goal is to increase homeland security by eliminating transnational crime. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Office 2nd Class Henry G. Dunphy.

 

SAN DIEGO -- Capt. Thomas Farris, Coast Guard Sector San Diego Commander, briefs Sens. Mary Landrieu and Dan Coats, members of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on the efforts of the San Diego Maritime Unified Command in combating transnational crime during the senators' visit to San Diego June 17, 2011. The MUC is a collaborative law enforcement effort between local, state and federal agencies operating in San Diego's maritime domain, whose goal is to increase homeland security by eliminating transnational crime. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Office 2nd Class Henry G. Dunphy.

SAN DIEGO -- Capt. Thomas Farris, Coast Guard Sector San Diego Commander, briefs Sens. Mary Landrieu and Dan Coats, members of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on the efforts of the San Diego Maritime Unified Command in combating transnational crime during the senators' visit to San Diego June 17, 2011. The MUC is a collaborative law enforcement effort between local, state and federal agencies operating in San Diego's maritime domain, whose goal is to increase homeland security by eliminating transnational crime. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Office 2nd Class Henry G. Dunphy.

 

SAN DIEGO -- Petty Officer 1st Class Dustin Skarra, an aviation survival technician from Coast Guard Sector San Diego, gives a safety brief to Sens. Mary Landrieu and Dan Coats, members of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, and their staff members before departing on a helicopter over flight of San Diego's harbor and border region June 17, 2011. During their visit, the senators were briefed by the Maritime Unified Command, a collaborative law enforcement effort between local, state and federal agencies operating in San Diego's maritime domain, whose goal is to increase homeland security by eliminating transnational crime. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Office 2nd Class Henry G. Dunphy.

SAN DIEGO -- Petty Officer 1st Class Dustin Skarra, an aviation survival technician from Coast Guard Sector San Diego, gives a safety brief to Sens. Mary Landrieu and Dan Coats, members of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, and their staff members before departing on a helicopter over flight of San Diego's harbor and border region June 17, 2011. During their visit, the senators were briefed by the Maritime Unified Command, a collaborative law enforcement effort between local, state and federal agencies operating in San Diego's maritime domain, whose goal is to increase homeland security by eliminating transnational crime. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Office 2nd Class Henry G. Dunphy.

 

SAN DIEGO -- An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter departs from Coast Guard Sector San Diego with member of Sens. Mary Landrieu and Dan Coats' congressional delegations aboard for an aerial tour of San Diego's harbor and border region June 17, 2011. The senators, members of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, met with the senior leadership of the San Diego Maritime Unified Command, a collaborative law enforcement effort between local, state and federal agencies operating in San Diego's maritime domain, whose goal is to increase homeland security by eliminating transnational crime. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Office 2nd Class Henry G. Dunphy.

SAN DIEGO -- An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter departs from Coast Guard Sector San Diego with member of Sens. Mary Landrieu and Dan Coats' congressional delegations aboard for an aerial tour of San Diego's harbor and border region June 17, 2011. The senators, members of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, met with the senior leadership of the San Diego Maritime Unified Command, a collaborative law enforcement effort between local, state and federal agencies operating in San Diego's maritime domain, whose goal is to increase homeland security by eliminating transnational crime. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Office 2nd Class Henry G. Dunphy.

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