A 39-foot landing craft type boat belonging to New York State Naval Militia’s Emergency Boat Service came up the North River Wednesday morning on a trip up from Glenwood Landing Marina on Hempstead Bay on the North Shore of Long Island, looped around and returned to the marina where I think it is based. The Naval Militia is similar to a national guard force but is funded under different federal legislation and is 95% staffed by reservists from the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. In the past we have mainly seen these boats upriver near Indian Point, but seem to be seeing them more recently on the North River as well. Their duties include port security, support for law enforcement, and emergency response.