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From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Surplus ship wanted
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Date: 23 Jan 90 03:57:49 GMT
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From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)
In article <13357@cbnews.ATT.COM> you write:
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>From: uunet!sagpd1!eprice (Eric Price)
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>    Say someone was interested in puchasing a military surplus,
>    small ocean going vessel (cutter, survey ship ect ect under
>    say 165' and ~800 tonnes) from a domestic, or foreign power
>    with a good reputation for producing sea faring vessels.
>
Decommissioned CG cutters get offered first to other federal agencies.
Then they get turned over to GSA for auction.  There are some rules
about non-military use and such.

DoD has a Foreign Military Sales establishment that handles turnovers to
allied and other military.  COCOM deals with turnovers to the rest. (:-)

Anyone wanting an ex-CG cutter is under a severe delusion that it ain't
worn out when we are through with it.  Most ex-cutters go to
museums, targets, or scrap (some of the latter through the unaware first).

b