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Article: Md. Reserve Pilots Join War on Drugs;Air National Guard Flies Traffickers Being Deported to Jamaica
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- The Washington Post
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- September 14, 1990
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The Maryland Air National Guard flew 12 convicted drug
traffickers to Miami today for deportation to their native Jamaica,
the first such military flight used in the U.S. war on drugs.
The Jamaicans, eight from Maryland jails and four from New York,
were led in handcuffs and waist chains under heavy guard at dawn from
an Immigration and Naturalization Service van to a waiting C-130
Hercules transport plane at Glenn L. Martin Airport just east of
Baltimore.
"Everything went off like clockwork," said Capt. Mike Milord, an
Air National Guard spokesman. Three hours and 25 minutes later, the
National Guard plane landed at Miami International Airport, where the
12 prisoners were whisked to an ...