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(boat engine roaring)

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- [Narrator] Forward-looking
infrared or FLIR,

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is an invaluable tool
for coast guard air crews

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in search and rescue in
law enforcement cases.

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In addition to using FLIR,

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crews also depend on night vision goggles

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when it comes to flying at night.

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It's especially helpful to the coast guard

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when they have to outsmart smugglers,

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trying to bring in drugs
and other contraband,

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and to think that the darkness
of night will keep them safe.

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- Our job is to fly into
these unlit, unmarked,

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sometimes abandoned airfields and land

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and look at aircraft that are landed there

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come down over blacked out

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or darken port areas or coves
where, that's what might be,

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up for the night or
awaiting transporting drugs

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and looking at these
vessels and querying them.