Coast Guard should be guarding OUR coast.
There is a lot more to this deployment than meets the eye.
I was going to say WTF...that’s what the Navy is for! Bring the Coasties home where they freaking belong!
When we were in the western pacific with the Ocean Station program, there was a definite need for services related to navigation, search and rescue, and weather prediction, especially with the increasing long distance passenger air travel.
While there may be a need for local navigation help (buoy tenders) and rescue assistance (small patrol boats) for US islands there, there is not a need for large scale high and medium range cutters in the far western pacific. I agree with others who say that those large assets belong much closer to US waters.
They are - we have several US territories there. US citizens.