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This photo taken Jan. 28, 2014, shows a Coast Guard officer following traffic on his screen while facing a dense fog which is almost completely eliminating visibility during a patrol off the San Diego coast in San Diego. With the drug war locking down land routes across Latin America and at the U.S. border, smugglers have been increasingly using large vessels to carry multi-ton loads of cocaine and marijuana hundreds of miles offshore, where the lead federal agency with extensive law enforcement powers is the Coast Guard, a military service roughly the size of the New York Police Department. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)

Seafaring drug smugglers challenging Coast Guard

By Elliott Spagat and Julie Watson - Associated Press

SGT. SHAFT: Does a veteran’s ex-wife qualify for benefits?

By Sgt. Shaft - The Washington Times