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[NC_Skins]

That Coast Guard ship looks raggedy and that ASU helmet looks awesome!

[Alvin Walton]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

That Coast Guard ship looks raggedy and that ASU helmet looks awesome!

That ship is 44 years old and still going strong.
Unfortunately a lot of Coast Guard ships will show their rust easily because they are painted white.
This one is based in Charleston NC and is doing drug interdiction indefinitely in the Caribbean so I'm not surprised it looks a little tired.
Congress needs to replace the 378 footers asap.

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by Alvin Walton

That ship is 44 years old and still going strong.
Unfortunately a lot of Coast Guard ships will show their rust easily because they are painted white.
This one is based in Charleston NC and is doing drug interdiction indefinitely in the Caribbean so I'm not surprised it looks a little tired.
Congress needs to replace the 378 footers asap.

I assume you mean Charleston, SC. Yeah, but most military agencies probably wouldn't allow their stuff to look so run down. My bro was in the Navy for 6 years, and I've never seen a Navy ship in my life that showed that sort of raggedness. You can get rust off metal and make it look like the ship is new. Paint job, scrubbing the rust off, etc... It's simple ship maintenance that they should be doing. Then again, it is the Coast Guard. :P

[Alvin Walton]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

I assume you mean Charleston, SC. Yeah, but most military agencies probably wouldn't allow their stuff to look so run down. My bro was in the Navy for 6 years, and I've never seen a Navy ship in my life that showed that sort of raggedness. You can get rust off metal and make it look like the ship is new. Paint job, scrubbing the rust off, etc... It's simple ship maintenance that they should be doing. Then again, it is the Coast Guard. :P

Right, South Carolina, sorry.
Its hardly that simple.
Especially when these ships are deployed for so long and operating out of foreign ports with primitive conditions.
Ships at sea actually working look a lot different than ones you may have seen at a port.

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by Alvin Walton

Right, South Carolina, sorry.
Its hardly that simple.
Especially when these ships are deployed for so long and operating out of foreign ports with primitive conditions.
Ships at sea actually working look a lot different than ones you may have seen at a port.

Simple wasn't the best word to use there. I should have said "basic" maintenance that needs to be done.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

Simple wasn't the best word to use there. I should have said "basic" maintenance that needs to be done.

They could easily scrub that rust off; even at sea but we also don't know the whole story. Maybe those ships are in such demand that it is near impossible to pull them for "beauty" maintenance.