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The US Coast Guard plans to request more icebreaker funding next year

Adm. Karl Schultz, commandant of the Coast Guard, hopes to have three new heavy icebreakers by 2028.

By Melody Schreiber May 8, 2019
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U.S. Coast Guard commandant Adm. Karl Schultz said on Monday that the agency plans to ask for additional icebreaker funding in the 2021 budget.

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