By ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: April 10, 2021 SAVANNAH, Ga. A federal agency is putting two new boats to work on the Georgia coast after naming them for fallen soldiers. The Army Corps of Engineers on Thursday held dedication ceremonies for the pair of survey boats used to ensure Georgia s harbors in Savannah and Brunswick remain free from obstructions. One vessel was named in honor of Army Staff Sgt. Vernon W. Martin of Savannah, who died along with seven other members of his Army unit fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan in October 2009. The other boat was named for Army Spc. Christopher J. Holland of Brunswick, a medic killed in December 2003 when his unit was ambushed in Iraq.
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Army Corps names 2 new boats for fallen Georgia soldiers
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Police arrest allegedly armed boater who avoided them for 10 days
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TIBURON, Calif. - A 53-year-old Sausalito man was arrested Friday in Tiburon after a standoff from his boat with deputies from Marin County Sheriff s Office
Paul Ray Smith Jr. was booked into Marin County Jail on suspicion of multiple charges including felony assault and battery, resisting arrest, assault with a firearm and assault on a police officer for incidents that began March 18 and ended Friday after deputies towed his boat ashore and took him into custody.
The first incident involved Smith firing a flare gun at the Richardson Bay Area harbormaster while the official was towing a vessel to the Army Corps of Engineers on March 18, according to a press release from the sheriff s office. The flare did not reach the harbormaster s boat.