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Hal didn’t see anything of Teresa Mann after their first few minutes back on the ground. By the time he’d gone through debrief and delivered his two charges, she had faded into the dawn and was already gone back into whatever invisible Coast Guard fog bank she’d popped out of.
Searching for her hadn’t helped, not that his operational tempo allowed a lot of time to do so.
An inquiry to MSST was returned with a: The United States Coast Guard does not respond to requests for information about the Maritime Safety and Security Team.
A follow-up to the USCG itself simply addressed to CPO Teresa Mann was returned with the puzzling endorsement: No longer with the service.
A Google search returned 23,880 hits, and none of them were her as far as he could tell—except for a seriously cute high
