Prepare By Lt. Joe Doman
he flight was over. We had located a Colombian fishing vessel of interest and had maintained visual and forward-looking-infrared-radar (FLIR) coverage on it until our ship had closed our position. We were back on deck, and I was three minutes into the standard six minute “burnout” following the engine water wash. The Coast Guard airborne use-offorce (AUF) gunner and in-flight observer rushed toward the aircraft from the hangar. After unsuccessfully trying to signal to the plane captain to restrict their entry into the rotor arc, I quickly decided to expedite shutting down the engines without using the checklist.
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