Media Availability: Coast Guard to hold decommissioning ceremony for cutters Cushing, Nantucket in Atlantic Beach, NC

U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 03/06/2017 08:45 AM EST

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March 6, 2017
U.S. Coast Guard 5th District Mid-Atlantic
Contact: 5th District Public Affairs
Office: (757) 398-6272
After Hours: (757) 434-7712

Media Availability: Coast Guard to hold decommissioning ceremony for cutters Cushing, Nantucket in Atlantic Beach, NC

 

WILMINGTON, N.C. —The Coast Guard is scheduled to hold a joint decommissioning ceremony Wednesday for cutters Cushing and Nantucket in Atlantic Beach.

The ceremony is scheduled to be held at Sector Field Office Fort Macon, located at 2301 E Fort Macon Rd., Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, at 1 p.m.

Media members planning to attend the ceremony, please RSVP by calling 757-398-6272, or email d5de@uscg.mil.

Cutters Cushing and Nantucket are 110-foot Island Class Cutters homeported in Atlantic Beach. Their crews conduct missions including maritime homeland security, migrant interdiction, fisheries enforcement and search and rescue.

WHO: Coast Guard Fifth District personnel, crews of Coast Guard Cutters Cushing and Nantucket, as well as Coast Guard Sector North Carolina

WHAT: Joint Coast Guard Cutter Decommissioning Ceremony

WHERE: Coast Guard Sector Field Office Fort Macon, 2301 E Fort Macon Rd., Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, 28512

WHY: To honor past and present crews of Coast Guard Cutters Cushing and Nantucket

WHEN: Wednesday, March 8, 2017, at 1 p.m.



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