USCGC John Scheuerman (WPC-1146) and USCGC Clarence Sutphin Jr. (WPC-1147) enroute PATFORSWA

A US Naval Forces Central Command news release reporting change of Command of Destroyer Squadron 50 included this little tidbit,

“Coles also built maintenance capacity in a highly dynamic environment when he enabled the U.S. Coast Guard’s Patrol Forces Southwest Asia to execute maintenance on all five of their fast-response cutters in a forward logistics location. This kept the FRC fleet 100 percent ready for tasking.”

PATFORSWA has six FRCs, but maybe only five needed maintenance. Anyway, nice to know they can be maintained in theater rather than having to be rotated out. Not too surprising considering the older Island class cutters were also maintained in theater.