U.S. Coast Guard Announces A New Superbase In Charleston, South Carolina

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U.S. Coast Guard Announces A New Superbase In Charleston, South Carolina
Craig Hooper
 

Twenty-four years after the Navy shuttered the sprawling Charleston Naval Base in South Carolina, a new navy is coming. 

The Commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Karl Schultz, identified Charleston as a “future Coast Guard operational center of gravity” in his annual State of the Coast Guard address Thursday. Charleston has “the potential to grow into the largest concentration of assets and people in the Coast Guard” in five years, Schultz said.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/craighooper/2020/02/20/us-coast-guard-announces-a-new-superbase-in-charleston-south-carolina/#6e306cb97e5b

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Makes sense to me.

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Coast Guard Looks to Consolidate, Add Ships in S. Carolina

U.S. News 2/21/2020

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/south-carolina/articles/2020-02-21/coast-guard-looks-to-consolidate-add-ships-in-s-carolina

The Coast Guard plans to consolidate its facilities across the South Carolina coast to an old naval shipyard near Charleston and plans to base national security vessels at the new site, Adm. Karl Schultz said.

The moves are linked with dredging of Charleston Harbor, which when competed in 2021 will make it the deepest harbor on the East Coast.

“This gives Charleston the potential to grow into the largest concentration of assets and people in the Coast Guard,” The Post and Courier of Charleston reported that Schultz said Thursday during his State of the Coast Guard address in Charleston.

The Coast Guard is looking to add three national security cutters to the two already stationed in Charleston and also place a group of offshore patrol cutters that may soon be built, Shultz said.

That could double the Coast Guard population in the area to about 2,000 people, Shultz said.

More at link.