Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Ashley Green watches as a 25-foot response boat participates in a tactical training coxswain course on the Thames River in New London, Conn., Nov. 16, 2007.
Tactical coxswain instructors from the Coast Guard Special Missions Training Center (SMTC) in Camp Lejeune, N.C., trained coxswain and boat crew members from Stations New Haven, Montauk, Eaton's Neck, New London, the New York Fire Department and the New York and East Hampton Police Departments during a three day training period in direct support of submarine and ferry escort missions that are routinely conducted in the Long Island Sound area.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by PA3 Annie R. Berlin