The outboard motors of a suspected drug smuggling vessel after Coast Guardsmen aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Sherman from Honolulu used disabling fire to stop the fleeing vessel after a three-hour chase 270-miles south of Guatemala in the Eastern Pacific Ocean July 27, 2016. Operation Martillo is a joint, interagency and multinational collaborative effort to deny transnational criminal organizations air and maritime access to the littoral regions of the Central American isthmus. ( Coast Guard photos by Lt. Donnie Brzuska)

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