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Rep. Peter King (R-NY) This week the Coast Guard shared with us its proposed budget request and its cutbacks for FY11 which made us sound like a very fiscally responsible organization as we were to request $75 million less then we did last year. Well, as expected, with the decommissioning of some of our MSST [...] Oh well- it happens. FORCECOM posted an update on their blog that the Coast Guard made a little mistake in noting the LT Thomas Shuler (as posted here) was the first USCG UAV pilot; however, CDR Tony Saliceti is the first pilot to qualify in a UAS Predator B for the Coast Guard, accomplishing this [...] A minimal but usable update on the state of the Coast Guard Unmanned Arial Vehicle program was presented over Sunday via Navytimes. Put simply- were moving in the right direction but at a seemingly slow and methodical pace (but I guess that’s better than the alternative thought). According to the piece we now have three [...] There seems to be a new unaffiliated Coast Guard oriented magazine in town. Some of you may have already found it sitting around the office, but yesterday I found the periodical laying on my desk: U.S. Coast Guard Forum (direct link to digital copy). What an interesting climate to start a new publication- economically speaking [...]
Click to enlarge **Note: This post was origionally writen for USNI on Thursday, 19 November 2009. Often hailed as the “Tupper-Wolf,” or perhaps the plastic hanger queen in some situations, the Coast Guard’s HH-65 Dolphin airframe has become a staple of the Coast Guard image. And today in 1984 we, as the USCG, became the proud [...] From iCommandant- |
        
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February 5th, 2010 | 
