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Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?

hscs said:
This was already reported in other forums, believe it was USNI. The initiative has been in place for a while.
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Curious from your perspective, how does a ship's manning change if it goes into the yards long term, like for RCOH?
 
Brett327 said:
Curious from your perspective, how does a ship's manning change if it goes into the yards long term, like for RCOH?
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Per the 2014 OFRP signed out by Ray Mabus, non engineering rates go to 80-85% fill. It's also expected that the remaining personnel augment deployments.

Every DDG CO right now complains about manning and then 2 dozen non-quals show up a day before COMPTUEX to make a stoplight chart green for an Admiral.
 
Flash said:
A small bit of good news from the Coast Guard who has signed a contract with a Finnish company to construct Arctic Security Cutter icebreakers, with the first two being built in Finland with scheduled delivery by the end of 2028 and the rest (6, 7 or 11?) planned to be built here in the US. The cutters are based on an existing design and it doesn't appear there'll be a chance to make significant changes to the first two that would delay their delivery.

The contract is a direct benefit of the trilateral ICE Pact signed in 2024 by the US, Canada and Finland to cooperate on icebreaking shipbuilding capacity and to help counter Russian influence in the Arctic.

Shipbuilder's image of the Arctic Security Cutter:

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If you were following the Coastie's saga of arctic ships the last few years (not the most exciting subject but important none the less) the Arctic Security Cutters are a new ship that isn't replacing an existing ship or capability, they are a smaller ship than the 3 planned (and significantly delayed) Polar Security Cutters which are replacing the Coast Guard's two large icebreakers that have had all sorts of issues over the years.
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Bollinger cut steel on the first Arctic Security Cutter in April before the contract was even signed last week, with the first hull in the water by 2028 and all delivered by 2031 which for current US shipbuilding timelines for a new class of ships is pretty damn fast (let's hope they can stick to it).

In addition to that the Coast Guard has contracted with Davie Defense to build 5 more Arctic Security Cutters of a different design, bringing the total of ASC's to 11. Again, two of the ships will be built in Finland while the remaining three will be built in the US and again the first delivery is supposed to be in 2028 from the Finnish shipyard.

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Out of curiosity - and because this is Air Warriors, not Sea Ice Warriors - what kind of selection does USCG do to get Coastie pilots to fly in the arctic? Are they billets that any qualified Jayhawk driver can apply for?
 
number9 said:
Out of curiosity - and because this is Air Warriors, not Sea Ice Warriors - what kind of selection does USCG do to get Coastie pilots to fly in the arctic? Are they billets that any qualified Jayhawk driver can apply for?
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Not sure, but in the old days it was a job for Dolphin pilots.
 
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