Document: Coast Guard Cutter Procurement
The following is from the July, 3 2013 Congressional Research Service report, Coast Guard Cutter Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress. This…
Document: Coast Guard 2013 Arctic Strategy
From the executive summary of the United States Coast Guard’s Arctic Strategy released on May, 21 2013: As arctic ice…
Report: Changes in the Arctic
From the March 28, 2013 Congressional Research Service report: The diminishment of Arctic sea ice has led to increased human activities…
Low Cost Ship Options for U.S. Navy’s Drug War
The U.S. Navy is examining low-cost high-speed ships to replace aging surface ships in U.S. Southern Command’s fight against drug…
Memo: Coast Guard to Cut Operations by 21 percent
The Coast Guard plans to reduce surface and air operations by 21 percent and defer depot level maintenance due to…
Papp: Coast Guard to Preserve Workforce in Face of Cuts
The U.S. Coast Guard will attempt to preserve its workforce in the face of wide-ranging budget cuts, Commandant Admiral Robert…
USCG’s Adm. Papp on Arctic Operations and Caribbean Drug Runners
Even as the Coast Guard gets a grip on the Arctic, drug smugglers in the eastern Pacific are slipping through…
Combat Fleets: USS Enterprise
Proceedings, December 2012 In early November the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) returned home to Norfolk, Virginia, to prepare for her December…
At Sea in the Great War: A Coast Guardsman’s Letters Home
You may send my new camera to me, without the tripod, as I am allowed to use it.” So wrote…