Coast Guard Deploying More Ships To Pacific, Arctic
The Coast Guard ships are “not ballistic missile shooters,†Adm. Karl Schultz said, “but you know not every place that you need a ship needs to have that BMD capability.†What his ships can do is “free up shooters to be the key places they need to be."
By Paul McLeary on March 11, 2021 at 4:19 PM
The Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton
WASHINGTON: The Coast Guard is charting a path to be more engaged everywhere from the Middle East to the Arctic, dispatching attachés to embassies in Europe and the Indo-Pacific and sending more ships on long deployments to take some of the workload off the Navy.
Later this month, the National Security Cutter Hamilton will join two new Fast Response Cutters in the Mediterranean on their way to eventually replace the first of six small patrol boats operating with the 5th Fleet in the Middle East. The ships will first stick around Europe, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz said today, possibly pushing into the Black Sea to counter the expanding, and often aggressive, Russian presence there.
“I think the Coast Guard brings access, the Coast Guard brings a different look, the Coast Guard brings some unique complementary capabilities, and we made those services available to the EUCOM and AFRICOM staff,†he said.
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