USCG Pacific Area Command
USCG Pacific Area Command
Posted on Aug 17, 2019
Meet the neglected 43-year-old stepchild of the US military industrial complex
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Interesting read detailing the current status and life on board the USCGC POLAR STAR (WAGB-10). The only operational Heavy Icebreaker in the U.S. Fleet.
Meet the neglected 43-year-old stepchild of the US military industrial complex
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McMurdo Station
Antarctica
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One of the vet groups I go to often discuss the whole effort for a new USCG icebreaker over the past few months....
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Capt Daniel Goodman
I read it...it was as bad as they'd all yakked about of late at that group...that's obv a prretty abysmally sad, woeful commentary, clearly...I can also perceive why they've been talking about getting a new one, though the international competition quite clearly would seem to leave even that virtually in the dust, evidently....
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