In the early morning hours of a September night, a team huddled in the combat information center (CIC) on the Cyclone-class coastal patrol ship USS Tornado (PC 14). Lt. Cmdr. Graham Van Hook, Tornado’s commanding officer, stood with his operations officer, the officer-in-charge and the chief of the U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement detachment. A possible drug-smuggling vessel had been identified near their location.
