The Pentagon's high-speed, shallow-draft "Stiletto" ship has left the waters around Colombia and is now searching for smugglers in the Florida Straits before sailing back to Norfolk, VA, later this month, a U.S. Southern Command official tells InsideDefense.com . The vessel is patrolling the waters separating Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas, searching for illicit shipments of drugs, weapons or persons, according to SOUTHCOM Innovation Officer Cmdr. Kevin Quarderer, who helps oversee Stiletto's first-ever operational deployment. "That's all free area that...
