Below is a Coast Guard News Release. While I believe this was a very successful deployment, I cannot help but believe that pulling a Pacific Area National Security Cutter from the target rich Eastern Pacific drug transit area, where Munro had made a record breaking interdiction to work in the Atlantic was unfortunate, considering Atlantic Area has far more resources, even though it may have been necessary. Considering the long transit times from Alameda to the Eastern Pacific Drug transit zone, it looks likely, less than a quarter of the patrol was in the Eastern Pacific drug transit zone.
- November 3, 2025 Munro departs homeport
- Participates in Exercise Resolute Hunter offshore of San Diego
- December 2, 2025 Munro interdicted vessel using warning shots and disabling fire from the HITRON aircraft. Munro subsequently detained six suspected narco-terrorists and seized 22,052 pounds of cocaine valued at over $250 million – the single largest maritime drug seizure in 18 years
- Munro transits Panama Canal
- December 20, 2025 Begins tracking Tanker Bella 1
- January 6, 2026 Tanker Bella 1 seized
- March 1, 2026 Return to Homeport
March 6, 2026
Coast Guard Cutter Munro crew returns home after 119-day, multi-mission patrol; more than 20,000 pounds of cocaine seized
ALAMEDA, Calif. – The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) returned to their home port in Alameda, on Sunday, following a historic 119-day multi-mission deployment spanning more than 26,000 miles from the Eastern Pacific Ocean to the Northern Atlantic…