After 45 years of service the Coast Guard decommissioned the Charleston-based Cutter Dallas on Friday, March 30, and now in another Charleston ceremony the ship will be transferred to the Philippine navy.
The 378-foot "High Endurance
Cutter" will be transferred at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 22, at the Federal
Law Enforcement Training Center Pier Papa in North Charleston.
The ceremony will be presided over by Rear Adm. John Korn, assistant commandant for Acquisition.
"Since
1967, Coast Guard Cutter Dallas has served the American people well,
from Vietnam and the Pacific to its final Coast Guard patrol in the
Mediterranean, where the crew interdicted 4,000 pounds of cocaine and
940 pounds of marijuana," said Korn. "As Dallas returns to the Southeast
Asian waters that it plied at the beginning of its Coast Guard career, I
know it will serve the Philippines as faithfully and capably as it
served America."
The 378-foot cutter's main role was drug interception.
During the final patrol, the crew of the Dallas interdicted
approximately 4,000 pounds of cocaine and 940 pounds of marijuana
during two separate cases while patrolling the Caribbean Sea.
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The Digitel Charleston | May 18, 2012 | Article Link
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