http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/05/navy-coast-guard-cutters-rebuild-budget-050512/ “We are moving way too slow” on modernizing the fleet, Commandant Adm. Bob Papp said in an April 16 discussion at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space symposium outside Washington, D.C. The new cutters are designed for high-priority missions such as drug interdiction, intercepting foreign ships in U.S. waters, and search-and-rescue operations. Without those ships, the [...]

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