Newest Coast Guard icebreakers will be based in Seattle

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The newest class of Coast Guard icebreakers will be based in Puget Sound.

Three new Polar Security Cutters will call Seattle home port and replace an aging fleet in need of an upgrade.

For years, the Coast Guard operated two working icebreakers to cover the expanse of open ocean, sea ice, and shoreline near the North and South poles.

“Russia has 43 icebreakers, I believe, and the U.S. has one heavy icebreaker and one medium icebreaker right now to protect U.S. interests. That's a huge imbalance in power,” said Doug Russell, executive secretary of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System, an organization that coordinates research at sea.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/newest-coast-guard-icebreakers-will-be-based-in-seattle/ar-AAD6oly

[NeoGreen]

1. OMG...

...we must close the Ice Breaker Gap!!

After we close the Doomsday Gap.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

2. With all due respect,

The USCG has been underfunded in this effort for years and our ability to protect our own coastlines has been diminished due to the lack of the budgetary necessity of building ice breakers.

THIS is long-overdue.

[NeoGreen]

3. I agree, most non-military budget items have been systematically underfunded...

...and in my defense, I was only trying to lighten the mood a bit.

I guess I misjudged and posted in the wrong thread, my apologies.



tough crowd