Warzone/The Drive: U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Enters The Tense Black Sea Highlighting The Service's Overseas Presence
The USCGC Hamilton is the first Coast Guard ship to enter the Black Sea in more than a decade.
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter has entered the Black Sea for the first time in 12 years, underscoring a resurgence in the significance of the service's presence around the world in recent years. The Legend class National Security Cutter USCGC Hamilton arrived in that important body of water less than a week after Russia claimed it had started to reverse course on a worrisome military buildup along its border with Ukraine. The flood of Russian forces into the region, starting in March, had prompted fears that a new crisis was imminent.
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