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Michael H. Standart
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Post Number: 30716
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Friday, October 2, 2009 - 7:12 am: | 
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From The Navy Times:
Icebreaker Healy returns to Seattle from Arctic
Brief story at http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/ap_icebreaker_healey_returns_100109/
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
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Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 30745
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Saturday, October 3, 2009 - 4:20 am: |
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From The Navy Times:
NSC Waesche finishes acceptance trials
quote:The Coast Guard’s second-in-class national security cutter, Waesche, finished four days of acceptance trials Thursday with no major problems, according to the Coast Guard.
More at http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/coastguard_waesche_100209w/
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
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Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 30805
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 7:45 am: |
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From The Navy Times:
Coast Guard cutter seizes $1.6M in marijuana
quote:The crew of the medium-endurance cutter Venturous seized 2,500 pounds of marijuana during its recent 54-day patrol in the Caribbean Sea worth an estimated $1.6 million, according to the Coast Guard.
The haul was the service’s first big bust for the fiscal year that began Thursday.
More at http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/coastguard_marijuana_100509w/
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
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Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 31042
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Saturday, October 17, 2009 - 7:27 am: |
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From Your Industry News:
Todd Shipyards Corporation Announces U.S. Coast Guard Exercise of Option on Dry-Docking and Overhaul Of USCGC Healy (WAGB-20)
quote:Todd Shipyards Corporation (NYSE:TOD) announced today that the U.S. Coast Guard has awarded to its wholly owned subsidiary, Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation ("Todd Pacific"), a $12.5 million modification to previously awarded contract HSCG85-05-C-625306 in support of repairs and alterations performed during the triennial Dry-Docking Planned Maintenance Availability ("DPMA") of the icebreaker USCGC Healy (WAGB-20).
More at http://www.yourindustrynews.com/todd+shipyards+corporation+announces+u.s.+coast+guard+exercise+of+option+on+dry-docking+and+overhaul+of+uscgc+healy+%2 8wagb-20%29_40175.html
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
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Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 31248
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Monday, October 26, 2009 - 4:50 am: |
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From Defence News.com:
InSurv Passes National Security Cutter Waesche
quote:The U.S. Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey recommended that the Coast Guard accept its second-in-class National Security Cutter.
More at http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4338487&c=SEA&s=TOP
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
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Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 31329
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 6:50 am: |
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From The Navy Times:
CG: Sept. 11 training ‘ill-advised’
quote:A Coast Guard training exercise held on Sept. 11 was “ill-advised” on a day when Washingtonians were commemorating the loss of Pentagon employees in a terrorist attack eight years earlier, Vice Adm. R.J. Papp Jr. said in a report released Tuesday.
More at http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/coastguard_911training_102709w/
Comment: "Ill advised" they say. No kidding!!!
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
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Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 31455
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 5:02 am: |
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From The Navy Times:
Few details yet on deadly mid-air collision
quote:As the Coast Guard plans a Friday memorial service, officials are offering few details on the possible causes for a mid-air collision between the service’s C-130 Hercules transport plane and a Marine Corps AH-1W Super Cobra off the coast of California that killed nine service members.
The Cobra was flying in formation with another Cobra helicopter and two transports on a nighttime training mission Friday when the accident happened. Another pilot saw the aircraft collide in a fireball.
More at http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/11/coastguard_crash_110309w/
Comment: Sam Halpern should appriciate this one. The article notes that pilots should keep their heads on a swivel in order to make sure that the flight is uneventful.
Somebody didn't do that.
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
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Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 31573
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Monday, November 9, 2009 - 6:38 am: |
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From The Navy Times:
Coast Guard takes delivery of cutter Waesche
quote:PASCAGOULA, Miss. — The Coast Guard has taken delivery of the second in a new class of cutters built by Northrop Grumman Corp.
More at http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/11/ap_coastguard_cutter_waesche_110809/
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
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Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 31610
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 2:59 am: |
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From The Navy Times:
New Coast Guard ship gets good notices
quote:The Coast Guard’s top weapon buyer lauded shipbuilders Tuesday for the job done on the second National Security Cutter, delivered last week from Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding.
More at http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/11/nt_coastiecutter_111009/
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
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Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 31697
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 5:41 am: |
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From The Navy Times:
CG not yet set on which cutters to decom
quote:The Coast Guard’s aging fleet of high endurance cutters is in such bad shape that officials can’t choose which ships to retire first as their replacements enter service.
More at http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/11/navy_cg_cutters_111309w/
Note to Coast Gaurd: Make a decision and make it happen, preferably before one of these vessels sinks and settles the question for you.
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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