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To: Jedi Master Pikachu; CWOJackson

There are 40. The most active is from Florida.

A while back, they had real bad hull problems, and grounded the lot of them. I doubt they'd have overcome that by now.

Hey CWO, which PB were you with?


14 posted on 03/08/2007 1:50:01 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance (RINO = Rudy Is Not Ours! Keep scrubbing, Rudy supporters, the blood won't come off.)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

It looks like it's the 123's (a modified 110' Island class boat) are what are grounded, not the 110's. My bad.


15 posted on 03/08/2007 1:54:54 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance (RINO = Rudy Is Not Ours! Keep scrubbing, Rudy supporters, the blood won't come off.)
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To: Fierce Allegiance
I was assigned to CGC POINT HIGHLAND, an 82 footer.

At the time I was actually station in Elizabeth City, NC. At that time the Coast Guard only had a small handful of their own EMT's; the school was still very new and had a 50% washout rate.

They pulled all of us they could and put us on the cutters and patrol boats. Talk about a baptism of fire.

As for the 110 cutters...they were pieces of dung when they were built and only intended to be a ten year stop-gap replacement. They're even worse now.

16 posted on 03/08/2007 1:59:34 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: Fierce Allegiance

I believe that the program is off the rails due to hull deformation problems - leading to shaft alignment troubles and concerns about stability and seaworthiness. The CG is taking a lot of heat over it.


17 posted on 03/08/2007 2:09:15 PM PST by SargeK
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