Screen grab from Google Earth
Army Recognition’s Navy News reports,
On April 9, 2025, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Ministry of Public Security of the Republic of Panama and the Department of Defense of the United States of America. The document establishes a framework for cooperative security activities in Panama and formalizes mutual understandings related to the presence and operations of U.S. personnel and contractors in specific Panamanian installations. The memorandum enters into effect on the date of the last signature and is valid for an initial period of three years, renewable for additional three-year terms. Either party may terminate the agreement by written notice with six months’ advance notice.
This might be good news for Coast Guard drug interdiction efforts. FRCs could rotate into and operate out of the naval base on the Pacific side of Panama.
Long term the Coast Guard probably should seek to replicate PATFORSWA somewhere on the Pacific coast of Central and South America from Costa Rica to Ecuador.
Related: What About Panama?
Chuck Hill's CG Blog 
I wonder if this means that the USCG should ask Congress to fund more FRC’s and more OPC”s and NSC’s
Now might be the best time we are going to get to ask for Cutter X or at least a patrol boat with a little more endurance.
Hopefully if they would be reading now, they have been reading all along
I am planning to publish an agenda if they really want a “more agile, capable, and responsive fighting force.”
It might be a good time to fund more FRC’s and fast track the OPC and even build more NSC’s to cover Hawaii, Guam, and American Samoa