{"id":373482,"date":"2022-08-03T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=373482"},"modified":"2022-08-03T06:00:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:00:51","slug":"uscgc-sequoia-to-visit-saipan-in-community-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uscgc-sequoia-to-visit-saipan-in-community-outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"USCGC Sequoia to visit Saipan in community outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA RITA, Guam\u2014The U.S. Coast Guard cutter <em>Sequoia<\/em> was scheduled to visit Saipan starting today, Aug. 3, 2022, as part of the observance of the service\u2019s 232nd birthday, which falls on Aug. 4. It was learned yesterday, though, that a mechanical issue scuttled today\u2019s port visit but it was assured that the trip to the CNMI will still push through and updates about the outreach will be announced later.<\/p>\n<p>As part of its planned trip, which was initially scheduled for on Aug. 3 -5, the <em>Sequoia<\/em>  was supposed to assess vital aids to navigation as part of the Coast Guard\u2019s continued, decades-long commitment to the CNMI\u2019s economic prosperity. <\/p>\n<p>Once the CNMI trip pushes through, the commanding officer and cadre will host local partners to build relationships ahead of further U.S. Coast Guard exercises and any emergent maritime crisis. The following day, <em>Sequoia<\/em>  will host tours for the U.S. Naval Sea Cadets, Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps, and Tasi to Table to share the service\u2019s mission and discuss Coast Guard career opportunities.<br \/>\n<em>Sequoia<\/em>  is a 225-foot seagoing buoy tender based in Apra Harbor at Naval Base Guam, a deep-water port on the western side of the U.S. territory of Guam.<\/p>\n<p>The cutter crew\u2019s primary mission is to maintain aids to navigation in Guam and the CNMI. As with all cutters, it functions as a multi-mission platform for marine environmental protection, search and rescue, law enforcement, and homeland security missions. <\/p>\n<p>Sequoia\u2019s crew regularly conducts fisheries enforcement missions through the Western Pacific in support of Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission treaties and regulations, as well as supporting bilateral agreements between the Pacific Island nations of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Cmdr. Linden Dahlkemper took command of the ship in a ceremony in mid-July. Dahlkemper comes to <em>Sequoi<\/em>a from the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, where she managed all maritime security cooperation programs in the Office of Defense Cooperation Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>More on <em>Sequoia<\/em>\u2019s recent operations at https:\/\/bit.ly\/WLB215CofC22<br \/>\nThe U.S. Coast Guard\u2019s forerunner, the Revenue Cutter Service, was founded on Aug. 4, 1790, making the U.S. Coast Guard the nation\u2019s premier and oldest continuous seagoing service.<em> <strong>(USCG)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA RITA, Guam\u2014The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sequoia was scheduled to visit Saipan starting today,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":373480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}