By: Julianne Simpson, SIGNAL Magazine
“The U.S. Coast Guard announced the service’s sixth national security cutter, Munro, will be commissioned April 1, 2017, at the Smith Cove Terminal in Seattle.
The cutter will be home ported in Alameda, California, and is named after Signalman First Class Douglas A. Munro, the Coast Guard’s only Medal of Honor recipient.”
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By: Sam Lagrone, USNI News
NEWPORT, R.I. — “The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard said the service is prepared for a possible protest of last week’s offshore patrol cutter award, he told USNI News on Wednesday.
While not saying if the service was expecting the losers in last week’s OPC contract award to submit a protest, Adm. Paul Zukunft said the service would be ready justify its choice of Florida yard, Eastern Shipbuilding.”
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