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Archive Home > 2009 > February > 03 > U.S. sailors’ training now includes lessons on how to fight pirates

U.S. sailors’ training now includes lessons on how to fight pirates

By Clarke Canfield / The Bulletin
February 3, 2009

PORTLAND, Maine — With an alarming number of tankers and cargo ships getting hijacked on the high seas, the nation’s maritime academies are offering more training to merchant seamen in how to fend off attacks from pirates armed not with cutlasses and flintlocks but automatic....

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