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Thursday, September 20, 2012
SSC boat startles residents
MARY ESTHER, Fla. -- Unidentified boats that worried some residents along the Santa Rosa Sound in Northwest Florida were part of a training exercise from a Navy team based at Stennis Space Center, Miss. The gunfire they heard? Blanks. The exercise was part of a training course run by the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School (NAVSCIATTS). Students were learning how to operate patrol craft for counterterrorism and counternarcotics operations. Authorities received calls about loud booms and gunshots Tuesday night. (Source: Northwest Florida Daily News, 09/20/12)