{"id":80988,"date":"2018-08-05T09:15:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T13:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80988"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:34:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:34:50","slug":"coast-guard-unveils-maritime-darwinism-policy-after-getting-2-28-billion-budget-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80988","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard unveils \u2018Maritime Darwinism\u2019 policy after getting $2.28 billion budget cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4440095-653x393.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-80989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4440095-653x393-500x301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4440095-653x393-500x301.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4440095-653x393-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4440095-653x393.jpg 653w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ashamed I missed the CG birthday this week, I feel even worse now that their budget was cut.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Coast Guard is turning 228 years old today, and Congress is surprising them with a $2.28 billion budget cut in fiscal year 2019. As a result, the Coast Guard will be unveiling a new \u2018maritime Darwinism\u2019 policy to reduce its operational workload.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really was hoping for a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2018\/08\/01\/35453?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=ebb%2003.08.18&amp;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief\">new heavy icebreaker in 2019<\/a>,\u201d said Adm. Karl Schultz, who assumed his role as Commandant in June 2018. \u201cBut a 25% cut to our operations and mission support budget is more than I could have ever hoped for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schultz went on to comment that one of his main goals as Commandant is to deploy his strategic priority of reducing search and rescue cases by allowing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2016\/02\/coast-guard-saves-very-stupid-people\/\">stupid people<\/a>\u00a0to perish at sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis budget cut is just the thing I\u2019ve been hoping for,\u201d said Schultz. \u201cIt will allow us to make some true vertical cuts and actively degrade our offshore detection and response capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schultz alluded to a notional policy of \u201ctactical ignorance\u201d that the Coast Guard has been working to roll out over the past several years.<\/p>\n<p>Under this policy, search and rescue assets will only respond to what can be seen from shore. The use of advanced radar, communication relays, and other sophisticated sensors will be significantly curtailed, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really want the public to start thinking of us as glorified lifeguards,\u201d said Schultz, nodding to a framed picture of David Hasselhoff on his desk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re a few miles off and need some fuel, no worries, we got your back. But we plan to let natural selection run its course if Joe Boater decides it\u2019s a good idea to go 20 miles offshore in his 15 foot center console during a tropical storm. Good luck, buddy!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashamed I missed the CG birthday this week, I feel even worse now that their budget &hellip; <a title=\"Coast Guard unveils \u2018Maritime Darwinism\u2019 policy after getting $2.28 billion budget cut\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80988\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coast Guard unveils \u2018Maritime Darwinism\u2019 policy after getting $2.28 billion budget cut<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":80989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}