Sentinel class cutter Pacific fishery patrols

The Sentinel class cutter is the US Coast Guard's most recent small cutter. Originally they planned to build 58 cutters, but, in 2019, the Coast Guard started to build additional cutters. There are proposals that Sentinel class cutters should be tasked for overseas duties. Four cutters have already been assigned to serve in the Persian Gulf.

In 2020 it was proposed that the cutters be tasked to assist in fishery and environmental for some small vulnerable Pacific Ocean vessels. Some of those nations have very small populations, and very small economies, and faced a daunting task the

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