A U.S. Coast Guard boat crew and boarding team from U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Oliver Berry (WPC 1124) approaches a foreign fishing vessel to conduct a joint boarding inspection with members of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission on the high seas in Oceania, Sept. 22, 2024. U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Oliver Berry’s crew recently completed a 45-day patrol in Oceania in support of Operation Blue Pacific, promoting security, safety, sovereignty, and economic prosperity in the region.
The Coast Guard will double its Guam fleet to six cutters but doesn’t plan to accompany the Philippine coast guard as it struggles to maintain territorial claims in the South China Sea, the service’s Pacific-area commander said Friday.
This is based on a video news conference by Pacific Area Commander Vice Adm. Andrew Tiongson speaking from Japan.
“The Coast Guard will not escort Philippine resupply missions to the BRP Sierra Madre, a grounded warship garrisoned by Filipino troops at the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea, according to Tiongson.”
The Philippines has not asked for escorts, Tiongson said. “We do advise, and we do assist,” he said. “We provide what we would do in this situation.”
He also said, “It’s possible we may get another Indo-Pacific support cutter,” using the description applied to USCGC Harriet Lane, recently arrived in the Pacific Area to support operations in the Western Pacific.
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Hafa Adai Coasties. I highly recommend the Chicken Kelaguen a tasty treat available everywhere, even gas stations. Also there is a fiesta year round in the many villages around the island. You will also learn that GUAM stands for Give Up And Masturbate. Adio!!
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Chuck First thing I love the daily emails on what happen that day, a great Idea. On the below email, per the email release about Oliver Berry return to Hawaii. Seems it lookslike they (CGD14) going to start using all 6 FRC’s (3 in Hawaii and 3 in Guam) on a rotation basis on deployment instead just using the 3 FRC’s from Guam and wearing those 3 out before the 3 new FRC’s arrive on Guam. Just my thought on it, I think it is great that the USCG is getting more involved in MIDPAC, WESTPACoperations. Any thoughts on the USCGC HEALY going back on patrol in Arctic area. Thanks Paul
@Paul,
Glad to see that Healy will be able to salvage some of the work intended for this year, but sounds like she is not yet fully repaired in that she will stay out of ice covered waters. Still, the work she will be doing needs to be done, probably more than soundings North of Russia.
D14 has already sent some of their FRCs on distant missions but quite logically they went South toward Samoa.
The first of the three Guam based ships has gone to Hawaii to be drydocked.