Combat Forces - Navy Boarding Party
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Boarding ships is ancient, but today's challenges are not. Modern sailors train for perilous missions beyond their ancestors' experience: enforcing embargoes, confronting missile-armed pirates, and catching smugglers. It is intensely dangerous work. We visit elite global training facilities to see what it truly takes to join a modern Naval Boarding Party.
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