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I only say “pseudo” as the SPC is a Navy owned and Coast Guard operated vessel to be used by the Coast Guard’s Maritime Force Protection Units (MFPU… say it like MIF-POO and you won’t be look upon too keenly). So the news of the afternoon is if you’re working in the area of our [...] So, I’m here in an empty living room, sitting in a folding camping chair and waiting on the delivery of furniture from my HHG move. It would have been here by now, but the driver is 3 days late and the company won’t return my calls. Anyway. In my boredom I came across an article [...] Though I’m not a Cutter guy this is still pretty cool. In a press released put out this afternoon we’re told that first lady Michelle Obama will be sponsoring the Coast Guard Cutter STRATTON, the third National Security Cutter; fitting as she’s (the Cutter) “…named after one of the most extraordinary women to serve our [...] Yesterday was an interesting day on Capitol Hill. Aside from the fact that former Governor Palin is still a hot topic and Senator Franken is now, well, a Senator, there were some money matters to be hashed out with the Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, [...] The February issue of Delivering the Goods (link at bottom) came about my RSS reader yesterday with a few items of interest. As this is a newsletter for CG-9, the Coast Guard’s Acquisition Directorate, it no doubt covers items of Deepwater and associated projects. Most of us are well aware the CG now has its [...] Accelerating the Deepwater program and building a larger fleet of National Security Cutters were the focus of my questions to RADM Gary T. Blore, USCG, during a recent DOD Bloggers Roundtable. Dating back to my days on Capitol Hill, I have felt that 25 years was way too long to modernize our Coast Guard. [...] USCGS Dallas in GeorgiaOriginally uploaded by PRI’s The World CGDeepwater-headerOriginally uploaded by Tidewater Muse James M. Atkinson, President and Senior Engineer of Granite Island Group, a company which specializes in electronics engineering and assuring the protection of classified, confidential, privileged, or private information against technical attack, eavesdropping, or exploitation., provided us with a guest post for publication. Seems, Coast Guard Report beat us to the punch, and you [...] Commandant (CG-92) |
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