This ship looks really nice. But what does it do?

>>31914887
floats on water, nigga

>>31914887
It guards the coast

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>>31914904
>>31914905

What's inside the box?

>>31914887
they spelled gaurd wrong

>>31914917
Another box, friendo

>>31914887
Primarily search and rescue, anti-smuggling operations, updating and maintaining charts. buoys and navigation aids and killing Deep Ones.

>>31914975
>killing Deep Ones.

Nobody likes to remember all those lives lost to Dagon in the 20's.

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>>31914939

Seriously though, what is all this crap.

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>>31914887
Interdictions and boarding, rescue, mapping, casual ASW, fleet week.

>>31915012
Left and mid are smokestacks, right are deflector shield projectors

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>>31915021

>Interdictions

Interdictions?

>>31914917
IIRC, survival suits and lifeboats.

>>31915012
Line handling shit, for emergency towing

>>31915057

Survival Suits?

>>31915040
that was supposed to be a joke about

>interdicktions

during fleet week but I managed to fuck up the spelling anyway. Ah well.

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>tfw I was stationed on the Stratton

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>>31915165
>You came to the wrong neighborhood, LT.

>>31915279
>Poor fucker that has to wear the one with JUMBO on the front.

If anything could get you to stick to a diet, that would be it.

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>>31914917

p6 pump

>>31915012

The two left ones look like part of the anchor hoisting mechanisms.

No idea about the rest.

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>>31914887

If that ship fought an LCS, who would win?

>>31915500
LCS can carry anti-ship missiles, so...

>>31915536

The other ship could carry the same missiles just as easily.

>>31915547
Except it doesn't.

>>31915500
>>31915536

The LCS could also drop Mako's on a cutter from the helicopter. The SAM outfit would allow it to keep the cutter from doing the same things, assuming the cutter had loaded LW torpedoes in any case, given they aren't standard equipment.

>>31914887
It's the Coast Guard so they probably just sit around in port in Puerto Rico or AK and give each other handjobs while secretly wishing they joined a real branch

>>31914887
Deploys to the Gulf or Horn of Africa and do anti-Piracy stuff.

>>31915500
could we give these to the coastguard since they are kinda shit

>>31915573
And neither does the LCS.

>>31916282
rekt

>>31914887
It carries 1 (one) helicopter!

>>31914887
why is the water one the upper left side photoshoped?

>>31916777
What a waste of trips for someone to not understand how currents work.

>>31914887
>This ship looks really nice. But what does it do?
This ship kills Colombians.

>>31915323
nope. he's gone too far to turn back now. his only chance is to own that shit.

>>31916871
mother nature doesn't do straight lines.
>>31916777
probably the shore line. it'd be really easy to just sail the boat out a few hundred yards and take the picture. just photoshop the unwanted material out later.

>>31915500

Honestly, the LCS does look more like a coast guard vessel than a frigate.

>>31914887
Is cuts

>>31915500
>The LCS is docked at port for repairs
>Coast guard ship opens fire liberally
It wouldn't be much of a fight really...

>>31914887
Why did you photoshoped the top left corner ?

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>>31918569
Is that round two, after the LCS lost round one to a tugboat?

Any current or former Coast Guard in this thread? It seems to be the least talked about branch, while they're actually keeping the coasts safe while everyone else is busy bombing sandniggers. What's it like to be in the CG?

>>31915012
All of that is related to anchoring. Behind those shields are the controls for the capstan, brake, and likely a chain lock of some sort.

You can't really see but the anchor chain is coming out of one hole (chain locker), then going around the capstan which hoists and lowers the anchor, and down the hawse pipe where the anchor actually is.

>>31914887
Trumps deportation express.

>>31915536
Not yet (if ever)

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>>31919802

I have to work every weekend and holiday and it's gay. I want to get out to pursue a career in ecology.

t. angry gunners mate

>>31914887
It contains plenty of observation equipment, supports a crew for a rather lengthy deployment, defends itself and potential others, maintains facilities for refueling of a helicopter, or for secure drop off of those rescued, easily removes Cuban and Somalian.

>>31921449

How far out does the coast guard actually operate? I remember reading a story a while ago where a Navy jet flew past an island somewhere in the Pacific and the pilot happened to notice that the word "HELP" was written out on beach. They sent a coast guard vessel to investigate and found a group of men who'd been stranded there for a week or so.

>>31921506

literally the entire world depending on how big the cutter is.

>>31921524

Then what's the point of even having the Coast Guard and the Navy as separate organizations?

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>>31919802
lol coasties

>>31919802
Former Coast Guard here, it was cool, I personally got to work with every branch, which gave me a cool perspective of how the other branches operate. If your looking to do LE type ops, the USCG maybe for you. If your looking to fuck up camel jockies, I would consider another branch.

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>>31914923

>>31921764
Also forgot to add, I was a Boatswain Mate

>>31915032
>smokestacks
You mean bollards.

>>31915246
was it good?

>>31921839
>bollards
You mean Bitts.

>>31921707
Coast Guard does what most other countries navies do, but with better equipment and seamanship. The USN is for super-power stuff like launching tomahawks at uppity Jihadists and trolling the Chinese in the South China Sea.

>>31921707
Similar reason why we have the natinal guard and the army. One is for kicking foreign ass, the other is to help and protect whats at home.

>>31922021
Not to mention sailing in formation for fancy photo shoots.

>>31921506
CG has sent me to Antarctica, Alaska, on 2 circumnavigations of South America, Australia, Japan, and all over the south pacific.

>>31921707
Biggest difference is LE missions and capabilities. CG can board foreign flagged vessels without it being considered an act of war.

>>31914887
Why is it driving in a zig zag?

>>31924340

This seems like the "true" answer in my opinion.

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>>31924438

>driving

>>31915323
watching fat guys try to swim in an immersion suit is one of the great joys of survival/bst.

gumby suits are extremely buoyant and even normal sized people have a hard time swimming in them because of how your center of buoyancy changes.

these poor bastards wind up looking like turtles that feel backward into a tray of ball bearings

>>31924340
and civ vessels without a warant AND without violating posse comitatus

>>31924438
Captain almost spilled his coffee, but overcorrected, etc.

>>31914887
It goes on six week "deployments" and gets tons of media attention when it returns.

Yes I'm in the Navy and yes I'm mad.