Petty US Involvement in Russia-Georgia Conflict
You might be interested in knowing that what the media has reported as a “military ship” is one of the retiring cutters of the US Coast Guard according to this report on Military.com back in 2003 as part of this National Fleet Concept.
The National Fleet concept, signed in 1998 and revalidated in 2001, speaks directly to Coast Guard-Navy integration. It is a cornerstone document that reaffirms the service’s expeditionary capability and the immediate need for a modernized fleet to replace ships such as the Dallas, commissioned in 1967.
Moreover, according to numerous reports on the Navy’s News site, the cutter Dallas has been running training operations in Africa! Russia sent a missile cruiser and two other ships in response to aid arriving on an outdated ship whose biggest action was capturing Saddam’s fugitives in the early days of the Iraq war.
All I gotta say is really Russia? A missile cruiser? Come on Putin & Co, what’s all this saber rattling really about? I mean, if this was the USS Dallas rather than the CG Cutter Dallas, maybe I’d understand.
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