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Congress Finally Funds New Icebreaker for Coast Guard
20 Feb 2019
Military.com | By Richard Sisk
The bill that avoided a second government shutdown finally provided the $655 million for a badly needed new icebreaker for the Coast Guard and $20 million more for start of construction on a second one.
"This is big, this is real, this is the largest single financial contribution to execution of our nation's Arctic strategy," Sen Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said last week.
https://www.military.com/dodbuzz/2019/02/20/congress-finally-funds-new-icebreaker-coast-guard.html (https://www.military.com/dodbuzz/2019/02/20/congress-finally-funds-new-icebreaker-coast-guard.html)