Sarah Kanowski

They made me a muffin and put a candle in it and I blew the candle out.

And you bomb up, it's called, which means you get into your outfit, our weapons.

So we have an ass baton.

Ideally, we want to use that.

And that is if you were to hit someone on the elbow, it would explode their elbow, basically.

We had a pistol.

Some of us carried shotguns.

Some of us had night vision goggles.

We've got tactical goggles, helmets, radios.

We're a pretty menacing sight when we're coming onto a ship of a smuggler.

And that first boarding is tense.

You know, we see that they've shut things up from the inside.

We see that they've got booby traps out and it's very, very intense.

And, you know, I almost lost my life on that first boarding.

And then I come back from that and then you go out again the next night and the same thing happens and you keep doing this over and over and over again.

You know, we're coming back from that first boarding and it's daylight by this point.

And the HMS Sydney, its flag was a skull and crossbones.

So pretty bad, the vibe, as in like they wanted to be the tough guys, the pirates in a way.

And as we're coming back, we do a big loop around the ship and they are bursting out, you know, across the loudspeakers, across the Persian Gulf, the song Bad to the Bone by George Thorogood.

And I'm just like, this is a movie, like, and I'm in it.