USCG Adak, 9/11 Hero Ship, to be Sold to Indonesia!

We sell (and sometimes give away) everything else the military doesn’t want anymore, usually to some third world armpit that hates us. This is no different.
 
So this plan to sell the cutter has been in process for a year and the USCGC Adak Historical Society has been advocating since last January. Maybe my math is not the best but in what way is this the (four month old) Biden administration selling a cutter to Indonesia. Perhaps "Biden administration asked to stop Trump administration sale of cutter to Indonesia*" would be more accurate but never let it be said that the NY Post allowed the facts to get in the way of a good dig.

*assuming either administration had any direct hand in the decision of how to dispose of decommissioned cutters
 
I didn’t read in that article that either president was involved in the decision to decommission or sell it.

Does the military decide these matters, or does the White House? My limited research suggests it is the Coast Guard commandment that decides this based on statute.
 
Ships (Except the USS Constitution) don't serve forever. The names do live on. Below is the Heritage of the name of the USS Enterprise. Looks like the Space Shuttle Enterprise is excluded but that was not a Navy Ship. Maybe the US Space force will name one of their ships Enterprise in the Future. There will be more Adaks and heroes aboard that will venture into Harms Way.

List of ships of the United States Navy named Enterprise

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Eight ships used in the service of the United States or of the Colonial Forces of the United States Revolutionary War (six of which were United States Navy ships) have been named Enterprise with a ninth currently under construction:[1]
NameClassCommissioned (or otherwise placed into service)Decommissioned (or otherwise removed from service)Fate
Enterprise (1775)70-ton sloop10 May 17757 July 1777Burned to prevent capture, 7 July 1777. This ship was not a ship of the U.S. Navy. It was captured from the British and operated on Lake Champlain by Col Benedict Arnold of the Continental Army. The Continental Navy did not operate on Lake Champlain.
Enterprise (1776)25-ton schoonerJune 1776February 1777Returned to the Maryland Council of Safety in 1777. This Enterprise was also not a ship of the U.S. Navy. It was a privateer purchased for the Continental Navy.
Enterprise (1799)135-ton schooner/brig
  • 17 December 1799
  • April 1811
  • June 1809
  • 8 July 1823
This Enterprise was the first vessel of the United States Navy to carry the name. Fired the first shots in the First Barbary War against the Tripolitanian ship Tripoli. Broken up after being stranded on Little Curacao Island in the West Indies.
Enterprise (1831)197-ton schooner
  • 15 December 1831
  • 29 November 1839
  • 12 July 1839
  • 24 June 1844
Sold, 28 October 1844.
Enterprise (1874)615-ton barque screw sloop
  • 16 March 1877
  • 12 January 1882
  • 4 October 1887
  • 8 July 1890
  • 9 May 1880
  • 21 March 1886
  • 20 May 1890
  • 1 October 1909
Lent to Massachusetts Maritime Academy, 17 October 1892 – 4 May 1909. Sold, 1 October 1909.
Enterprise (SP-790)66 ft (20 m) motor patrol boat6 December 19172 August 1919Transferred to the Bureau of Fisheries on 2 August 1919. This Enterprise was a privately owned motor boat purchased by the U.S. Navy for service as a non-commissioned patrol vessel. As a non-commissioned vessel the prefix "USS" would not have been included in the vessel's name.
USS Enterprise (CV-6)Yorktown-class aircraft carrier12 May 193817 February 1947Served with unparalleled distinction in World War II, the most awarded and decorated ship of that war. Scrapped, 1 July 1958 – May 1960.
USS Enterprise (CVN-65)Enterprise-class aircraft carrier25 November 19613 February 2017[2]World's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. As of 2012, the U.S. Navy's longest-serving combat vessel, and third-oldest commissioned vessel after USS Constitution and USS Pueblo. Inactive since December 2012, some scrapping started in 2013 prior to official decommissioning on 3 February 2017.
USS Enterprise (CVN-80)Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrierScheduled 2028[3] Announced by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus.[4]
 
can't save every notable ship, some private organization has to raise the money to move and display it which isn't cheap. If they can scrap the 'Big E' of World War II fame then disposing of a small Coast Guard Cutter is small potatoes
 
can't save every notable ship, some private organization has to raise the money to move and display it which isn't cheap. If they can scrap the 'Big E' of World War II fame then disposing of a small Coast Guard Cutter is small potatoes
A private organization has pledged to cover all the costs to keep the cutter in the US.
 
can't save every notable ship, some private organization has to raise the money to move and display it which isn't cheap. If they can scrap the 'Big E' of World War II fame then disposing of a small Coast Guard Cutter is small potatoes
You are absolutely right. It's not just raising the funds but the yearly costs thereafter. You need a lot of public support. like the Intrepid in NYC. It was initially funded by Zach and Elizabeth Fisher. He was a real estate developer who had supported the military for decades. In 1982 he gave tens of thousands of dollars to each family of the victims of the Marine Barracks Bombing. In 2010 alone the Intrepid and its pier got a $120 million refurbishment. That is a lot of money. Ships are expensive. These memorials require a lot of support. There will be many more heroic ships and crews.

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.
 
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"Call Me Ishmael". Not a poem but another great nautical line. "Sunset and Evening Star", Crossing The Bar.⚓
 
I keep thinking about an interview with a veteran from WW2 who served on the Enterprise CV-6. They were discussing on the program the time in the 1940s when Halsey and others were trying to save the ship as a museum. Personally he did not want kids playing or people partying on places on the ship were many men had died. He felt it was not right. I think now about the billionaires gathering at a fund raiser or corporate parties on the Intrepid in NYC. Discussing their conquests and latest achievements in places where 69 Intrepid sailors gave their lives many years ago.
 
Consider the salt rubbed.
 
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