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Coast Guard Marine Case Summary

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1. Patrol Boats in the Coast Guard, specifically 87’ Coastal Patrol Boats (CPB’s) have remote geographic homeports which hinder adequate and appropriate support levels. Modernization of our support functions has centralized our supply, administrative support and inspection teams to larger ports. This centralization has caused time burdens on receiving parts, personnel support and maintenance assistance with our remotely located units. District Eight 87’ CPB’s should be pooled with other CPB’s and Coast Guard units to increase needed support and increase readiness. 2. The 87’ CPB, are in traditional home ports from there predecessor the 82’WPB. They are spread out throughout each sector in either a populated or remote area based on historical …show more content…

Political detractors will be present in this process as they always are when moving an asset and its crew from a community and congressional district. However the 87’ CPB fleet is currently dealing with these issues in the bow to stern program every four years through the Operating Facility Change Orders, OFCO, which are completed during the planning phase to notify congress and concerned parties. Additionally local critics have brought up facts of longer response times to these remote areas in times of need. The truth is that these 87’CPB’s rarely operate in these remote areas. Rather, they operate in the larger ports transiting in some cases up to 5 hours to their operational area. In all cases involvement with the public affairs office would have to happen very early in the process to ensure the proper message is developed. 6. District Eight currently has sixteen 87’ CPB’s, nine are co-located in four different ports, and seven are in remote locations. The pooling process would determine which locations are capable of supporting two 87’ CPB’s instead of one and shifting the cutter and crews to those ports. For instance the CGC PELICAN could move to CG Station Grand Isle, LA. The CGC STURGEON is currently home ported in Grand Isle which would give a smaller span of control for the Sector New Orleans to provide

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