Posted on Nov 22, 2024
Coast Guard Set to Receive New Icebreaker by Year's End, Bolstering US Presence in Arctic
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A commercial icebreaker will join the Coast Guard's fleet by the end of the year, officials told lawmakers during a House subcommittee hearing Thursday on U.S. efforts to expand presence in the Arctic.
The Aiviq, an oil exploration support vessel that has worked in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, is currently in Pascagoula, Mississippi, where it is being adapted for Coast Guard use. According to Vice Adm. Thomas Allan, the Coast Guard's deputy commandant for mission support, its hull is now "a quarter Coast Guard icebreaker red" and the service has plans to take it out to determine what "capabilities it has."
The Aiviq, an oil exploration support vessel that has worked in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, is currently in Pascagoula, Mississippi, where it is being adapted for Coast Guard use. According to Vice Adm. Thomas Allan, the Coast Guard's deputy commandant for mission support, its hull is now "a quarter Coast Guard icebreaker red" and the service has plans to take it out to determine what "capabilities it has."
Coast Guard Set to Receive New Icebreaker by Year's End, Bolstering US Presence in Arctic
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I love these ships. Anything that breaks stuff is my favorite thing to watch.. I don't care if it's crushing ice, or submarines.
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We need some purpose-built new icebreakers, although this one will do as a temporary stand-in vessel. Here in SE Virginia, we're being warned to expect several fewer vessels to remain active in the U.S. Navy fleet, especially in Supply and Support vessels, which are already way too few. The primary reason the destroyer USS Cole was attacked in port in Yemen was because we don't have enough support and supply ships to support the fleet at sea. Now the problem of a shrinking fleet is because there aren't enough sailors to man the existing fleet. This while the Chinese Navy is growing by leaps and bounds.
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A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney
Wouldn't It Be FAR Less Expensive To Bring In About 10,000 People On A 13 Month Assignment ~~ And Hand Each One An Ice-Pick? ~Then When The Job Was Completed They Could Depart In Large Canoes, With Briggs & Stratton Out-Board Motors?
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Amn Roger Omberg
I was trying to think of the COLE today, because I happened to remember the bombing of the COLE, & the 17 sailors who were kia on board, that was CLINTONS fault, Nov 1989, that inspired OSAMA BIN LAUDEN TO GIVE the green light to 9/11!
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