He then was assigned as Executive Officer of USCGC Petrel in Key West. Florida. which proved to be an extremely actionpacked tour of duty. In one drug case. his crew seized three smuggling vessels simultaneously. and in another he embarked a seized gofast vessel to hunt down a second gofast. chasing it at speeds in excess of 40 knots. his crew also pulled 265 Haitian migrants off a small sailboat found mired in a coral reef in the Bahamas. Following these assignments at sea. thenLieutenant Howe served from 1985 to 1988 at the First Coast Guard District Operations Center in Boston. Massachusetts. as a search and rescue coordinator. at night. he earned a masters degree from Harvard University Extension School.
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