New Book: Not Your Father’s Coast Guard

I have heard a few rumblings about this new book coming out and it has my interest. For those of you who enjoy a good book, this seems like it may be pretty sweet read. Written by Coastie Matthew Mitchell, this book is the story of a Drug Interdiction Assistance Team (DIAT) who traveled overseas and destroyed cocaine labs. How cool is that!! The book is going to be available on November 20th. Look at the picture…those are Coasties. Man, what a sweet gig. Way better than being on the Gallatin. Here is an excerpt from the book:

Halloween Day, 1992, Deep in the Bolivian Jungle

The mission was simple enough. Locate and destroy a clandestine cocaine lab somewhere in the Bolivian jungle. The team had progressed five hundred meters toward the location of a suspected lab. Five hundred meters might not seem like a lot if you’re walking down the street, but every inch is earned when you’re hacking through dense bush. Covered with sweat and what can only be described as a swarm of mosquitoes, the team finally made it to the encampment. It was then that the jungle exploded all around the insertion team. Bits of wood, dirt, leaves, and whatever else was unfortunate enough to be in the path of poorly aimed automatic weaponry fire was violently launched through the air and rained upon the insertion team. The onslaught of bullets came from five heavily armed narcotraffickers, accompanied by one semi-innocent, unarmed cook. The team acted quickly, taking up defensive positions and returning fire with their M-16s. One member fired a precisely aimed MK-79 grenade round, which exploded just behind the lab. The firefight lasted only minutes. At the end of the skirmish, four of five gunmen were wounded, while the insertion team remained unscathed. Randy, who had only moments before been directing fire on the narcotraffickers, had a new fight on his hands. Randy and his team now had to fight to save the lives of the men who just tried to kill them.

How sweet is that. A book about a group of Coasties that storm Colombian drug labs and destroy them. I’m sold. You can check out the books website for more information.

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