Bertholf, Waesche, and Stratton are spoken for. What names do you recommend for the remaining five National Security Cutters?
For starters, I recommend a new Munro to replace the one. What say you gentle readers?
Name That WMSL
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July 22, 2008 at 10:29
Jim,
The Coast Guard has a formal process for naming CG cutters. There is actually a naming board established. It’s my belief that the names of all 8 planned NSCs have already been determined by the board and approved by the Commandant. The only question now is in what order each of the remainning NSCs will be named.
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Cutter Transparency
Cutter Honor
Cutter Respect
Cutter Devotion
and
Cutter Duty
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How about the “Nathan Bruckenthal”
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In addition to PO3 Bruckenthal, I would propose
LCDR Quentin Walsh WW2 Navy Cross Winner. As a the leader of a combined US forces unit, convinced the German Garrision Commander in a fort at Cherbourg France to surrender, and rescued 50 captured American paratroopers.and
BMC Richard Paterson, Vietnam, Saved crew of CGC PT. WELCOME, after cutter was attacked in a friendly fire incident in 1966.
Two Crewmen, the Cutter CO and and engineer were killed. His ship handling and commd skilles prevented futher damage to the cutter and injuries to the crew and a civilian photographer Tim Page, who in repayment of his life accused the crew of stealing his watch. It was later found on deck and returned. Paige to this day has retracted his lies.Hawk
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Too bad the names are already taken. I love some of these suggestions. I’m even more in favor of the suggestion on another post of scrapping the rest of the NSC, increasing the number of OPCs, and building ice breakers. We can name the ice breakers some of these great suggestions.
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RE: Icebreakers
IF the hulls on the two Polar class are still in good shape?How About we reengine the one that is in caretaker status now. That adds one that we didn’t have, within a short time.
Then reengine her sister, bring them both up to today’s standard.
RE ARM the SHIPS. ARM CGC HEALY.
Then build new hulls, Nuclear if possible. DRAG THE US FLEET INTO THE 21st Century.
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To my earlier comments concerning Tim Page.
The correct spelling of his name was Tim Page, not Paige as I had typed.
Secondly, Tim Page has never to this day recanted his claim that crew members of PT. Welcome stole his watch, even after it was returned to him, having been found on the deck, after the attack. His comments that the Pt. Welcome, was a ill maintained, CG version of shrimp trawler were not and still not well received, by CG Vietmnam Vets.
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I like this from Wikipedia:
Captain Frederick Lee
“On October 11, 1814, the Revenue Cutter Eagle encountered the much larger British brigantine Dispatch which was guarding the Suzan, a captured American merchant ship. The Eagle was badly outgunned by the Dispatch and Captain Frederick Lee beached the Eagle on Long Island to avoid being sunk. Not yet defeated, the Revenue Cutter seamen dragged the guns from the Eagle and set them up on a 160-foot bluff and continued firing at the Dispatch. When the Americans ran out of cannonballs, they did not surrender, and instead retrieved the cannonballs fired at them by the Dispatch and shot them back at the British. Even after being forced to use the ship’s logbook for wadding, the crew of the Eagle fought on until finally overwhelmed and captured by the British.”
Gotta love using the British cannonballs and the log book for wadding…. very Coast Guard!
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…and look, there was a Cutter Lee: http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/FrederickLee1927.html
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What about using the old perry class frigates that the navy is not using to fill the void.
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It should be called the USCG Cutter DeKort
It will be the first Coast Guard Cutter that can cut though the bullshit and red tape.
Keep up the good work Mike, we appreciate your efforts. You are making a difference.
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Cutter Stinson – a legendary CG blogger
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Legend in his own mind, perhaps.
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“COST OVERRUN”
“LOCKHEED UNITED”
“BILLION DOLLAR BABY’
“TITANIC MISTAKE”-
CGC WASTE
CGC FRAUD
CGC ABUSE
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