Pentagon's 'Stiletto' Ship Picked for Colombian Counterdrug Mission

By Sebastian Sprenger / April 24, 2008 at 5:00 AM
An experimental military vessel called "Stiletto" is slated to head toward Colombia next month to help U.S. Southern Command officials there track down drug traffickers, defense officials tell InsideDefense.com . The ship will leave its port at Norfolk, VA, at the end of May and arrive at the northern Colombian port city of Cartagena in early June, making four or five stops on its way south, according to Cdr. James Hruska, the Stiletto project officer in the Pentagon's Rapid Reaction...

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