Translation examples
In order to protect his informants, credit for the arrest would go to the coasties, which didn't exactly displease the quartermaster or the warrant officer.
Para proteger a sus informadores, la Guardia Costera se atribuiría los méritos de la detención, lo cual no desagradaba al cabo ni al oficial.
He was dressed in casual clothes, and might have easily been mistaken for a coastie with the required orange life jacket.
Iba vestido de paisano, y como llevaba el salvavidas naranja reglamentario cualquiera lo habría podido tomar por un hombre de la Guardia Costera.
He didn't even watch the coasties cuffing the suspects, reading them their constitutional rights from the plastic-coated card, smiling as they did so, since for them this was a very entertaining game.
Ni siquiera miró a los de la Guardia Costera mientras esposaban a los sospechosos y les leían sus derechos, sonriendo mientras lo hacían, pues para ellos aquello era un juego muy entretenido.
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