Sailors aboard a rigid-hull inflatable boat prepare bales of cocaine for hoisting after an embarked U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment seized the contraband during a drug interdiction in the Caribbean Sea, May 17. The interdiction was in support Operation Martillo, a U.S., European, and Western Hemisphere partner nation effort targeting illicit trafficking routes in coastal waters along the Central American isthmus. U.S. military participation is being led by Joint Interagency Task Force-South, under the direction of U.S. Southern Command.