PACIFIC OCEAN (July 29, 2018) The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) is underway July 29, during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC). Twenty-five nations, 46 ships and five submarines, about 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 27 to Aug. 2 in and around the Hawaiian Island and Southern California. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among the participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2018 is the 26th exercise in the series that began in 1971.

National Security Cutter

The national security cutter is the largest and most technologically advanced of the service's new cutters. It features modern command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities and

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James transits the Atlantic Ocean March 29, 2017.

Offshore Patrol Cutter

Provides the midrange capability in the Coast Guard's layered defense concept, filling the role between the NSC and FRC and replacing the service's two classes of aging medium endurance cutters. The OPC will feature increased range and endurance,

HC-27J Spartan