DATE: September 17, 2008 13:42:42 PST
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Alameda cutter returns from deployment
Crew trained with Asian coast guards in multimissions

Pacific Area Public Affairs

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Alameda, Calif.

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Press Release

Date:  Sept. 17, 2008

Contact: Pacific Area

Public Affairs

(510) 437-3325

Alameda cutter returns home after Southeast Asia patrol 

COAST GUARD ISLAND, ALAMEDA, Calif. - The Coast Guard Cutter Morgenthau returns to homeport here at 10 a.m. Thursday, following a 21-week deployment to Southeast Asia where the cutter participated with naval forces of Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, the Phillipines and Thailand in Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training and Southeast Asian Cooperation Against Terrorism. 

For more information about Morgenthau's recent deployment in support of CARAT-SEACAT and imagery, please visit the following:

Morgenthau to deloy to Asia...

Morgenthau completes first phase of CARAT...

Coast Guard and Malaysian armed forces provide care in Southeast Asia...

Media interested in attending the Morgenthau's homecoming should contact the public affairs number above.  Please leave a message indicating whether or not you will attend. 

  

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