The Bush Administration's budget presentation for 2003 explains, "Foreign Military Financing (FMF) funds will be used to support coastal patrol boats used in the counter-drug operations and illegal migrant interdiction efforts. FMF also will be used to provide tactical communications that will facilitate coordination of the military's natural disaster response efforts." [1]

Sources:

¹ United States, Department of State, FY 2003 Congressional Budget Justification for Foreign Operations (Washington, DC: April 15, 2002) <http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/9476.pdf>.