SANTA RITA, Guam (U.S. Coast Guard) — USCGC Sequoia (WLB 215) crew is scheduled to visit Saipan on Aug. 3-5 and will celebrate the service’s 232nd birthday, which falls on Aug. 4.
The Sequoia will assess vital aids to navigation as part of the U.S. Coast Guard’s continued, decades-long commitment to the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas’s economic prosperity.
The Sequoia will arrive at Saipan Harbor on Aug. 3.
Once moored, the commanding officer and cadre will host local partners to build relationships ahead of further U.S. Coast Guard exercises and any emergent maritime crisis.
The following day, Sequoia will host tours for the U.S. Naval Sea Cadets, JROTC, and Tasi to Table to share the service’s mission and discuss Coast Guard career opportunities.
Sequoia is a 225-foot seagoing buoy tender based in Apra Harbor at Naval Base Guam, a deep-water port on the western side of the U.S. territory of Guam.
The cutter crew’s primary mission is to maintain visual aids to navigation in Guam and the CNMI. As with all cutters, it functions as a multi-mission platform for marine environmental protection, search and rescue, law enforcement, and homeland security missions.
Sequoia’s crew regularly conducts fisheries enforcement missions through the Western Pacific in support of Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission treaties and regulations, as well as supporting bilateral agreements between the Pacific Island nations of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia.
Lt. Cmdr. Linden Dahlkemper took command of the ship in a ceremony in mid-July. Dahlkemper comes to Sequoia from the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, where she managed all maritime security cooperation programs in the Office of Defense Cooperation Vietnam.
More on Sequoia’s recent operations at https://bit.ly/WLB215CofC22/.
USCGC Sequoia
