Folks,
I have nothing but the highest admiration and respect for the men and women of the USCG.
It just seemed a little odd that they would travel to Antarctica...I don’t think they could get much further away from home than that. I always assumed, from their name, that they were more or less bound domestically.
They have pretty good visibility up here in Maine, rescuing fishing vessels or the crew, breaking up ice jams on our rivers in the spring etc.
Do they normally just use their icebreakers for opening up US ports and larger waterways, or do they frequently get deployed to foreign waters to deal with ice issues?