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Coast Guard
USCG Seaman Recruit
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Maritime Safety and Security Team (MSST)
The Coast Guard has developed a maritime homeland security strategy that incorporates our core competencies into a layered operation that will push our maritime borders outward, and detect, deter, disrupt and intercept terrorist threats across the maritime domain as well as ensure the protection of maritime infrastructure from within. This strategy recognizes that terrorism can strike from within our nation or from outside our territorial boundaries. The Coast Guard is preparing to counter both ... [Read More]
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Senior Member
Sr. Infantrymen General
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The United States Coast Guard answered the country’s call to arms during the Korean W
Twenty-two United States Coast Guard cutters served in the theater of operations during the Korean War.
The United States Coast Guard answered the country’s call to arms during the Korean War just as it had during other American conflicts. Indeed, the Coast Guard’s presence in Korea began soon after the end of the Second World War when a Coast Guard Advisory detachment assisted in the development and training of the Korean Coast Guard, which eventually became the Navy of the Republic ... [Read More]
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Senior Member
Sr. Infantrymen General
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CoastieDrummer
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378-foot High Endurance Cutter (WHEC)
378-foot High Endurance Cutter (WHEC)
Description and Specifications
The 378-foot High Endurance Cutter class are the largest cutters, aside from the three major Icebreakers, ever built for the Coast Guard. They are powered by diesel engines and gas turbines, and have controllable-pitch propellers. Equipped with a helicopter flight deck, retractable hangar, and the facilities to support helicopter deployment, these 12 cutters were introduced to the Coast Guard invent... [Read More]
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11-09-2005 06:42 PM
