“This is the first time a foreign law enforcement detachment has been deployed from a U.S. military ship to exercise another

nation's sovereignty over their waters,” U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Robert Wagner, commanding officer of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dallas, told bloggers and online journalists during a DoD Bloggers Roundtable about the cutter’s various efforts throughout West and Central Africa in support of Africa Partnership Station.

On the call with us today was David Axe, warisborning.com; Jim Dolbow, cgblog.org; and Andrew Lubin, Get The Gouge.