Below is an Acquisitions Directorate (CG-9) report.
This will mean 20 FRCs are stationed in District SE.
WPCs 1162 and 1163, already accepted but not yet commissioned, will be going to Guam raising the total there to six and the total for District Oceania to nine.
Originally six WPCs 1113 to 1118 were based in Puerto Rico but apparently there have some changes to homeports.
Coast Guard accepts 64th fast response cutter, Marvin Perrett
Each FRC is named after an enlisted Coast Guard hero who performed extraordinary service in the line of duty. Marvin Perrett served in the Coast Guard during World War II aboard a Higgins boat as a landing craft, vehicle, personnel coxswain. He took part in the invasions of Normandy, southern France, Okinawa and Iwo Jima.
Perrett enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1942, one day before his 18th birthday. After boot camp in St. Augustine, Florida, and landing craft training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, he became a certified Higgins boat coxswain and reported aboard the USS Bayfield, a Coast Guard-manned Navy troopship.
In recognition of his World War II service, Perrett received numerous awards for naval campaigns in the European and Pacific theaters. He was also inducted into the French Legion of Honor with the rank of chevalier. After the war, he became a prominent advocate for educating Americans about the Coast Guard’s role in World War II. He later received the Coast Guard Distinguished Public Service Award and the Pentagon’s Spirit of Hope Award. Perrett died in 2007.
Sixty-one FRCs are in service: 14 in Florida; six each in Alaska, Western Pacific and Massachusetts; five in Puerto Rico; four each in California and Guam; three each in Hawaii, Texas, Mississippi and New Jersey; and two each in North Carolina and Oregon.
