Posted on 04/28/2021 7:25:00 AM PDT by dynachrome
AU.S. Coast Guard cutter has entered the Black Sea for the first time in 12 years, underscoring a resurgence in the significance of the service's presence around the world in recent years. The Legend class National Security Cutter USCGC Hamilton arrived in that important body of water less than a week after Russia claimed it had started to reverse course on a worrisome military buildup along its border with Ukraine. The flood of Russian forces into the region, starting in March, had prompted fears that a new crisis was imminent.
Hamilton transited from the Mediterranean Sea into the Black Sea, by way of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits, on April 27. The ship left its homeport of North Charleston, South Carolina earlier this month and made its way across the Atlantic together with a pair of smaller Sentinel class fast response cutters, the USCGC Charles Moulthrope and USCGC Robert Goldman.
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Pushing the dialectic...
Not to defend our coast, that’s for sure.
Anyone else wondering why US Coast Guard vessels are being deployed in the hot spots of the Black Sea and the Persian Gulf? Would think that Navy frigates are better trained and suited for the assignments.
Why is a US Coast Guard cutter in the Black Sea?.............
What is the point of this?
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Put the bait out there to provoke a response.
The absurdity of WWIII starting over something like this boggles the mind. We are a nation run by reckless fools.
What is that demented old fool and criminal doing?
The US Coast Guard think they can take on the mighty Russian Navy in their own backyard?
Chuckle.
Another crazy, pathetic futile gesture from the demented old fool in DC.
They are picking up a ton of caviar for the Biden Crime Family 4th of July picnic................
One might also ask why does the “National Guard” deploy overseas?
Definitely is bizarre. Nearest US Coast is about 5000 miles away.
I guess they gave it to Coast Guard because of manpower and equipment shortage in the regular Navy?
This would be something like Russia sending a warship to patrol the Gulf of Mexico. Legal, but both unnecessary and provocative.
We don't have any Frigates.
Too bad, 'cause the Legend-class Cutter, although a great ship, is not suited for engagement in a modern conflict environment.
I guess they gave it to Coast Guard because of manpower and equipment shortage in the regular Navy?
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The U.S. Coast Guard operates under the Department of Homeland Security in PEACETIME. Why is no one in congress asking about this deployment?
The Coast Guard is supposed to support OUR shores.
What is going on here? This is CRAZY!
(Of course, I could be wrong)
I’ll make a bet that a dozen Russian naval vessels are in the Gulf of Mexico within six weeks.
I think we have had Coast Guard elements in the Persian Gulf for years now, as they had a lot of expertise in interdiction and searching.
I can only guess they are still there for reasons other than that now (Coast Guard leadership wants presence there for other than necessary reasons, officer advancement, budgetary, etc?)
“I’ll make a bet that a dozen Russian naval vessels are in the Gulf of Mexico within six weeks.”
They’ll have to be towed there
I was kinda wondering that myself.
Was the name of the cutter “Maine” or “Panay?”
I think the warmongers of the Biden administration are still trying to get a bunch of American service members killed in an effort to start a war.
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