THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, November 30, 1994 TAG: 9411300490
SECTION: MILITARY NEWS PAGE: A12 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Short : 19 lines
The Coast Guard cutter Bear leaves its base in Portsmouth earlier
this month for a 40-day patrol in the Caribbean. The crew of the
270-foot medium-endurance cutter will find the sailing smoother than
it was during the last patrol, when it rescued 399 people from rafts
and small boats at the height of the Cuban refugee crisis. The Bear,
with a crew of 106, is on patrol about 185 days a year.
by CNB