Posted on 11/06/2023 9:55:04 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Recruitment and retention challenges have led the U.S. Coast Guard into a system-wide service retreat. A 3500-person shortfall—a nearly 10% shortage in the enlisted ranks—is forcing the Coast Guard to take ten cutters out of service, transfer five tugs to seasonal activation, and shutter 29 boat stations.
The moves, couched as a bland “AY 24 Force Alignment Initiative”, present an unprecedented loss of maritime capability at a time when the United States is facing an array of complex challenges at sea. But the Coast Guard simply “cannot maintain the same level of operations” going forward. Behind the scenes, the service is using the crisis to advance an array of modern management and personnel initiatives to help bring more people into the Coast Guard—and keep them there.
The cuts, coming as the Coast Guard has, according to Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Fagan, “never been in greater demand around the world,” will hurt, but leaders were quick to assure the realignment will not cause a decay in existing Search and Rescue capabilities. But, at a minimum, the Coast Guard’s retreat does reduce redundancy and raises risk.
The cuts will roil the enforcement of America’s maritime border, opening new and dangerous opportunities for migrants, drug smugglers and criminal networks.
The Coast Guard’s emergency service drawdown, however painful, is necessary. The Coast Guard’s underfunded and overworked force of 57,000 active duty and reserve personnel have been stretched thin for a long, long time. But Fagan’s decisive action, coming just days after the Coast Guard was boxed out of a $100 billion funding supplemental for security and the border, is more than just a prudent effort to redirect Coast Guard personnel towards 1700 mission-critical billets. It is a cry for help.
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And now, collapsing of our maritime borders.
Why even pretend to be a “country”?
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I don’t think many Americans want to be the Coast Guard’s new Eco-Warriors floating around counting penguins and Cola bears.
I just watched a Scottish Comedian saying when he was swimming in the ocean with plastic trash hitting him in the back of his head, it occurred to him that they need to make plastic heaver so that it would sink to the bottom of the ocean.
Looking more and more like the fall of the Soviet Union every moment of every day
My nephew is in the Coast Guard, and says it’s affecting the way they can respond to emergencies.
Shows how many people want to be in the U.S. military under Mr. Potato Head as CIC and Austen/Milley.
People may not want to be in ships with all of the wokeness in the military services.
Patriots need to be home, not in ships promoting the trans life-style.
$2 trillion annual deficit, $34 trillion debt, so what do we cut? Protecting our border, naturally. Our goose is cooked
“...according to Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Fagan”
At least they quickly get to the rut of the problem (a little Rush Limbaugh lingo there).
the folks are getting out al because of uncle joe.
Lack of people willing to associate with requirements of President B. Hussein Obama and President[s] Joseph [Stalin, Lenin, Mao, ‘Jim’ Acosta, Panetta, Podesta, Blumenthal, Clinton, Harris . . . ] Biden, tha
ALL MUST OBEY and TOLERATE:
- homosexuals
- transvestites
- women in combat and command
“...using the crisis to advance...”
Wouldn’t want to let it go to waste.
Oh, sure. Need to make political fodder and can’t find the funds to Build Back Better? Let’s totally revamp the Coast Guard. That should do it.
Like the 3% cut in Spec Op forces due to lack of meeting diversity quotas, is this the cause of CG’s problem aslo?
The CG is DHS, not military.
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